Drama, Theatricality and Performance: Radicals of Presentation in The Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Ganim, John M.

Title
Drama, Theatricality and Performance: Radicals of Presentation in The Canterbury Tales

Published
Wendy Harding, ed. Drama, Narrative and Poetry in The Canterbury Tales (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2003), pp. 70-82.

Description
CT accommodates apparently conflicting forms of address and confusions of narrative, dramatic, and expository genres. Chaucer manipulates a number of Northrup Frye's "radicals of presentation," allowing perpetual reinterpretation through the overlay of what had usually been considered quite distinct radicals of presentation.

Alternative Title
Drama, Narrative and Poetry in The Canterbury Tales.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales-General.