'Forget what you have learned': The Mistick Krewe's 1914 Mardi Gras Chaucer

Author / Editor
Barrington, Candace.

Title
'Forget what you have learned': The Mistick Krewe's 1914 Mardi Gras Chaucer

Published
American Literary History 22 (2010): 806-30.

Description
Assessing the conservative ideological underpinnings of the pageantry and commenting on its "inability to control the polysemy of Chaucer's texts," Barrington summarizes the history of Mistick Krewe and describes its 1914 parade and party dedicated to "Tales from Chaucer." She examines details of images of the parade floats and associated materials, some perhaps responsive to the 1912 modernization of Chaucer by John Tatlock and Percy Mackaye. See also "A Response to Barrington," by Clare Sponsler.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
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