what kind of story is the pardoner tale
1,181 pages on this wiki. The Young Man Meets Death, a 15th century Dutch print. The Pardoner's Tale (written in the original Middle English as The Pardoners Tale without an apostrophe) is a short story in verse from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.The tale takes the form of a religious fable which warns of the dangers of sin.,181 pages on this wiki. The Young Man Meets Death, a 15th century Dutch print. The Pardoner's Tale (written in the original Middle English as The Pardoners Tale without an apostrophe) is a short story in verse from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
In the order of The Canterbury Tales, the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale are preceded by The Physician's Tale. The Physician's Tale is a harrowing tale about a judge who plots with a churl [low fellow] to abduct a beautiful young woman; rather than allow her to be raped, her father beheads her.n the General Prologue of the Tales, the Pardoner is introduced with these lines: With hym ther rood a gentil Pardoner. Of Rouncivale, his freend and his compeer, That streight was comen fro the court of Rome.