Michael Livingston

Jan

1

Seuss Chaucer’d (Listen!)

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A long time without much Chaucerin’. Blame is shared, no doubt, by the time-crunch of the semester and the mental wipe-out that followed the completion of The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament.
A few spare minutes at this turn of the year, however, have put me in the mood for dusting off […]

Aug

24

Lake Chaucer’d (Listen!)

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My Chaucer’d Scalzi made a fair bit of noise hereabouts last week, and many folks have written to ask for a bit more. In craven heat for such attention, I could hardly wait to do another. The question was, what to Chaucer?
Several kind readers made several kind suggestions — and one unkind one — but […]

Aug

16

About the DuhVinci Code…

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It has been suggested, among other things, that I consider Chaucerin’ a recent mega-double-chocolate-bestselling novel by Hack Bro… I mean, Dan Brown: The DaVinci Code.
Or, as I term it, The DuhVinci Code.
The sins of this book — both from a writer’s perspective and an academic one — have been sufficiently catalogued elsewhere; so there’s no […]

Aug

14

Scalzi Chaucer’d (Listen!)

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In a fit of rage against working on my syllabi for the coming term, I took a snippet from John Scalzi’s novel Old Man’s War (chapter 9 for those playing at home) and, well, Chaucer’d it. That is, I took Scalzi’s text and translated it into Chaucer’s dialect. Details follow the audio.
Many thanks to […]