Quoting Chaucer: Textual Authority, the Nun's Priest, and the Making of the "Canterbury Tales."

Author / Editor
Skala, Elizabeth.

Title
Quoting Chaucer: Textual Authority, the Nun's Priest, and the Making of the "Canterbury Tales."

Published
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, John T. Thompson, and Sarah Baechle, eds. New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 363-83.

Description
Examines Derek Pearsall's Variorum Edition of NPT and suggests that the Nun's Priest's "self-conscious literary performance transforms" the tales of CT, which are enhanced by Chaucer's quotations, allusions, and references to his own works. In particular, Chaucer's act of "self-quotation" is highlighted in NPT. Also discusses MLT, WBPT, and MkT.

Alternative Title
New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale