Wilcox, Karl G.
Dissertation Abstracts International 66.11 (2005): n.p.
Explores fusions of penitential values and Wycliffite ideals in Chaucer's LGW, ParsT, and Ret, arguing that he used them to counter Richard II's use of exempla to suppress political dissent.
An alphabetical one-volume encyclopedia of international medieval writers, their works, anonymous works, literary genres, and major cultural contexts, with entries by a dozen contributing authors, a time line of writers, a bibliography, and an index.…
Patterson, Paul J.
Milton and Melville Review 1.1 (2006): 10-20.
Describes how, increasingly identified with Chaucer in early editions, "The Plowman's Tale" advanced "Chaucer's status as an early Protestant figure," noting in particular the association of them in Milton's "Of Reformation."
Studies the interconnected development of fabliaux, tales, and novellas in the European Middle Ages, with emphasis on the German tradition and the impact of Boccaccio. Includes discussion of CT (pp. 292-97) as an early ("früher") response to…
Traces the development of "all" and "quite" in English usage, focusing on Spenser's uses of them as adverbs and adjectives, and investigating Chaucer's usage as precedent. Tabulates the usage of both poets. In French, with an English summary.
Contrasts the historical status of late-medieval plowmen with their literary status, considering Chaucer's Plowman in GP, Langland's "Piers Plowman," and the "other more minor plowmen poems" of late-medieval England.
Andretta, Helen R[uth].
Pro Ecclesia 37.1 (2006): 12-13; 37.2 (2006): 13-14.
Personal account of observing similarities in the works of Chaucer and O'Connor, particularly their shared Thomistic philosophy. Includes comments on Chaucer's Truth as it relates to O'Connor's notion of humanity's "true country."
Edwards, Robert R.
Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 52 (2005-2006): 5-17.
Contemplates relations between Ernst Curtius' imperial understanding of medieval literature with modern theories of postcoloniality, analyzing passages from Marie de France, Dante, and Chaucer to show what they can tell us about the "cultural…
Swan, Richard.
Deddington, Oxfordshire: Philip Allan Updates, 2005.
Student guide to MilPT and the GP description of the Miller (text included for GP selection only), with general information about CT and reading Chaucer, and more specific discussion of plot, characters, themes, genre, and techniques of MilT.…
Swan, Richard.
Deddington, Oxfordshire: Philip Allan Updates, 2005.
Student guide to MerPT and the GP description of the Merchant (text included for GP selection only), with general information about CT and reading Chaucer, and more specific discussion of plot, characters, themes, genre, and techniques of MerT.…
Poulton, Mike.
London: Nick Hern, in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company, 2005.
Selections from CT adapted for the stage in modernized iambic couplets (with MLT, PrT, and ClT in rhyme royal stanzas), arranged in two plays, each with two parts, with intervals. Part One opens with a truncated GP, as most of the descriptions of the…
Armitage, Kenneth.
London: Jonathan Clark Fine Art, 2005.
Twenty-two b&w drawings (plus two cover illustrations) by Armitage accompany Urry's 1721 text of RvPT, with same-page modern poetic translation in by Nevill Coghill (1951). Each drawing has a title.
Alexander, Michael, and Mary Alexander.
Harlow: Longman; London: York, 2005.
Study guide to GP that includes a synopsis, commentary, and glosses (text not included, except for three passages in Middle English for closer analysis--lines 1-18, 118-62 [Prioress], and 331-60 [Franklin]). Also includes descriptions of Chaucer's…
Wilson, Katharina M., and Nadia Margolis, eds.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004.
Alphabetical listing of entries related to women in the Middle Ages, with a guide to topics and an index. Volume I (A-J) includes a biographical entry on Alice Chaucer (pp. 159-64) by Karen K. Jambeck, a descriptive entry on Women in the Work of…
Surveys details of each of the GP descriptions of the pilgrims and each of the Ellesmere illustrations to show that the Ellesmere illustrator was a "close reader" of Chaucer. Refers to 22 figures; includes a summary in Turkish
Choi, Yejung.
Feminist Studies in English Literature 12.1 (2004): 249-78.
Assesses the overt or implied gender of the narrator in ABC, in PrPT, and in SNPT, exploring how each correlates with the depiction of the Virgin Mary in these works. Suggests that these depictions indicate that Chaucer was a "keen observer of the…
A social and political history of the "aristocracy of the fourteenth century through the life and times of John of Gaunt." Chapter ten, "Chaucer" (pp. 203-15), summarizes the poet's career, Gaunt's role in his life, and Gaunt's possible reactions to…
Includes selections from GP, WBP, and PardP in Middle English, with glosses, and an introduction in which Bloom comments on Chaucer's characterizations, his influence on Shakespeare and Spenser, and reading Chaucer in its original Middle English.
Suggests several revisions to traditional classifications of the typefaces of William Caxton, drawing evidence, in part, from the digital reproductions of British Museum copies of Caxton's two editions of CT.
Sturges, Robert S.
Jessica Munns and Penny Richards, eds. Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe (Harlow, U.K.: Pearson/Longman, 2003), pp. 40-54.
Focuses on John Heywood's "The Foure PP" and on the "Tale of Beryn" for their uses of the figure of the "Chaucerian Pardoner" and his "irreducible ambiguity" as a means to explore the "rule of the phallus" and the ways that each of the two texts…
Riley, Martin
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Rev. ed.
An adaptation for the stage of selections from CT, designed for juvenile actors. Includes versions of PardT, NPT, WBT, KnT, and MilT, framed by a prologue and interludes that feature the antics of four "alchemists." The volume includes instructions…
Prose, Francine.
New York: New York Public Library; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Surveys understandings of and attitudes toward gluttony (especially drunkenness and overeating) from Church fathers to M. F. K. Fisher in theology, literature, art, and popular culture, including a summary of PardT (pp. 15-19).
MacDonald, Paul S.
Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2003.
Includes a chapter entitled "Mind and Soul in English from Chaucer to Shakespeare" (pp. 245-78) that surveys the denotations and connotations of the words "soul" and "mind," with examples drawn a range of authors, including Chaucer.
King, Pamela M.
Harlow: Longman; London: York Press, 2003.
Study guide to MerPT that includes a plot synopsis, running commentary, and glosses (text not included, except for three passages for closer analysis). Also includes descriptions of the Merchant's character and the characters in his tale, various…
