Persona and Voice: Plain Speaking in Three Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Ellis, Roger.
Persona and Voice: Plain Speaking in Three Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 74 (1992): 121-39.
- Description
- Examines the "voices" of the narrators of SNT, MerT, and WBP. In understanding voices, it is important to remember two levels: the immediate and the inherited past. The three tales exhibit plain speaking in different ways.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Merchant and His Tale.
- Second Nun and Her Tale.