On the Sources of "The Prioress's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Wenk, J. C.
On the Sources of "The Prioress's Tale."
- Published
- Mediaeval Studies 17 (1955): 213-20.
- Description
- Assesses parallels between PrT and the "liturgy of the Feat of the Holy Innocents" (mass, vespers, etc.), a source likely to have been known to Chaucer. Also labels PrT a "devotional" tale, sharing distinctive similarities of imagery and symbolism with SNT and ParsT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification
Srecond Nun and Her Tale
Parson and His Tale