In referring to St. Margaret of Antioch in this poem, Hoccleve draws out her "implied presence" in the form of the marguerite in the prologue to Chaucer's LGW.
Downes, Stephanie.
Notes and Queries 258 (2013): 572-74.
Rebinding and rearrangement of John Dart's biography of Chaucer in one of the six seventeenth- and eighteenth-century editions of his work held in Paris, effectively reframe it as having been modeled "culturally and linguistically from French…
Downes, Stephanie.
Isabel Davis and Catherine Nall, eds. Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015), pp. 127-42.
Discusses Eustace Deschamps's balade in praise of Chaucer, the Duxworth manuscript of Chaucer that belonged to Jean Angouleme, and two sixteenth-century French references to Chaucer that evince French awareness of Chaucer as a poet: an anecdote about…
Discusses the reception of Chaucer's poetry by nineteenth-century French critics who focused on CT, read Chaucer as a "European" rather than an English writer, discussed the accessibility of his language, and examined Chaucer's national literary and…
Downes, Stephanie.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 38 (2016): 287-97.
Considers the "non-lyric French inclusions" in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.20 as evidence of what "French meant to [John] Shirley" and what this indicates about fifteenth-century English reception of French literature.
Downes, Stephanie.
Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 74-90.
Studies the "narratological representation of the non-normative exemplarity of facial pallor" in Chaucer's poetry, exploring associations of facial paleness with facial expressions and emotional reactions, contrasting paleness with blushing, and…
Downes, Stephanie.
Patrick Colm Hogan and Bradley J. Irish, eds. The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion (New York: Routledge, 2022), pp. 409-20.
Surveys historical interest and recent theorization of emotion and affect produced by 'works, and assesses the role of books in the opening of TC (tears as ink) and in WBP (Jankyn's book) as "affective, emotional objects that arouse a range of…
Downing, Angela.
Teresa Fanego Lema, ed. Papers from the IVth International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature (Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1993), pp. 55-76.
Linguistic analysis of Chaucer's syntactical techniques in GP.
Doyle, A. I.
Martin Stevens and Daniel Woodward, eds. The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation (San Marino, Calif.: Huntingon Library; Tokyo: Yushodo, 1995), pp. 49-67.
Paleographic analysis of the five manuscripts or fragments attributable to the Ellesmere scribe: Ellesmere itself; the Hengwrt manuscript, except for "a few lines"; twenty-four folios of a copy of Gower's "Confessio Amantis;" a fragment of a leaf of…
Doyle, A. I., and George B. Pace.
Studies in Bibliography 28 (1975): 41-61.
Transcriptions of previously unpublished manuscript versions of three minor poems: "ABC" from Melbourne MS.; "Truth" from Nottinghame ME LM I; "Wom Unc" from Bodleian Fairfax 16.
Doyle, A. I., and George B. Pace.
PMLA 83 (1968): 22-34.
Provides a full description of the Coventry manuscript (City Record Office, Coventry) that includes six of Chaucer's Short Poems (ABC, Buk, Gent, Purse, Sted, Truth), along with works by Hoccleve, Lydgate, Mandeville, and others). Edits the text of…
Doyle, A. I.,and M. B. Parkes.
M. B. Parkes and Andrew G. Watson, eds. Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts & Libraries: Essays Presented to N. R. Ker (London: Scolar, 1978), pp. 163-210.
The various works of the five scribes of Trinity College, Cambridge, MS. R.3.2, a Gower collection, suggest that the London book trade before the advent of printing relied on special orders rather than mass production. Scribes B and D produced the…
Doyle, Charles Clay.
Chaucer Review 32 (1997): 108-10.
Peter Beidler asserted that a "shadow allusion" to CYT in "Rip Van Winkle" had gone unnoticed; in fact, scholars of seventeenth-century literature have recognized the allusion. Further, Chaucer's statement that one cannot trust someone who swears to…
Doyle, Kara A.
Cindy L. Vitto and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. New Perspectives on Criseyde (Fairview, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2004), pp. 75-110.
In Book 2 of TC, Criseyde gains subjectivity as a "reader" of Antigone's song. Although the narrator encourages female readers to "read like men" by identifying with Troilus, Margaret More Roper, in a letter to her father Sir Thomas More, aligns…
Excerpted from Chaucer's LGW and thus lacking a narrative frame, the Legend of Thisbe in the Findern manuscript leaves room for the assumption that the manuscript's female readers saw Thisbe "as simply a victim." The excerpt's codicological context,…
Combines feminist critical awareness, reception studies, and codicology to explore the construction of Chaucer as "womanis frend" in fifteenth-century manuscript compilations, studying the intertextualities of English and French works, including…
Doyle, Kara Ann.
Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 2293A, 2000.
Medieval male authors, anticipating female resistance to their treatments of Criseyde, often represented her as an example of natural feminine fickleness, leading women to accept this negative view. Doyle examines masculine treatments of Criseyde,…
Doyle, Kara.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 38 (2016): 275-85.
Focuses on quire xix of Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.20, showing how John Shirley connects Chaucer's Anel with the female-voiced French lyric tradition of skepticism about male courtly rhetoric.
Doyle, Kara.
Seeta Chaganti, ed. Medieval Poetics and Social Practice: Responding to the Work of Penn R. Szittya (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012), pp. 124-42.
Reads the figure of Alceste in LGW as a "fable" of female patronage, and argues that texts such as John Metham's "Amoryus and Cleopes" and an anonymous English translation of a portion of Boccaccio's "De Mulieribus Claris" do not follow Chaucer's (or…
Doyle, Laura.
Literature Compass 15.6 (2018): n.p.
Places the cluster of Chaucer essays in this special issue of "Literature Compass"--entitled "Chaucer's Global Compaignye"--in the context of the journal's "Global Circulation Project," and comments on each of the included essays. For individual…
Dragstra, H. H.
G. H. V. Bunt, E. S. Kooper, et al., eds. One Hundred Years of English Studies in Dutch Universities (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987), pp. 187-97.
In their use of the term "modern," modern Chaucer scholars agree on three aspects: modern critical, scientific method;modern literary aesthetics; and the artistic personality of Chaucer himself as seen through modern eyes. Though D. W. Roberson,…
Dragu, Jacqueline.
Ph.D. dissertation (University of Chicago, 2023), Dissertation Abstracts International A84.12(E). Accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (accessed January 31, 2025).
Discusses psychoanalytic aspects of melancholy and subjectivity in several medieval texts, including BD and PrT. The "logic of identification" in BD signals that "melancholia might be seen as more open-ended than a pathology constantly teetering on…
Drakakis, John.
Andrew James Johnston, Russell West-Pavlov, and Elisabeth Kempf, eds. Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare: "Troilus and Criseyde" and "Troilus and Cressida" (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. 109-24.
Contrasts the presentations of interiority in TC and in Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida" as a basis for analyzing Shakespeare's vacating his play of chivalric principles.
Drake, Gertrude C.
Papers on Language and Literature 11 (1975): 3-17.
Negative elimination, sources, and proleptic passages isolate the moon, both symbol for inconstancy and threshold to immutability, as Troilus's port of death, logically compatible with the variants. Venus, traditionally combining the poem's themes…
