Chaucer as Performer: Narrative Strategies in the Dream Visions

Author / Editor
Klitgard, Ebbe.

Title
Chaucer as Performer: Narrative Strategies in the Dream Visions

Published
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 47 (2003): 101-13.

Description
Assesses the "linguistic, communicative and narrative markers of performativity" in BD, HF, and PF, arguing that Chaucer composed them for live performance but also with an eye to repeated performance or reading.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.
House of Fame.
Parliament of Fowls.