"This study explores Chaucer's present-day cultural reputation by way of popular culture. In just the past two decades his texts have been adapted to a wide variety of popular genres including televis
Beowulf's presence on the popular cultural radar has increased in the past two decades, coincident with cultural crisis and change. Why? By way of a fusion of cultural studies, adaptation theory, and
The 16 poems presented here are among about 50 that were long praised and preserved because they were associated with Geoffrey Chaucer, and abruptly forgotten once scholarship showed them to be uncano
