Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, A.4353.

Author / Editor
Emerson, Katherine T.

Title
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, A.4353.

Published
Explicator 16 (1958): item 51.

Description
Explains the Host's reference to "gentil Roger" in GP 1.4353 as a possible play on "Roger Knyght de Ware, Cook," found by Edith Rickert in a 1384-85 plea of debt and reported in the "Times Literary Supplement," October 20, 1932, p. 761.

Chaucer Subjects
Cook and His Tale
Style and Versification