Focus and 'Moralite' in the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'

Author / Editor
Myers, D. E.

Title
Focus and 'Moralite' in the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 7.3 (1973): 210-20.

Description
Tagmemic analysis of NPT that examines three of its "overlapping hierarchies" by shifting focus among them: the tale as a fable, the rhetorical elaboration of it, and the framing context of CT. Such analysis discloses the complex comedy of the tale.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale