Playing the "Canterbury Tales": The Continuations and Additions

Author / Editor
Higl, Andrew.

Title
Playing the "Canterbury Tales": The Continuations and Additions

Published
Farnham: Ashgate, 2012.

Physical Description
208 pp.

Description
Considers the "post-Chaucer continuations and additions" to CT, particularly so-called "spurious" links between tales, "Siege of Thebes," "Tale of Beryn," "Canterbury Interlude," "Ploughman's Tale," "Plowman's Tale," "Tale of Gamelyn," and alternative endings to CkT. Considers the Tales as interactive, dynamic, polyvocal, game-like, and "ergodic," and argues that readers should appreciate the post-Chaucerian additions to CT as part of its reception history.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucerian Apocrypha
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Canterbury Tales--General
Cook and His Tale