Ancient & Medieval Literature, European Literature, Poetry - Literary Criticism, General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism, Medieval History, British History - General & Miscellaneous, English Literature
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Overview
Proposes a significantly different assessment ofChaucer's poem by considering it as a script to be performed.William Quinn argues that the "F-version" of Chaucer's unfinishedpoem was written as a script for live performance before acourtly audience.Editorials
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Suggests that the problems scholars have with Chaucer's nine legends of good women vanish if Chaucer is assumed to have written them as scripts to be performed as well as a text to be disseminated in manuscript. Otherwise the work is virtually ignored as a flat, incomplete endeavor between two really good books. Examines the two prologues and each legend in turn, showing how the phrasing and choice of words would have been received as humorous by an audience. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
August 1, 1994
Publisher
Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c1994.
Pages
253
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780813207919