The Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell : Performance and Intertextuality in Middle English Popular Romance

Author / Editor
Zaerr, Linda Marie.

Title
The Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell : Performance and Intertextuality in Middle English Popular Romance

Published
Evelyn Birge Vitz, Nancy Freeman Regalado, and Marilyn Lawrence, eds. Performing Medieval Narrative (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005), pp. 193-208.

Description
Zaerr explores the concept of "mouvance" (textual variation) as reflected in a performance of "The Weddynge," commenting on the process of performance and adaptation and tabulating variants between the manuscript of the poem and a recorded memorized performance. Briefly contrasts the flexibility of "Weddynge" with the relative metrical fixity of WBT and Gower's "Tale of Florent."

Contributor
Vitz, Evelyn Birge, ed.
Regalado, Nancy Freeman, ed.
Lawrence, Marilyn, ed.

Alternative Title
Performing Medieval Narrative.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.