Cleanness (Audio Recording: Reader)

Abstract

Perhaps not as well known as such works as Pearl and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by the same poet (sometimes called the Pearl-poet or the Gawain-poet after these principal works), Cleanness ventures into the world of the Bible with narrations by various Old Testament prophets as well as further narrations from characters in the New Testament, male and female. Directed by Michael Calabrese, who has taught this work to many of his medieval literature students for some time now. Recorded in Kalamazoo at two Congresses on Medieval Studies and at one New Chaucer Society Congress in Glasgow.