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Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The Pardoner's Tale

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chaucer, Geoffrey
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Pardoner's Tale

Introduction:

The Pardoner's Tale is justifiably one of the most popular of the
Canterbury tales with modern readers. The macabre story of the three rioters
who go off in search of Death so that they may slay him (and find death in a
totally unexpected but ironically proper way), is an exemplum set in a sermon
recited for the pilgrims by the Pardoner. He offers the sermon as a sample of
his preaching methods. The ironies in the entire Pardoner episode may
ultimately defy analysis, but briefly they come down to this. The Pardoner is
a ...

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