The Name of Chaucer's Friar.
- Author / Editor
- Muscatine, Charles.
The Name of Chaucer's Friar.
- Published
- Modern Language Notes 70 (1955): 169-72.
- Description
- Suggests that the Friar's name, "Huberd" (GP 1.269), "may be an ironic literary allusion, to Hubert 'l'escoufle,' the kite, a bird of prey, and a lewd cleric and confessor in the Old French poems of the 'Renart' tradition."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Friar and His Tale
Language and Word Studies
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations