Bradbrook, M. C.
Aspects of Dramatic Form in the English and the Irish Renaissance: The Collected Papers of Muriel Bradbrook (Sussex: Harvester Press, 1983): 3:156-79.
Traces parallels between Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander' and TC 3.
Burrow, J. A.
Middle English Studies Presented to Norman Davis in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 69-91.
Deals with critical testimonies regarding Th by readers and imitators of Chaucer: Dunbar, ballad composers, the author of "Gamelyn," Skelton, Warton, Puttenham, "E. K.," Drayton, Spenser, Harvey, Lyle, Shakespeare, and Speght.
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…
Finke, Laurie A.
Chaucerian Shakespeare (Ann Arbor: Michigan Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 1983), pp. 7-24.
Falstaff and the Wife of Bath "use remarkably similar grammatical and syntactical strategies to manipulate language," to create "smokescreens" that cover their "nakedness," and "to try to reshape the world in their own image."
Fradenburg, Louise Olga.
Dissertation Abstracts International 43 (1983): 3313A.
Scottish Chaucerians emphasize the different aspects of Chaucer's work--love fiction: "The Kingis Quair;" retribution: Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid;" and diction: Dunbar's "Thrissill and the Rose."
Gussenhoven, Sr. Francis, RSHM.
Chaucerian Shakespeare (Ann Arbor: Michigan Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 1983), pp. 69-79.
Both Petruchio and the Wife of Bath see their spouses as "shrewish." Like Chaucer, Shakespeare employs images of taming and teaching, clothes, hats, and kisses to "reinforce the theme of mastery in marriage."
Chaucer's pilgrims reappear in the prologues of "The Tale of Beryn" (ca. 1410) and Lydgate's "Seige of Thebes" (1422) as "metafictions," or comments on Chaucer's GP; "Beryn" criticizes implicitly the lack of realism in Chaucer, and Lydgate portrays…
Leslie, Nancy T.
Chaucerian Shakespear (Ann Arbor: Michigan Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 1983), pp. 25-41.
The Wife of Bath and Falstaff are superb "actors" who use rhetorical tools to triumph on their "stages," citing Scripture, twisting logic, and spouting proverbs for their own purposes.
Moisan, Thomas (E.)
Chaucerian Shakespeare (Ann Arbor: Michigan Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 1983), pp. 131-49.
Both in "Romeo and Juliet" and in PardT "the rhetoric through which death appears to be sought...is the means by which its reality and meaning are evaded."
The owls and apes of Medieval-Renaissance tradition appear in the Chester "Deluge" and in Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy." The latter may echo Chaucer.
Roberts, Valerie S.
Chaucerian Shakespeare (Ann Arbor: Michigan Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 1983), pp. 97-117.
The gardens of MerT and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" are not idyllic "gardens of love" but "gardens of vanity," the setting for human deceit, folly, and cruelty.
Spisak, James W.
Chaucerian Shakespeare (Ann Arbor: Michigan Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 1983), pp. 81-95.
Inspired by the ironic use of the Pyramus and Thisbe myth in LGW Shakespeare employs the myth to parody the young lovers in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," mocking both Chaucer and his courtly poem.
Brogan, Terry Vance F.
Dissertation Abstracts International 43 (1983): 3917A.
Models for English prosody have been seen as Latinate, Romance, and Germanic, but eighteenth- and nineteenth-century reevaluations of Old English Verse, popular ballads,and Chaucer's poetry led to the "standard theory" of accent and foot.
Burnley, David.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983.
Provides apparatus for interpreting Chaucer's text, placing his language in its wider contemporary context, and studies differences in grammar between Chaucerian and Modern English, sentence linkage and scribal punctuation, the dialectal status of…
Glowka, Arthur W.
Language Quarterly 21 (1983): 15-17.
In PF, NPT, TC, ManT, and MerT, Chaucer uses onomatopoeic bird talk for puns, verbal wit, irony, e.g., finds hints in MerT of May as turtle-dove-cuckoo.
Higuchi, Masayuki.
Studies in English Literature, English number 59 (1983): pp. 101-25.
"Wenen," defined as "think" or "imagine" when referring to an anterior or contemporaneous event and "expect" or "intend" when referring to a posterior event, is most commonly used when the subject holds an erroneous conception. The counterfactual…
Samuels, M. L.
Middle English Studies Presented to Norman Davis in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 17-37.
The only manuscript which reflects Chaucer's own spelling is that of "Equat." Because this text is short, it does not provide a complete model for editors; Hengwrt is probably the best choice for a complete model.
Smith, Sarah Stanbury.
Studies in Iconography 9 (1983): 1-12.
Semantic associations, proverbial wisdom, and a coherent visual tradition establish the hood as a symbol of hypocrisy and sexual betrayal; this enriches the comic effect of Miller and Pardoner, of Pandarus and Criseyde.
