'Pilate's Voice'/Shirley's Case
- Author / Editor
- Hanna, Ralph, III.
'Pilate's Voice'/Shirley's Case
- Published
- South Atlantic Quarterly 91 (1992): 793-812.
- Description
- The "peasant voice" of Chaucer's Miller resembles the voices of John Shirley and Wat Tyler as represented in aristocratic accounts of the times. Chaucer's narrator criticizes the Miller's narrative voice, reinforcing chroniclers' depictions of "turbe," i.e., "declasse voices speaking undistinguishable and unindividualizable 'harlotrie.'"
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.