d'Ardenne, S. R. T. O.
Arno Esch, ed. Chaucer und Seine Zeit: Symposion für Walter F. Schirmer (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1968), pp. 47-54.
Characterizes Chaucer as "typically" English, commenting on his name, his sense of humor, his "love of nature," and his concern with fate, fortune, and "wyrd." Suggests several English books that Chaucer "must have read."
d'Ardenne, S. R. T. O.
English Studies 44 (1963): 12-19.
Reads George Meredith's novel "The Tragic Comedians" as "a modern version" of TC, an "adaptation of Princess Helen von Racowitza's 'Autobiography,' overshadowed by Chaucer's great work," particularly influenced by his characterization of Criseyde.
D'Attavi, Stefania D'Agata.
Guillemette Bolens and Lukas Erne, eds. Medieval and Early Modern Authorship (Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 2011), pp. 251-64
Analyzes the role of the first-person pronoun, "supponit pro," and narrating voice in TC through the lens of "medieval sign theory." Argues that through translation, authorship is transformed because authorship becomes "a matter of re-elaboration…
Considers manuscripts, editions, translations, and contemporary examples to explore Troilus's use of "devel" in TC 1.623, documenting variety in reading it as direct address, expletive, or exclamation. Shows that Troilus is not calling Pandarus a…
da Costa, Alex.
Critical Survey 29.3 (2017): 27-47.
Reconsiders the possibility that the Pardoner is a woman passing as a man in PardT, which raises anxieties about the relation of outward appearance and inner substance. These parallel anxieties about the authenticity of relics and the validity of…
Da Rold, Orietta, and Elaine Treharne, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Thirteen essays by various writers on the Hows, Whys, and Wheres of studying medieval manuscripts, with an Introduction by the editors, A Guide to Further Reading, an index of manuscripts, and a comprehensive index. For two essays that pertain to…
Da Rold, Orietta.
Library, 7th ser., 4: 107-28, 2003.
The arrangement of quires in this early fifteenth-century manuscript indicates that the scribe was working from an unrubricated text, the order of CT was not yet stable, and the scribe may have helped create the Ellesmere ordering.
Da Rold, Orietta.
Chaucer Review 41 (2007): 393-438.
Systematic analysis of corrections disproves the notion that the Dd scribe was either careless or meddling, suggesting instead that his corrections were executed in the course of checking his copying against his exemplar. The remaining corrections…
Comments on questions of "prior circulation and authorial revision" that were disclosed by the Manly-Rickert edition of CT and suggests that recent advances in codicology and the history of the book may offer future editors new perspectives from…
Da Rold, Orietta.
Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker, with the assistance of William Green, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 33-56.
Surveys textual practices in Old and Middle English literary culture, focusing on authorial anxieties about scribes, and comparing what is known and surmised about the texts of Ælfric's "Catholic Homilies" and Chaucer's CT.
Da Rold, Orietta.
Essays and Studies 63 (2010): 43-58.
Suggests that analysis of the physical makeup of manuscripts is a way to understand the production and use of Middle English texts. Focuses on the multilingualism in texts, the different functions of texts in a single book, and scribal output.…
Da Rold, Orietta.
Alexandra Gillespie and Daniel Wakelin, eds. The Production of Books in England, 1350-1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 12-33.
Da Rold's study of Cambridge University Library MS Dd.4.24 (a manuscript of CT) suggests that variations in shades of ink helps to disclose scribal habits of copying and emendation as well as the continuity of the exemplars used. Argues for further…
Da Rold, Orietta.
Vincent Gillespie and Anne Hudson, eds. Probable Truth: Editing Medieval Texts from Britain in the Twenty-First Century (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2013), pp. 481-92.
Considers that editing the "multilayered text" of CT requires a combination of different methodologies, including codicology, textual evidence, and computer-based evidence, in order to restructure and represent Chaucer's true authorial intentions.
Da Rold, Orietta.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Rethinks the uses and "affordances" of paper in medieval England and on the Continent, i.e., its potentialities, manifestations, and material significations in book production and other cultural practices. Opens with an explanation of how Chaucer…
Dabydeen, David.
Maggie Butcher, ed. Tibisiri: Caribbean Writers and Critics (Sydney: Dangaroo Press, 1989), pp. 121-35.
Interrogates differences and tensions between modern black British poetry and the dominant Anglo-American tradition, focusing on the use of "Caribbean creole" to resist colonial subordination of black voices. Refers to Chaucer and the tradition of…
Dachslager, Earl L.
Lamar Journal of the Humanities 11 (1985): 43-50.
The anti-Semitism of PrT is deepened by Chaucer's emphasis on "youth, innocence, and spirituality of the victim." Malamud's "The Fixer"--based on the 1913 trial of a Russian Jew, Mendel Beiliss, for the murder of a Christian boy--humanizes and…
Dahlberg, Charles, ed.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1999.
Edition of Rom based on Glasgow University Library MS Hunter 409 and the 1532 printed edition of William Thynne, with collated variants from subsequent editions through The Riverside Chaucer and notes variorum through 1990. Emendations are guided by…
Dahlberg, Charles.
Hanover, N. H., and London: University Press of New England, 1988.
"Unlikeness" refers to the "coherence and contradictions" in the conviction encouraged by D. W. Robertson that "the characteristic mode of reading and writing in the Middle Ages was quite different from ours and that it assumes an underlying…
Dahlberg, Charles.
Chapter 6 in Charles Dahlberg, The Literature of Unlikeness (Hanover, N.H. and London: University Press of New England, 1988), pp. 125-48.
Dahlberg suggests that "Chaucer's use of first person reflects in its stylistic variations the ambiguities of love" and that "the serious third-person poet of the Boethian short poems is essentially the same as the...first-person narrator or persona…
Opening and closing stanzas of TC combine high, epic style with "sermo humilis," creating a rising and sinking pattern of "unlikeness." The verse and rhetoric reflect the meanings, the sublimest points made in simplest statement. The conclusion…
Dahlberg, Mary Margaret.
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1997): 155A.
Free indirect discourse appears in TC and in works by John Lyly and George Gascoigne primarily for dramatic effects. Multiple voices in free indirect discourse may also mimic, distance, and achieve irony, as in many novels of the nineteenth and…
Chaucer's ties to Lincoln and the reference to Hugh of Lincoln in PrT make it unlikely that Chaucer was satirizing anti-Semitism in the Tale. The punishment of drawing and hanging in PrT refers to historical cruelty and reflects an attitude prevalent…
Dahood, Roger.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 31 (2009): 125-40.
Dahood attributes several features of the plot of PrT to "non-Marian, historical English narratives of Jews crucifying English Christian boys" and explores how and when these features became attached to narratives of a chorister murdered by Jews. The…
Edits and translates a hitherto unknown Anglo-Norman analogue to PrT. The "Hugo de Lincolnia" is the only vernacular version of the story of Little St. Hugh of Lincoln produced contemporaneously with Chaucer's hagiographical tale.
Dahood, Roger.
Susan Powell, ed. Saints and Cults in Medieval England: Proceedings of the 2015 Harlaxton Symposium, Harlaxton Medieval Studies, 27 (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2017), pp. 140–55.
Claims that the clergeon in PrT invokes Hugh of Lincoln, one of a number of Christian boys purportedly crucified by Jews in mockery of Christ's Passion. Addresses why the victims in such stories are boys, not adults as Jesus was when he was…
