The Chaucerian Critique of Medieval Theatricality
- Author / Editor
- Lerer, Seth.
The Chaucerian Critique of Medieval Theatricality
- Published
- James J. Paxson, Lawrence M. Clopper, and Sylvia Tomasch, eds. The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 59-76.
- Description
- In the beginning of CT, Chaucer's references and allusions to late-fourteenth-century theater indicate the potentially disruptive nature of dramatic public expression. CT defines the cycle plays as radically other-provincial, civic, and communally produced.
- Alternative Title
- The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.