Crocker, Holly A.
Medieval Feminist Forum 39 (2005): 29-37
The proverbs signed "Impingham" in Harley 7333 derive from Chaucer, but the emphases and arrangement of the proverbs present a more reductive view of women than is found in Chaucer's works.
Crocker, Holly A.
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 59-73.
The wife in ShT refuses to submit to the "comprehensive masculine dominance" of the competitive world of her husband and the monk. The two men understand their manliness in terms of the "image of potency"; like commerce, manliness is based on…
Crocker, Holly A.
Lynn T. Ramey and Tison Pugh, eds. Race, Class, and Gender in "Medieval" Cinema (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 183-97.
The characterization of Chaucer in Helgeland's film reinforces the film's concerns with authority and masculinity, ultimately revealing that "canonical authority" is "anachronistic."
Crocker, Holly A.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Crocker investigates how the visibility and invisibility of gender in Chaucer are linked to performativity and cultural privilege, especially for men. Discusses the figurative tradition of engendering sight as background to how Prudence in Mel is the…
By "acknowledging and exploiting the affections of [its] female characters," RvT "fashions a masculine collective." By excluding Symkyn from this collective, the Tale demonstrates that "cherl" identity after the uprising of 1381 was ethically and…
Crocker, Holly A.
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 43 (2013): 303-34.
Looks at Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida" in the context of its medieval legacy, including works by Chaucer, Lydgate, and Henryson, to argue that Shakespeare "continues an important late medieval poetic tradition, which highlights the problematic…
Crocker, Holly A.
Chaucer Review 54.3 (2019): 352-70.
Advocates for a continued emphasis in KnT on the subjectivity of Emelye, whose endurance and forbearance are key to a kind of personhood that is open and connected, rather than the individual subjectivity connected to the masculinist order presented…
Crocker, Holly A.
New Medieval Literatures 15 (2015, for 2013): 149-82.
Argues that John Foxe's chronological techniques, "expressive affinities," and "affective connections" in "Actes and Monuments" (a.k.a. the "Book of Martyrs") are "relevant to what is increasingly called 'post-historicist' criticism in medieval…
Crocker, Holly A.
Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 136-50.
Argues that ClT offers a view of what it means to be human, and that Chaucer's view differs significantly from Petrarch's presentation, in his translation of Boccaccio's Griselda story in the "Decameron," of Walter's cruelty and Griselda's patience…
Crocker, Holly A.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
Investigates "premodern 'vertue,' or the embodied excellence that enables women's ethical action in vernacular English poetry between 1343 and 1623." Focuses on "material virtue"--the "natural potencies of physical bodies"--rather than on habit-,…
Crocker, Holly A.
Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 16, no. 1 (2016): 146-52.
Reconsiders the periodizations that separate medieval and early modern studies, focusing on "'premodern humanism' as a critical problem" and the "anthropocentric fantasy" of the "nonhuman–human divide." Includes comments on the privileging of…
Crocker, Holly A., and D. Vance Smith, eds.
New York; Routledge, 2014.
Includes thirty-eight essays, new and previously printed. by various authors who examine debates within English medieval literary studies on topics that focus on gender and sexuality, politics, language, nationhood, science, and desire. For six…
Crocker, Holly A., and Tison Pugh.
Tison Pugh and Marcia Smith Marzec,eds. Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008), pp. 82-96.
Troilus's suffering in TC is informed by a "Christian economy" of pain that valorizes a new kind of manhood, one that activates others through its passivity and converts weakness to strength "through a managed display." Troilus's identity "emerges…
Crocker, Holly Adryan.
Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 3373A, 1999.
Female characters may reveal the weakness or value of male characters. Crocker examines BD and TC, as well as Spenser's "Faerie Queene" and Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew."
Crockett, Bryan.
David Chamberlain, ed. New Readings of Late Medieval Love Poems (Lanham, Md.; New York; and London: University Press of America, 1993), pp. 67-93.
Reads Lydgate's "Temple of Glas" as a "sustained, ironic treatment of frustrated love," citing the following as sources of details of the poem and influences on its formal techniques: "Roman de la Rose," HF, TC, PF, KnT, and MerT.
Croft, Steven, ed.
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
A school-text Middle English edition of WBPT and the GP description of the Wife, with notes and glosses after the text, along with comments on critical approaches and contexts and on Chaucer's language and pronunciation; pedagogical activities and…
Croft, Steven, ed.
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press,2006.
Textbook edition of PardPT and the GP description of the Pardoner. Includes glosses and discursive notes (at the back of the book) and discussion of approaches to the text: sources and analogues, characterization, assessment of theme and topic, and…
Croll, Angus.
San Francisco: No Starch Press, 2015.
A collection of playful JavaScript programs, imitating or responding to well-known literary authors--Hemingway, Shakespeare, Austin, Woolf, Borges, etc.--and including
brief descriptions of each writer's style. The section on Chaucer (pp. 104–11)…
Cronan, Dennis.
Studia Neophilologica 62 (1990): 37-42.
Examines TC 2.442-76, Criseyde's first interview with Pandarus. The passage shows a Criseyde "who is essentially innocent, but who has a capacity for self-deception." Most of her sleight is practiced against herself, not against Pandarus.
Cross, Cameron.
Iranian Studies: Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies 48 (2015): 395-422.
Uses KnT as a "comparand" in understanding the tension between "outrage and reason" in the tale of Rostam and Sohrab in Fardowsi's medieval Persian frame-tale narrative "Shahnameh" (Book of Kings). Like Fardowsi's, Chaucer's Tale struggles and…
Considers "Trohetvisan" and Sted in light of their possible historical allusions and literary conventionality, exploring similarities and differences, and concluding that Chaucer's poem is best regarded as "undated and unaddressed," a poem "written…
Cross, J. E.
English: The Journal of the English Association 10, no. 59 (1955): 172-75.
Surveys Astr to identify Chaucer's "teaching method," finding evidence of his attention to teaching "technically-minded small boys" that clashes at times with concern for a wider audience. Considers Astr to be "a dull, intentionally prolix but…
Crosse, Gordon, composer.
[London?]: Oxford University Press, 1971.
Item not seen. The WorldCat record states that this opera/pantomime was scored by Crosse, with "text (based on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales) by David Cowan." The Guelph Spring Festival Archives indicate a performance in 1993.
Crosson, Chad G.
Studies in Philology 115 (2018): 242-66
Explores the recursive demands of grammatical emendation ("emendatio") and penitential reform--the accumulative and ongoing need for correction of error that creates or prompts more need for correction--as the aesthetic that underlies Mel, and CT…
