Chaucer: The Nun's Priest's Tale

Author / Editor
Coote, Stephen, ed.

Title
Chaucer: The Nun's Priest's Tale

Published
New York: Penguin, 1985.

Physical Description
152 pp.

Series
Penguin Masterstudies.

Description
Middle English text of NPPT (with the Croesus account from MkT), accompanied by facing-page notes, a glossary (pp. 147-52), and an introduction (pp. 7-94) that surveys Chaucer's life and works; the sources of NPT; the characterization of the Nun's Priest, Chauntecleer, Pertelote, Russell, and the widow; and uses of rhetoric and comic wisdom in the Tale.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale
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