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Page iii Chaucerian Play Comedy and Control in the Canterbury Tales Laura Kendrick

Page iv University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England 1988 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kendrick, Laura. Chaucerian play: comedy and control in the Canterbury tales / Laura Kendrick. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-520-06194-2 (alk. paper) 1. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400. Canterbury tales. 2. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400Humor, satire, etc. 3. Play in literature. 4. Comic, The, in literature. I. Title. PR1875.P55K46 1988 821'.1dc19 87-20889 Printed in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 The Appendix appeared, in slightly different form, as "The Troilus Frontispiece and the Dramatization of Chaucer's Troilus," The Chaucer Review 22, no. 2 (1987). Reprinted by permission of the Pennsylvania State University Press.

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Page vii Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Laughter, Play, and Fiction 1 1. Reading for Sentence versus Reading for Solas: A Broadening Example 5 2. The Spirit versus the Flesh in Art and Interpretation 20 3. Power and Play: The Consolations of Fiction I 34 4. Dangerous Desires and Play: The Consolations of Fiction II 54 5. Breaking Verbal Taboos: The Consolations of Fiction III 74 6. "Straw for Youre Gentillesse": Symbolic Rebellion in the Canterbury Tales 98 7. Deauthorizing the Text: Setting Up the Game of the Canterbury Tales 130 Conclusion: The Canterbury Tales as Stabilized and Stabilizing Structure 153

Page viii Appendix: The Troilus Frontispiece and the Dramatic Presentation of Chaucer's Verse 163 Notes 175 Index 209

Page ix Illustrations Following page 16 1. Master of Tressa, Madonna and Child 2. Guido da Siena (?), Madonna and Child 3. Cimabue (?), Madonna and Child 4. Master of the Magdalen, Madonna and Child 5. Nicolo di Pietro, Madonna and Child 6. Hans von Judenburg, Madonna and Child 7. The Hours of Philip the Good, Presentation in the Temple 8. Lippo di Benevieni, Madonna and Child 9. Nardo di Cione, Madonna and Child 10. Lombard manuscript, Madonna and Child 11. Lombard manuscript, Adoration of the Magi 12. Czech Master, Madonna and Child 13. Bohemian manuscript, Adoration of the Magi 14. Czech Master, Madonna and Child from Strahov 15. Petites Heures de Jean de Berry, Entombment 16. Master of the Death of the Virgin, Holy Family 17. Bartolommeo di Giovanni, Madonna and Child 18. Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Madonna and Child 19. Master of St. Peter, Nativity 20. Veronese fresco, Madonna and Child

Page x 21. East Anglian painted panel, Nativity Following page 168 22. Troilus frontispiece 23. Detail of Troilus frontispiece 24. Terence des Ducs manuscript, dramatic performance

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