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Identifies details in the GP description of the Prioress that are inconsistent with the Benedictine Rule and indicate satirically that she is courtly, a "worldly woman dressed in a Prioress's habit."

Considers the fittingness of the MkT to its teller, commenting on genre (advice to princes and tragedy), themes (fortune and the uncertainties of life), variety and unity, the GP description of the Monk, and the responses of the Knight and the Host…

In TC, though color words are sparsely used, green, red, blue, white, black are tellingly employed, frequently serving symbolically to connote psychological states of being, sexuality, and emotions, particularly in relation to "eros" and "agape."

Pandarus, Antigone, and the nightingale serve as narrative "specula" to influence Chaucer.

The symbolic meaning of the color brown in Chaucer's works depends on the context in which the word is used. Examples can be noted in TC, BD, Rom, HF, and CT.

Presented differently than in Trevet, Chaucer's scenes of the blind Briton and the blindfolded Maurice in MLT emphasize the helplessness of humankind and the help of God. The emphasis is consistent with Innocent III's "De miseria condicionis humane"…

Chaucer's MilT and Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' are analogues because each satirizes the conventions of courtly love. Absolon, John, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek are "genuine fools" because they can be so easily duped, while Orsino and Viola "manifest…

Comparison of Romance vocabulary, direct discourse, the first person (singular or plural), finite verb forms, and other grammatical elements such as independent and dependent clauses inKnT and WBT shows that "Chaucer did indeed use the language of…

Analyzes Gardner's parody of GP (first eighteen lines) in chap. 1 of "Grendel."

Use of sources and analogues in the classroom can provide baffled students a point of entry into the complexities of MLT and allow them to appreciate the importance of redaction in medieval literature. In particular, examining Chaucer's feminization…

The Wife of Bath, the Prioress, and the wife in ShT represent themselves as victims of violence to make themselves attractive to men. In doing so, they draw on texts, such as medieval saints' lives and romances, that depict violence as central to the…

The linked anti-Semitism and poetic virtuosity of PrT confront medievalists with a paradox, in which accurately representing the past and combating bigotry in the present are pitted against each other. Resolving this paradox by ignoring aesthetics in…

Sturges assesses the Pardoner and Kit from the Prologue to Beryn as "comic critiques" of fifteenth-century urban concerns about class and gender. Three metaphors define urban space in the narrative: cathedral, walls, and tavern.

Attributes January's cuckholding in MerT to "his own stupidity," reading Chaucer's deployment of antifeminist motifs as deeply ironic and part of his broader thematic concern to show that "everyone is morally responsible for his own acts." Chaucer's…

Examines MilT through the lens of medieval optical theories, particularly those of Ibn al-Haytham and Roger Bacon. Argues that Chaucer's depictions of visual perception, distance, and light may be influenced by these optical theories, using them…

German translation of CT, with notes and glosses,originally produced by Adolf von Düring as part of his three-volume "Geoffrey Chaucers Werke" (Strassburg, 1883-86). Hoevel's edition was reissued in 1974.

Dramatic adaptation of GP, WBT, MerT, MilT, RvT, PardT, NPT, and FrankT, with production notes and extensive stage directions that emphasize frolicsome vitality. Text in modern English, irregular couplets.

This anthology of excerpts includes the opening of FranT (5.729-50) in Middle English.

Fourteen previously printed pieces by Muscatine, including articles, sections of books, and reviews. The four essays that pertain to Chaucer are "The Canterbury Tales: Style of the Man and Style of the Work" (1966), "Chaucer's Religion and the…

A prominent feature of Middle English debate poetry from 1200 to 1450 is irresolution, a quality appreciated in the context of carnival laughter (Bakhtin). Reed rejects univocal interpretation through allegory or symbolism in favor of "experiential…

Item not seen; cited in World Cat, which reports that this recording in Spanish of erotic tales includes a reading of MilT.

The comic climax, marked by carefully prepared effects of surprise, is the distinctive feature of the fabliaux. Action more than character development or setting characterizes the preparation. As regards genre, the fabliaux have relatively little…

A recurrent concern in Chaucer's works is the relation between society and discourse, a concern Chaucer shares with Italian humanists. In BD, Chaucer demonstrates the reciprocity of speaker and listener; the playfulness and lack of closure in HF…

Eleven essays by various authors and an introduction (by Prendergast) on the relations between Chaucer's "original" texts and later adaptations of these texts. The book explores the cultural conditions that produced the adaptations, as well as the…

Explores various "developments in the image of writing in the Middle Ages and the different ways in which images empower writing from approximately the sixth through the sixteenth centuries," concentrating on early manuscripts and religious rather…