Chaucer's NPT
- Author / Editor
- Cullen, Dolores L.
Chaucer's NPT
- Published
- Explicator 38.1 (1980): 11.
- Description
- Following the contention that the name "Pertelote" means "one who confuses someone's lot or fate" (R. A. Pratt, "Three Old French Sources of NPT," Speculum 47 (1972): 655), the author suggests that Pertelote tries to effect a change in Chauntecleer's future by the use of a laxative which, from the point of view of augury, would, through improving the condition of the bird's entrails, improve his destiny.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.