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Traces Stow's declining reputation among eighteenth- and nineteenth-century editors of Chaucer as well as a gradual revival of appreciation of Stow's edition, first among bibliophiles and later with modern Chaucerians. Dane examines the variants in…

During the nineteenth-century construction of the fabliau as a distinct genre, scholars grouped ShT with other "coarse" tales and theorized that Chaucer had reassigned it from the Wife of Bath to the Shipman, assuming that the fabliau form was not…

Outlines a method for describing Chaucer's verse forms as syllabic, with accent overlaid secondarily on this base. Dane argues that this method is more simple than descriptions that give priority to accent and the iamb, as well as more useful in…

Includes a study that details the bibliographical and physical instability of two variants of the 1542 Chaucer edition--the Reynes imprint and the Bonham imprint--as they exist in the Hoe, the Chew, and the Hagen-Clark copies, paying particular…

Argues that HF is organized and coherent: it is consistently concerned with poetic art, its tripartite structure is based on the "rhetorical doctrine of three styles," and the styles correlate with the "three principal works" of Virgil"…

Comments on anachronisms in the portrait of Chaucer included in William Godwin's Life of Chaucer (1803) and on the reception of the portrait and the biography, suggesting that the portrait is "more sincere" than other Chaucerian anachronisms and that…

Asserts that the conflation of editing and canon-formation in literary history "involve[s] an unavoidable circularity of reasoning, and an equally unavoidable series of assumptions we often claim to wish to avoid." Explores logical and methodological…

Questions whether Richard Pynson's edition(s) of Chaucer's works (1526) is "one or three items," examining the bibliographical evidence and traditions available to answer the question, exploring the limitations and assumptions underlying this…

Castigates modern studies that describe the verse form of Francis Kynaston's Latin translation of TC as "pentameter" or as "rhymed accentual," explaining that it is, instead, in eleven-syllable lines with an accent on syllable ten. Then explores how…

Outlines the "critical myth" that Chaucer, despite his assumed or constructed urbanity, lived in an age that was less sophisticated than the critic's own. Interrogates the history of this myth, exploring progressivist and devolutionary biases in…

Includes a series of essays in medieval studies and book history that are concerned "with the tenuous connection between what we define as evidence and what we construct as the narrative, scholarly or historical, that makes sense of that evidence."…

Item not seen. WorldCat record includes an abstract: "This book examines cases of [question-begging] reasoning in Chaucer studies, book history, and in other humanistic fields." In it, Joseph Dane critiques "himself and his own formulation of…

Transcribes and comments on two handwritten copies of the tomb inscription: one very close transcription by Richard Wilbraham (d. 1612) in his copy of the ca. 1550 Workes and a looser version (apparently copied from a manuscript rather than directly…

The printing history of Chaucer and Lydgate runs parallel until about 1540. After that, only the printing of Chaucer continues, although Lydgate's works are often included in editions of Chaucer or Chauceriana. The 1542 Statute "An Acte for…

Assesses variations in copies of Stow's edition of Chaucer and suggests that copies with woodcuts may have been printed before those without and that Stow himself may have been involved in in-house corrections to the text, particularly that of Adam.…

Chinese translation of selection from CT. Reported by WorldCat; item not seen.

Describes and analyzes the versification of "The Tale of Gamelyn," arguing that its "prosodic system . . . falls somewhere between" those of Chaucer and of "Piers Plowman."

Suggests that "colour" in the description of Chauntecleer (NPT 7.2864) means "coler" or "neck" rather than "color."

In MilT, Chaucer transformed a bawdy joke into pleasing narrative art, producing in the sexual scenes moments when a reader might feel jouissance. Includes some notes toward a materialist reading of the Tale as a representation of the poetic and…

Criseyde rejects the values of courtly love that Troilus embraces. In her relation with Diomede, Criseyde rejects courtly love and its attachment to death in favor of a life-affirming love.

An introduction to poetry for classroom use, with an anthology that includes MercB, Ros, Truth, and Purse, with notes and glosses, based on the edition of F. N. Robinson.

Historical novel about the lives of Philippa de Roet and her sister Katherine, focusing on their relations with Chaucer, John of Gaunt, and the English court circles.

Parallels in diction, phrasing, portrayal, and plot suggest that the episode of the Pardoner and the tapster is shaped according to the model of the Chaucerian fabliau.

Discusses Chaucer's works in the context of a tradition of depicting women's dreams as deceiving and women as deceivers.

Daróczy outlines the Latin rhetorical tradition as background to Chaucer's techniques of characterization in GP: groupings of pilgrims, omitted details, the order and juxtaposition of the portraits, epithets, and summarizing lines. Emphasizes…