Jeffrey, David Lyle.
David Lyle Jeffrey. House of the Interpreter: Reading Scripture, Reading Culture (Waco, Tx,: Baylor University Press, 2003), pp. 111-16.
Explores ecclesiastical connotations of the word "rente" in the GP description of the Friar, in SumT, and elsewhere in medieval usage.
Jeffrey, David Lyle.
David Lyle Jeffrey. House of the Interpreter: Reading Scripture, Reading Culture (Waco, Tx,: Baylor University Press, 2003), pp. 87-110.
Considers the three-part structure of HF, the poem's references to Virgil's "Aeneid," and its allusions to Dante's "Divine Comedy" and to Ezekiel, arguing that, thematically, it abandons history as a source of truth, considers the potential of…
Cornelius, Michael G.
Fifteenth-Century Studies 28 (2003): 80-96.
Reads Henryson's pastoral "Robene and Makyne" as a burlesque, attributing its generic variety to the poet's attempt to emulate Chaucer's "virtuosity," and exploring several instances where Henryson follows Chaucer's steps more closely, treating most…
Boitani, Piero.
Francesco Bruni, ed. "Le Donne, i Cavalier, l'Arme, gli Amori": Poema e Romanzo, la Narrativa Lunga in Italia (Venice: Marsilio, 2001), pp. 71-83.
Describes the impact of Boccaccio's "Teseida" on Chaucer's works in Anel, PF, TC, and, especially, KnT, exploring Chaucer's adaptations, the later English adaptations of the story, and critical responses to Chaucer's uses of his source.
Lupton, Julia Reinhard.
Julia Reinhard Lupton, Afterlives of Saints: Hagiography, Typology, and Renaissance Literature (Stanford, Ca.: Stanford University Press, 1996), pp. 73-84.
Analyzes Chaucer's uses in LGWP of the term "legend" and the image of "gleaning" for literary leftovers, the latter derived from Leviticus and here linked to the Book of Ruth. Reads these devices for their implications in the development of…
Introduces Dafydd ap Gwilym as a contemporary of Chaucer, but provides no comparative analysis. Describes Dafydd's works and reception, and includes French translations of three of his poems.
Schoeck, R[ichard] J.
Bamberg: H. Kaiser-Verlag, 1984.
Defines and anatomizes "intertextuality," and proceeds to examine aspects of Thomas More's "Utopia" in this light. Uses examples from Chaucer to help clarify the varieties of the concept: from NPT, Chauntecleer's Latin misquotation as an example of…
Gergely, Nagy.
Tar Ibolya, ed. Studia Iuvenalia in Honorem Emerici Tegyey Septuagenarii. Acta Universitatis Szegediensis. Acta Antiqua et Archaeologica, supplement no. 9 (Szeged: n.p., 2003), pp. 34-40.
Argues that the characterization of Pandarus in TC was influenced by the tradition of the comic servant in Greco-Roman New Comedy. In Hungarian.
Finger, Roland.
Exit 9: The Rutgers Journal of Comparative Literature 5 (2003): 65-74.
Assesses the sexual relations between the Wife of Bath and her husbands in WBP as a dynamic between her sadism and their masochism. Through her sadism the Wife "avenges herself on the medieval patriarchal subordination of women."
Evans, Ruth.
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 47 (2003): 87-99.
Comments on Pierre Nora's theory of cultural memory loss and on Christopher Nolan's film "Memento" (2000). Then explores TC for the ways that it represents the relations between historical events and the reconstruction or remembering of these…
A pantomime adaptation of CT in two acts, with script, song list, properties list, and suggestions for costuming and staging. The characters are drawn from Chaucer's pilgrims, and the plot centers on the pursuit of a "magic story," with motifs,…
Black, Maggie.
London: British Museum Press, 1992.
An illustrated, indexed cookbook of medieval recipes, drawn from the resources of the British Museum, with one chapter entitled "Chaucer's Company" (pp. 34-50) that includes seven recipes, linked to the CT pilgrims.
Barnbrook, Geoff.
Gerhard Leitner, ed. New Directions in English Language Corpora: Methodology, Results, Software Developments (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992), pp. 277-87.
Explores the potential for "training" a computer to identify spelling variants in Middle English texts, using Robinson's edition (1957) of CT as a basis for analysis. Describes a methodology, results, and perceived shortcomings.
An introductory textbook grammar of Middle English, particularly Chaucer's dialect, with a brief history of the English language and descriptions of the parts of speech, morphology, pronunciation, etc. Includes an edition of the GP, edited from the…
Minnis, Alastair J.
Masahiko Kanno and others, eds. Medieval Heritage: Essays in Honour of Tadahiro Ikegami (Tokyo: Yushodo, 1997), pp. 31-63.
Demonstrates that Chaucer's "discourse of words and deeds" in GP and his apology for language in MilP are "heavily indebted" to Jean de Meun's comments on language in "Roman de la Rose," tracing lines of influence and emphasis from Jean's sources…
Trapp, J. B., Douglas Gray, and Julia Boffey, eds.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
An anthology of works from "Beowulf" to Caxton, with a variety of selections from Chaucer (pp. 111-331) in Middle English, with introductions, notes, and glosses: GP, NPPT (with two other fox stories), WBPT (with Dunbar's "Two Married Women and the…
Rudd, Gillian.
John Parham, ed. The Environmental Tradition in English Literature (Burlington, Vt.: 2002), pp.117-29.
Analyzes interactions between humans and nature (animals and environment) "through the lens of ecocriticism," exploring animal metaphors and the treatment of trees in KnT and representations of the sea and rocks in FranT. In KnT humans render nature…
North, John.
New York: Hambledon and London, 2002.
Examines the "highly contrived" allegory of Hans Holbein's painting, "The Ambassadors" (1533), assessing its religious theme as conveyed through evocations of "astronomy and geometry, optics and various occult arts." Also argues that the painting…
Guare, John.
Woodstock and New York, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 2002.
Two plays by John Guare, with additional apparatus, including an "Afterword," comprised of selections from Guare's journal that records, among other things, his thoughts about Chaucer while the playwright was composing "Chaucer in Rome," a play about…
Frye, Northrop.
Robert D. Denham, ed. Northrop Frye on Literature and Society, 1936-1989: Unpublished Papers, Volume 10 (Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 2002), pp. 131-43.
Critiques the inconsistencies and overall lack of unity in CT, contrasting it with the structural and thematic wholeness of HF and TC, and castigating the sententiousness of Mel, ParsT, and Ret. Attributes the lack of unity and the inconclusiveness…
Cheney, Patrick.
Patrick Cheney and Frederick A. de Armas, eds. European Literary Careers: The Author from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), pp. 231-67.
Argues that in his references to Tityrus in the "Februarie" eclogue of "The Shepheardes Calender" Spenser represents a "Chaucerian" model of a career path for poets, one that emphasizes novelty and poses a third alternative to the classical Virgilian…
Calcutt, David.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Modern prose adaptation for staging of PartT (without PardP), designed for child or adolescent actors, with illustrations by Mike Spoor. A simultaneously published pamphlet of "Play Teaching Notes," also titled "Death's Trick," by David Calcutt and…
