Chaucer: The Nun's Priest's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Coote, Stephen, ed.
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
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations