The Mixed Style of the "Nun's Priest's Tale."

Author / Editor
Brindley, D. J.

Title
The Mixed Style of the "Nun's Priest's Tale."

Published
English Studies in Africa 7 (1964): 148-56.

Description
Demonstrates the "stylistic virtuosity" of NPT, consistent with its "multiple perspective," commenting on the plain style of the widow frame, "cinematic" details in descriptions, the quality and comedy of direct dialogue, the "graver rhetoric of the didactic style," "dramatic economy," etc.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale
Style and Versification