Chaucer's Host and Harry Bailly

Author / Editor
Burnley, J. D.

Title
Chaucer's Host and Harry Bailly

Published
Leigh A. Arrathoon, ed. Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction (Rochester, Mich.: Solaris Press, 1986), pp. 195-218.

Description
Chaucer's characters are not psychologically consistent but (like the Host, or Pardoner) are illusions based on familiar voices and attitudes to engage the audience in moral concerns, as in MerT, PardT.

Alternative Title
Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.