The Epilogue to the "Nun's Priest's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Pearcy, Roy J.
The Epilogue to the "Nun's Priest's Tale."
- Published
- Notes and Queries 213 (1968): 43-45.
- Description
- Attributes the sexual suggestiveness of the NPE (CT 7.3447-62) to the Host's familiarity with a commonplace association of a "man in a convent with a cock in a hen-run," citing parallels from French, Latin, and Italian sources, and exploring how the language and imagery of the passage helps to characterize the Host as a "scandal-mongering but genial religious bigot."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations