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Maintains that Chaucer's works indicate his reliance upon social interaction and collaboration as spurs to creativity, commenting on HF (a "poem about writer's block"), and on public space and creativity in NPT, TC, and ClP. Also describes the…

Discusses how Chaucer's own familial relationships and home life are reflected in depictions of home and familial relationships in his works.

A musical performance of Tremble's "Four Fragments from 'The Canterbury Tales'" (GP, 1–42; GP descriptions of Knight and Squire; and WBP, 1–34), performed by Joanna Cowan White, Kennen White, Tracy Watson, Elissa Johnston, Mary Jo Cox, and…

Recording of MercB set to music, performed by the Vasari Singers, "Recorded 2016 February 12–14 Church of St. Judeon-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden, London."

Audio recording of a lecture that aligns the achievements of Dante and Chaucer, focusing on their attention to individuals and uses of their vernacular languages. The discussion of CT emphasizes Chaucer's social variety as it contrasts traditional…

Describes the contents of the 167 manuscripts in the Rawlinson Collection that include Middle English prose; the following have Chaucerian material: D.3 [1] (Astr); D.913 [9] (Astr); poet.141 [1] (Mel); poet.149 [1] (Mel); poet.149 [3] (ParsT); and…

A complete annotated bibliography of scholarly and critical treatments of SqT, FranT, and PhyT from 1900 through 2005, subdivided into the following categories: editions and modernizations of each tale; sources, analogues, and later influence of each…

Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 335 items, plus a listing of reviews for 47 books. Includes an…

Video recording of lecture (ca. 31 min.), with illustrations, accompanied by an edited text of the lecture in the Course Guidebook (pp. 37-42). Describes the plot of TC, emphasizing the ambiguities of Criseyde and contrasting her character with that…

Video recording of lecture (ca. 30 min.), with illustrations, accompanied by an edited text of the lecture in the Course Guidebook (pp. 31-36). Comments on details of the Wife's character in GP, WBP as an autobiography, the Wife's challenges to…

Suggests that "wood" indicates lechery in FrT 3.1327, echoed punningly by "harlotrye" in the next line.

Surveys historical comments on the odor of daisies and suggests that Chaucer's praise of its odor in LGWP may be due to botanical accuracy, unusual because he usually follows literary conventions.

Identifies ironic parallels between Troilus's viewings of Criseyde in TC and Cresseid's failure to recognize Troilus in Robert Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid," exploring the latter as a narrative of "punishment and expiation through suffering."

Connects the reference to "bacon" in WBP 3.418 with the explicit reference to the "Dunmow" bacon of WBP 3.217-18.

Observes that Chauntecleer's description of laxatives as "venymous" [var. "venymes"] in NPT 7.3155 parallels a similar connection in Roger Bacon, and suggests that Chaucer's use carries "antifeminist irony."

Maintains that anachronistic details of Criseyde's address to night in TC 3.1429-42 deviate from traditional albas and indicate that she "challenges God" in favor of her own will, indicated by her unorthodox attitude toward Providence.

Reprints the 8th edition (1950) of Coulton's 1908 critical biography of Chaucer, with a new bibliography by Craik (pp. 277-79).

Suggests that the "greyn" placed on the clergeon's tongue in PrT 7.662 is, ironically, a "breath sweetener," one of several satiric details observed in the Tale.

Quotes and translates an analogue to the window scene of bottom kissing in MilT, recorded by folklorist Juan B. Rael as "La mujer y los tres amantes," collected by oral transmission from Félix Pino in New Mexico in the 1930s.

Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate this is a translation of GP into Turkish.

Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this is a translation of CT into Turkish.

Translation of CT into Portuguese verse. Item not seen; not listed in WorldCat.

Translation of selections from CT into Farsi verse. Item not listed in WorldCat; item not seen.

Compares relations between cosmology and psychology in medieval and modern understandings of poetry, emphasizing the concentric and expanding perspectives prompted by Middle English imagery and world views, exemplified in several lyrics. Includes…

Surveys what is known and what can be inferred about the origins of the so-called Findern manuscript, its scribes, manuscript affiliations, and codicological features, with recurrent comments on the works by Chaucer that are anthologized in it (PF,…