Was the Nun's Priest in " The Canterbury Tales" a Rooster?

Question

I went to Spark notes and it gives me this summary about a Rooster. Is he a rooster? Where can i find a really good website that gives me a good summary of his part of the story?

Answer 1

No, in The Canterbury Tales, the Nun's Priest was a man named Sir John who went on a pilgrimage with a nun called Madam Eglantine.

Answer 2

You read it wrong... Kind of right but not exactly as it is an animal fable... But not specifically. It is metaphor.

1) Just before this tale begins, the Monk has been telling the travelers an apparently unending series of depressing short anecdotes about the fall of famous men and women. The Knight interrupts the Monk by asserting that tales of "sodeyn fal" without "solas" are not "gladsom to hear." The Host follows up on this line of reasoning by saying that tragedy ought not to be told as part of a "game" because it annoys the audience. Might there be an important truth here? We commonly treat comedy and tragedy as mere literary genres, but in Greek classical times the great tragedies were thought of as medicinal for the political health of the city. They were performed only on religious festivals in carefully controlled circumstances. Could it be that we harm ourselves by reading such things as Hamlet or the "Monk's Tale" without those controls?

2) The Host also warns all tellers that to tell tales that bring hearers to sleep wastes the teller's time. How about a hunting tale, he asks the burly Monk, but the Monk refuses to "pleye" and says "Now lat another telle, as I have toold" (VII.2806-7). This suggests that the Monk has told the tale he intended to tell, and that he's satisfied with its effect. What was his aim in telling it?

3) The Host's turn to the Nun's Priest uncharacteristically moves from a teller of one estate to another from the same estate (clergy). However, in both instances he asks the clergymen to tell tales of a secular nature, either of "huntyng" or a "myrie" tale rather than something reverent. What does this tell you about the way Harry uses the Church and about the way the Church has positioned itself in Harry's culture.