CR Episode 86: Canterbury Tales VIII – The Physician’s and Pardoner’s Tales

The Pardoner, from Chaucer’s Canterbury Pilgrims, by William Blake

Released on 12 July 2021:
https://criticalreadings.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cr20210712.mp3

The panel looks at the honor-before-death connexion between Fragment V and Fragment VI as exemplified by Virginia in the Physician’s Tale, and then considers the multiple levels of moral instruction on offer in the boldly hypocritical Pardoner’s Tale.