'Lad with Revel to Newegate': Chaucerian Narrative and Historical Meta-Narrative
- Author / Editor
- Strohm, Paul.
'Lad with Revel to Newegate': Chaucerian Narrative and Historical Meta-Narrative
- Published
- Robert R. Edwards, ed. Art and Context in Late Medieval English Narrative: Essays in Honor of Robert Worth Frank, Jr. (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994), pp. 163-76.
- Description
- The language and imagery with which the Cook denounces Perkyn's revelry in CkT evoke the rhetoric with which contemporary writers denounced the so-called Peasants' Revolt of 1381. Perkyn's revelry may seem "innocuous" to readers today, but "the imagery of revelry carried a heavy symbolic freight in the later fourteenth century." Through narrative containment, Chaucer and contemporary chroniclers imposed closure on events that threatened the dominant social order.
- Reprinted in Theory and the Premodern Text (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2000).
- Alternative Title
- Art and Context in Late Medieval English Narrative: Essays in Honor of Robert Worth Frank, Jr.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Cook and His Tale.