Retelling Tales: Essays in Honor of Russell Peck

Abstract

Retellings, Derek Brewer re-reading the story of Herod in the Middle English innocents plays, Theresa Coletti Chaucer's Adams, Alfred David sacred and secular exegesis in the Wyf of Bath's Tale, John V. Fleming old wives' tales and masculine intention, Thomas Hahn The Book of the City of Ladies as a twice-told tale, Ronald Herzman the legend of the learned man's android, Sarah L. Higley victimization and legal abuse - the Wycliffite retelling of the story of Susannah, David Lyle Jeffrey telling it like it was? - Mark Twain's re-reading of chivalry in Malory's Morte Darthur, Richard Kaeuper Thomas Chestre's revisions of manhood in Launfal, Anne Laskaya Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - rebel against the story, Alan Lupack the burghers of Calais - chapters in a history, Monica E. McAlpine Chaucer's manciple - voice and genre, Charles A. Owen (re)dressing Cinderella, Eve Salisbury Huntington 140, Chaucer, Lydgate, and the politics of retelling, Lynn Staley Segwarydes' wife and competing perspectives within Malory's Tale of Sir Tristram and its mdoel, the prose Tristan, James I. Wimsatt Scripture Veteris Capiunt Exempla Futuri - John Gower's transformation of a fable of Avianus, Robert Yeager.