Mason, Tom.
Stuart Gillespie and David Hopkins, eds. The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Volume 3: 1660-1790 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 427-39.
Mason surveys English translations and modernizations of Chaucer's works (and apocrypha) between 1660 and 1795, commenting on Dryden's and Pope's versions and the imitations they inspired. Includes a list of "Chaucer's Translations 1660-1795."
Kolve, V. A., and Glending Olson. eds.
New York : Norton, 2005, 2018
Revised version of the 1989 Norton critical edition, with expanded selection and apparatus. Includes GP, KnT, MilPT, RvPT, CkPT, WBPT, FrPT, SumPT, ClPT, MerPT, FranPT, PardPT, PrPT, ThP and Th and selections from MelP and Mel, NPPT, ManPT, and…
Howard, Donald R., ed., with the assistance of James Dean.
New York : New American Library, 1969.
An annotated edition of selections from CT in Middle English, including KnT, MilT, MLT, ClT, SNT, FrT, NPT, RvT, FranT, WBT, MkT, PardT, PrT, and Mel. Reprinted in 2005 with a new foreward (pp. 7-15) by Frank Grady, and in 2013 with an afterword by…
New edition of CT, based on both the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts, with on-page glosses, explanatory notes (pp. 795-1111), and glossary (pp. 1112-54). The introduction (pp. xvii-lxx) comments on the importance of Chaucer and CT, Chaucer's…
McCaughrean, Geraldine.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1991.
Free adaptation of CT for children: GP, KnT, MilT, NPT, RvT, ClT, WBT, PardT, Th, FranT, ManT, CYT, FrT, and MerT. Provides links for the Tales in the above order and concludes with an arrival at Canterbury. First published in 1984; a Penguin Film…
Taggie, Benjamin F.
Benjamin F. Taggie, Richard W. Clement, and James E. Caraway, eds. Spain and the Mediterranean (Kirksville, Mo.: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1992), pp. 35-44.
Describes political and military events involving Edward, the Black Prince, Pedro of Castile, and his rivals that led up to the military campaign of 1366. Suggests the nature and timing of Chaucer's likely participation in these events, perhaps as an…
In a larger discussion of Scottish attempts to form national and literary identities, Terrell mentions William Dunbar's and Gavin Douglas's "myths of Chaucerian inheritance" as grounds for a Scots poetics.
Lynch, Kathryn L.
Yvonne Bruce, ed. Images of Matter: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Proceedings of the Eighth Citadel Conference on Literature, Charleston, South Carolina, 2002. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005, pp. 72-91
Lynch posits that Shakespeare had an "anxious" relationship with Chaucer as a model, a source, and a father figure. She reads "Two Noble Kinsman" against KnT for evidence of this "nervous" relationship and similarly assesses Fletcher's "revisionary…
Steinberg, Glenn A.
English Literary Renaissance 35.1 (2005): 331ı51
Spenser's adoption of Chaucerian humility should be understood in light of Elizabethan debates about Chaucer. Although Chaucer is universally listed as preeminent among English poets, his detractors find him lacking in moral or stylistic weight,…
Explores Sir Walter Scott's knowledge of Chaucer and the novelist's use of themes and techniques reminiscent of those in BD and the apocryphal "Flower and the Leaf." Alluding to these works in "The Antiquary," Scott emphasizes their concerns with…
Jack, R. D. S.
Marco Fazzini, ed. Alba Literaria: A History of Scottish Literature )Venice: Amos Edizioni, 2005), pp. 33-44.
Comments on Henryson's biography, relations with medieval tradition, and stylistic range. Though he admired Chaucer, Henryson criticizes TC in the "Testament of Cresseid" because at the end of Chaucer's poem nothing more is known about Criseyde.
Torti, Anna.
Marco Fazzini, ed. Alba Literaria: A History of Scottish Literature. Venice: Amos Edizioni, 2005, pp. 65-81.
Consciousness of the importance of the Scottish literary tradition characterizes Douglas's work. Although "The Palice of Honour" is grounded in Chaucer's HF, Douglas makes it clear that his aim is different, and the latter compares Fame to Honour…
Crocker, Holly A.
Medieval Feminist Forum 39 (2005): 29-37
The proverbs signed "Impingham" in Harley 7333 derive from Chaucer, but the emphases and arrangement of the proverbs present a more reductive view of women than is found in Chaucer's works.
Nolan, Maura.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 27 (2005): 59-92
Reads Lydgate's tale of Canacee (Fall of Princes, Book 1) as a subtle response to its source (Gower's "Confessio Amantis"), complicated by several allusions to Chaucerian narratives (ClT, MLT, PrT). Lydgate's confrontations with various kinds of…
Beidler, Peter.
Studies in American Indian Literature 15 (2003): 92-103.
Comments on the possible influence of CT on the frame-tale structure of Erdrich's "Tales of Burning Love" and considers to what extent parallels between the Wife of Bath and Lulu Nanapush ("Love Medicine") indicate that Chaucer's work is a source for…
McCleary, Joseph Robert, Jr.
DAI 66 (2005): 1009A.
Considers Chesterton's literary criticism of Chaucer as a means to understanding Chesterton's conception of locality as part of his philosophy of history.
Explores the complex workings of an allusion to the Wife of Bath in Joyce's "Ulysses " that resonates with Irish mythology, Yeats, and Irish political power.
Ellis, Steve.
New Medieval Literatures 7 (2005): 35-52
Virginia Woolf's discussions of Chaucer have "the effect of cutting him down to size." This effect reflects her reaction to High Modernist affection for the Middle Ages and her "subversive and anti-canonical approach to literary history."
Johnston, Andrew James.
Thomas Honegger, ed. Riddles, Knights and Cross-dressing Saints: Essays on Medieval English Language and Literature (Bern: Lang, 2004), pp. 1-32.
Johnston compares uses of medieval details, anachronisms, and hermeneutic concerns in two films (Brian Helgeland's "A Knight's Tale" and David Fincher's "Seven") and Umberto Eco's novel, "The Name of the Rose." Includes attention to Chaucer…
Similar concerns with fairies and male oppression encourage comparison of WBT and Jane Eyre; they reflect either Brontë's familiarity with Chaucer's work or a significant coincidence.
D'Agata D'Ottavi, Stefania.
Marco Fazzini, ed. Alba Literaria: A History of Scottish Literature (Venice: Amos Edizioni, 2005), pp. 45-63.
Chaucer's four dream poems, especially PF and LGWP (both the F and G versions) are sources of Dunbar's "Golden Targe," although Dunbar's imagery owes much to CT, Anel, and Rom. Dunbar seeks innovation within tradition, and the praise he bestows on…
Sallfors, Solomon, and James Duban.
Leviathan 5 (2003): 73-77.
Sallfors and Duban contend that MilT "informs the dramatic setting, humor, and tension of Ishmael's response to Queequeg's 'Ramadan'" in Chapter 17 of Melville's "Moby Dick." Specifically, the characterization of John the Carpenter underlies…
Arguing that "Chaucer changed the direction of the Middle English lyric," Robbins comments on Chaucer's lyrics, on fifteenth-century lyrics, and on the influence of TC on the latter.
Ganim, John M.
Robert M. Stein and Sandra Pierson Prior, eds. Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005), pp. 344-65.
Explores the reception of Chaucer by William Morris (the Kelmscott Chaucer) and Virginia Woolf ("The Pastons and Chaucer"), arguing that the responses of both individuals are deeply autobiographical and indications of how "modernity privatizes the…
