CHAPTER THREE. The Poetics of Theatricality

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. CHAPTER ONE. Introduction: Critical Metaphors and Chaucerian Performance 1
5. CHAPTER TWO. Bakhtin, Chaucer, Carnival, Lent 17
6. CHAPTER THREE. The Poetics of Theatricality 31
7. CHAPTER FOUR. Chaucer, Boccaccio, London, Florence 56
8. CHAPTER FIVE. Carnival Voices in the Clerk's Envoy 79
9. CHAPTER SIX. Poetics in the Prologues 92
10. CHAPTER SEVEN. The Noise of the People 108
11. CHAPTER EIGHT. Forms of Talk 121
12. Notes 137
13. Works Cited 149
14. Index 159