Silencing the silencers : Chaucer’s satire of clerical authority in the Nun’s Priest’s Tale

• Main Author: Lai, Daniel
• Other Authors: Walter Philip Wadiak
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95744; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/9454
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...