Chaucerian Sentences: Revisiting a Crucial Passage from the Nun's Priest's Tale

Author / Editor
Gaylord, Alan T.

Title
Chaucerian Sentences: Revisiting a Crucial Passage from the Nun's Priest's Tale

Published
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 167-80.

Description
A close reading of NPT 7.4347-61 (Chauntecleer on women as men's confusion), seeking to clarify subtleties via "prosodic criticism," i.e., reading the lines as a spoken performance.

Alternative Title
Seyd in Forme and Reverence: Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale.
Style and Versification.