Narrative Voice, Narrative Framework: The Host as 'Author' of The Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Carruthers, Leo.

Title
Narrative Voice, Narrative Framework: The Host as 'Author' of The Canterbury Tales

Published
Wendy Harding, ed. Drama, Narrative and Poetry in The Canterbury Tales (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2003), pp. 51-67.

Description
Carruthers examines the framing structure and links of CT, with particular attention to the Host's role. Harry Bailey is both a unifying instrument in the poet's hands and an extension of Chaucer's identity, an alter ego who will ultimately be silenced in Ret.

Alternative Title
Drama, Narrative and Poetry in The Canterbury Tales .

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales-General.