While the "Siege of Thebes" can be read in terms of Lydgate's anxiety about his relationship to KnT, its combination of narrative and moralizing is principally influenced by developments within the tradition of the "roman antique." Lydgate's work is…
Clogan, Paul M.
Gerald Gillespie, Margaret R. Higonnet, and Sumie Jones, eds. Visions of History, Visions of the Other. Vol. 2 of Earl Miner, gen. ed. ICLA '91 Tokyo: The Force of Vision. 6 vols. Proceedings of the XIIIth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1995), pp. 144-51.
Depictions of Thebes indicate various medieval views of history. "Roman de Thebes" blurs contrasts between pagan and Christian, classical and historical. Boccaccio's "Teseida" resists the modernization and secularization of romance tradition. TC…
Clogan, Paul M.
English Miscellany 18 (1967): 9-31.
Explores the "artistic impact" of Statius's "Thebaid" on Chaucer, particularly the influence of Statius's style and his "portrayal of the ideals of Theban antiquity," tracing Chaucer's allusions to and uses of the epic in Pity, BD, Mars, HF, Anel,…
Clogan, Paul M.
Explicator 23.8 (1965): item no. 61.
Suggests that Chaucer's reference to "Thorus" as a sea-god derives from a misunderstanding of Statius's "theori" in the "Achilleid" and its medieval gloss.
Clogan, Paul M.
Studies in Philology 61 (1964): 599-615.
Describes the commentaries and glosses that are included in medieval manuscripts of Statius's "Thebaid," and shows that Chaucer was influenced by such glosses in details and passages of HF, Anel, TC, and KnT. The influence of Statius and the glosses…
Clogan, Paul M.
Philological Quarterly 43 (1964): 272-74.
Suggests that the explanation of Cybele as the "flower of spring" in the "Liber Imaginum Deorum" of Albricius I (also known as Mythographer III, perhaps Alexander Neckham) may be the source of Chaucer's reference to Cybele in his praise of Alceste…
Clogan, Paul Maurice
Dissertation Abstracts International 22.10 (1962): 3641.
Studies the "form in which Chaucer may have known Statius' poetry," focusing on "medieval glossed manuscripts" in order to identify correspondences between the poetry of Statius, commentaries on it, and Chaucer's works. Assesses the status of Statius…
Clopper, Lawrence M.
Medievalia et Humanistica 15 (1987): 119-46.
Considers romance as a vehicle for the resolution of philosophical and theological problems, the relation of history to romance, and the rhetorical systems of each genre. KnT, TC, and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" illustrate how Chaucer and the…
Clopper, Lawrence M.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 22: 115-39, 2000.
Surveys various kinds of spectacle in late-medieval English society, exploring backgrounds of and attitudes toward tournaments, royal processions and entries, civic celebration, and dramas. Assesses Langland's depiction in "Piers Plowman" of the…
Clopper, Lawrence M.
Thomas A. Goodmann, ed. Approaches to Teaching Langland's "Piers Plowman" (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2018), pp. 112-19.
Treats GP and Langland's Prologue in relation to the traditional model of three estates, arguing that the order of the pilgrims in GP reveals inadequacies in the "trifunctional model" (fight, pray, labor) and alludes to the Fall of Humanity in the…
Clough, Andrea.
Medievalia et Humanistica 11 (1982): 211-27.
Fourteenth-century practice recognized at least three categories of tragic narrative: "de casibus" tragedy, the Ovidian tale of the deserted heroine, and the tale of ill-fated lovers. In TC, Chaucer combined the first and last of these in a new…
Reprints Clouston's two-volume work (1887), with its original Introduction and Index, commentary on the brass steed of SqT, and chapter entitled "Chaucer's 'Pardoner's Tale'" (pp. 490-511) that traces the sources and analogues of the Tale. Adds an…
Coats, Kaitlin.
Sigma Tau Delta Review 11 (2014): 90-99.
Considers the ambivalent role of magic in FranT, arguing that vacillation "between belief and skepticism, truth and illusion, nature and sorcery" help Chaucer to create "a divide between perception and reality" and undermine the "purported moral…
Chaucer may have tapped into traditional knowledge of the Northern god Loki in creating the description of the Pardoner in GP. Links with Loki, who transformed himself into a mare in the Old Norse "Gylfaginning," encourage us to view the Pardoner as…
Coffin, Charles M., and Gerrit Hubbard Roselofs, eds.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1969.
Begins with a selection from Chaucer (pp. [i], 1-23) which includes Truth, Gent, GP 1-34 and 1.118-62 (Prioress), and NPT, accompanied by notes and glosses, and preceded by advice on Chaucer's English. Originally edited by Coffin in 1954.
Coggeshall, John M.
Southern Folklore Quarterly 45 (1981): 41-60.
Chaucerians have reached no consensus on specific written sources for NPT, PardT, MilT, and RvT, similarities between which and their Ozark analogues (all reprinted here) point to a common source in Anglo-American oral folktales.
Coghen, Monika.
Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 12.3 (2017): 175-85.
Describes the transmission of WBT, through John Dryden's modernized English version in "Fables: Ancient and Modern" and Voltaire's French in "Ce qui plait aux dames" to Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz's Polish "Co sie damom podoba" in "Pisma rózne wierszem…
Coghill, N. K.
John Lawlor, ed. Patterns of Love and Courtesy: Essays in Memory of C. S. Lewis (London: Edward Arnold, 1966), pp. 141-56.
Explores the attitude toward sexual love expressed in Andreas Capellanus's "De Arte Honeste Amandi," contrasting it with the "innocent sincerity in sexual love" that is characteristic of Chaucer's Troilus (and Shakespeare's), also considering the…
Coghill, Nevill, and Christopher Tolkien, eds.
London: George G. Harrap and Co., 1969.
A textbook edition of MLPT in Middle English, with an introduction and end-of-text notes and glossary; includes the GP description of the Sergeant of Law. The Introduction (pp. 7-57) assesses various "puzzling features" of MLP, its place in Chaucer's…
Coghill, Nevill, and Norman Davis, readers.
[n.p.]: Spoken Arts, 1960s.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this spoken-word recording includes "Beowulf's speech to Hrothgar, the Dragon Flight and the Funeral of Beowulf" in Old English (20.02 min.) and GP and PardT in Middle English (29.16 min.).
