The Legend of Good Women: Performance, Performativity, and Presentation
- Author / Editor
- Quinn, William A.
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.