Chaucer's Parson and Plowman in the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Greenwood, M. K. Smolenska.

Title
Chaucer's Parson and Plowman in the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Published
BAM 61 : 25-58, 2002.

Description
In GP the Parson and the Plowman are polysemic figures that emerge from the expression of conflicting, dialogic voices--not idealized role models. Free indirect speech in the Parson's description allows the audience to suspect that he is a whitened sepulcher; the Plowman's low profile and overall silence invite us to guess his unvoiced thoughts.

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