Chaucer's Voices

Author / Editor
Phillips, Betty S.

Title
Chaucer's Voices

Published
College Language Association Journal 61 (1997): 93-103.

Description
Comparison of Romance vocabulary, direct discourse, the first person (singular or plural), finite verb forms, and other grammatical elements such as independent and dependent clauses inKnT and WBT shows that "Chaucer did indeed use the language of his narrators within their tales to enrich their characterization."

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.
Knight and His Tale.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.