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Playing the Canterbury Tales
Author | : Dr Andrew Higl |
Publsiher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2013-05-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781409479130 |
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Playing the Canterbury Tales addresses the additions, continuations, and reordering of the Canterbury Tales found in the manuscripts and early printed editions of the Tales. Many modern editions present a specific set of tales in a specific order, and often leave out an entire corpus of continuations and additions. Andrew Higl makes a case for understanding the additions and changes to Chaucer's original open and fragmented work by thinking of them as distinct interactive moves in a game similar to the storytelling game the pilgrims play. Using examples and theories from new media studies, Higl demonstrates that the Tales are best viewed as an "interactive fiction," reshaped by active readers. Readers participated in the ongoing creation and production of the tales by adding new text and rearranging existing text, and through this textual transmission, they introduced new social and literary meaning to the work. This theoretical model and the boundaries between the canonical and apocryphal texts are explored in six case studies: the spurious prologues of the Wife of Bath's Tale, John Lydgate's influence on the Tales, the Northumberland manuscript, the ploughman character, and the Cook's Tale. The Canterbury Tales are a more dynamic and unstable literary work than usually encountered in a modern critical edition.
Playing the Canterbury Tales
Author | : Andrew Higl |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2016-04-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317079835 |
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Playing the Canterbury Tales addresses the additions, continuations, and reordering of the Canterbury Tales found in the manuscripts and early printed editions of the Tales. Many modern editions present a specific set of tales in a specific order, and often leave out an entire corpus of continuations and additions. Andrew Higl makes a case for understanding the additions and changes to Chaucer's original open and fragmented work by thinking of them as distinct interactive moves in a game similar to the storytelling game the pilgrims play. Using examples and theories from new media studies, Higl demonstrates that the Tales are best viewed as an "interactive fiction," reshaped by active readers. Readers participated in the ongoing creation and production of the tales by adding new text and rearranging existing text, and through this textual transmission, they introduced new social and literary meaning to the work. This theoretical model and the boundaries between the canonical and apocryphal texts are explored in six case studies: the spurious prologues of the Wife of Bath's Tale, John Lydgate's influence on the Tales, the Northumberland manuscript, the ploughman character, and the Cook's Tale. The Canterbury Tales are a more dynamic and unstable literary work than usually encountered in a modern critical edition.
The Canterbury Tales
Author | : Lindsay Price |
Publsiher | : Theatrefolk |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781894870344 |
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The Canterbury Tales
Author | : Peter Ackroyd |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2009-10-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781101155639 |
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A fresh, modern prose retelling captures the vigorous and bawdy spirit of Chaucer’s classic Renowned critic, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents the work in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to modern readers while preserving the spirit of the original. A mirror for medieval society, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales concerns a motley group of pilgrims who meet in a London inn on their way to Canterbury and agree to take part in a storytelling competition. Ranging from comedy to tragedy, pious sermon to ribald farce, heroic adventure to passionate romance, the tales serve not only as a summation of the sensibility of the Middle Ages but as a representation of the drama of the human condition. Ackroyd’s contemporary prose emphasizes the humanity of these characters—as well as explicitly rendering the naughty good humor of the writer whose comedy influenced Fielding and Dickens—yet still masterfully evokes the euphonies and harmonies of Chaucer’s verse. This retelling is sure to delight modern readers and bring a new appreciation to those already familiar with the classic tales.
The Canterbury Tales
Author | : John O'Connor |
Publsiher | : Nelson Thornes |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0174326580 |
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Dramascripts is an outstanding series of playscripts that are ideal for mixed class reading and performance. This extensive series of scripts encourages students to explore language and a variety of dramatic genres including myths and legends, classic Shakespeare, adventure, thriller, romance and more. Each edition provides guidance and activities alongside the text.
The Riverside Chaucer
Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer,Larry Dean Benson |
Publsiher | : American Chemical Society |
Total Pages | : 1386 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages |
ISBN | : 9780199552092 |
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A re-editing of F.N. Robinson's second edition of The works of Geoffrey Chaucer published in 1957 by the team of experts at the Riverside Institute who have greatly expanded the introductory material, explanatory notes, textual notes, bibliography and glossary. The result of many years' study. The Riverside Chaucer is the most authentic and exciting edition available of Chaucer's complete works.
The Canterbury Tales
Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 185459883X |
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Published alongside premiere at the Royal Shakespeare Company in November 2005.
Selections from Chaucer s Canterbury Tales Ellesmere Text
Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UOM:39015004167345 |
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