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The performance of Middle English culture : essays on Chaucer and the drama in honor of Martin Stevens

Using contemporary theory and historical scholarship, this is a detailed examination of theatricality in Chaucer and in Middle English literature and culture as a whole
Print Book, English, 1998
D.S. Brewer, Cambridge [England], 1998
Criticism, interpretation, etc
ix, 198 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780859915274, 0859915271
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`Introduction'. - James J. Paxson`Sponsorship, Reflexivity and Resistance: A Cultural Reading of the York Cycle Plays'. - Kathleen M. Ashley`Eliding the `Medieval': Renaissance `New Historicism' and Sixteenth-Century Cycle Plays'. - Richard K. Emmerson``Se in what stat thou doyst indwell': The Shifting Constructions of Gender and Power Relations in Wisdom'. - Marlene Clark``Se in what stat thou doyst indwell''. - Sharon Kraus and Pamela Sheingorn`The Chaucerian Critique of Medieval Theatricality'. - Seth Lerer`The Experience of Modernity in Late Medieval Literature'. - John M Ganim`Noah's Wife's Flood'. - Alfred David`Textual Pleasure in The Miller's Tale'. - Richard J. Daniels`Petrarch, Chaucer and the Making of the Clerk'. - Warren Ginsberg`The Crisis of Mediation in Chaucer's `Troilus and Criseyde''. - Robert W Hanning`Reading Chaucer `Ab Ovo': Mock-Exemplum in the Nun's Priest's Tale'. - Peter W. Travis`A Postmodern Performance: Counter-Reading Chaucer's Clerk's Tale and maxine Hong Kingston's No Name Woman'. - William T. McClellan