Audience.

Author / Editor
Coleman, Joyce.

Title
Audience.

Published
Marion Turner, ed. A Handbook of Middle English Studies (Chichester: Wiley, 2013), pp. 155-69. 2 b&w figs.

Description
Outlines an "ethnography of reading" and describes "audienceship" as a field of study of "how people actually read (and heard) texts," including examples drawn from Chaucer's fiction and its reception. Closes with a brief survey of reading and performing texts in TC to exemplify medieval audience practices.

Alternative Title
A Handbook of Middle English Studies

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Troilus and Criseyde