'By Mouth of Innocentz': Rhetoric and Relic in the 'Prioress's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- McCormack, Frances.
'By Mouth of Innocentz': Rhetoric and Relic in the 'Prioress's Tale'
- Published
- Clíodhna Carney and Frances McCormack, eds. Chaucer's Poetry: Words, Authority and Ethics (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013), pp. 107-20.
- Description
- Discusses the relationship between the Prioress's "empty" rhetoric, audience reception, and emphatically feminine representation. The Prioress, in this reading, is a kind of false prophet, more dangerous than the Pardoner who plays a similar role.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Poetry: Words, Authority and Ethics.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale