An Ironic Monkish Allusion: Chaucer's Learned Audience in 'The Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Thomas, Paul R.
An Ironic Monkish Allusion: Chaucer's Learned Audience in 'The Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Published
- Encyclia 59 (1985, for 1982): 45-52
- Description
- Chaucer's learned audience would have seen great irony in Daun Russell's allusion to the cock in Nigel de Longchamps's "Speculum stultorum": that cock, unlike Chauntecleer, had the intelligence to refuse to crow. The textual Chauntecleer is temporarily outsmarted by the fox, another reading beast.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.