Telling Tales Out of School: Schoolbooks, Audiences, and the Production of Vernacular Literature in Late Medieval England.
- Author / Editor
- Hobbs, Donna Elaine.
Telling Tales Out of School: Schoolbooks, Audiences, and the Production of Vernacular Literature in Late Medieval England.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Texas at Austin, 2012. Fully accessible via https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/items/03d90e6c-1a6f-4e41-a8d3-732d1d740cff (accessed April 4, 2026).
- Physical Description
- xii, 292 pp.
- Description
- Describes literary works included in "the curriculum in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English grammar schools," as background to understanding "the instruction of generations of schoolchildren" and "reading the Middle English literature created and read by those trained in these schools." Includes discussion of "The Book of Margery Kempe," Lydgate's "Fall of Princes," and TC, attending in the latter to letter writing and audience awareness as taught in grammar schoolbooks and to Criseyde’s control of "the story’s ending and the responses of readers through her final letter to Troilus."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Life