The Nun's Priest's Tale
by Geoffrey Chaucer
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- Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
- First Published: 1387
- Type of Poem: Mock epic
- Genres: Short fiction, Poetry, Frame story, Narrative poetry
The Poem
Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales circulated in manuscripts from shortly after his death in 1400 but did not reach print until several decades after the invention of the printing press. The work is an unfinished, but more or less unified, collection of tales as related by the characters of a fictionalized April pilgrimage from Southwark, a borough south of London, to Canterbury Cathedral, where Saint Thomas Becket was martyred in 1170. “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” is found in a part of the work usually designated as “Fragment VII.”
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