'Muscipula Diaboli' and Chaucer's Portrait of the Prioress
- Author / Editor
- Witte, Stephen P.
'Muscipula Diaboli' and Chaucer's Portrait of the Prioress
- Published
- Papers on Language and Literature 13 (1977): 227-37.
- Description
- Chaucer's use of the mouse, traditionally associated with gluttony and drunkenness, his juxtaposition of it to Christian terms like "charitee" and "tendre herte," and the possible allusion to Christ's sacrifice as Satan's "mousetrap" suggests harsh satire on a nun, knowingly or not, following the devil.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.