Chaucer's Prioress and Agur's 'Adulterous Woman'
- Author / Editor
- Loney, Douglas.
Chaucer's Prioress and Agur's 'Adulterous Woman'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 27 (1992): 107-08.
- Description
- The passage on the Prioress's table manners (GP 127-36), borrowed from Romance of the Rose, contains biblical echoes from Matthew 23.25-27 concerning the "clean cup of salvation" and from Proverbs 30.20 concerning an adulterous woman who wipes her mouth and proclaims her innocence.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.