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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chaucer, Geoffrey
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Nun's Priest's Tale

Introduction:

Chaucer's story of Chauntecleer the Rooster, and his wife, Pertelote the
Hen, is first of all a fable about typical "hen-pecked" husbands, and typical
fussy wives, who like to cluck "I-told-you-so's" at their unfortunate mates.
(A fable, of course, is a story in which the main characters are animals who
represent human beings - not necessarily specific persons, but types of
individuals.) Secondly, the tale is a mock-heroic poem. (A mock-heroic poem
uses the language and the devices of a serious epic poem, but ...

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