Flattery and the "Moralitas" of The Nonne Preestes Tale.
- Author / Editor
- Steadman, John M.
Flattery and the "Moralitas" of The Nonne Preestes Tale.
- Published
- Medium Ævum 28 (1959): 172-79.
- Description
- Observes that NPT differs from most of its cock-and-fox analogues "in its explicit, reiterated warning against flattery," a traditional feature of, instead, "fox-and-crow" tales. Also, the explicitness of the moral in NPT is a "convention characteristic of the beast-fable, but usually lacking in the beast-epic."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations