'Troilus and Criseyde' and 'The Nun's Priest's Tale': The Drawing and Undrawing of Morals

Author / Editor
Brody, Saul N[athaniel].

Title
'Troilus and Criseyde' and 'The Nun's Priest's Tale': The Drawing and Undrawing of Morals

Published
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Religion in the Poetry and Drama of the Late Middle Ages in England (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990), pp. 133-48.

Description
Discusses "Chaucer's feeling for the openness of questions, his distrust of final answers" in TC, NPT, and PF. Chaucer has an "unsettling ability to make every alternative attractive, even clearly sinful ones."

Alternative Title
Religion in the Poetry and Drama of the Late Middle Ages in England.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls.
Troilus and Criseyde.
Nun's Priest and His Tale.
Background and General Criticism.