...G. G. Sedgewick Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 THE PROGRESS OF CHAUCER’S PARDONER, 1880-1940 By G. G. SEDGEWICK Under date of 12 June, 1880, Jusserand remarked that the pic- ture of Chaucer’s Pardoner was “indeed...

... to Piers Plowman on the pardon-hawking and absolution-mongering precursor of Chaucer’s Pardoner : There preched a pardonere as he a prest were, Brougte forth a bulle with bishopes seles, And seide that hym-self my3te assoilen hem alle Of falshed...

...Albert C. Friend Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 THEDANGEROUSTHEMEOFTHEPARDONER By ALBERTC. FRIEND Chaucer in his Pardoner’s sermon attacked the churchman who preached for money. In choosing the Pardoner’s text (I Timothy 6:10, “Radix...

...Arthur K. Moore Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 THE PARDONER’S INTERRUPTION OF THE WIFE OF BATH’S PROLOGUE By ARTHURK. MOORE The continuity of the Wifeof Bath‘s Prologue appears to be broken by the Pardoner’s...

...Edwin Shepard Miller Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 GUILT AND PENALTY IN HEYWOOD’S PARDONER’S LIE By EDWINSHEPARD MILLER Almost by the very nature of good theater the winning lie in the Foirre PP is third, last...

... of the Romanists in those dayes. Touching their Shrift, Reliques, Pardons, and merit of workes, he sayeth as fol1oweth.d [General Prologue, lines 221-226 ; 229-2321 Khaucer in Prolog. in the description...

... Jerome’s Epistola adversus Jovinianum, but to the parts of her Prologue which follow the Pardoner’s interruption and draw on Deschamps, Theophrastus, and Walter Map as well as Jerome. In the first place, however, as her first line anticipates, she does in fact proceed to dispute authority...

...Lucy McDiarmid Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 AUDEN’S 193 1 EPITHALAMION AND OTHER GENEROUS HOURS By LUCYMCDIARMID . . . few now applaud a play that ends with warmth and pardon...

..., The Man of Law’s Tale, the Prologue and Tale of the Wife of Bath, The Clerk’s Tale, and The Pardoner’s Tale, CHRISTINE M. ROSE 91 Dinshaw develops the notion that Chaucer’s poetics operates as a cri- tique of the patriarchal construct...

...- telling without attending to historically specific genres. Davis is clearly working on a particular genre within the archive: the lettres de remission through which ordinary criminals appealed for the king’s pardon. But, perhaps for good rhetorical reasons, she presents her argument about how...

...: The very words that signify lying, treachery, dissimulation, avarice, envy, belittling, pardon-unheard of. (p. 153) (Les paroles mesmes qui signifient la mensonge, la trahison, la dissimulation, l’avarice, l’envie, la detraction, le pardon, inouies.) (p. 204) These terms...

... analysis of each section: Dozuel (B VIII-XIV), Dobet (B XV-XVIII), and Dobest (B XIX-XX). After outlining his method of procedure and describing the organization of the poem as a whole (Chapters I and 11), Frank begins his analysis in Chapter I11 with a brilliant exposition of the pardon...

... with a brilliant exposition of the pardon scene of the Yisio, demonstrating once and for all, I trust, that Piers accepts the pardon from Truth and that the poet in no way wishes to suggest that Piers must turn to some new way of life. (There is a slip on p. 28; read “The view that Piers rejects the pardon...

... the faults whose fine stands in record, And let go by the actor. (Measure for Measure, 2.2.38–42)8 The proleptic pardon craved by the Chorus in Henry V also seems to lay all responsibility for “faults” at the feet of “the flat unraised spirits” whose...

... a spectacle as does the entrepreneurship of Olive, Matthias Pardon, and Selah Tarrant. We recognize the do- mestic limitations of Marmion: again, Ransom and Verena are forced out of doors, out of social context, and the periodicity of their excursions is severely demarcated to match Marmion’s top...

... he pardons Shylock his life before he asks it (“That thou shalt see the difference of our spirit” t1V.i. 3641) and promises that humbleness may reduce the state’s half of his estate to a fine. One can only guess at Portia’s reactions, but I see her beam approvingly. She is not at all...

..., Aumerle, York, and the Duchess reveals a discrepancy. As Aumerle and his mother kneel to beg the King’s pardon while York asks a traitor’s death for his son, the Duchess exclaims: Pleads he in earnest? Look upon his face; His eyes do drop no tears, his prayers are in jest...

... a reformer” (p. 69). It seems to me that in Chaucer’s work we have a profound criticism of life. The man who gave us portraits of the parish priest, the summoner, and the pardoner, not a reformer? If the author means that Chaucer did not get out on street corners and arouse the mob, she...

... such as Edward Coke sought to centralize and rationalize England’s heterogeneous legal system, comprising some seventeen separate jurisdictions by Coke’s count. One of its most arbitrary was equity. As a concept descending from antiquity into the early modern period, equity was closely related to pardon. It had...

... of Philotas, and Craterus seeks out Antigona to procure evidence against him. In Act 111, Philotas is charged with concealing the conspiracy of Dymnus, but he secures Alexander’s pardon. It is significant that Daniel here gives Alexander G. A. Wilkes 237...