Chaucer's Prioress and the Sacrifice of Praise.
- Author / Editor
- Hawkins, Sherman.
Chaucer's Prioress and the Sacrifice of Praise.
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 63 (1964): 599-624.
- Description
- Explores the Augustinian "figurative implications" of PrT, identifying a "clear symbolic pattern" evident in interpreting it Scripturally—the "childishness" of the teller and her protagonist, the literalness of the Jews, echoes of the liturgy of the Holy Innocents, the "pit of misery," the multivalent symbolism of the "greyn," the clergeon's "speaking in tongues," and the glorification of Mary. Comments on resonances between PrT on the one hand, and ShT, NPT, and PardT on the other.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale
Shipman and His Tale
Tale of Sir Thopas
Pardoner and His Tale