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The Nun’s Priest’s Tale, The Merchant’s Tale, The Pardoner’s Tale
The three Tales introduced in this lecture are among Chaucer’s best, and their excellence is the main reason for studying them. However, in considering them as a group, we can also trace a progression in moral intensity: a pair of light-hearted nominal morals is appended to The Nun’s Priest’s Tale; The Merchant’s Tale is a savage […]