Chaucer's Disgruntled Cleric: "The Nun's Priest's Tale."

Description: Argues that the "artistic unity" of NPT is evident in "light of the [Nun's] Priest's personality," a man who is dissatisfied with "his position in life as a servant to a group of women." Differences between NPT and its source in the "Renart" tradition; characterizations of Chantecleer, Pertelote and the widow; and the so-called "digressions" of the Tale all are intended by the Nun's Priest to "embarrass the Prioress" or to "establish intellectual and moral superiority to her."

Chaucer Subjects: Nun's Priest and His Tale
Prioress and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations