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title	:	The Performance of Middle English Culture : Essays On Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens
author	:	Paxson, James J.; Clopper, Lawrence M.; Tomasch, Sylvia.; Stevens, Martin.
publisher	:	Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
isbn10 | asin	:	0859915271
print isbn13	:	9780859915274
ebook isbn13	:	9780585218656
language	:	English
subject	English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism, Chaucer, Geoffrey,--d. 1400--Criticism and interpretation, Chaucer, Geoffrey,--d. 1400--Knowledge--Performing arts, English drama--To 1500--History and criticism, Drama, Medieval--Histo
publication date	:	1998
lcc	:	PR251.P47 1998eb
ddc	:	820.9/001
subject	:	English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism, Chaucer, Geoffrey,--d. 1400--Criticism and interpretation, Chaucer, Geoffrey,--d. 1400--Knowledge--Performing arts, English drama--To 1500--History and criticism, Drama, Medieval--Histo

Page i The Performance Of Middle English Culture Theatricality as a cultural process is vitally important in the middle ages; it encompasses not only the thematic importation of dramatic images into the Canterbury Tales, but also the social and ideological 'performativities' of the mystery and morality plays, metadramatic investments, and the ludic energies of Chaucerian discourses in general. The twelve essays collected here address for the first time this intersection, using contemporary theory and historical scholarship to treat a number of important critical problems, including the anthropology of theatrical performance; gender; allegory; Chaucerian metapoetics; intertextual play and jouissance; social mediation and rhetoric; genre; and the institutionality of medieval studies. The volume is a tribute to the distinguished medievalist MARTIN STEVENS, whose own work on Chaucer and the medieval drama is honoured here. JAMES J. PAXSON is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida; LAWRENCE M. CLOPPER is Professor of English at Indiana University; SYLVIA TOMASCH is Associate Professor of English at Hunter College, City University of New York.

Page iii The Performance Of Middle English Culture Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens Edited by James J. Paxson Lawrence M. Clopper Sylvia Thomasch D.S. BREWER

Page iv (c)Editors and Contributors 1998 All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner First published 1998 D. S. Brewer, Cambridge ISBN 0 85991 527 1 D. S. Brewer is an imprint of Boydell &Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604-4126, USA A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The performance of Middle English culture : essays on Chaucer and the drama in honor of Martin Stevens / edited by James J. Paxson, Lawrence M. Clopper, Sylvia Tomasch. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-85991-527-1 (acid-free paper) 1. English literature- Middle English, 1100- 1500- History and criticism. 2. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400- Criticism and interpretation. 3. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400- Knowledge- Performing arts. 4. English dram- To 1500- History and criticism. 5. Drama, Medieval - History and criticism. 6. Performing arts - England - History. 7. England - Civilization - 1066-1485. 8. Performing arts in literature. I. Paxson, James J. II. Clopper, Lawrence M., 1941. III. Tomasch, Sylvia. IV. Stevens, Martin. PR251.P47 1998 820.9'001 - dc21 98-24827 This publication is printed on acid-free paper Printed in Great Britain byScr:St Edmundsbury Press Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Page v Contents List of Contributors vi Foreword ix Introduction James J.Paxson 1 Sponsorship, Reflexivity and Resistance: Cultural Readings of the York Cycle Plays Kathleen Ashley 9 Eliding the "Medieval": Renaissance "New Historicism" and Sixteenth-Century Drama Richard K. Emmerson 25 "Se in what stat thou doyst indwell": The Shifting Constructions of Gender and Power Relations in Wisdom Marlene Clark, Sharon Kraus, Pamela Sheingorn 43 The Chaucerian Critique of Medieval Theatricality Seth Lerer 59 The Experience of Modernity in Late Medieval Literature: Urbanism, Experience and Rhetoric in Some Early Descriptions of London John M. Ganim 77 Noah's Wife's Flood Alfred David 97 Textual Pleasure in the Miller's Tale Richard Daniels 111 Petrarch, Chaucer and the Making of the Clerk Warren Ginsberg 125 The Crisis of Mediation in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde Robert W. Hanning 143 Reading Chaucer Ab Ovo: Mock-Exemplum in the Nun's Priest's Tale

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