Chaucer's Clerical Voices

Author / Editor
Elliott, Ralph W. V.

Title
Chaucer's Clerical Voices

Published
Gregory Kratzmann and James Simpson, eds. Medieval English Religious and Ethical Literature (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1986), pp. 146-55.

Description
Analyzes clerical speech habits in Chaucer's GP "ars descriptionis personae"; affective tone in PrT, SNP, SNT, MkT, and ClT; and, where appropriate, the connection with the stately rhyme-royal stanza--with contrasts to language, verse styles, and other voices in CT, in FrT, PardT, and ClP (Harry Bailly).

Alternative Title
Medieval English Religious and Ethical Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Style and Versification.