Medieval Rhetoric Delivers; or, Where Chaucer Learned How to Act

Author / Editor
Camargo, Martin.

Title
Medieval Rhetoric Delivers; or, Where Chaucer Learned How to Act

Published
New Medieval Literatures 9 (2007): 41-62.

Description
Describes the role of performance, or delivery, in medieval rhetorical and grammatical treatises, and exemplifies the evidence of Chaucer's concern with rhetoric and performance in CT--in the Host's remarks to the Clerk, the role-playing of the Pardoner, and the apostrophes of the NPT.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Clerk and His Tale
Pardoner and His Tale
Nun's Priest and His Tale