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Compares the treatment of love in the "Roman de Thebes," "Brut," and "Eneas" to that in Benoit's "Roman de Troie," a twelfth-century romance and apparently the first work to introduce Briseis-Cressida. A product of Anglo-Norman love debate, Benoit's…

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Identifies and summarizes a close, modern analogue of ShT, written by Shelby Foote and published in "The Nugget" (November, 1955); comments on the oral transmission described by Foote in an interview and points outs several modern emphases.

Objects to Robert L. Chapman's argument that the ShT was originally intended for the Shipman, not the Wife Bath, comparing Chaucer's tale with Boccaccio's "Decameron" 8.1 as examples of the "Lover's Gift Regained" motif, and showing that Chaucer's…

Eugene Vance's belief that Criseyde's love is a matter of sexual arousal culminating when Troilus rides by is at odds with Chaucer's depiction of the growth of Criseyde's love, changed from the "Filostrato," to show Criseyde falling in love at first…

Suggests that Chaucer purges "sensuality" from Boccaccio's "Filostrato" when he adapts it as TC, and demonstrates in detail where the quality is consistently present in the Boccaccio's poem.

Neither linguistic nor contextual evidence justifies the stance that Criseyde and Pandarus have sexual intercourse. Incest is incompatible both with the Italian source and with other elements in the poem itself.

Regards Criseyde's departure from Troy in TC as a "fated event," while it is a matter of fortune in Boccaccio's "Filostrato." Shows how Chaucer adjusts his source, increases the dramatic irony of the plot, and gives to his readers a perspective that…

Characterizes Criseyde in TC as a good, even perfect, courtly heroine until she is unfaithful to Troilus, a result of the very human "weakness in the face of death." More than does Boccaccio in "Filostrato," Chaucer creates a sense of inevitability…

Rejects claims that Criseyde expected to surrender herself to Troilus when she went to Pandarus's house in Book 3 of TC. Examines questions of plot, detail, and emphasis, and argues that her actions were neither fated nor dependent upon prior…

An updated translation of "Il Filostrato," a source for TC.

Woolf deleted a description of Chaucer and one of the Pointz Hall library when revising materials for "Between the Acts," reflecting her growing belief that books were no longer the center of culture in 1939-40. Traces references and allusions to…

Summarizes traditions antecedent to Chaucer's uses of classical deities, and asserts that Chaucer's own uses rejuvenate the tradition, arguing that he is less conventional than usually assumed. Treats sources and analogues, BD, HF, PF, TC, LGWP, KnT,…

Statistical exploration of words attributed to Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. In the fourth edition of Bailey's dictionary (1728), the classifications "Chaucerian" and "old" are not distinct.

Reviews and revises Eleanor Hammond's discussions of the relations among the fifteen known manuscripts of PF, focusing on the five manuscripts of Group B and providing the evidence for relocating Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Tanner 346 in a new…

Spanish version of Arboleda Guirao's essay "Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Prologue' in 'The Canterbury Tales.' The Wife's Personality, Language and Life: Revisiting Feminism," published in 2011.

A feminist reading of the Wife of Bath's personality and behavior, focusing on her married life, her sexual attitudes, and linguistic usage.

In "Parzifal," the "Commedia," and TC, the narrators' intrusions (as historian, teacher, guide, or poet) prefigure artistic practice in modern works.

Differences in prose style, in syntactic and conceptual organization, and in levels of technical expertise between Astr and Equat indicate that Chaucer did not write the latter. Equat shows more skill in calculation, but Astr demonstrates more…

Comments on the interdependence of innovation and imitation in Chaucer's poetry, and explores how Spenser's depictions of Chaucer and his poetry are part of the early modern concern with this dynamic, particularly evident in Luke Shepherd's reformist…

Examines production and reception of food in canonical literary works, including writings by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Keats, and George Eliot. Chapter 3, "Chaucer's Pilgrims and a Medieval Game of Food," focuses on how issues of "food security and…

Proposes connections between the CT--especially Chaucer's Plowman, the apocryphal Plowman's Tale, and RvT--and ideas about food supply. Provides an overarching argument that anxieties about farming and the politics of how food was distributed in late…

The tradition of anti-Semitism lent itself to three kinds of imagery: murder-sacrifice (especially the Slaughter of the Innocents), economy, and law. Covert references in PrT to a shadowy image of the Old Testament God the Father makes him an evil…

William Morris's attempt to produce the ideal book "fails to match form with content." The harmonious presentation of his Kelmscott "Chaucer" disguises the diversity of tales and conceals unresolved problems of text and structure.

Documents and discusses the development, influence, and literary relations of the story of Apollonius to 1609, assessing its formal characteristics and reception. Occasional mention of Chaucer, particularly MLT.