Two Points of View: "The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Elliott, Charles, and R. George Thomas.
Two Points of View: "The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale."
- Published
- Anglo-Welsh Review 14 (1964): 9-17.
- Description
- In two parts: 1) Elliott admires the unity and aesthetic qualities of PardT and addresses PardP as Chaucer's successful means to insert commentary on Church corruption; 2) Thomas argues that the Pardoner's effrontery and the moral failings of the characters in PardT dramatize character in action, fuse pilgrim and reading audiences, and provide a theme of forgiveness appropriate to pilgrimage.
- Contributor
- Thomas, R. George.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale