'Thou art so loothly and so oold also': The Use of Ye and Thou in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Jucker, Andreas H.
'Thou art so loothly and so oold also': The Use of Ye and Thou in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Anglistik 17.2 (2006): 57-72.
- Description
- The choices between ye and thou in CT are governed by the "interactional status of the characters," a set of principles differing "considerably from modern address systems." Jucker surveys previous criticism on the topic and assesses exchanges and their conditions in WBT, SNT, FrT, and NPT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Friar and His Tale.
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.
- Second Nun and her Tale.