'Sire Nonnes Preest'--Reading Lancelot in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Nun's Priest's Tale'

Author / Editor
Bovaird-Abbo, Kristin.

Title
'Sire Nonnes Preest'--Reading Lancelot in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Nun's Priest's Tale'

Published
CEA Critic 76.01 (2014): 84-97.

Description
The Prioress's portrait in GP and NPT both draw from aspects of the Lancelot story. The Prioress partially models her own life on that of Guinevere without the full religious conversion that Guinevere undergoes after the death of Arthur. The Nun's Priest functions as a kind of Lancelot, but he also fails fully to abandon secular concerns.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale
Nun's Priest and His Tale