"That We May Leere Som Wit."

Author / Editor
Adelman, Janet.

Title
"That We May Leere Som Wit."

Published
Dewey R. Faulkner, ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Pardoner's Tale: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973), pp. 96-106.

Description
Critical appreciation of PardT as "brilliantly constructed, simultaneously a parody of the very truths it purports to be about and a joke in which we are never quite sure of the butt"; pays particular attention to its "ragged structure" and how it "finally implicates us."

Contributor
Faulkner, Dewey R., ed.

Alternative Title
Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Pardoner's Tale

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale