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Vázquez González, Nila.
Ph.D. dissertation. University of Santiago de Compostela, 2006.
Edition of the "Tale of Gamelyn," including a description of manuscripts, illustrations from diplomatic transcriptions of ten manuscripts, a critical edition with collated variants, and critical apparatus. Also includes a Modern English translation…
Shippey, T. A.
Ad Putter and Jane Gilbert, eds. The Spirit of Medieval English Popular Romance. Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library. (New York: Longman, 2000), pp. 78-96.
Attributes the popularity of "Gamelyn," in part, to its association with CT, arguing that Chaucer intended to adapt "Gamelyn" for telling by the Knight's Yeoman, even though Chaucer "did not like yeomen very much." Also assesses the tension between…
Contrasts Gower's story of Ceyx and Alcyone with versions by Ovid and Chaucer (in BD). Gower imagined a new dramatic possibility in the character of Alcyone and thereby subverted "monolithic notions of culture and gender" (503).
Meale, Carol M.
Geoffrey Lester, ed. Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 118-38
Analyzes evidence of readership found in fifteenth-century copies of LGW, including its placement in anthologies, poems with which it is associated, and evidence of female names in LGW manuscripts. Infrequently excerpted, the poem was seldom mined…
Harty, Kevin J.
American Benedictine Review 34 (1983): 361-71.
From KnT to CkT, tales degenerate from magnificence to grossness. MLT attempts to establish decorum but backfires on the teller, who "courts the sin of presumption."
Burnley, David.
Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas H. Jucker, eds. Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems. Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, no. 107 (Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2003), pp. 27-45.
Describes the "difficulties faced by scholars in unraveling" the complications involved in the usage and nuances of meaning of late Middle English you /thou pronouns, with particular attention to Chaucer's works, Eustace Deschamps' address to…
O'Neal, Cothburn M.
Martin Shockley, ed. Proceedings of [the] Conference of College Teachers of English of Texas, no. 32 (Lubbock: Texas Technical College, 1967), pp. 18-23.
Explores the generally negative connotations and nuances of the lexicon, details, and imagery of the Monk's description in GP, providing context from medieval literature and exegetical commentary to argue that the Monk is "corrupt, gluttonous,…
Wentersdorf, Karl P.
Clifford Davidson, ed. Word, Picture, and Spectacle: Papers by Karl P. Wentersdorf, Roger Ellis, Clifford Davidson, and R. W. Hanning. Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph Series 5 (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University Medieval Institute Publications, 1984), pp. 1-19.
Not mere "doodles" but symbolic images, scatalogical images in the margins of medieval manuscripts derive ultimately from biblical and religious writing. Verbal scatalogy in MilT and SumT is serious, moralistic, not vicious.
Critics of "The Floure and the Leafe" respond less to the text than to its critical history. Detraction by W. W. Skeat and other members of the Chaucer Society is compensation for earlier praise of the work by Dryden, Pope, Keats, and others.
Murata, Yazaburo.
In Kazuo Araki, and others, eds. Studies in English Grammar and Linguistics: A Miscellany in Honour of Takanobu Otsuka (Tokyo: Kenkyushi, 1958), pp. 289-99.
Describes Chaucer's "power and limitations as a stylist," offering examples, and tabulating more extensively examples of oaths and swearing in Chaucer's works, including strong and weak oaths, wishes, and imprecations.
Kreuzer, James R.
Modern Language Notes 73.2 (1958): 81.
Shows that evidence from a twelfth-century bestiary may indicate that the comparison of Alison to a swallow in MilT 1.3257-58 ironically anticipates later events of the plot--her "departure" from John and his fall from the roof beam.
Solopova, Elizabeth.
A. J. Minnis, ed. Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions. Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, 2001), pp.27-40.
Compares punctuation in the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts with that of other manuscripts to argue that Chaucer's punctuation survives in the virgules of Hengwrt and Ellesmere, related to his development of the iambic pentameter line.
An anthology of supernatural fiction with selections from the classical period to the modern; includes (pp. 132-33) a modernized selection from NPT (7.3000-49) as an example of a ghost story.
McGraw, Matthew Theismann,
Dissertation Abstracts International A75.05 (2014): n.p.
Includes discussion of FranT as one among several examples of late medieval English romances that explore "noble identity and chivalric values" and use magic to place these values in starker relief than can be accomplished realistically.
Jackson, Shirley.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1958.
A novel of family tensions, centering on death, possessiveness, and the legacy of a household estate. A central image is the sundial of the title, on display in the family library. Inscribed on the sundial is a half-line quotation of KnT 1.2777:…
Plummer, John F., ed.
Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.
Edition of SumT, based on the Hengwrt manuscript. Collates nine additional manuscripts and the major editions from Caxton to "The Riverside Chaucer." Spelling is lightly modernized and punctuation is introduced. Notes, critical commentary, and…
Fleming, John V.
Chaucer Review 2.2 (1967): 95-107.
Traces the iconographical motif of "Maria Misericordia" as it developed from its early roots into the satire of friars found in SumP. Originally found in treatise by Caesarius of Heisterbach, the motif was adapted by Dominican and Franciscan friars…
