Langland's Musical Reader : Liturgy, Law, and the Constraints of Performance
- Author / Editor
- Holsinger, Bruce W.
Langland's Musical Reader : Liturgy, Law, and the Constraints of Performance
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 21: 99-141, 1999.
- Description
- Argues that the alliterative "Choristers' Lament" is "a sophisticated but hitherto unrecognized response" to Langland's Piers Plowman. Details of the sketch of the Sergeant at Law in GP and the use of "rote" in PrT may indicate that Chaucer conceived of law proceedings as "performance," similar to liturgy and sermon in this respect.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Prioress and Her Tale.