Olde Clerkis Speche: Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and t...
Quinn, William A. Olde Clerkis Speche affirms both the historical legitimacy and the interpretivebenefits of reading Troilus and Criseyde as if the text were initially composed for Chaucer's own recital before a familiar audience. Proposing a qualification rather than contradiction of the persona as a reading premise, Quinn revitalizes the interpretive context of Chaucer's original performance milieu. The central five chapters offer a close hearing of the possi...