The 'Prioress's Tale' and Chaucer's Anti-Semitism
- Author / Editor
- Friedman, Albert B.
The 'Prioress's Tale' and Chaucer's Anti-Semitism
- Published
- Chaucer Review 9 (1974): 118-29.
- Description
- Challenges critics who absolve Chaucer of anti-Semitism by blaming the Prioress instead. Anti-Semitism was rife in Chaucer's society, and he was likely complicit in the bias. Yet, the topic is a critical distraction in discussions of PrT, which emphasizes the Prioress's reverence for the Mary and her dramatizes her "indulgence in pathos and sentimentality."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale