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Dramatizations of authority in Chaucer and Maidstone
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Dramatizations of authority in Chaucer and Maidstone
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Chillem
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Cristina L.
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1990-
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Christopher Fitter
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Ellen M
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Ellen M Ledoux
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Rutgers University
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Camden Graduate School
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This thesis examines the connections between sovereignty, spectacle, and public ceremony in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Knight’s Tale and Richard Maidstone’s Concordia facta inter regem et cives Londonie [The Reconciliation of the King and Citzens of London]. I begin by looking at The Knight’s Tale and Concordia to unveil the intricacies of public ceremony and spectacle as political tools for medieval rule. As spectacle of sovereign expenditure serves as a signifier of sovereignty, public ceremony serves as an occasion for displaying such politically motivated spectacle. However, within ceremony, such spectacle is not simply displayed, but becomes scripted into a collaborative performance and social drama. The signification of sovereign authority, then, is developed and complicated by the ceremonial social drama that aids the display. Therefore, the title of this thesis, dramatizations of authority, sets ahead two distinct though conjoined matters: (1) the aesthetic design in which authority is dramatized and (2) the authoritative power of the dramatizations themselves to determine political relations and the overall social reality. The more contemporary Georges Bataille, in his The Accursed Share, provides theoretical support to this examination while later historical facts encourage a reading of The Knight’s Tale for its depiction and critique of dramatizations of authority, specifically those during the reign of Richard II. Thus, after using The Knight’s Tale and Concordia to understand the design of the royal entry ceremony in particular, I focus on the critical perspectives each text posits on the medieval custom. Ultimately, in The Knight’s Tale, Chaucer mocks Richard II’s dependence on public ceremony and spectacle as a tool for wielding power as well as the reverence and faith with which masses of citizens, like Maidstone, esteemed the royal entry ceremony. The Knight’s Tale may be read as a warning to medieval (and contemporary) readers to be conscious and skeptical of the social influence that dramatizations of authority impact.
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English
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Sovereignty
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M.A.
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by Cristina L. Chillem
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism and interpretation
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Maidstone, Richard, -1396--Criticism and interpretation
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Camden Graduate School Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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ETD graduate
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after May 30th, 2017.
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