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A 4 page paper discussing several choices of word definition and Chaucer's most likely meaning in line 4456 of the "Nun's Priest's Tale." The author of the article reviewed here provides sound argument for his own choice of word meaning for the passage, but acknowledges that others could arrive at other conclusions. The author believes that Chaucer left the ultimate meaning to the audience. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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File: CC6_KSchaucRev.rtf
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In "Chaucerian Wordplay: The Nuns Priest and His Womman Divyne," Besserman (year) seeks to explicate "Chaucers use of wordplay as a device for establishing the Nuns
Priests hostility to the Prioress" (p. 68). The author focuses on a specific passage, which he labels as being crucial to his argument. The end of the passage,
"Thise been the cokkes wordes, and nat mi / I kan noon harm of no womman divyne," provides the central focus of his argument.
Analysis Focus Statement The author states that there have been several interpretations of the formal relationship between the Prioress and the
Nuns Priest, but that critics generally agree that there is at least some degree of hostility toward the Prioress. It is this hostility that Besserman (year) reports as providing
the basis for the underlying message of antifeminism in the "Nuns Priest Tale." The author provides a description of the occurrence of the
passage, reporting that it constitutes a digression from the action that has been building at an ever-increasing pace. The effect of the digression, according to Besserman (year), is that
it "slows the pace of the narrative, heightens suspense, and enhances the tales mock-heroic tone" (p. 69). This appears to be an astute
observation, for the passage truly does digress from the action of the tale, with the effect of giving the reader an opportunity to more fully take in the events that
already have occurred. It also provides justification for statements alluding to an underlying tone of antifeminism in the "Nuns Priest Tale." Further,
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