The Nun's Priest Tale

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This paper looks at the Nun's Priest Tale from Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," discussing the outline of the tale, the dual roles of the characters in comparison to humans and the sexual nature of the animals as they illustrate how all loving couples react in their night and day involvements.

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"The Canterbury Tales" was the last piece of work to be written by Chaucer during the last years of his lifetime, moreover he did not manage to complete the Tale for there are still tales left unwritten for the pilgrims. Chaucer's original ideal was to write four stories for each pilgrim, who would total around one hundred tales; sadly there were only a quarter of those completed. Within "The Canterbury Tales" there are a number of works that Chaucer wrote prior to bringing the collection together, these include the Second Nun's Tale and the Knight's Tale, Chaucer it is believed wrote these two stories and included them within the prologue to The Legend of Good Women, a poem that predates "The Canterbury Tales" by many years, however as this work has not survived the ravages of time in its entirety it is hard to discuss them as independent works or a mere transference into the "Canterbury Tales."

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