Concerning the Host

Author / Editor
Page, Barbara

Title
Concerning the Host

Published
Chaucer Review 4.1 (1969): 1-13.

Description
Treats the Host of CT as a psychological character whose recurrent levity disguises neither his pride nor the fact that he is "hen-pecked" by his wife, Goodelief. Essentially comic and naturalistic, Harry participates significantly in the marriage debate, is the target of ironic satire on bourgeois townsmen, and, "time-bound and earth-bound," represents the "immediate present" in contrast with the salvific goal of the pilgrimage.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General