One of the tales that is told in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” is the controversial story told by a prioress called “The Prioress’s Tale.” A prioress is a woman who is head ...

I assure Free for All letter writer Daniel Klein that other attendees of "The Canterbury Tales" also were surprised and insulted by the decision to stage the grossly anti-Semitic Prioress's tale.

The Chaucer Review, Vol. 56, No. 4, SPECIAL ISSUE: The Ethical Challenge of Chaucerian Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century (2021), pp. 397-412 (16 pages) https ...

Many years ago when I taught Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales,” a medieval 14th century, often satirical poem, my students and I read the “Tale of the Prioress.” What has this portion of the “Tales” to do ...

meant that ordinary folk could enjoy the Canterbury Tales and their vivid characters - among them the sexy Wife of Bath with her five husbands, the snobbish Prioress and the cynical Pardoner.