Reading Chaucer Aloud
- Author / Editor
- Fuller, David.
Reading Chaucer Aloud
- Published
- Corinne Saunders, ed. A Concise Companion to Chaucer (Malden, Mass.; Oxford; and Victoria: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 263-84.
- Description
- Fuller insists that sound is "intrinsic to meaning" in reading Chaucer, commenting on the importance of metrical patterns and syntactic structures, appropriate intonation and pace, and pronunciation of final -e. Although it is difficult to approximate historical pronunciation of Chaucer's verse, reconstructive approaches and modern pronunciation are not mutually exclusive. The essay includes a list of audio and video recordings and evaluates a number of them.
- Alternative Title
- A Concise Companion to Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.
- Recordings and Films.