The Names of the Canterbury Pilgrims.

Author / Editor
Rogers, P. Burwell.

Title
The Names of the Canterbury Pilgrims.

Published
Names 16 (1968): 339-46.

Description
Assesses the paucity of names given to the pilgrims in CT and comments on those that are given; Eglyntine, John (Nun's Priest), Piers (Monk), Harry Bailly (and his wife Goodelief), Huberd, Hodge, Robin, Oswald, Alisoun, and Chaucer himself, who is named in the rubrics, While the fictional names are "suitable," Chaucer was evidently "not particularly concerned about giving names to the pilgrims."

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Language and Word Studies