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Olde Clerkis Speche
Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the Implications of Authorial Recital
Although this study does not pretend to detail an inaugural staging of Troilus and Criseyde , it does attend to the histrionic potential of Chaucer's own "speche/ In poetrie" (T&C V. 1854-5). The final chapter discusses how such a recital premise impacts several current controversies among Chaucerians, including the dating of Chaucer's individual acts of composition, the underlying assumptions regarding the "publication" of each text, the editorial imposition of punctuation on the manuscript record, and the poet's increasing anxiety regarding his future absence from the reading event. Olde Clerkis Speche will be of interest to all readers of Chaucer as well as everyone interested in performance theory and the history of reading.
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"an original, sensitive reading of the tonal qualities of the poem along with other remnants of oral delivery that support the reasonable claim that some of what Troilus and Criseyde means is derived from how Chaucer read it aloud. As such Quinn's book constitutes a major contribution to an area of Chaucer studies that has been important since the 1930s, and it will likely remain the standard discussion of oral delivery in Troilus and Criseyde for some time."—D.W. Hayes, CHOICE
"Quinn's study is a thought-provoking addition to Chaucer scholarship."—Mary Flannery, The Times Literary Supplement
"Olde Clerkis Speche is an interesting and important addition to Chaucerian scholarship and its conclusions are both sound and provocative."—Jacob Lewis, Mediaevistik
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