Ando, Shinsuke.
The Images of Women in English Renaissance Literature, ed. by Institute of Renaissance Studies. Renaissance Library, vol. 13 (Tokyo, 1982), pp. 51-75.
Examines descriptions and narratives of Chaucerian women and the developments of the poet's creative genius from the formal rhetorical representations of the stereotypes in his early works to the splendidly mature idiosyncratic women in CT. …
Tragedy, comedy, debate, mask, and theatrical "epic" are found in fifteenth-century drama. Davenport explores factors to explain the scope, style, and variety.
Ikegami analyzes in OE and ME literature formal problems of verse and prose, narratives, manuscripts and incunabula, Latin and vernaculars, to explain the differences between medieval and modern English literature.
Lawton, David A., ed.
Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 1982.
Essays by various hands on contexts for the alliterative revival, metrical and historical backgrounds, sources, manuscripts, audience, and the poems themselves.
WBT, FrT, and SumT exhibit a thematic unity through common concern of "championing one...of two antithetical ways of perceiving the world." Wife and Summoner tell tales from an Aristotelian perspective, the Friar from a Platonic perspective.
Saito, Isamu.
Main Current: Extra Number in Memory of Professor Toichiro Ohta (Kyoto, 1982): 220-36.
Examines to what extent Chaucer's promise in GP to describe each pilgrim "so as it semed" to him is fulfilled. Character portrayals are not illustrative, like Langland's, but representative.
Blake, N. F.
Leeds Studies in English 13 (1982): 42-55.
Manuscript evidence suggests Chaucer's developing conception of the Wife in her GP portrait, the shorter prologue found in some MSS, the tale, and references made in ClT, MerT, and Buk. Some passage were added to WBT at a later date.
Pigott, Margaret B.
Fifteenth-Century Studies 5 (1982): 167-89.
BD and PF shift from "belief to skepticism in Chaucer's attitude toward the three principal ways of arriving at truth--religious experience, written authorities, and revelations of dreams."
By comparing Chaucer's TC with Boccaccio's "Filostrato" in sounds, grammar, word choice, similes and metaphors, ambiguities, and construction, the article investigates Chaucer's literary and linguistic imitation and humorous innovation.
In Form Age, as in medieval tradition, Nimrod represents the final stages of decline, especially the lust for political dominance, in the world after Adam's Fall.
Fisher, John H.
Thomas D. Cooke. ed. The Present State of Scholarship in Fourteenth Century Literature (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1982): pp. 1-54.
Killough, George B.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 4 (1982): 87-107.
Examines the use of the virgule in Hengwrt and Ellesmere in the context of historical usage; the "virgule placement is highly regular" in these manuscripts, suggesting that the virgule is scribal rather than part of the Chaucer text.
