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Diffident comparisons point out the "Englishness" of both Chaucer and Langland (though Chaucer gives us little of London city life, his limits being Dartmouth, Strother, Oxford, and Cambridge). Bennett discusses the down-to-earth tones, association…

Defends Gower's "Confessio Amantis," with brief allusions to Chaucer's BD, ParsT, GP, and TC.

Fifteen essays, some reprinted from earlier publications, including essays on Langland, Chaucer (one reprinted essay on PF), Gower, James I of Scotland, Henryson, the vernacular, liturgy, and the "nosce te ipsum" theme. For five essays that pertain…

Part 1 traces the classical and medieval tradition of the "know thyself" motif and Chaucer's uses in MkT, ClT, TC, and Rom.

Collates dream interpretations from twenty-three manuscripts in Latin, Old English, Middle English, Old French, German. Sourcebook for medieval imagery, literature, and psychology.

Discusses how "craft" is lexically related to the development of the story.

Reviews criticism and scholarship on Chaucer in Sweden and England, treating backgrounds (social, religious and philosophical, and literary), general works, and new directions in scholarship.

Compares Chaucer's use of the past to T. S. Eliot's; treats Chaucer's use of language.

Discussion of nature and woman in twelfth-century latin works of Bernardus Silvestris ("Cosmographia") and Alain de Lisle ("De planctu naturae")l, with comments on PR and the Wife of Bath.

Critical edition of BD with introduction, text and notes, and an appendix which includes selections from analogous French works by Machaut and Froissart.

Translation into Japanese with notes.

Computerized statistical approach to the Manly-Rickert text.

Compares the themes of love in marriage in CT with those in "Mo-shang" and "K'ung-ch'ueh tung-nan."

Examines the Shakespearian play within the Troilus tradition, comparing it with Chaucer's TC.

Refers to a heresy trial of 1464 in which ownership of a copy of CT was used as evidence of Lollardy.

Tolkien's "errantry" parodies Th, esp. in arming of heroes and in "The Lord of the Rings."

Compares "Rape" 1.67-70, with ParsT I, 944-45, to show that Pope uses the Parson's "remedie agayns Leccherie."

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.

Essays by various hands on contexts for the alliterative revival, metrical and historical backgrounds, sources, manuscripts, audience, and the poems themselves.

Chaucer's "Frere" is compared unfavorably with Saint Francis of Assisi to encourage reform.

Discusses the use of alchemy in Chaucer, Donne, and Jonson.

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.

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.