'Mulier est hominis confusio': Note on Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale, Line 3164
- Author / Editor
- Dane, Joseph A.
'Mulier est hominis confusio': Note on Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale, Line 3164
- Published
- Notes and Queries 237 (1992): 276-78.
- Description
- Line 3164 of NPT includes a pun, for "confusio" is also a technical term referring to the meaning of words. The joke: an apparent mistranslation is not one.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.