Chaucerian Wordplay: The Nun's Priest and His 'Womman Divyne'
- Author / Editor
- Besserman, Lawrence L.
Chaucerian Wordplay: The Nun's Priest and His 'Womman Divyne'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 12 (1977): 68-73.
- Description
- Chaucer uses wordplay as a device for establishing the Nun's Priest's resentment of his subordination to the Prioress. The Priest disassociates himself from the anti-feminist sentiment of the tale with his final claim "I kan noon harm of no womman divyne."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.
- Prioress and her Tale.