The Unconquered Tale of the Prioress.

Published: Papers of the Michigan Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 47 (1962): 613-36.

Description: Surveys readings of PrT as a reflection of the Prioress's GP character, and explores the relations of these readings to dramatic approaches to the CT. Argues that there is "devastating satire" of the Prioress in GP and in PrT: the Tale fits the teller insofar as it is "devotional and inspirational," but the Jews' lack of agency in the Tale, along with its brutality and sentimentality, manifest the teller's "arrested development." Includes comparisons with sources and with SNT.

Chaucer Subjects: Prioress and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Second Nun and Her Tale