Shakespeare and the Puppet Sphere
- Author / Editor
- Barasch, Frances K.
Shakespeare and the Puppet Sphere
- Published
- English Literary Renaissance 34.2 (2004): 157-75.
- Description
- Barasch traces puppetry from Socrates to the Renaissance, arguing that Elizabethan puppet theatre conveyed popular learning. Chaucer's descriptions of the pilgrim Geoffrey as a "popet" (7.701-2) and of Alison as a "popelote" (MilT 1.3254) may reflect puppet entertainment in the fourteenth century.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Sir Thopas.
- Miller and His Tale.