Persona and Voice: Plain Speaking in Three Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Ellis, Roger.

Title
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.