The 'Nun's Priest's Tale': An Ironic Exemplum
- Author / Editor
- Shallers, A. Paul.
The 'Nun's Priest's Tale': An Ironic Exemplum
- Published
- ELH 42 (1975): 319-37.
- Description
- NPT is indebted to the naturalistic and mock-heroic tone of the French "Roman de Renard," as well as to an indigenous English tradition of didactic beast fables and exempla. The Priest's concluding exhortation on humility marks the point of the "shifting focus" of these two strains.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.