Chaucer Transforming His Sources: From Chantecler and Pinte to Chauntecleer and Pertelote

Author / Editor
Thomas. Paul R.

Title
Chaucer Transforming His Sources: From Chantecler and Pinte to Chauntecleer and Pertelote

Published
Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 75: 82-90, 1998.

Description
Contrasts aspects of NPT with "Roman de Renart" Branch IIIa to show that Chaucer makes his rooster more masculine and his hen more feminine than in the source. Includes a translation of Branch IIIa, 4175-4315.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.