Dunleavy, Gareth W.
Papers on Language and Literature 3, supplement (1967): 14-27.
Explores the pervasiveness of the influence of Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" on Chaucer's works, noting its role as the source of Bo, summarizing its well-recognized impact on Chaucer's "discourses on providence, 'gentilesse,' and truth" in…
Dunleavy, Gareth W.
Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 52 (1963): 177-87.
Identifies references in Chaucer's works to "natural law," or "law of kynde," describing its status in medieval legal theory and philosophy, including Boethius, and exploring Chaucer's possible experiences with the practices of "law merchant" and…
Dunlop, Lynn M.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Cambridge, 1997. Dissertation Abstracts International C70.19. Abstract accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global; accessed August 24, 2025.
Item not seen. From the abstract: "argues that the pose of melancholy was a vital framing fiction in later medieval poetry . . . , investigate[s] the medical, philosophical and religious traditions of melancholy, and . . . trace[s] the political role…
Dunn, Charles W.
In Frank N. Magill, ed. Cyclopedia of World Literature (New York: Harper, 1958), pp. 204-06.
Lists Chaucer's works in chronological order, summarizes his career as a civil servant and poet, and offers a brief list of bibliographical references.
Dunn, Charles W., ed.
G. B. Harrison, gen. ed. Major British Writers, Volume 1: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Swift, Pope (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1954), pp. 1-90.
Anthologizes GP, PardPT, PrPT, MilT, WBPT, ClT, FranT, NPT, and Ret., each with a brief introduction and bottom-of-page glosses. Also introduces Chaucer's life, works, literary techniques, and language, with suggestions for further reading.
Dunn, Charles W., reader.
New York: Folkways, 1959.
Includes various readings by Dunn that illustrate changes in the English language and English literary style, among them, a reading of Book III.m9 of Bo (Side 1, band 9; 41 sec.). Text from F. N. Robinson's edition of Chaucer complete works (1957).
Dunn, E. Catherine.
American Benedictine Review 27 (1976): 357-78.
Defines the saint's life as a "poetic genre of fiction with a basic fidelity to the mysteries of grace and Providential care," a product of Latin rhetorical tradition modified by generations of Christian figural thinking. As reflected in the "Acta…
Dunning, T. P.
Duthie, G. I., ed. English Studies Today, Third Series: Lectures and Papers Read at the Fifth Conference of the International Association of Professors of English Held at Edinburgh and Glasgow, August 1962 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1964), pp.89-106.
Contrasts the "quasi-heretical," "so-called Augustinian" views of sex in marriage as always sinful with those of Thomas Aquinas and others who treat sexual love in marriage as sinless when consistent with "amicitia" (friendship) and reason, arguing…
Dunning, T. P.
Norman Davis and C. L. Wrenn, eds. English and Medieval Studies Presented to J. R. R. Tolkien on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday (New York: Humanities; London: Allen and Unwin, 1962), pp. 164-82.
Traces references to Christian, pagan, courtly, and Boethian love throughout TC, aligning them references to fate, Providence, and Fortune, and arguing that they lead in progressive fashion to the realization that Troilus's constancy mirrors divine…
Dunton-Downer, Leslie Linam.
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 1508A.
In contrast with Augustinian models, the poetic use of obscenity provides a nontraditional method of self-definition. For Rutebeuf, the obscene served to establish his own poetic identity; for Chaucer, it provided a means for characters to establish…
Duprey-Henry, Annalese.
Dissertation Abstract International A81.06 (2019): n.p.
Addresses lovesickness in TC, John Gower's "Confessio Amantis," and "The Book of Margery Kempe," considering it "as an embodied and thus imminent process that organizes relationships around culturally defined ideas of either negotiation and mutuality…
Duprey, Annalese.
Essays in Medieval Studies 30 (2014): 55–66.
Surveys how pity functions as a lover's emotional ploy that establishes a power relationship in CT. Focuses on MerT and FranT and explores to what extent May and Dorigen create agency for themselves by participating in the exchange of suffering for…
Describes Chaucer's life and works in a brief subsection of chapter two (pp. 47-56), offering appreciative commentary that characterizes the poet as one who "loved life," despite awareness of the "faults, sins, crimes, follies, and vanities of…
Durham, Lonnie J.
Chaucer Review 3.1 (1968): 1-11.
Explores the imagery of nature and death in TC, arguing that Criseyde is "representative of a principle of life" and "best understood in terms of her cyclical or seasonal progression through the poem." Pandarus is associated with mutability, and…
Durling, Robert M.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1965.
Treats the "significance of the Narrator's changeability or instability" in Renaissance epics by Boiardo, Ariosto, Tasso, and Spenser, with prefatory discussions of works by Horace and Ovid, Chaucer, and Petrarch. The chapter on Chaucer (pp. 44-66)…
Durmuller, Urs.
Andre Crepin, ed. Linguistic and Stylistic Studies in Medieval English. Publications de l'Association des Medievistes de l'Ensignement Superieur 10. (Paris, 1984): pp. 5-22.
Using applied sociolinguistics, Durmuller follows Schauber and Spolsky in analysis of verbal behavior of the Pardoner, whose oddities in language (speech acts, pronominal reference, selection of lexical items) relate to his strange behavior.
Duțescu, Dan, trans.
Bucharest: Editura Univers, 1978.
Translation of TC in Romanian rhyme royal stanzas, based on the text of Albert C. Baugh (1963), with preface and end-of-text notes and commentary by Duțescu. Includes b&w illustrations from ancient Mediterranean art, medieval manuscripts, and…
Translation of CT (except PrT, Mel, and ParsT) in Romanian poetry, based on the text of W. W. Skeat, with b&w illustrations of the pilgrims and the tales by Val Munteanu. The volume reprints with new pagination the 1964 version (Bucharest: Editura…
Dutton, Elisabeth, with John Hines and R. F. Yeager, eds.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010.
Twenty-five essays by various authors and an introduction by Dutton, with a cumulative bibliography and index. The volume was inspired by the first international congress of the John Gower Society (2008). The essays range widely in Gower…
Dutton, Elisabeth.
Carmina Philosophiae 22 (2013): 1-33.
Reinforces Mark Liddell's argument ("The Academy," March, 1896, n.p.) that "The Boke of Coumfort" (MS Bodley Auct F.33.5) depended upon Chaucer's translation of Boethius in Bo, showing that it adds material from the Latin commentary tradition.…
Dutton, Marsha L.
Benjamin Thompson, ed. Monasteries and Society in Medieval Britain: Proceedings of the 1994 Harlaxton Symposium. Harlaxton Medieval Studies, no. 6 (Stamford: Watkins, 1999), pp. 296-311.
Dutton reads the Prioress and the Second Nun as paired opposites: one childish, the other adult. In PrPT, the Creator is subordinated to his creatures, who seem "unaware of the effects of the Incarnation." SNPT reasserts the proper order, in which…
Dutton, Marsha L.
Chaucer Review 53.1 (2018): 36-59.
Examines the word "cunning," omission of its sexual connotations in the MED, and the ways in which Chaucer puns on the word in previously unconsidered sexual contexts.
Dutton, Richard.
Sophie Chiari and John Mucciolo, eds. Performances at Court in the Age of Shakespeare (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 17-34.
Extracts information about Richard Edwards's now-lost play "Palamon and Arcite," from three extant contemporary accounts of the visit of Queen Elizabeth I to Oxford, where she attended a performance of the play in 1566. The accounts--by Miles…
DuVal, John, trans. Intro. and notes by Raymond Eichmann.
Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval and Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1992.
An anthology of twenty French fabliaux, translated into English verse. Includes historical introduction, brief headnotes to each tale, and a selective bibliography of fabliau materials.
