Chauntecleer and the Mermaids

Author / Editor
Meredith, Peter.

Title
Chauntecleer and the Mermaids

Published
Neophilologus 54 (1970): 81-83.

Description
Suggests that the comparison between Chauntecleer's and mermaid's singing in NPT (7.3269-72) is an "ironic joke" as well as being an "ironic anticipation" of the rooster's fate, connected with the theme of predestination in the Tale.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale