Guest Editor's Introduction The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called in England The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, a new translation from the Arabic with copious notes by Edward William Eane, Hon. M.R.S.E. etc., Author of 'The Modern Egyptian." Illustrated by many hundred engravings on...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Prioress's Tale Introduction: The Prioress's Tale is an example of a very popular type of pious legend known as a "miracle of the virgin." They were quite commonly found in sermon handbooks, and varied in degrees of subtlety and popular...

My english class had to pick two poems that we had studied during the term and right about what Satire as a form of criticism in 'The Prioress' by Geoffrey Chaucer and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne. Chaucer uses satire to skewer the prioress' hypocrisy, and Donne uses it to describe parting lovers.

Some people believe the portrait Geoffrey Chaucer painted of the prioress is not a clear one, but a biased one. Upon analyzation of the prioress in the "Prologue" to the Canterbury Tales, we can easily come to this conclusion. Chaucer indirectly describes the prioress as being a beautiful, superficial, gentlewoman.