"The Play's the Thing": The Cinematic Fortunes of Chaucer and Shakespeare.
- Author / Editor
- Aronstein, Susan, and Peter Parolin.
"The Play's the Thing": The Cinematic Fortunes of Chaucer and Shakespeare.
- Published
- Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 33-44.
- Description
- Argues that Shakespeare's works have more often been adapted to the screen than Chaucer's works because the latter have widely been considered to be "guarded by experts." Comments on the Troilus frontispiece, Jonathan Myerson's animated adaptation of CT, and Brian Helgeland's "A Knight's Tale."
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer on Screen
- Chaucer Subjects
- Recordings and Films