Chaucer the Page: A Winter's Tale of Courtly Entertainment.
- Author / Editor
- Coleman, Joyce.
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