'Whoso Shal Telle a Tale'--Narrative Voices and Personae in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

Author / Editor
Freed, E. R.

Title
'Whoso Shal Telle a Tale'--Narrative Voices and Personae in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

Published
Unisa Medieval Studies 2 (1985): 80-94.

Description
Before the frame of CT establishes the brief "authenticating level," the narrator works in GP to establish that his report is an exact chronicle and that he is reliable. His veracity influences views of the Parson and the Pardoner as preachers.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.