Styles of Usage in the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'

Author / Editor
Gallick, Susan.

Title
Styles of Usage in the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 11 (1978): 232-47.

Description
NPT parodies the high, middle, and low styles of medieval rhetoric by allowing the animals to speak in all these styles. The animals speak in four styles of usage--intimate, conversational, didactic, and literary.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale.