American Chaucers

Author / Editor
Barrington, Candace.

Title
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.