Other Voices in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Mandel, Jerome.

Title
Other Voices in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Criticism 19 (1977): 338-49.

Description
Imitative indirect discourse in the portraits of the Monk, Friar, and Parson presents attitudes not Chaucer's in language not his. Examining personae in early tales may alter the pilgrim's portrait or the tone, as when the Merchant's ironic praises of marriage are read as January's serious ones.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Merchant and His Tale.