Barrington, Candace.
American Literary History 22 (2010): 806-30.
Assessing the conservative ideological underpinnings of the pageantry and commenting on its "inability to control the polysemy of Chaucer's texts," Barrington summarizes the history of Mistick Krewe and describes its 1914 parade and party dedicated…
Cooper, Helen.
Brian Cummings and James Simpson, eds. Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. 361-78.
Cooper argues that, despite his own skepticism about fame, Chaucer was the "model of fame" in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century England. Comments on Chaucer's appeal to humanists, to Protestants, and to Catholics and on Chaucer's role as "father" of…
Driver, Martha.
Elisabeth Dutton, with John Hines and R. F. Yeager, eds. John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation, and Tradition (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010), pp. 315-25.
Driver contrasts Shakespeare's limited attention to Chaucer with his lionization of Gower in "Pericles," commenting on representations of Gower in modern stage productions of the play.
Edwards, A. S. G.
Nottingham Medieval Studies 54 (2010): 185-94.
Examines the influence of Lydgate in Scotland in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, commenting on the manuscript circulation of his poems. Scottish writers' stylistic indebtedness to Lydgate is complicated by the influence of Chaucer's writings…
Ramsey, Roy Vance, ed., with a foreword by Henry Ansgar Kelly.
Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2010.
A corrected reprint of Ramsey's 1994 publication (see SAC 18 [1996], no. 31), with Kelly's summary of the importance of the volume and its arguments concerning the relationships of the manuscripts (especially Hg, El, and Dd) and the editing of…
Thaisen, Jacob.
Boletín Millares Carlo 24-25 (2005-06): 379-94.
Analysis of MS Gg.4.27 of CT, combining a codicological approach with analysis of linguistic aspects such as graphemic and graphetic variants. This multifocal approach helps identify the process of copying as well as the scribal profile.
Thaisen, Jacob, and Orietta Da Rold.
NM 110 (2009): 283-97.
The authors review previous scholarship concerning Cambridge MS. Dd.4.24 and evaluate the linguistic stratification indicated by orthographic variants. They argue that the manuscript appears to date from the late fourteenth century, that it…
Veck, Sonya.
Kathleen A. Bishop, ed. Standing in the Shadow of the Master? Chaucerian Influences and Interpretations (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010), pp. 113-22.
Because of the lack of manuscript history, the works of the Gawain-poet must be studied in contexts different from those of Chaucer and his London contemporaries. The seriousness of poetic temperament is pronounced throughout the narrative of the…
Bakalian, Ellen S.
Kathleen A. Bishop, ed. Standing in the Shadow of the Master? Chaucerian Influences and Interpretations (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010), pp. 82-112.
By discussing the tales of Rosiphelee and Alceone from "Confessio Amantis," Bakalian exemplifies how Gower (in contrast to Chaucer) urges readers to improve their behavior through right reason and rejection of irresponsible passion.
Bowers, John M.
Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), pp. 116-31.
Bowers describes Chaucer's treatment of Latin texts throughout his "literary insurgency against [a] foreign incursion"--a kind of postcolonial resistance that is also consistent with Lollard vernacularization. Reads MLT as a "rejection" of Bede's…
Butterfield, Ardis.
Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), pp. 25-46.
Butterfield reviews traditional, generally dismissive attitudes toward "Frenchness" in Chaucer criticism and advocates a new awareness of the linguistic complexity that underlies Chaucer's uses of French models and French diction, particularly the…
Edwards, Robert R.
Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), pp. 3-24.
Reconsiders Chaucer's use of Italian sources and his references to Italy and Italian regions (including Rome), focusing on ways that Italy was a geographical and cultural place of strangeness. Authors such as Chaucer and Gower negotiated tensions…
Grosskopf, John Dennis.
Laura Cooner Lambdin and Robert Thomas Lambdin, eds. Arthurian Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2008), pp. 120-27.
Grosskopf summarizes Chaucer's life and assesses allusions to King Arthur and Arthurian motifs and characters in CT, commenting on SqT, Th, NPT, WBT, and the lack of Arthurian material in KnT. Surveys related critical commentary and suggests that…
Gutiérrez Arranz, José María.
Pedro P. Conde Parrado and Isabel Velázquez, eds. La filología latina: Mil años más. Actas del IV Congreso de la Sociedad de Estudios Latinos, Medina del Campo, May 22-24, 2003 (Madrid: Sociedad de Estudios Latinos, 2009), pp. 1579-1601.
Surveys Ovid's influence on medieval literature and assesses Chaucer's use of Ovidian myths.
Horobin, Simon.
Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker, with the assistance of William Green, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 57-67.
Horobin surveys "complex and contradictory" evidence for the professionalization of writing in England in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, with comments on Chaucer's scribes (including Adam Pinkhurst), Thomas Hoccleve, and others.
Iyeiri investigates negative constructions in five versions of Bo, discussing the relative chronology of the witnesses to the text and, more generally, the editing of Middle English texts.
Mosser, Daniel W.
Birmingham, [Eng.]: Scholarly Digital Editions, 2010.
2d edition, revised, updated, and corrected, with David Hill Radcliffe, 2014, available at <http://www.mossercatalogue.net>; accessed 17 February 2024.
Comprehensive description of the eighty-four manuscript witnesses to CT and four pre-1500 editions, each including contents, tale order, progress of copying, materials, page size, collation, format, hands, illumination, binding, date, language,…
Mosser, Daniel W.
Journal of the Early Book Society 13 (2010): 63-93.
Mosser assesses the watermarks and paper stock of the ten manuscripts attributed to the "Beryn Scribe," to establish their dates and relative chronology.
Argues that the context and argument of Horobin's refutation of Fletcher's earlier essay are deficient (see "The Criteria for Scribal Attribution: Dublin, Trinity College, MS 244, Some Early Copies of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Canon of…
Hanna, Ralph.
Corinne Saunders, ed. A Companion to Medieval Poetry ((Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), pp. 196-215.
Hanna discusses late medieval English "textual culture," commenting on the production and disposition of manuscripts, habits of collecting and anthologizing individual works, the vagaries of manuscript survival, reading practices, etc. Cites examples…
Horobin, Simon.
Yearbook of Langland Studies 23 (2009): 61-83.
Palaeographical differences between the hands of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts of CT and of Additional 35287 are more compelling than are the similarities. Horobin suggests that Pinkhurst "was not Chaucer's personal copyist" and focuses on…
A petition in the hand of Pinkhurst requesting that a permanent deputy be appointed to relieve Chaucer of his duties as controller of the wool custom establishes their connection in 1385. However, codicological evidence suggests that the poet "was no…
Horobin, Simon.
Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches (University Park: PennsylvaniaState University, 2010), pp. 67-82.
Horobin describes recent advances in understanding "late medieval textual culture"--reading habits, book ownership, institutional affiliations, etc.--focusing on the œuvres of several Chaucerian scribes, discussions of locale and provenance,…
Exemplifies several difficulties in translating Chaucer's verse into modern verse or modern prose, commenting on concerns with "tonal register," rime riche, semantic change, taboo words, pronouns of address, the historical present, rhyming tags, and…
