Abstract
THIS book offers a wide-ranging overview of adaptations and responses to Chaucer in ‘popular culture’ over the last two decades. Forni’s focus throughout is on exploring the relationship between the popular reception of Chaucer and his ‘functioning canonicity’. Her study follows in the wake of similar critical efforts by Steve Ellis (Chaucer at Large: The Poet in the Modern Imagination) and Candace Barrington (American Chaucers), and it examines the popular imagining and adaptation both of Chaucer as a character, and of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The adaptations and responses considered include television shows, films, plays, detective novels, historical fiction, speculative criticism, graphic novels, travelogues, dance, blogs, as well as t-shirts and commercial merchandise. The book is in many ways a testament to Chaucer’s enduring usefulness—the adaptability of the Canterbury pilgrimage as a model that serves a variety of cultural, political, and aesthetic ends, and the remarkable flexibility of ‘Chaucer’ as a cultural symbol.
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