Getting Out of Henry of Derby's Clutches: Richard II and the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Lindeboom, Wim.
Getting Out of Henry of Derby's Clutches: Richard II and the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Published
- Viator 41.1 (2010): 276-300.
- Description
- Reads NPT as a political commentary, with Chauntecleer and Pertelote as Richard and Anne and the fox as Henry Derby (later Henry IV), one of the appellants. Lindeboom comments on May 3, the dreams as Richard's anxieties, dating and astrological allusion in the poem, and the Tale's relationship to "Le Roman de Renart."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations