The Legend of Good Women: Performance, Performativity, and Presentation

Author / Editor
Quinn, William A.

Title
The Legend of Good Women: Performance, Performativity, and Presentation

Published
Carolyn P. Collette, ed. The Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006), pp. 1-32.

Description
Quinn describes the "performance" features of each of the manuscripts and printed editions of LGW, exploring ideas of oral composition, performance theory, and performativity. Addresses how each witness to the text of LGW shapes the "protocols of 'reading'" the text, whether oral or silent.

Alternative Title
Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.