Chaucer the Page: A Winter's Tale of Courtly Entertainment.

Author / Editor
Coleman, Joyce.

Title
Chaucer the Page: A Winter's Tale of Courtly Entertainment.

Published
Julia Boffey, ed. Performance, Ceremony and Display in Late Medieval England: Proceedings of the 2018 Harlaxton Symposium. Harlaxton Medieval Studies, no. 30 (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2020), pp. 95-109.

Description
Reconstructs from documentary evidence aspects of Elizabeth de Burgh's holiday entertainment at Hatfield House in 1357-58, when Chaucer was her page, positing that Chaucer's mature recollections of performative readings can be found in BD, 349-61, and TC 2;78-84. Suggests that experiences in Elizabeth's court "became the basis of [Chaucer's] understanding of the setting, tastes, and pragmatics of courtly literary performance."

Contributor
Boffey, Julia, ed.

Alternative Title
Performance, Ceremony and Display in Late Medieval England: Proceedings of the 2018 Harlaxton Symposium.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Life
Book of the Duchess
Troilus and Criseyde