%0 Journal Article
%T ¡°CHAUCERIAN RENAISSANCE: PERICLES ENCOUNTERS THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN¡± FOR ¡°THE WHOLE WORLD IS BECOME A HODGE-PODGE: GENERIC CHANGE IN CONTEXT¡±
%A S. HOLLIFIELD
%J Lucr£¿ri £¿tiin£¿ifice : Management Agricol
%D 2009
%I 
%X The genre-blending of Troilus and Cressida, from the Prologue¡¯s Henry V-like presentation of epic history in microcosm to the interventions of comedic romance, romantic satire, tragic romance and neoclassical tragedy, suggests that Shakespeare discovered in Chaucer a kaleidoscopic refraction of the medieval world and the English literary past. Rooted in the histories, refashioned as a touchstone of human interaction in the comedies, revisited as setting and tone in the tragedies, Shakespeare engaged his ¡°memory¡± of Chaucer most directly in the tragicomedies. Inspired perhaps by Chaucerian juxtapositions of poet-narrators and their tales, Shakespeare explored the potential of generic multiplication and recombination most successfully in The Winter¡¯s Tale and The Tempest, wherein narrator figures appear for narrative expediency (¡°Time¡±) or effect. In collaboration with other playwrights on ¡°medieval¡± material, however¡ªnotably Pericles and The Two Noble Kinsmen, their narrators either ubiquitous or conspicuously absent¡ªShakespeare¡¯s lens on the past tends to fracture.
%K renaissance
%K pericles
%K noble
%K Kinsmen
%U http://www.usab-tm.ro/Pdf/2009/xi4/turism09_05.pdf