Disfigured Drunkenness in Chaucer, Deschamps, and Medieval Visual Culture.
- Author / Editor
- Kendrick, Laura.
Disfigured Drunkenness in Chaucer, Deschamps, and Medieval Visual Culture.
- Published
- Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Visual Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 116-38.
- Description
- Compares Chaucer's and Deschamps's poetic critiques of the "comedy of drunkenness," examining passages in GP, MLT, PardP, and ManP as well as Deschamps's chanson royale "Sur l'ordre de la Baboue" (included, with translation, in an appendix). Traces the "humiliating, disfiguring effects" of excessive drink in dialogue with manuscript marginalia and material artifacts (especially drinking vessels) that visually associate intoxication with simian forms and world-upside-down rhetoric.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer: Visual Approaches.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Man of Law and His Tale
Pardoner an His Tale
Manciple and His Tale