Middle English Romance and Its Audiences

Author / Editor
Brewer, Derek.

Title
Middle English Romance and Its Audiences

Published
Mary-Jo Arn, and Hanneke Wirtjes, eds. Historical and Editorial Studies in Medieval and Early Modern English (Groningen: Wolters-Nordhoff, 1985), pp. 37-47.

Description
Rebuts use of audience to privilege interpretation in Middle English romances. Rather than representing a historically authentic event, the Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS 61 frontispiece of Chaucer reading to a court audience may be merely a product of an illuminator's imagination.

Alternative Title
Historical and Editorial Studies in Medieval and Early Modern English.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Troilus and Criseyde.