The 'Nun's Priest's Tale': The Preacher and the Mermaid's Song
- Author / Editor
- Friedman, John Block.
The 'Nun's Priest's Tale': The Preacher and the Mermaid's Song
- Published
- Chaucer Review 7.3 (1973): 250-66.
- Description
- Surveys approaches to NPT, and discusses its appropriateness as a homiletic exemplum to the Priest as narrator, discussing its rhetoric, its misogynistic depictions of females, and its allusions to mermaid song and Physiologus (7.3270-72)
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale