A collection of nine critical essays on Chaucer's "The Pardoner's Tale" arranged in chronological order of publication.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Harold Bloom -- The narrative art of the Pardoner's tale" / Ian Bishop -- The Pardoner's "jape" / Penelope Curtis -- The "floating fragment / Donald R. Howard -- "Modernizing" Chaucer / Donald R. Howard -- Preaching and avarice in the Pardoner's tale / Warren Ginsberg -- "Synne horrible: : the Pardoner's exegesis of his tale, and Chaucer's / H. Marshall Leicester, Jr. -- The Pardoner's homosexuality and how it matters / Monica E. McAlpine -- Sermon structure in the Pardoner's tale / Robert P. Merrix -- The Pardoner and the word of death / R.A. Shoaf.