'A Revelation of Purgatory' and Chaucer's Prioress
- Author / Editor
- Risden, E. L.
'A Revelation of Purgatory' and Chaucer's Prioress
- Published
- FCS 35 (2010): 105-11.
- Description
- Assesses the Prioress in light of "A Revelation of Purgatory by an Unknown, Fifteenth-Century Woman Visionary" (1422), arguing that the later work provides evidence that Chaucer's character would have been found "culpable" for her worldliness.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations