'Sire Nonnes Preest'--Reading Lancelot in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Bovaird-Abbo, Kristin.
'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