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It introduces the tale as a beast fable that gains complexity through layered narration and multiple voices. The overview explains the narrative frame, showing how the nun’s priest counters solemn stories with farmyard chaos, and how satire targets church figures and social corruption. 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This document is intended to provide a starting point for teachers in their thinking and planning in that it gives an introductory overview of how the text can be considered through the lens of comedy. We haven’t covered every element of this genre. It is hoped this will provide a useful starting point and a springboard for thinking about the text in more detail.  \nOverview  \nOn a simple comedic level, The Nun’s Priest’s Tale operates as a beast fable (so popular in medieval literature and art), relaying the story of Chanticleer, the hubristic cockerel, who is beguiled and captured by Russell, the flattering fox, but who is ultimately saved by his own wit and cunning. However, Chaucer’s tale is more complex in its range than a simple medieval bestiary since there are layers to the narrative and many different voices which contribute to the overarching story and the comedy.  \nThe comedic nature of The Nun’s Priest’s Tale is set up in the narrative frame, when the host, tired of the solemn stories he has just heard, demands that thenun’s priest “Telle us swich thing as may oure hertes glade”. The nun’s priest knows that if he does not tell a merry story he will be castigated so he duly obliges with a jolly tale by deliberately counterpointing the tragic and sombre story delivered by the monk, whom the nun’s priest subtly mocks, with his own tale of farmyard chaos. At the end of the nun’s priest’s tale, the host shows his delighted appreciation: “Iblissed be thy breche, and every stoon!/This was amurye tale of Chauntecleer”. Although Chaucer suggests that the host does not fully comprehend the tale’s satirical nature or didactic purpose (which is another layer to the comedy), the host has enjoyed the fun of the nun’s priest’s tale and shows his approval, heightening the comedy with his bawdy riposte: “But, by my trouthe, if thou were seculer,/Thou woldest ben a tredefoul aright” needing more hens than “sevene times seventene”.  \nComedy in terms of the wider narrative  \nApart from the obvious mockery of the host immediately before and after thenun’s priest’s tale, there are other human targets for Chaucer’s satire which are embedded in the tale’s fabric. In order to tease these out, it is important to bear in mind the context of The Nun’s Priest’s Tale. The poet is writing a much longer narrative poem, of which this is just a part, for performance to entertain his  \ncourtly audience. The Canterbury Tales centres on twenty nine pilgrims, of various stations in society, who each tell their own stories while on a pilgrimage and who are listeners to the stories of others. Each storyteller is aware of his or her audience and the storytellers often stab, directly or otherwise, at other pilgrims. The opportunities for comedy are therefore rich and the nun’s priest is used for this purpose.  \nParody and satire of the Church and the Prioress  \nAt the opening of his tale, it could be argued that the nun’s priest subtly mocks his employer. The description of the poor widow who leads “a ful simple lif”, who works hard, drinks no wine and eats no “deintee morsel”, seems to directly expose the Prioress, who is described earlier in the general prologue, who despite her religious role and apparent ‘simple life’, indulges in rich food and alcohol and adopts all the manners of an indolent courtly lady. Likewise, it could be argued that Pertelote is intended to parody the Prioress – a superior hen who lords it over a stable of other women and one rooster and gives free reign to her desires – thus also satirising church corruption and materialism.  \nDebunking of scholastic teaching  \nChauntecleer’s lengthy digression on the value of dreams and the way in which they reveal much truth could be seen as Chaucer’s way of parodying scholastic teaching. 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