Table of Contents

Introduction; What are the Canterbury Tales; Chaucer's language; The Pardoner's contribution; The Portrait of the Pardoner; Introduction to the Pardoner's Tale; Th Pardoner's Prologue; The Pardoner's Tale; The tale told by the Pardoner; Chaucer's pilgrims; Pilgrims and pilgrimages; Geoffrey Chaucer; Background to the Pardoner's Tale; Chaucer's self-examination as a poet; The role of the church; Themes in the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale; Glossary of frequently-used words.

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Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance.