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Queck! Talking animals in Chaucer’s tales

Lotte Reinbold examines animal speech in the Nun’s Priest and the Manciple’s tales

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The Canterbury Tales are a hubbub of different voices and ways of talking, from the bawdy beer-house humour of the Miller to the religious saint’s life told by the Prioress, and everything in between. Animal voices, too, form part of the conversation. Chaucer’s collection contains two bird-focused beast fables — stories told by or about animals which have a moral intended for human listeners.

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