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Item not seen; a note in MLA International Bibliography online indicates that it pertains to Chaucer and astrology.

Selections from "what is best and most representative" in English and Scottish writers from the period. Includes PF, selections from TC and CT (GP, MilPT, WBPT, FranPT, PardPT), and several shorter works (Adam, Truth, Scog, Purse). Also includes…

Twelve previously published historicist essays and book chapters by various authors. The volume is a companion to Pearsall's Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology. Three essays pertain to Chaucer: Mary Carruthers, "The Wife of Bath and the Painting of…

A festschrift for the sixtieth birthday of Ando, with six essays on Chaucer, seven on Shakespeare, and other essays on medieval and Renaissance topics. For essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer to Shakespeare under Alternative Title.

Gertz assesses 1337-1580 as the period of transition between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern era. Dynastic ambition, science, exploration, and disasters provide contexts and stimuli for the literature. In their rhetorical dexterity and highly…

Sees astronomical ideas as literary devices in CT, analyzing Chaucer's use of astrological lore in satirizing the pilgrims.

Brief critical history of scholarship on Chaucer and Dante in this century and discussion of HF in this connection, stressing the contrast between "O Thought, that wrot all that I mette" (HF 523) and "O mente, che scrivesti cio ch'io vidi" (Inf.…

Collects sixteen essays by Mroczkowski, all previously printed, including five that pertain to Chaucer and his works.

Stresses the need to reconcile literary and linguistic approaches.

Argues that HF is unified and that in its concern with the power of language it anticipates the theme of language as magic or illusion in CT. Also explores the sources of HF.

Argues that the imagery of court revels influenced Chaucer's works: "revels imagery ornaments" MerT, "structures the opening" of SqT, and "motivates choices" in FranT.

Records of medieval pilgrimages and parish guilds indicate that groups like that of CT actually gathered; thus the frame may have been modeled on the contemporary scene rather than a literary source. The pilgrim churls' mutual insults follow a…

Chaucer portrays Criseyde both alone and with a family--a dualism of portrayal inherited from the rhetorical tradition of viewing things from both sides, as in Cicero's "De inventione."

Chaucer responds to the uprising of 1381 by shifting blame for the underlying oppression from the ruling and judiciary figures to the Reeve, a rigorous despot over the lower classes. Chaucer does not write from a classless position; rather, he…

Exemplifies the variety of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century versions of Chaucer, which reflects he "fragmentation, diversity, and complexity" of the English Reformation itself. Discusses Chaucer as an authority figure in the writings of polemical…

Eight chapters on the genre of PF; the relationship of Chaucer to English and European traditions; metonymy in Chaucer's poetry; Chaucerian poetic; popular comic tales; NPT as story and poem; the poetry of the fabliaux; and Chaucer's rationalism. …

Discusses the character of Chaucer the pilgrim in GP. Includes history of Chaucer's life at Aldgate, his work as controller of customs, and later years when he moved away from London.

Distinguishes between Chaucer the poet. and Chaucer the pilgrim-narrator of CT, characterizing the "persona" of the latter as "shy" but "gregarious," one who admires the "values" of high society, the "material prosperity" of the bourgeoisie, and good…

Reconstructs from documentary evidence aspects of Elizabeth de Burgh's holiday entertainment at Hatfield House in 1357-58, when Chaucer was her page, positing that Chaucer's mature recollections of performative readings can be found in BD, 349-61,…

Traces Chaucer's attention to his own authorial fame, putting it in the context of medieval anonymity, book production, and the "idea of authorship." Compares and contrasts the narrators and attendant "fictive illusion" in his works, especially HF.…

Despite several still unresolved problems, Chaucer's life is well documented in the nearly 500 citations of the Crow and Olsen "Chaucer Life Records," based on the previous researches of Manly, Rickert, and Redstone.

Separates medieval ideas of love (primarily Ovidian and Augustianian) from Romantic and post-Romantic ideas, and argues that Chaucer "was unquestionably a man of his time--an orthodox member of the Church and a firm follower of the teachings of St.…

Comments on the varieties of love in Chaucer's poetry (Christian, philosophic, courtly, and allegorical) and focuses on "ordinary" love in TC, where the personal experience of love is "not merely displayed" but probed with thoughtfulness, honesty,…

Includes an Introduction, four essays, a Panel Discussion, and an Afterword, with a subject index. For individual entries, search for Chaucer the Love Poet under Alternative Title.

Chaucer deploys his "appropriations of the culture of heresy with versatility" in ABC, LGWP, and CT (Pardoner, Friar, Summoner, Monk, and Parson). Fletcher measures these appropriations against the shifting political fortunes of Lollardy in Chaucer's…