Duggan, Hoyt N.
C. B. McCully and J. J. Anderson, eds. English Historical Metrics. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996): pp. 219-37.
Comments on Dryden's and Tyrwhitt's views of Chaucer's meter as background to assessing editorial treatments of the meter of "Pearl." Argues that editors need to emend the manuscript of "Pearl" more aggressively to minimize scribal interventions and…
Duino, Richard.
English Journal 46 (1957): 320-25, 365.
Provides "some scholarly background information" about the Pardoner intended for teachers of high school senior English classes, summarizing studies by Tupper, Kittredge, Curry, and Patch, and focusing on why Chaucer may have invested this Canterbury…
Duke, Elizabeth Anne Foster.
DAI 29.11 (1969): 3971A.
Examines "the relationships existing among the printed editions" of CT from Caxton through Tyrwhitt, based on comparisons of their versions of GP and considering their uses of prior texts, emendation policies, and editorial innovations.
Dulick, Michael George.
Dissertation Abstracts International 40 (1980): 5852A.
Chaucer and Rojas shared common sources and concerns, and their works are most alike in their use of sophisticated dialogue, but Rojas' vision is more destructive. Troilus and Calistro are both "courtly" lovers, but Calistro is a debased version of…
Dumanoski, Dianne.
Vassar Journal of Undergraduate Studies 19 (1964): 50-56.
Comments on the vocabulary of NPT and on Chaucer's "virtuosity" in exploiting Anglo-Saxon, French, and Latinate variety to create tone and effective characterization.
Dumitescu, Irina.
Times Literary Supplement February 11, 2022, p. 27.
Comments on Criseyde in TC and the protagonists of LGW as evidence of Chaucer's effort "to articulate the problem of writing about women: in the public eye, no female character is entitled to a full personality."
Dumitrescu, Irina.
Uwe Baumann, Marc Laureys, and Konrad Vössing, eds. Heroinnen und Heldinnen in Geschichte, Kunst und Literatur (Göttingen: V&R unipress; Bonn University Press, 2022), pp. 357-74.
Argues that the female protagonists of LGW are heroic in their combinations of strength and suffering, and, "adapting a notion of charisma from Joseph Roach," characterizes their heroism as "charismatic.""The "extraordinary virtues and qualities" of…
Examines the parallels between Cresseid and the narrator showing Cresseid's eventual transformation while the narrator fails to understand the moral point. Includes comments on Chaucer's narrator in TC.
Duncan-Jones, Katherine.
Review of English Studies 25.98 (1974): 174-77.
Suggests a possible "echo" of HF and PF in Philip Sidney's "Old Arcadia," where "philosophical reflections by the dreamer are partly burlesqued" in the vision which follows.
Duncan, Charles F. Jr.
Chaucer Review 5.2 (1970): 161-64.
Considers the Franklin's interruption of the Squire in Part 4 of CT to be a "brilliant dramatic vignette" that develops the characterizations of the Squire, Franklin, and Host.
Duncan, Edgar H.
Modern Philology 66 (1969): 199-211.
Shows that in the Wife of Bath's account of her three "goode" husbands Chaucer "adopted a means of amplification which he found described and illustrated in the 'Documentum de modo et arte dictandi et versificandi' . . . attributed to Geoffrey of…
Surveys late medieval "attitudes toward alchemy" in order to establish their influence on CYPT. Although Chaucer's depiction is generally orthodox in its condemnation of alchemy, it derives language and details from treatises that promote the study,…
Duncan, Edgar H.
Tennessee Studies in Literature 11 (1966): 19-33.
Explicates the thematic and characterizing recurrences of hands and hand imagery in WBP, focusing on the eleven variations of the phrase "bear on hand" as they evoke and sustain the Wife's concern with wifely control in marriage, convey a sense of…
Duncan, Edgar H., moderator.
Jerome Mitchell and William Provost, eds. Chaucer the Love Poet (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1973), pp. 91-106.
Panelists include Norman E. Eliason, Robert E. Kaske, Edmund Reiss, and James I. Wimsatt, exchanging views on Chaucer's love poetry and fielding questions from the audience at a symposium held at the University of Georgia, 1971. Recurrent concern…
Duncan, Edgar Hill.
Interpretations 9 (1977): 7-11.
The source of CYT 1431 is not, as Chaucer says, the "Rosarium" of Arnald of Villa Nova, but his lesser known "De secretis naturae." Chaucer cited the more famous "Rosarium" but quoted from "De secretis" because it contains appropriately mystifying…
Duncan, Edgar Hill.
Essays in Honor of Walter Clyde Curry (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1954), pp. 77-101.
Explores the "free-ranging points of view" of the narrator of GP, identifying its conventionality modeled on the "Roman de la Rose" and arguing that Chaucer's various manipulations of first-person and omniscient perspectives in individual…
Duncan, Thomas G.
Rosalynn Voaden, René Tixier, Teresa Sanchez Roura, and Jenny Rebecca Rytting, eds. The Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003), pp. 215-22.
Considers Henryson's Testament of Cresseid as an extension of Chaucer's TC and a transformation of it-two different senses of "translation." Duncan examines the characterization of Calkas and other means of creating compassion for Cresseid.
Having normalized the language "in accordance with the grammar and spelling of late fourteenth-century London English," Duncan divides this "comprehensive selection" of lyrics into four thematic groups, three of which include lyrics attributed to…
Duncan, Thomas G., ed.
Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, N.Y. : D. S. Brewer, 2005.
An introduction and twelve essays by various authors survey critical issues related to Middle English lyrics - courtly, popular, religious, political, etc. Individual essays consider topics such as manuscripts, meter and editing, carols, lyrics in…
Offers a "comprehensive selection" of short poems and lyrical interpolations from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries (Part I) and from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (Part II), topically arranged, in normalized spelling, with sidebar…
Dundes, Alan, ed.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.
A collection of essays treating the legend of Jews killing Christians, particularly children. Fourteen essays cover such areas as case histories, folkloristic tales and literary texts, surveys of the legend in different locales, ritual-murder…
