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Transcript

THE NUN'S PRIEST'S TALE

By Sophia Corbisiero, Marta Angeleri, Alberto Rossi, Leonardo Baralis

WHAT IS IT?

  • 20th story of The Canterbury Tales
  • author: Geoffrey Chaucer
  • 1387-1388
  • middle English

PILGRIM/STORYTELLER

Brother John

  • A Nun's Priest
  • Not in the General Prologue

documents about travelling

his description made by the Host in the Epilogue

information about:
  • physical skills
  • clothes

He is...

wise

ironic

anti-feminist

kind

talkative

After the Monk's tale...

Brother John, would you please tell us a merry tale?

Stop it! I can't stand tragedies anymore!

Sure!

WHEN?

A long time ago,

when all the animals and birds could

speak

and

sing...

WHERE?

...in a cottage...

one morning...

one day in May...

And that's the end of my tale. I'm sure we all can learn a lesson from it.

You would have been an excellent rooster, John! Thank you for your tale.

CHARACTERS

Chanticleer (the rooster)

  • beautiful and excellent at singing
  • arrogant
  • convincing and overscrupulous
  • heedless and easily flattered

Sir Russel (the fox)

  • sly and quick
  • good deceiver and tricky
  • not evil at all
  • gullible

Pertelote (the hen)

  • good-looking
  • friendly and courteous
  • smart and judgmental
  • loving and influenced by her husband

The old widow

  • hard worker
  • poor

STRUCTURE

  • Beast fable: animals with human behaviour
- inspired by Aesop- moral
  • mock-heroic technique

differences bewteen poor and rich life

  • allegory of Christianity

MORAL

don't be too self confident in your abilities

flattery and pride can bring downfall

importance of critical thinking

concentrate on your goals

CROSS-REFERENCES

ADAPTATIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanticleer https://www.chanticleer.org/ https://www.retropalco.it/artista/chanticleer/

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_de_Renart http://wiki.unimc.it/zoomorfico/index.php/Roman_de_Renart

https://chanteclair.it/la-nostra-storia/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantecler_(play) https://www.comune.napoli.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/4739/UT/systemPrint

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nun%27s_Priest%27s_Talehttps://guidingliterature.com/moral-of-the-poem-the-nuns-priests-tale-by-geoffrey-chaucher/ https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/the-canterbury-tales/section12/

https://quizlet.com/347323914/the-nuns-priests-tale-character-list-flash-cards/ http://nunspriesttale.weebly.com/character-traits.html http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/iacd_99F/medieval_lit/nun_priest/character.htm

https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/c/the-canterbury-tales/summary-and-analysis/the-nuns-priests-tale https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/the-canterbury-tales/section12/

Lumiansky, R. M. “The Nun’s Priest in the Canterbury Tales.” PMLA 68, no. 4 (1953): 896–906. https://doi.org/10.2307/459805. Broes, Arthur T. “Chaucer’s Disgruntled Cleric: The Nun’s Priest’s Tale.” PMLA 78, no. 3 (1963): 156–62. https://doi.org/10.2307/460857. https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/the-canterbury-tales/section12/#:~:text=The%20Host%20tells%20the%20Nun's,him%20to%20a%20sparrow%2Dhawk. https://quizlet.com/347323914/the-nuns-priests-tale-character-list-flash-cards/ https://www.enotes.com/topics/canterbury-tales/questions/what-personality-clothing-style-nuns-priest-297496