Dame Pertelote's Parlous Parle

Author / Editor
Kauffman, Corrine E.

Title
Dame Pertelote's Parlous Parle

Published
Chaucer Review 4.1 (1969): 41-48.

Description
Uses late-medieval and Renaissance herbals to show that the ingredients for a remedy that Pertelote recommends to Chanticleer in NPT are all "quite wrong for her patient" and his condition: some unavailable, some inappropriate, and some deadly. The "remedy" is part of Chaucer's comic "satire of women" in the Tale.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale