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Donaghey, Brian, Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., Philip Edward Phillips, and Paul E. Szarmach, eds., with assistance from Kenneth C. Hawley.   Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2019.
Compiles extensive, authoritative information about each of the English translations of Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" from Alfred the Great to H. R. James (1897)--complete translations (including Bo), partial versions, abridgments,…

Donaghey, Brian.   John Scattergood and Julia Boffey, eds. Texts and Their Contexts: Papers from the Early Book Society, pp. 150-64.
Considers Thynne's 1532 collected edition of Chaucer's work, assessing the planning of the work, its physical make-up, and the technical processes of producing it.

Donaghey, Brian.   Geoffrey Lester, ed. Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 73-99
A bibliographical description and analysis of Caxton's edition of Bo. Variants from extant manuscripts of the work indicate errors that can be attributed to expediencies of book production and to reliance on knowledge of the Latin original.

Donaldson, E. T.   Speculum 40 (1965): 626-33.
Argues for choosing "wrighte" over "wight" among the manuscript variants of WBP 3.117, justifying the choice on the grounds of source material and consideration of scribal choices and practices.

Donaldson, E. T[albot], ed.   New York: Ronald, 1958.
Edits the majority of Chaucer's verse (no prose included) in normalized spelling and modern punctuation, with bottom-of-page glosses and occasional brief notes. Omits Book 3 of HF, the legends of LGW (but LGWP-G included), several lyrics, and…

Donaldson, E. T[albot].   Derek Brewer, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer. Writers and their Background (London: G. Bell, 1974), pp. 85-108.
Describes the editorial practices necessary to produce a modern edition of Chaucer's works, commenting on spelling, punctuation (especially virgules), meter (especially final -e), and distinguishing scribal and authorial forms. Summarizes the number…

Donaldson, E. T[albot].   Modern Language Notes 69 (1954): 310-13.
Suggests on textual and etymological grounds that "verye"/"werye" in MilT 1.3485 be emended to "nerye," reading the line to mean "May the White Pater Noster save (us) from (the perils of the) night."

Donaldson, E. Talbot   Jerome Mandel and Bruce A. Rosenberg, eds. Medieval Literature and Folklore Studies: Essays in Honor of Francis Lee Utley (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1970), pp. 193-204.
Comments on the "impediments" to determining the order of CT with certainly, focusing on manuscript evidence, especially the problems evident in MLE and the "Rochester-Sittingbourne contradiction" in the Ellesmere order of the Tales. Suggests…

Donaldson, E. Talbot   T. S. Dorsch, ed. Essays and Studies 1972: In Honour of Beatrice White. Being Volume Twenty-Five of the New Series Essays and Studies Collected for the English Association (London: John Murray; New York: Humanities, 1972), pp. 23-44.
Explores "two related but distinct aspects of Chaucer's celebrated stylistic clarity": 1) while "self-evident," it is "often more apparent than real," and 2) a "means by which" Chaucer "escapes dexterously from the danger of really being clear and…

Donaldson, E. Talbot   Ventures: Magazine of the Yale Graduate School 5 (1965): 16-23. Reprinted in "Speaking of Chaucer," pp. 154-63.
Challenges the idea that adultery in inherent to courtly love and attributes the notion to critics' failure to recognize the humor of Andrea Capellanus. Cites various examples of courtly love in medieval literature, and includes comments on Absolon…

Donaldson, E. Talbot, and Judith J. Kollmann,eds.   Ann Arbor: Michigan Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 1983.
An introduction by Donaldson and essays by eight authors explore Shakespeare's use of Chaucer and the ways both treat similar themes. Contains a bibliography. For the eight essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucerian Shakespeare under…

Donaldson, E. Talbot.   Michigan Quarterly Review 14 (1975): 282-301.
Pandarus, the Pardoner, and the Poet Chaucer are all three creative artists and experience the frustations of the unloved. The Poet created Pandarus and the Pardoner as representation of deep impulses within himself.

Donaldson, E. Talbot.   Michael Benskin and M. L. Samuels, eds. So Meny People, Longages and Tonges: Philological Essays in Scots and Mediaeval English Presented to Angus McIntosh (Edinburgh: Authors, 1981), pp. 355-66.
On Chaucer's use in GP of the adversative conjunction "but."

Donaldson, E. Talbot.   New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1985.
Shakespeare perceived and used the complexity of Chaucer's TC, KnT, MerT, and WBT.

Donaldson, E. Talbot.   Douglas Gray and E. G. Stanley, eds. Middle English Studies Presented to Norman Davis in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 65-67.
The traditional reading is that Arcite's horse pitches him to the ground so that Arcite, falling on his head, has his chest shattered by the saddlebow. The words "pomel" and "pighte," however, show that Arcite is not thrown from his horse but is…

Donaldson, E. Talbot.   Donald M. Rose, ed. New Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism (Norman Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1981), pp. 193-202.
Chaucer at times uses French constructions in his English, as is shown by examples in RvT, KnT, TC, PardT, and GP (portrait of the Prioress).

Donaldson, E. Talbot.   Studies in the Age of Chaucer 2 (1980): 7-13.
In this first presidential address to the New Chaucer Society, Professer Donaldson wittily summarizes the 20th-century conflict of opinion regarding Chaucer's work to conclude that Chaucer is partly to blame for the confusion. Like all great poets…

Donaldson, E. Talbot.   Chaucer Review 14 (1980): 313-18.
J. E. Hankins' view of the "Pervigilium Veneris" as a source for PF has not caught on because no one has yet found a persuasive verbal echo. Such an echo appears in the list of persons love has destroyed: PF, 286-92 has a counterpart in…

Donaldson, E. Talbot.   Edward Vasta and Zacharias P. Thundy, ed. Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979), pp. 3-12.
Other enduring attributes of the Criseyde character complicate and perhaps mitigate her infidelity. From the start, as Homer's Briseis, she engages sympathy as a woman unwillingly transferred from one man to another. Dares made Briseida attractive;…

Donaldson, E. Talbot.   Tennessee Studies in Literature 22 (1977): 1-16.
An analysis of evidence from CT, "Piers Plowman," and "The Divine Comedy" as well as from the writings of medieval saints and modern scholars indicates that generalizations regarding Christian behavior, the motivations of artists, and concepts of…

Donaldson, E. Talbot.   J. B. Bessinger and R. Raymo, eds. Medieval Studies in Honor of Lillian Herlands Hornstein (New York: New York University Press, 1976), pp. 99-110.
A detailed commentary upon "armee" in the description of the Knight (1.60) in GP; upon the homeoteleuton in the description of the Friar (11. 252a-b); upon "fyue" in Prologue to WBT (11. 44a-f) as an omission in some mss due to the scribal "yielding…

Donaldson, E. Talbot.   Maynard Mack and George deForest Lord, eds. Poetic Traditions of the English Renaissance (New Haven, Conn.; and London: Yale University Press), 1982, pp. 67-83.
Chaucer and Shakespeare use different narrative techniques to lend ambiguity to the characterization of Criseyde/Cressida, but each uses ambiguity to create sympathy for his character.

Donaldson, E. Talbot.   Joseph R. Strayer, ed. Volume 3: Cabala-Crimea (NewYork: Scribner, 1983), pp. 279-97.
Describes Chaucer's life and works in chronological sequence, commenting in detail on events and on literary concerns of all of his major works, exploring most extensively characterization in TC and variety of genre in CT. Includes a bibliography.

Donaldson, E. Talbot.   [North Hollywood, Calif.]: The Center for Cassette Studies, 1973.
Item not seen; the note(s) to the WorldCat record provide the following description: "Dr. E. Talbot Donaldson, a foremost Chaucerian authority, overviews the historical and literary milieu of Geoffrey Chaucer ans [sic] his Canterbury tales, outlines…

Donaldson, E. Talbot.   Speaking of Chaucer (New York: Norton, 1970), pp. 30-45.
Reads MerT as an "intensely bitter story," dilating upon the "central juxtaposition of the seemingly, or potentially, beautiful with the unmistakably ugly," examining the nuances of several words, discussing the "vacuity" of the marriage encomium,…
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