Romance

Author / Editor
Reiss, Edmund.

Title
Romance

Published
Thomas J. Heffernan, ed. The Popular Literature of Medieval England. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985), pp. 108-30.

Description
A general discussion of the popular character of Middle English romances. The Theseus story in KnT and the Gawain material in WBT show Chaucer relying on audience familiarity with the material. Juxtaposing courtliness and bawdy, the structure of CT is like that of the Auchinleck manuscript.

Contributor
Heffernan, Thomas J.,ed.

Alternative Title
The Popular Literature of Medieval England.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.