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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.

Shakespeare depicts the Trojan War through the characters' pride, hypocrisy, and materialism. Examines TC, Chapman, and Caxton as sources.

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.

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.

Although TC is not a source for "Othello," Pandarus and Iago use similar tactics to manipulate others.

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.

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.

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…

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.

"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…

Conventional and hackneyed words in Chaucer assume delicate shades of meaning depending on context.

The controversial "gan" periphrasis occurs almost exclusively in rhymed poetry, generally to put the infinitive into rhyming position.

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.

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.

Elicits linguistic patterns through scansion.

Surveys recent Chaucer studies in Japan, introducing literary or philological studies of N. Ueno, M. Masui, K. Miyake, S. Ono, T. Oiji, K. Ogoshi, I. Saito, H. Nojima, and F. Kuriyagawa.

Discusses fourteenth-century social, political, military, ecclesiastical, and legal contexts for the "Gawain" poet.

Chaucer's work evolved structurally from circular (dream visions) to spiral (TC; CT), developing closure through "thematic resolution" and metaphoric symbols.

Treats rhetoric and consolation in BD, TC, KnT, FranT, and WBT.

Contains introduction and bibliography.

Essays on Anglo-Italian relationships and Chaucer's borrowings. For individual essays, of this volume.

Essays by various hands on fourteenth-century poetry, secular drama, songs, and lyrics. For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Literature in Fourteenth-Century England under Alternative Title.

From thirteenth-century sermons and confessional manuals we see attitudes toward penance and moral behavior reflected in the works of Langland, Gower, the "Pearl" poet, and Chaucer. Chaucer treats CT sinners with unusual humor and irony. Penitential…

Symposium by thirteen Chaucerians.