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Reiff examines uses of second-person singular pronouns "thou" and "you" to indicate relationships among characters in KnT, particularly idealized chivalric relationships, Theseus's changing attitude toward the knights, the unfaltering brotherhood…

Storm surveys the debt to Chaucer's KnT in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," focusing on the works' mutual concern with hierarchy and order. In both works (and elsewhere in the authors' works), the figure of the Minotaur (parodied in…

Stretter comments on various romances and includes discussion of how, in KnT, Palamon and Arcite's mutual love for Emily disrupts their sworn brotherhood, a powerful bond of obligation and friendship. Chaucer alters a long cultural and literary…

Commenting on how Baba Brinkman's rap version of MilT "recast and reset" Chaucer's original, Beidler raises questions about the pedagogical and cultural value of the live performance, the audio recording, and the printed version. Includes (pp.…

Tallies the "taboos" broken or flouted by the Miller and characters in MilT.

Aligns vernacularity with visual and verbal profanity, observing occurrences in MilPT in which Chaucer "indulges in vernacular eschatology" and "moves to suppress it." Heyworth reads the window scene of MilT in light of medieval guides to…

Considers Chaucer's idea of nature in CT, assessing its relationship to Renaissance humanism, to scholarship and various arts, and to conceptions of the celestial world and natural science. Also gauges the influence of Chaucer's view of nature on…

Introduces CT as the "epitome" of Chaucer's "literary experimentation," commenting on his social range, the unfinished nature of the work, and, especially, its generic variety--"romance, fabliau, beast-fable, saint's life, miracle story, sermon,…

This lesson plan focuses on Chaucer's CT. While initially requiring that students become familiar with Chaucer's rhetorical strategies, it also asks students to use these strategies to compose a "multimodal satire" of their own--one that focuses on…

Exploring details and multilingual and multidialectical puns and etymologies through a "Proustian lens," Surber discovers sustained attention to homosexuality in CT. Critical uncertainty about specific meaning in Chaucer enables a queer reading that…

Comments on the relationship between narration and food in CT.

Includes introductory comments on displacement in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, specifically the meaning of travel in Chaucer.

Analysis of Becket reliquaries made in Limoges, including commentary on the role of the city and its cathedral in Becket's experience and in CT (as an elusive destination).

Considers how "quyting" ("paying back or balancing") among the pilgrims enforces comic harmoniousness and balance in CT, despite the work's fragmentary structure. In addition, CT invites the reader to "'quyt' the author."

In striving to contextualize the portrait of the Yeoman in relation to real-world late medieval weaponry and hunting gear, critics overlook both the Yeoman's service as the "bearer" of aristocratic masculinity and the portrait's phallic humor. In…

Second half of a two-part special edition of this electronic journal: an online collection of translations of Middle English texts. The first part translates ten Middle English romances, with introductions, notes, and commentary; this second part is…

Discusses CT as part of a larger consideration of patience--especially female patience--and notes that Chaucer often links patience with epistemological limits.

Cigman examines the role and meaning of Canterbury and its cathedral in CT.

Contrasts human song and birdsong in GP, NPT, MilT, PrT, and PF: humans employ reason to understand and appreciate music, while birds sing purely for pleasure. Generally, the human voice is "an indicator of how Chaucer's characters misuse their…

Studies the relationship between sex and laughter in CT both as a way of conveying a didactic purpose and as a manner of representing society and social relations--mostly across gender lines.

Study of wine and ale in CT. In Japanese

The first of the Bloomfield lectures. Traces the impact of "hamartiology" (the study of sin and crisis) in Langland's "Piers Plowman" and Chaucer's CT, especially in GP and the fabliaux. Estates satire, penitential handbooks, and other examples of…

Suggests that Chaucer's CT, the "Lais" of Marie de France, and the "Book of Margery Kempe" include "theopolitical" ideas and thus are informed by the Church's influence on these ideas and on the notion of identity.

The editorial break between MerE and SqH cannot be defended on the basis of manuscript evidence. The break has obscured an element of the "artistic design" of CT: a sequence of four tales whose tellers represent occupations held either by Chaucer or…

Regards the process of reading as the essential pilgrimage of CT, which obviates the need for an arrival at Canterbury. For previously published version, in French, see "Canterbury, la cathédrale où Chaucer n'arrive jamais . . . Mais est-ce bien…