Pastiche as Irony in the Prioress's Prologue and Tale
- Author / Editor
- Rex, Richard.
Pastiche as Irony in the Prioress's Prologue and Tale
- Published
- Studies in Short Fiction 23 (1986): 1-8.
- Description
- The Prioress's childishness places her among the "children of a hundred year" who live in folly and are cursed by God. Her tale is a pastiche, its ironies reflecting the teller's false humility and lack of charity even as she extols charity as a virtue.
- Reprinted in Richard Rex, "The Sins of Madame Eglentyne and Other Essays" (Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1995).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.