Performing Medieval Narrative

Evelyn Birge Vitz is Professor of French and Affiliated Professor of Comparative Literature and Religious Studies at New York University, USA. Nancy Freeman Regalado is Professor of French at New York University, USA. Marilyn Lawrence is a Visiting Scholar of the French Department at New York University, USA.

This excellent collection proves that on the stage, oral and gestural performance are just as important as texts. [It] is warmly recommended for purchase by university libraries and schools of acting.

• Introduction [with Nancy Freeman Regalado and Marilyn Lawrence] - Evelyn Birge VitzIntroduction [with Evelyn Birge Vitz and Marilyn Lawrence] - Nancy Freeman RegaladoIntroduction [with Evelyn Birge Vitz and Nancy Freeman Regalado] - Marilyn Lawrence`He was the best teller of tales in the world': Performing Medieval Welsh Narrative - Sioned DaviesThe Complaint of the Makers: Wynnere and Wastoure and the `Misperformance Topos' in Medieval England - Joyce ColemanDioneo's Repertory: Performance and Writing in Boccaccio's Decameron - John AhernMise en Texte as Indicator of Oral Performance in Old French Verse Narrative - Keith BusbyErotic Reading in the Middle Ages: Performance and Re-performance of Romance - Evelyn Birge VitzOral Performance of Written Narrative in the Medieval French Romance Ysaÿe le Triste - Marilyn LawrencePerforming Romance: Arthurian Interludes in Sarrasin's Le roman du Hem [1278] - Nancy Freeman RegaladoPerforming Fabliaux - Brian LevyPreaching, Storytelling, and the Performance of Short Pious Narratives - Adrian P. TudorReading, Reciting, and Performing the Renart - Kenneth VartyTurkic Bard and Medieval Entertainer: What a Living Epic Tradition Can Tell Us about Oral Performance of Narrative in the Middle Ages - Karl ReichlBeowulf, the Edda, and the Performance of Medieval Epic: Notes from the Workshop of a Reconstructed `Singer of Tales' - Benjamin BagbyThe Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell: Performance and Intertextuality in Middle English Popular Romance - Linda Marie Zaerr`Une aventure vous dirai': Performing Medieval Narrative - Anne AzémaSequels [with Nancy Freeman Regalado and Marilyn Lawrence] - Evelyn Birge VitzSequels [with Evelyn Birge Vitz and Marilyn Lawrence] - Nancy Freeman RegaladoSequels [with Evelyn Birge Vitz and Nancy Freeman Regalado] - Marilyn Lawrence