Voices of the Tabard : The Last Tales of the Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Kealy, J. Kieran.

Title
Voices of the Tabard : The Last Tales of the Canterbury Tales

Published
A. E. Christa Canitz and Gernot R. Wieland, eds. From Arabye to Engelond: Medieval Studies in Honour of Mahmoud Manzalaoui on His 75th Birthday (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1999), pp. 113-29.

Description
Reads Ret as the "culminating moment in the progressive disillusionment" of the Canterbury fiction for poet and reader alike. SNT, CYT, and ManT together "systematically confront" medieval notions of truth and the ability of humans to know it, leading to the need for confession.

Alternative Title
From Arabye to Engelond: Medieval Studies in Honour of Mahmoud Manzalaoui on His 75th Birthday .

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Chaucer's Retraction.
Parson and His Tale.
Manciple and His Tale.
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.
Second Nun and Her Tale.