Cooper, Helen.
Review of English Studies 65, no. 269 (2014): 252-65
Briefly mentions Chaucer in a discussion about the literary influences on Milton. John Lane--who continued Chaucer's SqT--may have helped to incite Milton's interest in chivalry and tournaments. Malory is also a likely influence, although never…
Cooper, Helen.
Russell A. Peck and R. F. Yeager, eds. John Gower: Others and The Self (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2017), pp. 91-107.
Finds "ideas of mortality, the end of life, and the end of storytelling . . . closely linked" in Gower's "Confessio Amantis." Argues that the work leads the narrator, the poet, and the audience to a conclusion in which all "can share in his hope of…
Considers Chaucer's extensive and subtle use of "the full vocabulary of 'chance' and 'mischance'." Shows how his use of privatives and negative prefixes with these words "inflect[s] his larger concerns with Fortune (usually personified as an agent)…
Cooper, Helen.
Yearbook of Langland Studies 32 (2018): 375-89.
Comments on the studies included in a cluster of essays entitled "Chaucer's Langland" (YLS 32 (2018) and, acknowledging the difficulties of establishing direct influence between Langland and Chaucer, describes a variety of dissimilarities between…
Cooper, Helen.
Heather Hirschfeld, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 55-68.
Surveys theatrical genre labels ("comedy," "tragedy," "play," "drama") in early English, including Chaucer's uses of them. Then surveys the ways in which Chaucer's plots, motifs, and emphases influenced Shakespeare, with comments also on the…
Cooper, Helen.
Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 42-55.
Examines similarities between the maidens who yearn for the love of Thopas--despite his chastity (Th 7.742-45)--and lovesick women "who offer themselves" in analogous romances, particularly "Ipomadon" and the romances cited in Th 7.897-900. Suggests…
Cooper, Helen.
Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe, and Gareth Griffith, eds. Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019), pp. 60-74.
Identifies parallels between Chaucer's and Spenser's depictions of ranges and varieties of love-relationships in PF; TC; CT; and "The Faerie Queene," books III–IV. Introduced via allusion to FranT, Britomart is central to Spenser's collection of…
Cooper, Helen.
A. S. G. Edwards, ed. Medieval Romance, Arthurian Literature: Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Archibald (Cambridge: Brewer, 2021), pp. 46-60.
Argues that "repetition should be included among the family resemblances that trigger the imaginative response that signals 'romance'." " Includes discussion of MLT and the analogous accounts in Nicholas Trevet's "Chronicles" and John Gower's…
Cooper, Helen.
Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 175 (2023): 170-78.
Assesses Edmund Spenser's quotation of FranT, 764-66, in Britomart's speech in T"he Faerie Queene," Book III, arguing that the Chaucerian material and its original context carry suggestions of the "need for tolerance in social relations" and "[set] a…
Cooper, Lisa H.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Explores literary production and representations of craft labor and artisans in the Middle Ages. Looks at works by Chaucer, Lydgate, and Caxton, as well as lesser-known medieval writers.
Cooper, Lisa H.
In Thomas A. Prendergast and Jessica Rosenfeld, eds. Chaucer and the Subversion of Form (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 99-124.
Claims that Astr shares with Chaucer's "literary" works a deep conceptual investment in form and is more than a technical manual. Astr layers textual, celestial, and technological forms (book, cosmos, and astrolabe) in a dynamic relationship with…
Examines the fifteenth-century manuscript known as "On Husbondrie," compiled by Duke Humfrey of Gloucester, which contains information on farming, agriculture, and animal husbandry. Argues that the manuscript is not simply a practical guide for…
Cooper, Lisa H., and Andrea Denny-Brown, eds.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Eight essays by various authors, an introduction by the editors, an afterword by D. Vance Smith, and an index. The essays consider Lydgate's poetry in relation to "the role of material goods and the material world in the formation of late-medieval…
Cooper, Lisa.
In Holly A. Crocker and D. Vance Smith, eds. Medieval Literature: Criticism and Debates (New York; Routledge, 2014), pp.183-91.
Explores late-medieval literary "intermingling of craft, memory, and loss" in representations of known or knowable facts or truth, arguing that in Adam, HF, KnT, and BD Chaucer, unlike some of his contemporaries, is generally "skeptical" about the…
Coot, Alexander.
English Studies 91 (2010): 26-41.
In TC and KnT, Chaucer "revises Augustinian and Boethian formulations of "contemptus mundi," pointing out that any ethical system which seeks to address the topic of earthly desires must also address the human subject's endless appetite for desire as…
Coote, Lesley A., ed.
Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Poetry Library, 2002.
A student edition of the complete CT based on British Library MS Harley 7334, supplemented with Hengwrt. The edition-Middle English text with modern punctuation and normalized spelling (y/i, u/v, /th)-includes marginal glosses, brief introductions…
Middle English text of NPPT (with the Croesus account from MkT), accompanied by facing-page notes, a glossary (pp. 147-52), and an introduction (pp. 7-94) that surveys Chaucer's life and works; the sources of NPT; the characterization of the Nun's…
Literary history of England, from Caedmon to Malory, divided into seven chapters, although nearly half of the volume attends to Chaucer and his works. Chapter 4 (pp. 70-213) surveys Chaucer's early life and influences, the "early poems," TC, and CT,…
Copeland, Ann.
Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 33.3-4: 161-80, 2002.
Copeland describes the difficulties and potential for confusion in imprecise library cataloging of digital versions of books, focusing on differences between particular works and books and assessing as one example the 1998 Octavo CD-Rom version of…
Copeland, Rita, ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Includes twenty-eight sections by various authors (four by Copeland) who address the impact of the classics on medieval and early modern English culture: education, mythology, historiography, moral philosophy, humanism, translations, individual…
Copeland, Rita.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Traces the history and theory of vernacular translation to its roots in Latin tradition, exploring classical translation theory as a product of the academic struggle between rhetoric and grammar (or hermeneutics). Medieval translation, a kind of…
Copeland, Rita.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 9 (1987): 41-75.
Medieval vernacular translation recovered the classical merger of rhetorical theory with hermeneutic practice. Ancient and medieval contexts for translation are traced: the practice of rhetorical theory in translation is illustrated in Chaucer's…
Copeland, Rita.
Sarah Kay and Miri Ruben, eds. Framing Medieval Bodies (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1994), pp. 138-59.
Explores the roles of sexuality and gender in the institutional history of rhetoric and argues that the Pardoner's ambiguity dramatizes a double sense of rhetoric, both as an academic discipline and as a regulated body of practice.
