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Berkeley, Michael, comp.   Philip Jones Brass Ensemble. PJBE Finale: Music Written for Philip Jones (London: Chandos, 1987). 1 CD: tracks 9-13.
A five-movement suite, composed by Michael Berkeley for the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, who are recorded here. Includes "Triton's Trumpets" (1:25), "The Grieving Queen" (3:46), "A Fanfare for the Huntsmen" (0:35), "The Sorrowful Knight" (1:51), and…

Winton, Calhoun.   Calhoun Winton, John Gay and the London Theatre (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1993), pp. 26-40.
Assesses how John Gay's play, "The Wife of Bath," sheds light on "what Gay and his contemportaries, most especially [Alexander] Pope, knew and thought about Chaucer," exploring Pope's influence on Gay's interest in Chaucer and the nature of Gay's…

Osborn, Marijane.   Helen Damico and John Leyerle, eds. Heroic Poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Period: Studies in Honor of Jess B. Bessinger, Jr. Studies in Medieval Culture, no. 32 (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1993), pp. 313-30.
Argues against over-ingenious readings of the dayraven in "Beowulf" and of the stone with which Alison threatens Absalon in MilT (3708, 3712), clarifying the commonplace nature of each.

Leavy, Barbara Fass.   Barbara Fass Leavy, To Blight with Plague: Studies in a Literary Theme (New York and London: New York University Press, 1992), pp. 41-82.
Assesses how and in what ways "disease of both body and soul" is a recurrent concern in CT, especially in fragment 6 which includes PhyT and PardT. Surmises that the fragment may have influenced Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year," and…

Clemens, John K., and Douglas F. Mayer.   Homewood, Ill.: Dow Jones-Irwin, 1987
Included in this "practical book about leadership" are claims that CT reveals that "people can't be stereotyped" because they are essentially paradoxical. Comments most extensively on the Wife of Bath, who is "incapable of being classified, sorted,…

Varnaite, Irena.   Literatura: Lietuvos TSR Aukstuju Mokyklu Mokslo Darbai 21.3 (1979): 22-32.
Treats Chaucer's embedded lyrics as "independent complete structures" that contribute to their respective contexts and can as well stand alone. Comments on the rondel in PF, the ballade in LGW, the envoy of ClT, and the aubades, songs, and letters in…

Pisanti, Tommaso.   Gilbert Tournoy, ed. Boccaccio in Europe: Proceedings of the Boccaccio Conference, Louvain, December 1975 (Leuvan: Leuvan University Press, 1977), pp. 196-208.
Surveys the nature and directness of Boccaccio's influence on English literature from Chaucer to the 1611 Authorized Version of the Bible, with emphasis on style.

Fleming, John V.   Susan J. Ridyard and Robert G. Benson, eds. Man and Nature in the Middle Ages (Sewanee, Tenn.: University of the South Press, 1995), pp. 19-35.
Assesses various medieval depictions of personified Nature lamenting human error, and comments on Prioress's "ambiguous" motto (Amor Vincit Omnia) as a "reordering" of the phrase "omnia vincit Amor" from Virgil's tenth "Eclogue," modified by the…

Shoaf, R[ichard] A[llen].   Jonathan Culler, ed. On Puns: The Foundation of Letters (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988), pp. 44-61.
Unpacks the meanings and implications of sample puns from Chaucer, Langland's "Piers Plowman," and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," suggesting that they evince a medieval respect for the transcendent potency of language. Chaucerian examples include…

Coote, Stephen.   London: Penguin, 1988.
Literary history of England, from Caedmon to Malory, divided into seven chapters, although nearly half of the volume attends to Chaucer and his works. Chapter 4 (pp. 70-213) surveys Chaucer's early life and influences, the "early poems," TC, and CT,…

Cohen, Barbara, trans.   New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepherd Books, 1988.
Modern prose translation, intended for children, of NPPT, PardPT, WBPT, and FranPT, with a version of GP that lacks the descriptions of the pilgrims. Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; Introduction (pp. 7-8) by Christopher Baswell.

Logan, Harry M.   Language and Style 20.3 (1987): 207-13.
Applies to Chaucer's CT Dell Hymes's model of analyzing speech acts, SPEAKING (Situations, Participants, Ends, Act Sequence, Key, Instrumentalities, Norms, Genres), exemplifying the utility of the model, its relationships to more traditional literary…

Killough, George [B.]   Text: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship 3 (1987): 183-209.
Analyzes mid-line virgules as punctuation in a number of manuscripts of Middle English verse, concluding that the practice was neither tied to native alliterative meter nor strikingly unusual. The practice was erratic, and seems to have been scribal…

Jost, Jean E.   Medieval Perspectives 2 (1987): 73-80.
Reads MLT and CYT as opposed tales. Custance of MLT is a "worthy victim" of the broken promises of others and someone who "steadfastly" keeps her own. CYPT, on the other hand, is "marked by changeability, mutability, and vacillation"; its characters…

Handyside, I. H., ed..   London: Pan Books, 1978.
School edition of WBPT and the description of the Wife in GP. Facing-page (modern prose opposite Chaucer's poem), accompanied by explanatory notes, a glossary, appreciative criticism of the Wife's characterization, commentary on the structure of…

Tupan, Maria-Ana   Steaua: Revista a Uniunii Scriitorilor din R.P.R. 37.9 (1986): 52-53.
In Romanian.

Owen, Charles A., Jr., and James Dean.   PMLA 101 (1986): 251-53.
Exchange of letters in the Forum section of PMLA, disagreeing about the validity of the Ellesmere order of the CT and about the speaker of Chaucer's Ret.

Bevis, Richard.   Eighteenth-Century Life 10 (1986): 44-58.
Reevaluates Pope's adaptation of HF, "The Temple of Fame," focusing on how radically he reworks Chaucer's narrative, shifting it to a more "scenic" poem by introducing elements from "An Account of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries," a piece of…

Newman, John Kevin.   Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986.
Anatomizes the tradition of the classical epic in Western literature, from Homer to Tolstoy and Thomas Mann, tracing the "Alexandrian" mode that originated with Callimachus and his school and runs counter to the more strictly restrained tradition of…

[n. a.]   Pleasantville, N. Y.: Guidance Associates, 1985.
"Examines the life and ideas of Geoffrey Chaucer and traces the route of his pilgrimage" [quoted from WorldCat; video not seen].

Britton, Elizabeth Lindsey.   Dissertation Abstracts International 45 (1985): 3642A.
Consider "the two quite different versions of the Dido and Cleopatra stories as they appear in the works of major Latin and English poets, beginning with the commissioning of Virgil's "Aeneid" ca. 29 B.C. and carrying through to the publication of…

Smith, Jeremy J.   Derek Pearsall, ed. Manuscripts and Readers in Fifteenth-Century England: The Literary Implications of Manuscript Study (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1983), pp. 104-12.
Demonstrates how specific linguistic features can be used to disclose "scribal attitudes to the text being copied," using as a primary example a number of linguistic forms from "one of the most notorious manuscripts" of CT, British Library MS Harley…

Boffey, Julia.   Derek Pearsall, ed. Manuscripts and Readers in Fifteenth-Century England: The Literary Implications of Manuscript Study (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1983), pp. 3-14.
Investigates the "manuscript context" of courtly love lyrics, identifying their incidence and the implications of their groupings and solo occurrences. Recurrent mention of Chaucer's lyrics, and discussion of manuscripts that include "clusters" of…

Patrouch, Joseph A., Jr   David M. Hassler, ed. Patterns of the Fantastic (Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1983), pp. 63-66.
Opens a discussion of Harlan Ellison's uses of a "speaking voice" in his fiction by commenting on Chaucer's multiple narrative voices and the depiction of "Chaucer reading aloud" in the Troilus frontispiece (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61).

Opie, Iona and Peter, eds.   Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
An anthology of British narrative verse, ranging from Chaucer to W. H. Auden; includes Middle English versions of NPT ("The Cock and the Hen") and PardT ("Death and the Three Revellers"), with bottom-of-the-page glosses and diacritical marks to…
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