Critical Approaches to the 'Prioress's Tale' and the 'Second Nun's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Collette, Carolyn (P.)
Critical Approaches to the 'Prioress's Tale' and the 'Second Nun's Tale'
- Published
- C. David Benson and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Chaucer's Religious Tales (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990), 95-107.
- Description
- Similar in context and form, SNT and PrT have evoked critical commentary on historical background, sources, and analogues. However, PrT has sparked more consistent and recent interest, in part because of the Prioress's personality, her relationship to the narrative itself, and the tale's anti-Semitism. Collette suggests that new historical, textual, and feminist criticism might illumine both tales.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Religious Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Second Nun and Her Tale.
- Prioress and Her Tale.