The Nun's Priest's Tale and The Pardoner's Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer).
- Author / Editor
- Elliott, Ralph W. V.
The Nun's Priest's Tale and The Pardoner's Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer).
- Published
- New York: Barnes & Noble, 1965.
- Physical Description
- vi, 81 pp.
- Description
- Introductory, descriptive analysis of NPPT and PardPT, "designed primarily for the school, college, and university student." Summarizes the places of the two Tales in CT and explains their poetic and thematic concerns, focusing on the artful combination of comedy and seriousness in NPT and the performative aspects of PardT, with commentary on sources and analogues, rhetoric, genre, etc. Includes study questions and a section on "Chaucer's Language" (pp. 75-79) including lexicon and versification.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
Pardoner and His Tale
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