'He Pleyeth Herodes upon a Scaffold Hye'?
- Author / Editor
- King, Pamela M.
'He Pleyeth Herodes upon a Scaffold Hye'?
- Published
- Leeds Studies in English 32 (2001): 212-28. Reprinted in Pamela M. King and Alexandra F. Johnston, eds. Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 102-18.
- Description
- Explores the possible "theatrical context" of MilT, clarifying the cultural value of Absolon's status as a parish clerk and arguing that Chaucer's plot and treatment of gender in his characterization of Absolon were inspired by "amateur theatricals of the parish clerks at Clerkenwell," which Chaucer observed when he worked on the scaffolds at Smithfield in 1390.
- Alternative Title
- Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.