Two Points of View: "The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale."

Author / Editor
Elliott, Charles, and R. George Thomas.

Title
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