The Cock, the Priest, and the Poet

Author / Editor
Crépin, André.

Title
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.