The 'Nun's Priest's Tale': Chaucer's Identified Masterpiece?
- Author / Editor
- Frese, Dolores Warwick.
The 'Nun's Priest's Tale': Chaucer's Identified Masterpiece?
- Published
- Chaucer Review 16 (1982): 330-43.
- Description
- Following medieval rhetorical tradition, Chaucer has hidden his own name in the tale in anagrammatic fashion: "Ge" (for Geffrey, Chaucer's spelling of his own name) plus "Chau"ntl"c"l"er" results in "gentele Chaucer," employing the roman letters first, then the italic. Furthermore, the animals' names in the tale may be those of real persons (e.g., the dogs Gerland and Colle represent John of Garland and Mino da Colle, a thirteenth-century Italian rhetorician).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.