'Lollius'
- Author / Editor
- East, W. G.
'Lollius'
- Published
- English Studies 58 (1977): 396-98.
- Description
- The name "Lollius" (from "loll" "to hang out the tongue") is Chaucer's punning attempt to imitate Boccaccio's name in English ("boccaccio" "ugly mouth"), as well as to create a plausible sounding Latinate name for his supposed author.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.