Ironic Imitations: Parody, Mockery, and the Barnyard Chase in the "Nun's Priest's Tale."

Author / Editor
Pattison, Andrew John.

Title
Ironic Imitations: Parody, Mockery, and the Barnyard Chase in the "Nun's Priest's Tale."

Published
Chaucer Review 54.2 (2019): 141-61.

Description
Contextualizes the barnyard chase scene of NPT alongside late medieval hunting treatises, and questions the juxtaposition between the chase and the medieval noble hunt. The parody of this hunt offers multiple layers of meaning, from criticism of the noble hunt itself to the failure of someone trying to seem noble.

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