The Prioress's Disobedience and the Benedictine Rule.

Author / Editor
Simons, Rita Dandridge.

Title
The Prioress's Disobedience and the Benedictine Rule.

Published
College Language Association Journal 12 (1968): 77-83.

Description
Identifies details in the GP description of the Prioress that are inconsistent with the Benedictine Rule and indicate satirically that she is courtly, a "worldly woman dressed in a Prioress's habit."

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale