Claridge, Alexandra.
Notes and Queries 265 (2020): 338-40.
Presents connections between the "epithet 'of bath'" in relation to the Wife of Bath and a character in the fifteenth-century play "Lucidus and Dubius," who also refers to himself as "a childe of bathe." Suggests that this understanding "has the…
Claridge, Claudia.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Uses CT as a source of data for a linguistic study of hyperbole, particularly for diachronic case studies in Chapter Six. Charts Chaucer's hyperbolic use of a few, selected words. In Chapter Seven, suggests that Chaucer uses hyperbole in GP to…
Historical murder mystery set in 1400, in the months after Henry IV's usurpation of Richard II's throne. "Master" Chaucer and Adam are involved with copying Lollard treatises; Matilda, Chaucer's house-maid, is involved with friar-cum-sleuth Brother…
Historical novel in which friar-detective Rodric Chandler investigates murder as he seeks to hide Adam Pinkhurst's copy of CT from Lancastrian censors.
Clark, Cecily.
English Studies 62 (1981): 504-505.
The use of regional dialects in RvT and the "Second Shepherd's Play" indicates a sporadic literary exploitation of dialect differences in the fourteenth century and implies an ability, at least among the educated, to classify the different dialects…
Clark, George.
Revue de l'Universite d'Ottawa 52 (1982): 257-65.
Whereas Chauntecleer was caught by the fox on the third of May,Arcite's escape from prison and Pandarus's first visit to Criseyde took place on the fourth. These differences in date have different meanings according to medieval "lunaria,"…
Clark, John Frank.
Dissertation Abstracts International 43 (1983): 3490A.
Three other ME poems--"The Parlement of the Thre Ages," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," "The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyn"--and BD associate hunting with death. In Chaucer's dream vision the hunt draws the narrator to the bereaved so…
Argues that Chaucer intended to complete SqT, evident in the fact that the Franklin's interruption is unjustified or inconsistent with the characterization of the Franklin in several ways.
Comments on the meanings and referents of "tretys" in MelP and in Ret, suggesting that the first usage is not particularly doctrinal and that the second refers to ParsT rather than CT as a whole.
Clark, Marden J., and Soren F. Cox.
New York: Scribner, 1970.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this is a textbook for college composition, with samples from literature, rhetoric, and theory for discussion; includes Chaucer's "The Tale of the Wyf of Bathe" in a section on English language history.
Clark, Roy P[eter].
Thoth: Syracuse Graduate Studies in English 14.1 (1973-74): 37-43.
Exemplifies associations of demons and scatology in folklore and early literature, arguing that they underlie Absolon's "symbolic function as demon-villain" in MilT.
Clark, Roy Peter
Annuale Mediaevale 17 (1976): 48-57.
Developing from the Pentecostal parody in the poem, Chaucer's use of the word "wit" in SumT 1789, 2291 may suggest a submerged allusion to the contemporary controversy surrounding the Wycliffite translation of the Bible.
Clark, Roy Peter.
Dissertation Abstracts International 35 (1975): 6091A
The scatalogical language and happenings in MilT and SumT can be interpreted as a serious commentary. The farting, kissing, and symbolic sodomy recall the anal character of demonic ritual. The friar's misuse of the gift of tongues may reflect the…
Clark, Roy Peter.
Studies in Short Fiction 13 (1976): 277-87.
The tale includes several oblique references to Christmas. At once comic and suggestive of serious religious ideas, these features may mark the work as an actual bawdy Christmas tale.
Clark, Roy Peter.
Chaucer Review 11 (1976): 164-78.
In SumT Friar John and Thomas parody significant features in the life of St. Thomas the Apostle. The probing of Thomas's body by the friar parodies the "doubting Thomas" legend. The references to St. Thomas provide a foil by which the audience may…
Reflects on how GP yields patterns for writers to emulate, since the first line concerns the cycle of nature, patterns of order and hierarchy, and the theme of regeneration, in a syntactically complicated periodic sentence.
Clark, Roy Peter.
In The Art of X-Ray Reading: How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing (New York: Little, Brown, 2016), pp. 149-59.
Reads the opening of GP (lines 1–18) as a periodic sentence that "builds to a main clause near its end," describes its thematic concern with rebirth and regeneration, and explores the possibility of regarding weather as character or as a metaphor…
Clark, S. L.,and Julian N. Wasserman.
Chaucer Review 18 (1984): 316-27.
Hundreds of references in TC to the heart are not casual but calculated. The heart is both a vessel and something that can be placed within a vessel. Allusions contrast Pandarus and Diomede with the two lovers and also contrast Criseyde with…
Clark, S. L.,and Julian N. Wasserman.
Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 4.3 (1978): 11-17.
Secular exempla evoke Fortune's rise and fall; religious ones, divine intervention for good. They fit Constance's romance architectonically and thematically.
Clark, Susan L.,and Julian N. Wasserman.
Rice University Studies 64 (1978): 13-24.
Constance is that rarity, a romance "heroine," who, like the more familiar hero, learns through trials and difficulties. The tale is thus perhaps one of those narratives that marks the transition from matriarchy to patriarchy in European culture. …
