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Deals with Charles d'Orleans and Chaucer's use of Dante.

On Chaucer's use in GP of the adversative conjunction "but."

Considers the influence of Boethius's "Consolatione," with its medieval glosses, on Old French and Middle English literature, especially Jean de Meun's "Roman de la Rose" and Chaucer's MkT (Croesus, Nero), Bo, KnT, and TC.

Point of view in the structure of CT and the use of direct speech and dialogue are a consequence of Chaucer's interest in showing the contradictions in his environment without the mediating influence of an omniscient narrator. The open structure of…

The word "syde" may be used as a pun in MerT.

Chaucerians have reached no consensus on specific written sources for NPT, PardT, MilT, and RvT, similarities between which and their Ozark analogues (all reprinted here) point to a common source in Anglo-American oral folktales.

Medieval universities taught "perspectiva," or optics, important in literary realism. Chaucer's use of light, vision, and space parallels passages in optical texts and becomes thematic in CT, fragments G and A. Jean de Meun, Dante, and Boccaccio…

Applies portrait of the Physician in GP to a close reading of PhyT; the imperfect Physician is Chaucer's criticism of medical doctors.

Deals with the Latin translation of TC 2 by Sir Francis Kynaston.

For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Court and Poet under Alternative Title.

Comparing Chaucer with Gower, Collins explores the conflicts between love and Nature and Reason; the function of law; and imagery and metaphor.

An edition of the Wycliffite "Treatise of Miraclis Pleying" with apparatus. This hostile tract is the most significant dramatic criticism in Middle English.

On Chaucer's characters. In Japanese.

Examines the apocalyptic tradition behind Nicholas's flood.

Transcription and English translation of the Latin exemplum discussed in Nicholson's earlier article on the FrT analogues (English Language Notes 17 (1979): 93-98).

Opposes the "garden of conjugal love" which appears at the beginning of the FranT to the "garden of courtly love," where Aurelius tempts Dorigen.

Deals with relationship of PhyT to FranT and PardT and suitability of tale to teller, treating the sources in Titus Livius and Jean de Meun's "Roman de la Rose," as well as the theme of justice.

Discusses the character and meaning of Pardoner in relation to a submerged irony expressed in his bodily or spiritual realism.

Th, a burlesque romance, and Mel, a moral allegory, express substantially the same ideas in their satiric evaluation of military heroes and affairs.

Source study traced to Bernard's secretary, Nicholas of Clairvaux.

Ret is a transition between the realms of fiction and fact.

Analysis of Shimon Sandback's Hebrew translation of CT.

The Ellesmere miniatures recreate the word pictures by Chaucer in the text, but the only miniature that is truly lifelike is that of Chaucer himself.

Popular treatment of the manuscript and the Huntington's acquisition of it, including color reproduction of the illuminations.

Compares a folktale analogue found in County Tyrone with FrT, examining issues and implications.