Chaucer's Time in the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Peters, F. J. J.
Chaucer's Time in the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Published
- Studia Neophilologica 60 (1988): 167-70.
- Description
- Though the dating of NPT to thirty-two days "syn March bigan" is generally emended to bring the tale date to May 3, the unemended text makes literal sense if treated as a reference to "frame story time." The dating thus "should be read in two directions," forward to May 3 and KnT and backward to "Whan that Aprill..."--the two references being equally suggestive.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.