Studies on Chaucer and His Audience.
- Author / Editor
- Giffin, Mary.
Studies on Chaucer and His Audience.
- Published
- Quebec: Les Éditions "L'Éclair," 1956.
- Physical Description
- 127 pp.; 7 illus.
- Description
- Includes four chapters, each devoted to a single poem as addressed on a particular occasion and/or to a particular audience, considered in light of rhetorical traditions, genre expectations, oral concerns, and sources: 1) SNT on the occasion of a royal visit to Norwich Cathedral Priory, perhaps to "recognize the nomination of Adam Easton as cardinal priest of Santa Cecilia in Travestere"; 2) PF as, at least in part, a response to the "Pavo" of Jordanus of Osnabruck and designed for an oral audience; 3) MLT, addressed to merchants, commemorating Constance of Castile, ca. 1382 or 1383, about the same time as SNT; and 4) Purse, and the political implications of referring to Henry IV as "conquerour of Brutes Albyoun," a name for England Chaucer uses nowhere else. The Introduction to the volume includes commentary on features of orality in TC and other poems.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
Second Nun and Her Tale
Parliament of Fowls
Man of Law and His Tale
Chaucer's Complaint to His Purse
Troilus and Criseyde