Chaucer's Revision of the Nun's Priest's Character and Its Consequences.

Author / Editor
Fox, Alistair.

Title
Chaucer's Revision of the Nun's Priest's Character and Its Consequences.

Published
C. A. Gibson, ed. The Interpretative Power: Essays on Literature in Honour of Margaret Dalziel (Punedia: Department of English, University of Otago, 1980), pp. 25-34.

Description
Argues that Chaucer "cancelled" NPE "because his conception of the Nun's Priest's character changed, and that he gave the Priest's first character to the Monk." The cancelation dissolves the "potentially disgusting identification of Chauntecleer and Pertelote with the 'trede-foul' Nun's Priest and the Prioress," and indicates Chaucer's dissatisfaction with "unrelieved didacticism" of MkT.

Contributor
Gibson, C. A., ed.

Alternative Title
The Interpretative Power: Essays on Literature in Honour of Margaret Dalzie.l

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale
Monk and His Tale
Manuscripts and Textual Studies