“r allen shoaf”

Chaucer's Body follows the fortunes of individual bodies in the Canterbury Tales to their surprising, often shocking, involvements in both the humor and the horror of being human. Neither wholly carnal nor wholly spiritual, bodies in Chaucer's poem emerge as sites of resistance to economic, politica... More

Shoaf demonstrates that part of the enduring value of Shakespeare's art is his poetry of likeness in the "land of unlikeness" where human beings invent their likenesses. It shows that Shakespeare's theater is also Shakespeare's theory of the psychology of likeness and unlikeness in the human struggl... More