Cary, Meredith.
Papers on Language and Literature 5 (1969): 375-88.
Compares WBT with its analogues to show that Chaucer's alterations of the plot "redefine such central concepts as 'honor' and 'sovereignty' in feminine terms," consistent with the gender of its teller. By emphasizing moral precept instead of…
Case, Linda.
[Jay Ruud, ed.] Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota ([Aberdeen, S.D.: Northern State University, 1989), pp. 186-202.
Description of proposed classroom activities for high school study of GP.
In view of Chaucer's resistance to the "finality of closure," allusions to CkT in Fragment 9 suggest that CkT "may be complete for Chaucer, although not completed by the Cook." Perhaps the Tale's "unfinished business" is an interruption by one of the…
Casey, Jim.
Kathleen A. Bishop, ed. "The Canterbury Tales" Revisited--21st Century Interpretations (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008), pp. 209-27.
The price of love for Palamon and Arcite in KnT is violence and death, a feature of the "gender/violence/courtship paradigm" of medieval courtly literature that continues into the present, as evident in Brian Helgeland's "A Knight's Tale."
Casey, Jim.
Kathleen A. Bishop, ed. Standing in the Shadow of the Master? Chaucerian Influences and Interpretations (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010), pp. 224-42.
Explicitly influenced by KnT, Shakespeare's "Two Noble Kinsmen" adapts Chaucer's humor and creates a dark vision of the intersection of consumerism and sexuality.
Casieri, Sabino.
Studi e Ricerche di Letteratura Inglese e Americana 1 (1967): 7-19.
Considers the theme of common profit in PF and Chaucer's treatment of source material, drawing examples from his uses of Dante and Boccaccio to evince that Chaucer is never an "arido tradittore" (dry translator) but an original poet.
Caspi, Mishael M.,with Debra Synder.
Mishael M. Caspi, ed. Oral Tradition and Hispanic Literature: Essays in Honor of Samuel G. Armistead (New York and London: Garland, 1995), pp. 81-109.
Because of oral anti-Jewish tales of blood libel, PrT, in attitude and some details, was for Chaucer's audience a familiar account. PrT and the ballad "The Jew's Daughter" (first recorded in the eighteenth century) indicate how literary and oral…
Cassidy, Frederic G.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 57 (1958): 739-42.
Suggests that "don thyn hood" in TC 3.954 may have the literal meaning of "put on your nightcap" or, more likely, the figurative meaning of "restrain yourself," the latter drawn from the practice of hooding a hawk.
Castillo, Francisco Javier.
Luis A. Lazaro Lafuente, Jose Simon, and Ricardo J. Sola Buil,eds. Medieval Studies: Proceedings of the IIIrd International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (Madrid: Universidad de Alcala de Henares, 1996), pp. 93-107.
A previously unknown Spanish translation of MerT derives not from Chaucer's original but from the English translation by Alexander Pope. Castillo provides biography of Canary Islander Graciliano Alfonso Naranjo, who may have been the author of the…
Castro, Enrico.
Parole rubate/Purloined Letters 18 (2018): 139-61. Open access journal, at http://www.parole rubate.unipr.it/issues.php (accessed January 24, 2022).
Identifies and comments on various parallels between lines 36 and 74 of the "Invocacio ad Mariam" in SNP and St. Bernard's praise of Mary in Dante's "Paradiso," XXXIII, treating portions of it as "free translation," although perhaps influenced by…
Catto, Jeremy.
Past and Present 179 (2003): 24-59.
Describes the rise of writing in English during the "age of Chaucer," commenting on the Ricardian poets (emphasizing Chaucer), Middle English sermon cycles, Lollard translation, and other examples of the "elevated vernacular" of late…
Cauthen, I. B., Jr.
Notes and Queries 203 (1958): 248-49.
Locates a previously unnoticed allusion to MilT 1.3638-39 in Samuel Harsnet's "A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures" (1603), perhaps recalled from memory.
Cavalcanti, Leticia Niederauer Tavares.
Dissertation Abstracts International 23.07 (1963): 2522-23.
Summarizes the "antagonistic and contradictory views on women" held by the medieval Church, and explores Chaucer's views of women by examining his uses of the motifs of sovereignty and obedience in marriage from BD through CT, focusing on three…
Uses selected Arthuriana to describe the development of chivalric romance and offer a descriptive definition of the genre. Emphasizes the non-centered, unstable nature of the romance, although contrasting it with postmodernist works. Notes Chrétien…
Cavill, Paul, and Heather Ward.
Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2007.
Summaries of literary works, plus study questions designed for self-teaching, ranging from works of Bede and Caedmon to those of Philip Larkin and Edna O'Brien, with a summary of biblical plots, Christian history, hymns, and a glossary of terms. Two…
Cavin, John A., III.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 198A.
Considers the opposing theories of James Thorpe and G. Thomas Tanselle and emphasizes the need for full understanding of the aesthetic of meter, as with Chaucer's "heroic" line.
Cawley, A. C.
A. C. Cawley, ed. Chaucer's Mind and Art (New York: Barnes & Noble; Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd, 1969), pp. 125-39.
Reads the garden in PF as a "picture of the world in a fallen state," in contrast with Scipio's "celestial paradise." The contrast is highlighted by different "time-schemes," and the work leaves unresolved the paradoxes of love's varieties.
Cawley, A. C.
Review of English Literature 3.2 (1962): 9-19.
Compares HF and Alexander Pope's adaptation of it, "Temple of Fame," focusing on their uses and meanings of the word "fame." Surveys Chaucer's uses of "fame" in his corpus, and traces the rise and fall of its meanings in HF, from rumor to renown and…
Cawley, A. C.
Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society (Literary and Historical Section) 8 (1956-1957): 173-80.
Assesses "unsavory" details of the GP description of the Summoner, the "bad feeling" between the Friar and the Summoner (WBP 3.829ff. and FrP 1265ff.), and concerns that link the GP Summoner and the summoner of FrT, clarifying the Friar's "attack" on…
Cawley, A. C., ed.
New York: Barnes & Noble; Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd, 1969.
Ten essays by various authors, six of them previously published. For the newly published essays, search for Chaucer's Mind and Art under Alternative Title.
Cawley, A. C., ed., with an Introduction by Derek Pearsall.
New York: Knopf, 1992.
Reprints the 1958 Everyman edition of the complete CT, with bottom-of-page glosses. Includes a new introduction (pp. vii-xxiii) and bibliography by Derek Pearsall. The introduction considers the "unfinished and improvisatory state" of CT, its…
Cawsey examines the impact of assumptions about audience in the criticism of six twentieth-century Chaucer scholars (Kittredge, Lewis, Donaldson, Robertson, Dinshaw, and Patterson). These assumptions include whether the audience is diachronic or…
Cawsey, Kathy, and Jason Harris, eds.
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007.
Ten essays by various authors, with an introduction by the editors and a comprehensive index. Topics range from Jerome's theory of translation to Julian of Norwich to Protestant reception of medieval literature. For three essays that pertain to…
Six previously published essays by individual authors, an introduction, and a conclusion look at how Chaucer addresses audiences and how contemporary audiences interpret Chaucer's works. Describes the "audience function" and traces the "effect of…
