Davidson, Clifford.
Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1981.
An edition of the Wycliffite "Treatise of Miraclis Pleying" with apparatus. This hostile tract is the most significant dramatic criticism in Middle English.
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).
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.
Ballard, Linda-May.
P. M. Tilling, ed. Studies in English Language and Early Literature in Honour of Paul Christopherson. Occasional Papers in Linguistics and Language Learning, no. 8. (Coleraine: New University of Ulster, 1981): pp. 1-12.
Compares a folktale analogue found in County Tyrone with FrT, examining issues and implications.
Caretta, Vincent.
Studies in Scottish Literature 16 (1981): 14-28.
"The Kingis Quair" has been interpreted as autobiographical and Boethian. If, however, James I understood Boethius as Chaucer did, both interpretations are incorrect. James discredits his narrator persona by using the Chaucerian Boethius as a…
Coleman, Janet.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1981.
Deals with verse and prose in Middle English, Latin, and Anglo-Norman as literary evidence of the rise of literacy and social mobility. Most literary works aimed at reform and edification in Christian ethical behavior rather than at entertainment. …
Dello Bouro, Carmen J.
Darby, Pa.: Norwood Editions, 1981.
Includes essays by Leonhard Schmitz (1881), George Dawson (1886), William Calder (1892), John W. Hales (1893), Frank J. Mather (1899), Henry C. Beeching (1900), Alfred Ainger (1905), George H. Cowling (1934), and "Chaucer at Woodstock" (1882).
Emmerson, Richard Kenneth.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981.
Presents apocalyptical, exegetical, iconographic, and literary traditions of the Antichrist. Warns against conflation of Antichrist and devil in the canon of CYT (p. 147).
Friedman, John Block.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981.
Drawing from art, iconography, literature, canon law, theology, and cartography, Friedman examines the impact upon European culture of monstrous races.
Lakshmi, Vijay.
Osmania Journal of English Studies 17 (1981): 19-25.
Woolf manages, in her essay "The Pastons and Chaucer," artfully and expertly to conjure up the medieval period while also insisting that Chaucer's gift as a storyteller depends on his creation of an art that improves upon life.