Performing Prudence in "Sawles Warde" and Chaucer's "Tale of Melibee."
- Author / Editor
- Taylor, Candace Hull.
Performing Prudence in "Sawles Warde" and Chaucer's "Tale of Melibee."
- Published
- Mark Cruse, ed. Performance and Theatricality in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ([Turnhout]: Brepols, 2018), pp. 17-34.
- Description
- Considers the performative aspects of Prudence as an allegorical figure in "Sawles Warde," where she functions as a dramatic "expositor," and in Mel, where she offers "commentary . . . on reading, misreading, and the limits of wisdom when it is severed from the divine," dimly understood by Melibee as audience. Comments on Prudence as one of the traditional four cardinal virtues and on the Host’s response to Mel.
- Contributor
- Cruse, Mark ed.
- Alternative Title
- Performance and Theatricality in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Melibee