The Audience as Co-Creator of the First Chivalric Romances
- Author / Editor
- Hanning, Robert W.
The Audience as Co-Creator of the First Chivalric Romances
- Published
- Yearbook of English Studies 11 (1981): 1-28.
- Description
- Extrinsic models for twelfth-century audiences of chivalric romances (Duly, Bezzola, Legge) should be complemented by indirect evidence that defines such audiences as literary virtuosos, humanists able to evaluate romances to discover the poet and his aims. Chaucer's TC reevokes such an audience.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.