'The Nun's Priest's Tale' as Grammar-School Primer
- Author / Editor
- Travis, Peter W.
'The Nun's Priest's Tale' as Grammar-School Primer
- Published
- Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 81-91.
- Description
- The elements of NPT--"beast fable, debate, Catonian assertion,Latin translation"--would have evoked in the audience schoolboy memories of Aesop, Cato, and learning exercises.
- Alternative Title
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1 (1984)
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.