'Sustres and paramours': Sexe et domination dans les 'Contes de Cantorbery'

Author / Editor
Crepin, Andre.

Title
'Sustres and paramours': Sexe et domination dans les 'Contes de Cantorbery'

Published
Caliban 17 (1980): 3-21.

Description
NPT illustrates the alternation of sexual dominance in CT. The Priest among his nuns is like Chanticleer, "paragon des phallocrates," among his wives. But neither maintains dominance. Moreover, in NPT, as in CT as a whole, questions of sexual domination are ultimately transcended.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale.