Nebuchadnezzar and the Moral of the "Nun's Priest's Tale."

Author / Editor
Jacobs, Nicolas.

Title
Nebuchadnezzar and the Moral of the "Nun's Priest's Tale."

Published
In Nicolas Jacobs and Gerald Morgan, eds. "Truth is the beste": A Festschrift in Honour of A. V. C. Schmidt (New York: Lang, 2014), pp. 109-25.

Description
Reads NPT in light of the Nebuchadnezzer account in MkT--the only one of the Monk's tragedies with a "happy ending," the result of a lesson learned. Contrasts MkT as an early work of Chaucer's with NPT as one of his maturity, focusing on the "rival arguments" of free will and determinism, the rhetoric of exempla, and Chaucer's uses of tone.

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale
Nun's Priest and His Tale