And now for Something Completely Different: The Relationship between the 'Prioress's Tale' and the 'Rime of Sir Thopas'
- Author / Editor
- Hamel, Mary.
And now for Something Completely Different: The Relationship between the 'Prioress's Tale' and the 'Rime of Sir Thopas'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 14 (1980): 251-59.
- Description
- Th contains a covert similarity to PrT. If, by means of the lily, the elf-queen is identified with the Virgin Mary, the structure of Th may be seen to parody that of PrT. Both protagonists have gemlike chastity, are born "in fer contree," and are devoted to an immortal woman.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.