American Chaucers
- Author / Editor
- Barrington, Candace.
American Chaucers
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 224 pp.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages.
- Description
- Barrington studies examples of "Chaucer's appearances in American popular culture over the past two hundred years": Percy MacKaye's play, pageant, and opera; James Norman Hall's WWI memoir "Flying with Chaucer" (1930), Anne Maurey's pageant "May Day in Canterbury" (1926); Katherine Gordon Brinley's performance piece "Chaucer Lives" (1921); and Brian Helgeland's movie "A Knight's Tale" (2000). She comments briefly on a wide variety of related texts that reflect reception of Chaucer in the United States.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Recordings and Films.