Naked yet Invisible: Filming Chaucer's Narrator.

Author / Editor
Scala, Elizabeth.

Title
Naked yet Invisible: Filming Chaucer's Narrator.

Published
Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 19-32.

Description
Assesses how Brian Helgeland's "A Knight's Tale" and John Madden's "Shakespeare in Love" "tell us more than they realize": that Chaucer always stands separate from his fiction and, conversely, that Shakespeare's "theatrical life" enables us to "easily draw connections between him and his characters." This difference helps to explain why there are so few screen adaptations of Chaucer's works.

Alternative Title
Chaucer on Screen.

Chaucer Subjects
Recordings and Films
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations