Chaucer's Man Show: Anachronistic Authority in Brian Helgeland's A Knight's Tale

Author / Editor
Crocker, Holly A.

Title
Chaucer's Man Show: Anachronistic Authority in Brian Helgeland's A Knight's Tale

Published
Lynn T. Ramey and Tison Pugh, eds. Race, Class, and Gender in "Medieval" Cinema (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 183-97.

Description
The characterization of Chaucer in Helgeland's film reinforces the film's concerns with authority and masculinity, ultimately revealing that "canonical authority" is "anachronistic."

Contributor
Ramey, Lynn T., ed.
Pugh, Tison, ed.

Alternative Title
Race, Class, and Gender in Medieval Cinema.

Chaucer Subjects
Recordings and Films
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.