The Art of Naming: A Study of Fictional Names as an Element of Style in Chaucer, Spenser, and Shakespeare
- Author / Editor
- Yuasa, Nobuyuki.
The Art of Naming: A Study of Fictional Names as an Element of Style in Chaucer, Spenser, and Shakespeare
- Published
- Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic Literary Studies 41 (1994): 59-83.
- Description
- Comments on the names of selected characters, including the names of Chaucer's CT pilgrims and some of the characters in the tales. Compared with Spenser's and Shakespeare's names, "Chaucer's fictional names are rather limited in kind and number," although they are often ironic.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.