Civic Voices in English Fables: 'The Owl and the Nightingale' and 'The Nun's Priest's Tale'

Author / Editor
Green, Eugene.

Title
Civic Voices in English Fables: 'The Owl and the Nightingale' and 'The Nun's Priest's Tale'

Published
AUMLA 108 (2007): 1-32.

Description
Compares "The Owl and the Nightingale" and NPT as the "best beast fables" in Middle English, examining how the diction of each poem helps to create "voice" and thereby engage an audience.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale
Language and Word Studies.