The Seriousness of the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Oerlemans, Onno.
The Seriousness of the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 26 (1992): 317-28.
- Description
- In CT, Chaucer "counters authority with the fracturing and multiple perspective of comedy," most clearly seen in NPT, which best represents the structure of the CT as a whole. Chaucer's multiplicity is ultimately, however, like Boethius's leap "to rise up the heights of that supreme intelligence" of God, and CT is a means of "reapproaching the immediacy of the truth of God lost in the fall from Paradise."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.
- Canterbury Tales--General.