Silencing the silencers : Chaucer’s satire of clerical authority in the Nun’s Priest’s Tale
This essay is a reading of Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale as an anti-clerical satire, following others in the Canterbury Tales like the Friar’s, Summoner’s, and Pardoner’s Tales. Through the Nun’s Priest and Chauntecleer, Chaucer completes his anti-clerical satire by obliquely portraying priestly and...
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Format: | Final Year Project (FYP) |
Language: | English |
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2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50617 |