Identifies an allusion to HF (lines 703-4) in "King Lear" (5.3.17), arguing that, although Chaucer's poem was "marginalized" in sixteenth-century editions because of its stance on literary fame, Shakespeare read it and echoed it "unconsciously,"…
Maffuccio, Christine.
Dissertation Abstracts International A77.09 (2018): n.p.
While examining Thomas Hoccleve, John Skelton, and Ben Jonson, suggests that Hoccleve "channels" Harry Bailly from CT as a demotic voice, drawing upon the routines of London life in the establishment of an "English writerly voice worthy of laureate…
Lamb, Jonathan P.
In Shakespeare in the Marketplace of Words (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 175-208.
Argues that the glossary and other "editorial apparatus" of Speght's 1598 edition of Chaucer's "Workes" "yokes" Chaucer's language and lexicon "with his position as an English author," and that in his use of Speght's TC as source for "Troilus and…
King, Joyce.
Notes and Queries 263 (2018): 533-35.
Argues that Chaucer's "daun Russel the fox" in NPT 7. 3334 belongs to a centuries-long cohort of foxes whose tastes and tendencies Shakespeare applies to his wily Falstaff.
Kempf, Elisabeth.
Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2017.
Examines questions of autobiography, authorship, legacy, and the "Fürstenspiegel" genre in Thomas Hoccleve's "Regiment of Princes," with attention to its manuscript presentations and to its images of Chaucer and of Hoccleve himself, discussing the…
Hughes, Jacob Alden.
Dissertation Abstracts International A75.11 (2015): n.p.
Identifies characters throughout Shakespeare's canon who "process and engage Chaucer's ideas on theater, authorship and performance," and demonstrate "how Chaucer's poetry is relevant to drama and theatricality."
Groves, Beatrice.
Beatrice Groves, Literary Allusion in "Harry Potter" (New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 38-59.
Argues that the most "tempting objects" in J. K. Rowling's "Deathly Hallows" derive in part from the girdle in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"; the "thirty pieces of silver that persuade" the biblical Judas to betray Jesus; and the "deadly pile of…
Explores how Tudor editions of Chaucer and works by John Gower and John Lydgate "mediate" the presentation of Chaucer and his "authorial identity" in Edmund Spenser's "Shepheardes Calender," arguing that Spenser depicts Chaucer not only as the…
Drimmer, Sonja.
Exemplaria 29.3 (2017): 175-94. 7 color illus.
Argues that medieval "media consciousness," despite the lack of "verbal declarations of such awareness," is evident in the text-image relations of the Chaucer portrait in manuscripts of Thomas Hoccleve's "Regiment of Princes," coining the term…
Crews, Michael Lynn.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017.
Locates a quotation from PardT in Cormac McCarthy's notes for his novel "Blood Meridian"; links McCarthy's penchant for "the stories-within-stories motif" to Chaucer; and identifies echoes of PardT in the old Mennonite episode of "Blood Meridian" and…
Berry, Craig A.
In Andrew Escobedo, ed. Edmund Spenser in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 246-53.
Describes the "audacity and intensity" of Spenser's debt to Chaucer, considering the later poet's archaisms, his allusions to and quotations of Chaucer (particularly in "The Faerie Queene"), and the importance of Chaucer to Spenser's English…
Uncovers the complex relationship between monumentality and print culture as it contributed to Chaucer's early modern reception in post-Reformation England.
Yeager, R. F.
In Miren Lacassagne, ed. Le rayonnement de la cour des premiers Valois à l'époque d'Eustache Deschamps (Paris: Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2017), pp. 69-79, 183-91.
Explores the influence of Eustache Deschamps on the development of non-musical fixed forms in the English lyric tradition, commenting on poems from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson D. 913; the poems of "Ch"; and works by Chaucer and John Gower,…
Star, Sarah.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 40 (2018): 191-216.
Describes the career and works of late medieval English medical writer Henry Daniel, arguing that his views on "collaboration" between "learned and lay sources" are similar to Chaucer's, and that the two writers are also "connected through their…
Looks at Lydgate's Parisian poems with a focus on "Pilgrimage of the Life of Man." Aims to define and construct "virtual coteries" and identify connections between Lydgate's coteries and the poetry of Gower and Chaucer. Refers to Mel, ABC, Purse, and…
Olson, Glending.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 117 (2018): 185–211.
Proposes using a more philosophical reading of RvT to enhance understanding of Chaucer's "academic knowledge and his relationship with Ralph Strode." An academic joke in RvT relies on snubness and whiteness as stock examples of inseparable and…
Explores examples of "friendship, felicity or joy, love, fellowship, and 'compaignye' (company, companionship, community)" in Chaucer's works through a Neoplatonic lens. Focuses on "Chaucer's Boethianism" by offering perspectives on Chaucer's own…
Gastle, Brian.
In Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, Brian Gastle, and R. F. Yeager, eds. The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower (New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 296-310.
Describes four aspects of the critical tradition of exploring relations between Gower's and Chaucer's poetry--"biography, common literary sources and analogues [especially in WBT, MLT, and Philomela in LGW], thematic issues, and…
Sáez-Hidalgo, Ana, Brian Gastle, and R. F. Yeager, eds.
New York: Routledge, 2017.
Includes twenty-six essays by various authors that entail "comprehensive discussions of recent and current scholarship" on Gower and his works, arranged in three broad categories: working theories, material culture, and polyvocality. Each essay…
Galloway, Andrew.
In John F. Miller and Carole E. Newlands, eds. A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid (Chichester: Wiley, 2014), pp. 187-201.
Surveys texts by and about Ovid that Chaucer and Gower "might have used," arguing that the influence of Ovid was pervasive, complex, and crucial to the "careers and poetic self-fashioning" of both medieval poets, a model of poetic authority for them.…
Desmond, Marilyn.
In John F. Miller and Carole E. Newlands, eds. A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), pp. 161-73.
Surveys the impact on medieval poetry of Ovid as a love poet, including comments on Chaucer's use of "Ars amatoria" in WBP, where Ovid's "erotic poetics" are "domesticated" and the reception of his poem reaches its "zenith." Central to "Chaucerian…
Davis, Rebecca.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Presents Chaucer's and Langland's representations of the natural world, reading "Langland's treatment of nature alongside Chaucer's as an expression of a continuous though diverse tradition of humanism." Chapter 1 focuses on nature in PF.
Kimmelman, Burt.
In R. Barton Palmer and Burt Kimmelman, eds. Machaut's Legacy: The Judgment Poetry Tradition in the Later Middle Ages and Beyond (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017), pp. 89-138.
Studies the development of "poetic self-assertions" and "authorship poetics" in late medieval poetry, concentrating on Guillaume de Machaut's influence on Chaucer in LGWP and on Christine de Pizan. Comments on the legacies of Dante, Petrarch, and…
