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This witty, entertaining account of Geoffrey Chaucer’s slimy conman and his moral tale stands up well in 2014 complete with delicious topical twists, an enjoyable bit of interaction and some splendid ...

This post was updated April 3 at 3:21 p.m. Leonard Koff turns to Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Pardoner’s Tale” as a philosophical test case. The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will host ...

One of the most pointed of all Chaucer’s stories is The Pardoner’s Tale—the story of the three young roisterers who went looking for Death. They seize an old man and mockingly demand that he tell them ...