Host Harry Bailly

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Host Harry Bailly is the jovial, outspoken innkeeper who organizes and presides over the storytelling contest in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
host
innkeeper
literary character
appearsIn The Canterbury Tales
appearsInSection The General Prologue
surface form: General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
associatedWithEvent pilgrimage to Canterbury
associatedWithLocation Southwark
characterTrait authoritative
boisterous
good-humored
jovial
outspoken
controlsTurnTaking decides the order of the pilgrims’ tales
countryOfOrigin England
createdBy Geoffrey Chaucer
enforcesRulesOn pilgrims in the storytelling contest
firstAppearance The General Prologue
surface form: General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales
genre medieval frame narrative
hostOf Tabard Inn
interactsWith Cook
Friar
Knight
Miller
Pardoner
Parson
Prioress
Summoner
The Wife of Bath
surface form: Wife of Bath
judges tales told by the pilgrims
judgingCriteria tales of best sentence and most solas
language Middle English
literaryPeriod Middle English
surface form: Middle English literature
medium poetry
narrativeFunction framing device for the pilgrims’ tales
narrativeRole authority figure among the pilgrims
comic figure
occupation innkeeper
offersPrize free supper at the Tabard Inn
partOfWork frame narrative of The Canterbury Tales
proposes storytelling contest
residence Tabard Inn
role organizer of the storytelling contest
presider over the storytelling contest
setsRule each pilgrim tells two tales on the way back from Canterbury
each pilgrim tells two tales on the way to Canterbury
timePeriodOfFictionalSetting 14th century England

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