Three Old French Sources of the Nonnes Preestes Tale (Parts I and II)

Description: Argues that several French works are clear sources of NPT: Chaucer's poem is based on Marie de France's fable "Del Cok e del Guple," but also has significant parallels with Pierre de St. Cloud's Branch II of the "Roman de Renart" and the anonymous "Renart de Contrefait." The argument is presented in abstract form in "Chaucer's Adaptation of Three Old French Narratives of the Cock and the Fox to Form the 'Nonnes Preestes Tale'," in Ronald G. Popperwell, ed. "Expression, Communication, and Experience in Literature and Language. Proceedings of the International Federation for Modern Language and Literatures . . ." (Leeds: Modern Humanities Research Association, 1973), pp. 290-92.

Chaucer Subjects: Nun's Priest and His Tale; Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations