The "Monk's Tale": A Generous View.
- Author / Editor
- Strange, William C.
The "Monk's Tale": A Generous View.
- Published
- Chaucer Review 1.3 (1967): 167-80.
- Description
- Explores MkT as a revelation of its narrator, positing a structural arrangement among the individual tragedies and their various depictions of Fortune and interpreting this arrangement as a reflection of the Monk's character and psychology: he modifies traditional accounts and "suppresses evidence of [the] culpability" of his protagonists, indicating his own presumption and "bad conscience." Identifies echoes between MkT and NPT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Nun's Priest and His Tale