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Newton, Judith May.   Essays and Studies in English Language and Literature (Japan) 72 (1981): 41-55.
Deals with the Latin translation of TC 2 by Sir Francis Kynaston.

Burgess, Glyn S., A. D. Deyermond, W. H. Jackson, A. D. Mills, and P. T. Rickerts, eds.   Liverpool: Cairns, 1981.
For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Court and Poet under Alternative Title.

Collins, Marie.   Glyn S. Burgess and others, eds. Court and Poet (Liverpool: Cairns, 1981), pp. 113-28.
Comparing Chaucer with Gower, Collins explores the conflicts between love and Nature and Reason; the function of law; and imagery and metaphor.

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.

Kawasaki, Masatoshi.   Bungaku to Ningen: Nakajima Kanji Kyoju Tsuito Ronbunshu. Tokyo: Kinseido, 1981.
On Chaucer's characters. In Japanese.

Vaughan, M. F.   Philological Quarterly 60 (1981): 117-23.
Examines the apocalyptic tradition behind Nicholas's flood.

Nicholson, Peter.   Chaucer Newsletter 3:1 (Winter, 1981): 1-2.
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).

Heffernan, Carol Falvo.   Glyn S. Burgess and others, eds. Court and Poet (Liverpool: Cairns, 1981), pp. 177-88.
Opposes the "garden of conjugal love" which appears at the beginning of the FranT to the "garden of courtly love," where Aurelius tempts Dorigen.

Brown, Emerson,Jr.   Philological Quarterly 60 (1981): 129-49.
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.

Kawasaki, Masatoshi.   Literature and Man--the Papers for the Late Professor Kanji Nakajima (Tokyo: Kinseido, 1981), pp. 21-40.
Discusses the character and meaning of Pardoner in relation to a submerged irony expressed in his bodily or spiritual realism.

Scattergood, V. J.   Glyn S. Burgess and others, eds. Court and Poet (Liverpool: Cairns, 1981), pp. 287-96.
Th, a burlesque romance, and Mel, a moral allegory, express substantially the same ideas in their satiric evaluation of military heroes and affairs.

Correale, Robert M.   American Notes and Queries 20 (1981): 2-3.
Source study traced to Bernard's secretary, Nicholas of Clairvaux.

Schricker, Gale C.   Philological Quarterly 60 (1981): 13-27.
Ret is a transition between the realms of fiction and fact.

Ekroni, Aviv.   Moznayim 52 (1981): 429-30.
Analysis of Shimon Sandback's Hebrew translation of CT.

Stevens, Martin.   Studies in Iconography 7-8 (1981-82): 113-34.
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.

Thorpe, James.   Gifts of Genius: Treasures of the Huntington Library. (San Marino, Calif.: The Huntington Library, 1981), pp. 13-16.
Popular treatment of the manuscript and the Huntington's acquisition of it, including color reproduction of the illuminations.

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.

Baird, Lorrayne Y.   Studies in Iconography 7-8 (1981-82): 81-111.
Background for the ambivalent nature of Chauntecler in NPT.

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.

Jackson, W. H., ed.   Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 1981.
Six articles by various hands dealing with French, Provencal, German, Scottish, and English knighthood in literature.

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.
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