Sounding Out the Host

Author / Editor
Yager, Susan.

Title
Sounding Out the Host

Published
Susan Yager and Elise E. Morse-Gagné, eds. Interpretation and Performance: Essays for Alan Gaylord (Provo, UT: Chaucer Studio Press, 2013), pp. 65-78.

Description
Addresses Chaucer's Host as both character and rhetorical device. The Host's speech is characterized, in GP, by pauses, asides, and delayed rhyme, creating Lydgate (or "broken-backed") lines and a prosaic tone. The Host's speech also displays his egotism and occasional mockery of the pilgrims.

Alternative Title
Interpretation and Performance: Essays for Alan Gaylord.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales