Pronouns of Address in the "Friar's Tale."

Author / Editor
Nathan, Norman.

Title
Pronouns of Address in the "Friar's Tale."

Published
Modern Language Quarterly 17 (1956): 39-42.

Description
Records Chaucer's consistent and conventional usage of "ye" and "thou" in FrT, showing how it achieves "irony and humor." Attends to manuscript variants and opines that "that the English language lost something by the abandonment of the singular form of the pronoun of address."

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Friar and His Tale