- "The
Pardoner's Tale" is one of The
Canterbury Tales by
Geoffrey Chaucer. In the
order of the Tales, it
comes after The Physician's Tale and
before The...
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extract the
maximum amount of
money for each indulgence.
Professional "
pardoners" (quaestores in Latin) – who were sent to
collect alms for a specific...
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juxtaposes the
Pardoner and the
Prioress as the
representatives of two
radically different forms of
religious expression. The
Pardoner's materialistic...
- Play
called the
foure PP; a newe and a very mery
interlude of a palmer, a
pardoner, a potycary, a
pedler or The Four PP (pronounced "pees",
plural of the...
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disinterested listeners about her
weaving skills and ****ual prowess. The
Pardoner unsuccessfully attempts to sell what he
claims are
pieces of
cloth from...
- the
Pardoner and the Summoner,
whose roles apply the Church's
secular power, are both portra**** as
deeply corrupt, greedy, and abusive.
Pardoners in Chaucer's...
- P),
Heywood takes a page from Chaucer's book in
representing a
corrupt Pardoner, but at the end of the play the
Pedler chastises the
Pothecary for "raylynge...
- of a
charlatan appears in the
Canterbury Tales story "The
Pardoner's Tale," with the
Pardoner who
tricks sinners into
buying fake
religious relics. Synonyms...
- for
military purposes, Eva
Chalmers approaches an
extremist known as the
Pardoner, who
promises to help her use it to save the world. When she
balks at his...
- and his brother, a plowman; a miller; a manciple; a reeve; a summoner; a
pardoner; the Host (a man
called Harry Bailey); and
Chaucer himself. At the end...