Chauntecleer's Bad Latin

Author / Editor
Pizzorno, Patrizia Grimaldi.

Title
Chauntecleer's Bad Latin

Published
Exemplaria 4 (1992): 387-409.

Description
Etymological puns reveal MkT, NPT, and SNT to be a trilogy concerned with the common themes of marriage, sexuality, and decline of the church. The tales dramatize a confrontation among the three pilgrims in which the Priest discloses the Monk's hypocrisy, and the Nun outdoes both the Monk and the Priest.

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale.
Nun's Priest and His Tale.
Second Nun and Her Tale.