This study examines questions of identity, performance, and authorship that medieval French narratives raise when characters disguise themselves as minstrels. In minstrel disguise, issues of identity are magnified because a character assumes the mask of the protean minstrel, a shape shifter and boun
Performing Medieval Narrative
โ Scribed by Evelyn Birge Vitz, Nancy Freeman Regalado, Marilyn Lawrence
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 259
- Category
- Library
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