The Cock, the Priest, and the Poet
- Author / Editor
- Crépin, André.
The Cock, the Priest, and the Poet
- Published
- Wendy Harding, ed. Drama, Narrative and Poetry in The Canterbury Tales (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2003), pp. 227-36.
- Description
- In NPT, the Nuns' Priest (Nonnes is plural) confesses his own temptations of lust and pride, under the guise of Chauntecleer. The priest is another persona of Chaucer the poet, interested in the same topics (dreams, astronomy, free will, the biter bit) and apprehensive about the effects of rhetoric.
- Alternative Title
- Drama, Narrative and Poetry in The Canterbury Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.