The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale Contents
- Social / political context
- Religious / philosophical context
- Literary context
- l.1-40: The link between The Physician's Tale and The Pardoner's Prologue
- The Pardoner's Prologue - l.41-100
- The Pardoner's Prologue - l.101-138
- The Pardoner's Prologue - l.139-174
- The Pardoner's Tale - l.175-194
- The Pardoner's Tale - l.195-209
- The Pardoner's Tale l.210-300: Gluttony and drunkenness
- The Pardoner's Tale l.301-372: Gambling and swearing
- The Pardoner's Tale l.373-422: The rioters hear of death
- The Pardoner's Tale l.423-479: The rioters meet an Old Man
- The Pardoner's Tale l.480-517: Money
- The Pardoner's Tale - l.518-562: Two conspiracies
- The Pardoner's Tale - l.563-606: Love of money leads to death
- The Pardoner's Tale l.607-630: Concluding the sermon
- The Pardoner's Tale l.631-657: Selling relics and pardons
- Final link passage l.658-680: Anger and reconciliation
Further reading
There is a huge amount published on The Pardoner's Tale. The following is a short list of works generally to be found in libraries:
- Peter Brown, Chaucer at work: The Making of the Canterbury Tales (London and New York: Longman, 1994)
- Peter Brown, ed., A Companion to Chaucer (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002)
- Helen Cooper, The Canterbury Tales, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996)
- Steve Ellis, ed., Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (London: Longman, 1998)
- C.W.R.D. Mosely (ed.) - Geoffrey Chaucer: The Pardoner's Tale. A critical study incorporating Chaucer's text. Penguin Masterstudies Series. (Penguin, 1987).
- Helen Phillips, An Introduction to the Canterbury Tales: Reading, Fiction, Context (London: Macmillan, 1999)
- Gillian Rudd, The Complete Critical guide to Chaucer (London and New York: Routledge, 2001)
- The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale (Selected Tales from Chaucer) Ed. A.C. Spearing. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2nd edition,1994)
- Piero Boitani and Jill Mann (eds) - The Cambridge Chaucer Companion (Cambridge Univ Press, 1993)
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