The Nuns Priests Tale Background and Introduction
The Nuns Priests Tale Background and Introduction
The Nuns Priests Tale Background and Introduction
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale is a story in verse that is taken up from Geoffrey Chaucer’s masterpiece ‘The Canterbury Tales’. There are a total of twenty-four stories in ‘The Canterbury Tales’, twenty-one of which are complete and the three incomplete. The background of the creation of those tales is that once a group of thirty pilgrims including the poet himself took a journey from London to the shrine of Saint Thomas at Canterbury. Each pilgrim happened to tell two stories during their journey to break the boredom of the long journey. Chaucer was very much inspired by those stories and hence he wrote twenty-four stories in verse and collected them in his grand poetic work ‘The Canterbury Tales’. The tales are the finest specimen of narrative poems in the English language. The Nun’s Priest’s Tale’ is one among those twenty-four stories. In the sequence of the twenty-four stories ‘The Nun’s Priest’s Tale’ comes just after the Monk’s Tale.
‘The Nun’s Priest’s Tale’ is a fable. Its characters are not humans but beasts and birds i.e. fox and hen. Human characteristics are attributed to them and sins, vices, and foibles of men and women in society are expressed through them. It ends with a moral teaching that one should not be influenced by flattery. In the treatment of the theme ‘The Nun’s Priest’s Tale’ is satirical, allegorical, ironical, and dramatic. 0 0 0.
The Nuns Priests Tale Background and Introduction
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The Nuns Priests Tale Background and Introduction
N. B. The article ‘The Nuns Priests Tale Background and Introduction’ originally belongs to the book entitled ‘Critical Essays on English Poetry‘ by Menonim Menonimus.
The Nuns Priests Tale Background and Introduction
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