Churchill, Caryl.
London and New York: Methuen, 1984.
A play in two acts that depicts the meeting of various women from fiction and history, including Patient Griselda, who tells her life story in a version of ClT. First produced and published in 1982; this is a fully revised, post-production edition.
Chute, Marchette.
William Targ, ed. Bibliophile in the Nursery: A Bookman's Treasury of Collectors' Lore on Old and Rare Children's Books (Cleveland: OH: World, 1957), pp. 106-12.
Excerpts and re-titles a portion of chapter two of Chute's 1946 "Geoffrey Chaucer on England," describing the nature of Chaucer's education and the books he likely encountered in his early studies.
Chute, Marchette.
English Journal 45 (1956): 373-80, 394.
Appreciative criticism of CT, particularly Chaucer's realism, stylistic variety, and deft characterization, including that of his own persona. Comments on his life and language and on the appropriateness of individual tales to their tellers. Reads…
In KnT, Chaucer presents Arcite's love sickness in scientific terms. Boccaccio reveals Arcite to be changed into a savage-looking creature, whereas Chaucer's description recreates the ideal world of chivalry.
Cibula, Peter R., III.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of California, Irvine, 2022.
Available at https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3x49m6h9 (accessed November 15, 2023).
Argues that 'Augustine's theology allows us to see providence in romance as a doubled perspective that recognizes the existential smallness of individuals and their collective participatory power in a plural world," addressing KnT, ClT, and…
Ciccone, Nancy Ferguson.
Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1995): 2820A.
Since secular narratives treat behavior, twelfth-century scholars regarded them as practical philosophy. Thus, internal debate and decision-making in both French and English romance are often based on theology and philosophy.
Critics' inability to sympathize with Troilus in TC results from their failure to recognize the "medieval practical reasoning that informs Troilus's deliberations and ultimately humanizes him." His philosophising "reflects a withdrawal from the…
In its evocations of a "locus amoenus," "fin' amors," and Aeneas, the dream chamber in BD serves as a "structural analogue" to the Man in Black's autobiography, which narrates an idyllic youth, describes falling in love, and refers to the duties of…
Cigman, Gloria.
Andre Crepin, ed. L'imagination medievale: Chaucer et ses contemporains (Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, 1991), pp. 133-47.
The anti-Semitism of PrT is not Chaucer's, and the tale is less about it than about the divine power of Mary to destroy the enemies of the Christian faith.
Cigman, Gloria.
Literature and Theology 5 (1991): 162-80.
Although elite cultural views, such as those of theologians, set the polarities of moral judgment as good and evil, vernacular writings in Middle English--including Lollard sermons, Piers Plowman, and CT--set up instead a dialectic of sin and evil. …
TC reflects heterodox or heretical outlooks and religious division in its depiction of love as religion, its prescribing a morality based on love, its metaphors of preaching, its celebration of love's power, and its notion of false felicity.
Depictions of the seasons in late medieval literature are loci for considerations of good and evil, mutability and human responsibility. The conventional representation of the seasons are reversed in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," The Townley…
MLT is animated by ambivalence toward and ignorance of Islam. Chaucer's adaptation of Trevet's "Cronicles" shifts emphasis and perspective. Whereas the source never mentions Mohammed or the Koran and considers Muslims to be idol-worshippers, MLT…
Cigman, Gloria.
Leo Carruthers and Adrian Papahagi, eds. Jeunesse et vieillesse: Images médiévales de l'age en littérature anglaise (Paris: Harmatten, 2005), pp. 93-101.
Imaginative re-creation of the Wife of Bath's life and times from childhood onward, expanding on hints in WBP.
Cigman, Gloria.
Danielle Buschinger and Arlette Sancery, eds. Mélanges de langue, littérature et civilisation offerts à André Crépin à l'occasion de son quatre-vingtième anniversaire (Amiens: Presses du Centre d'Études Médiévales, Université de Picardie-Jules Verne, 2008), pp. 111-17.
Explores ambiguities of wealth and poverty in CT in light of contemporaneous reality.
Cioffi, Caron Ann.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 87 (1988): 522-34.
Susan Schibanoff (JEGP, 1977) is in error when she argues that the "impossibilia" testifying to Criseyde's love (TC 3.1492-98) suggests the medieval genre of the antifeminist lying-song. Rather, such "impossibilia" belong in a courtly context, and…
In his "Teatro d'huomini letterati" (1647), Gerolamo Ghilini includes a sketch of Chaucer's life and works based on John Pits's "Relationem historicarum de rebus anglicis" (Paris, 1619). Errors and omissions demonstrate that Ghilini depended wholly…
Clancy, Gertrude and Joseph.
Aberystwyth: Northgate, 1993.
Murder mystery which features Chaucer, pilgrims from CT, and historical figures, cast as a series of narratives told while the pilgrims pause at the Priory of Saint Innocents.
Reports on the author's completing a Ph.D. in medieval English and pursuing a career during the COVID-19 pandemic; includes comments on the "clear parallel" between teaching Chaucer's works and teaching online courses generally.
