'Nat worth a boterflye': 'Muiopotmos' and 'The Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Anderson, Judith H.
'Nat worth a boterflye': 'Muiopotmos' and 'The Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Published
- Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 1 (1971): 89-106.
- Description
- Gauges the influence of NPT on Edmund Spenser's "Muiopotmos," considering details of plot, tone, and the relative freedom of the protagonists of the two poems. Spenser emphasizes Clarion's freedom more than Chaucer does Chauntecleer's, but the butterfly is more fatefully caught than is the rooster, a reflection of early modern Protestantism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Nun's Priest and His Tale