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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…

Describes the use of the online text-editing platform Textual Communities in ongoing developments of the Canterbury Tales Project, clarifying advantages and limitations of using such a platform, and offering advice for future changes to the project…

Translation of selections of CT into Bengali prose.

Comparisons of the position of women in the two contemporary works: portraits, attitudes toward marriage, motherhood, householding, life in society, culture, religion. Women are presented as wives with social responsibilities.

Briefly describes the books and materials exhibited at the January 11, 1991, Sorbonne conference on Chaucer-French relations.

Sees Chaucer the Pilgrim and his inverted doubles--the female image of the Wife of Bath and the male image of the Host--as three parts of Chaucer's personality. Similar unity can be found among WBT, Th, and Mel.

Warlike heroism is never clearly praised in CT. It is always connected with "feeble" characters, such as women and children, whose weapons are their voices (prayers, songs).

Explores the semantic significance and connotations of colors used as important elements in GP character descriptions.

Compares Helinand's "Vers de la mort" with Chaucer's work and concludes that Chaucer is far more optimistic; he is a poet of life rather than death.