Chaucer's Cock and the Fox.
- Author / Editor
- Dahlberg, Charles R.
Chaucer's Cock and the Fox.
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 53 (1954): 277-90.
- Description
- Suggests that NPT "reflects . . . the controversy which took place in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries between the secular clergy and the friars." Adduces use of the name "Russell" and several other parallels with French moralized analogues and antifraternal commentaries to argue that Chaucer's fox may be seen to "represent Franciscan friars" and the tale an allegorical affirmation of "the traditional position of the secular clergy."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations