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.
DuVal, John.
Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 1.3 (1975): 15-24.
The French story is only a part of the larger whole of the fox's adventure; the English is not, though linked thematically with the Marriage Group. Love for Pertelote makes Chauntecleer ignore his dream; in the French it is pride. Narrative…
Includes discussion of the setting of "Eger and Grime" in the "Land of Beame," i.e., Bohemia, and provides background for understanding the popularity and influence of Anne of Bohemia and Bohemian fashion at the English court after her arrival in…
Düzgün, Şebnem.
Journal of Narrative and Language Studies 6, no. 10 (2018): 113-23.
Assumes that the loathly lady in WBT is a witch, and maintains that she is "stigmatised in the poem to enforce the medieval discourse that appreciates nurture against nature, obedience against revolt, and youth and beauty against old age and…
Dvorak, Marta.
Andre Crepin, ed. L'imagination medievale: Chaucer et ses contemporains (Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, 1991), pp. 81-91.
Troilus's illicit love causes his involvement with the Seven Deadly Sins.
Dwyer, June.
Studies in Short Fiction 35: 307-18, 1998.
Two possible versions of women's attitudes toward violence appear in WBPT: WBT idealizes women as a civilizing force working to curb male violence; WBP portrays a woman who uses violence when other means of control fail. Both constructs of female…
Dwyer, R. A.
Notes and Queries 212 (1967): 291-92.
Identifies John of Trevisa's "Polychronicon" as the likely source for the Monk's use of "pileer" distinct from "boundes" (7.2126-27) in his account of Hercules, a distinction also made by John Lydgate in his "Troy Book." Comments on the uses of…
Dwyer, Richard A.
Chaucer Review 8 (1974): 221-40.
Savors the indeterminacies of manuscript transmission, treating them as a form of "anonymous or indeterminate revision" in contrast with strict, modern notions of authorial revision. Exemplifies the variety found in manuscripts of "Piers Plowman," CT…
Dwyer, Seamus.
Roman Bleier, Brian Coleman, and Clare Fletcher, eds. Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World (New York: Peter Lang, 2022), pp. 193-208.
Surveys critical attention to Adam and reads the poem as an exhortation to "moral and professional penitence." Focuses on "corect," "rubbe," and "scrape" as scribal activities and as metaphorical links to penitential erasure in Chaucer and other…
Dyas, Dee, ed.
York: University of York; Nottingham: St. John's College, [2007].
Interactive, illustrated exploration of the "multiple meanings of pilgrimage within the Christian tradition," especially as expressed in the Middle Ages, although set in the broader context of worldwide practice. Includes a wide variety of…
An introduction to the influence of Christian thought and history on Old and Middle English literatures. A chapter on "Piers Plowman" and CT (pp. 101-38) surveys late-medieval ecclesiastical offices, the theology of salvation, penance and…
A literal journey and lifelong spiritual experience, pilgrimage involves new surroundings and new levels of understanding. Dyas discusses pilgrimage in early Christian tradition and in Old and Middle English literature, including Chaucer's choice of…
Dyas, Dee.
Helen Phillips, ed. Chaucer and Religion (Cambridge: Brewer, 2010), pp. 132-42.
Explains how medieval pilgrimages, including Chaucer's "temporary community" of pilgrims in CT, are influenced by a "series of concentric circles" of multiple communities.
Dyches, Jeanne, and Brandon L. Sams.
Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education 25 (2018): 370-83.
Offers "pedagogical realism" as an approach to reconciling the "goals of social justice" with canonical "curricula standards" in English instruction, illustrating how to use the motif of rape in teaching WBT.
The three Aristotelian modes of persuasion are ethos (character), pathos (emotion), and logos (reason). In his long poem, Chaucer fails as narrator-rhetor (ethos, logos) but succeeds as human (pathos) and is himself a rhetorical solution to a…
Dye, Shirley A.
Huntsville, Tex.: Educational Video Network, 1991.
A reading of GP in modern adaptation by Shirley A. Dye, accompanied by color drawings of scenes and characters. Illustrated by Dye and Angela Parotti. Released in 2004 on DVD.
Dyer, Christopher.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Bridging the social and economic histories of medieval England, Dyer examines the inequalities of English society as inherent rather than as economically shaped among the upper classes, townsmen, and peasants. GP offers criticism of a simplistic…
Dyer, Frederick B., Jr.
Paolucci, Anne, ed. 1564-1964: Shakespeare Encomium (New York: City College, 1964), pp. 123-33.
Compares and contrasts Chaucer's "Pandare" of TC with Shakespeare's Pandarus of "Troilus and Cressida," emphasizing the degenerate nature of the latter and Shakespeare's reduction of the "great depth of . . . personality" that characterizes…
