Does the Nun's Priest's Epilogue Contain a Link?

Author / Editor
Gibbons, Robert F.

Title
Does the Nun's Priest's Epilogue Contain a Link?

Published
Studies in Philology 51 (1954): 21-33.

Description
Reviews opinions about the textual status of NPE and six additional lines found in four manuscripts of the CT often thought to be spurious. Considering issues of tale order, sequence of composition, dramatic consistency, and authorial or scribal cancellation and/or adjustment, suggests that the link--with the six lines--is authorial, originally intended to link NPE with WBPT.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Issues
Nun's Priest and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale