Nokes, David.
Review of English Studies 27 (1976): 180-82.
Argues that Pope's copy of Chaucer--the Hartleby copy of Speght's 1598 edition of Chaucer's "Works"--gives evidence of Pope's plan for reworking HF into his "Temple of Fame." Elsewhere in the volume, Pope's reader's marks are light.
Howard, Donald R., and James Dean, eds.
New York: New American Library, 1976.
An edition of TC, accompanied by Adam, Ven, Ros, Wom Unc, MercB, Wom Nob, and Scog, an Introduction, textual notes, explanatory notes at the bottom of the page, and a brief glossary at the end of the volume. The Introduction (vi-lvi) includes…
Compares Chaucer's characterization of Criseyde, Henryson's of Cresseid, and Shakespeare's of Cressida, assessing Shakespeare's "transformation" of the character as typical of "Jacobean sensibility."
Raffel, Burton.
Notre Dame English Journal 10 (1976): 1-11.
Examines details and reads tonal shifts in the GP description of the Knight (in comparison with the Monk) and in KnT, considering them as evidence of Chaucer's gentle, humorous depiction of chivalry. Neither sharply satiric nor wholly idealistic, KnT…
Robbins, Rossell Hope.
Kibler, William W., ed. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Patron and Politician (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1976), pp. 147-72.
Surveys the density and intensity of French influence on the literature of medieval England, focusing on courtly romance and how its plots and "interest in love's finesse" affected the English tradition separately. Outlines some possible connections…
An introduction to TC that considers the demands it places on readers to resolve tensions posed by the work: the genre of romance opposed by conversational and material realism and by philosophical depth; the varying attitudes its poses toward the…
Spearing, A. C.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
Studies the backgrounds and traditions of "dream-poetry" in English literature from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, exploring poets' awareness of writing within an ongoing tradition and their uses of the dream device to express their…
Social history of England, particularly London, in the late fourteenth century, focusing on the laboring class and the Uprising of 1381 (Peasants' Revolt). Concentrates on economic conditions, legal practice, sanitation and medicine, plague, urban…
Zacher, Christian K.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.
Investigates the relation between "curiositas" (vice-laden seeking of experience or knowledge) and pilgrimage (symbolic devotional journey) as a tension between desire for the physical and spiritual worlds, examining the theological underpinnings of…
Hieatt, A. Kent.
Richardson, David A., ed. Spenser and the Middle Ages: Proceedings from a Special Session at the Eleventh Conference on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan 2-5 May 1976 (Cleveland: Cleveland State University, 1976), pp. 216-29.
Argues that Spenser emulated a four-part mythic pattern of Chaucer's KnT in his own version of SqT, as well as elsewhere in Books 3-4 of "The Faerie Queene," where Spenser also reflects the influence of Chaucer's concerns in the Marriage Group…
Holahan, Michael
Richardson, David A., ed. Spenser and the Middle Ages: Proceedings from a Special Session at the Eleventh Conference on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan 2-5 May 1976 (Cleveland: Cleveland State University, 1976), pp. 230-36.
Reads Spenser's address to Chaucer in "The Faerie Queene," Book 4, as a declaration of independence as well as an acknowledgement of influence and dependency, arguing that Spenser "locates himself beyond the Middle Ages by invoking medievalisms"…
Mann, Nicholas.
Convegno Internazionale Francesco Petrarca: Roma-Arezzo-Padova-Arquà Petrarca, 24-27 Aprile 1974. Atti dei Convegni Lince, no. 10 (Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1976), pp. 59-69.
Includes very brief mention of Chaucer's uses Petratrch in TC, ClT, and CYT.
Cosman, Madeleine Pelner.
New York: George Braziller, 1976.
Describes medieval food preparation and presentation, providing over 100 recipes as an appendix. Chapter three, "A Chicken for Chaucer's Kitchen: Medieval London's Market Laws and Larcenies" (pp. 67-91) details the conditions of medieval London…
Céspedes [Benitez], Irma.
Revista Chilena de Literatura 7 (1976): 5-26.
Explores the vibrant language of CT (and the difficulties of translation), its relations with oral tradition, and the constraints and possibilities of traditional medieval narrative set in tension with a competitive tale-telling contest among diverse…
Collects fifteen essays by Itô, thirteen previously printed (most in Japanese); all here are translated into English in revised form. Gower's relation to Chaucer is a recurrent concern, along with rhetoric, style, sources, themes, verse forms, and…
Walton, William, Sir.
U. K.: EMI Records, 1977.
London: Oxford University Press, [1954].
Adaptation of TC as an opera, with libretto by Christopher Hassell, originally rpoduced in 1954. This revised version was released by EMI on CD (2 discs) in 1995, with a 43 pp. booklet that includes a production history, synopsis, and libretto. Also…
Surveys Chaucer's depictions of emblematic women in BD, HF, PF, and TC, and examines the Prioress and Wife of Bath as complex women who struggle with the roles imposed on them by male-dominated society. The GP description of the Prioress reflects a…
