The Twenty-Nine Again: Another Count of Chaucer's Pilgrims
- Author / Editor
- Farina, Peter M.
The Twenty-Nine Again: Another Count of Chaucer's Pilgrims
- Published
- USF Language Quarterly 9.3-4 (1971): 29-32.
- Description
- Critiques prior attempts to resolve the discrepancy between Chaucer's reference to twenty-nine pilgrims (GP 1.24) and the headcount of those actually mentioned. Focusing on the Prioress's entourage (GP 1.163-64), offers a new resolution that depends upon an emendation and the proposition that Chaucer rearranged the descriptions which once included the Parson (with the Monk and Friar) among the Prioress's "preestes thre."
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Prioress and Her Tale
- Parson and His Tale