Line 1314 begins a series of topical references to the real as opposed to the poetic world. Allusions to the king and Gaunt establish the terminus a quo before the end of 1371, although most of the poem may predate 1371. Accepting 1371 as the date…
Shikii, Kumiko.
Shirayuri English Language and Literature Association (1984): 85-97.
A critical bibliography of studies on TC in Japan in five categories: courtly love, tragic nature of the story, idea of fate, character portrayal, meaning of the Epilogue.
Yeager, R. F.
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 14 (1984): 261-81.
A late-sixteenth-century account of Chaucer's life and works, never before published, "gives fresh insight into the nature and transmission of the poet's reputation in England during the Renaissance."
Baker, Donald C., ed.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
The latest volume of the Variorum Chaucer to appear, Baker's edition based on Hengwrt, collates ten manuscripts and twenty-one printed editions with extensive critical commentary, survey of the criticism, and bibliographic index.
Pearsall, Derek, ed.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
Follows the general format of the Variorum Edition with text based on Hengwrt and collations with early manuscripts and most printed editions . Surveys earlier criticism with extensive notes.
Places Chaucer's TC text side by side with its main source, Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato," with variant spellings of TC MSS. Includes introduction discussing TC as translation, the scribal medium, the text of TC, the meter, and lists of manuscripts.
Ruggiers, Paul G., ed.
Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1984.
A collection of essays on the editorial practices of great editors of Chaucer: Caxton, by Beverly Boyd; Thynne, by James E. Blodgett; Stow, by Anne Hudson; Speght by Derek Pearsall; Urry, by William L. Alderson; Tyrwhitt, by B. A. Windeatt; Wright,…
Jeffrey, David Lyle.
David Lyle Jeffrey, ed. Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1984), pp. 109-40.
Until 1369, Wyclif, powerful and influential, dominated Oxford; the "Lollard Knights" were prestigious men of court;and John of Gaunt was patron of both Chaucer and Wyclif. Appendix applies Wyclif's ideas to Chaucer's poetry: Gent, Truth, Form Age,…
Pearcy, Roy J.
Arts: The Journal of the Sydney University Arts Association 12 (1984): 35-39.
The line "Aux ignorans de la langue pandras" in Deschamps' ballade to Chaucer refers to the Saxon element in English culture, as opposed to the British or Anglo-Norman elements with which Chaucer is associated. Deschamps dissociates a poet he…
Schless, Howard H.
Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1984.
Evaluates Chaucer's indebtedness to Dante by examining ascriptions (indexed two ways). Considers aspects of Chaucer-Dante relationship within European setting. The younger Chaucer borrowed isolated lines and phrases from the "Comedy"; the mature…
Bassil, Veronica.
Texas Studies in Literature and Language 26 (1984): 157-82.
ClT influenced "The Not-Browne Mayd" in narrative action, diction, and organization. The latter was the model for Matthew Prior's "Henry and Emma," which was in turn the model for Richardson's "Clarissa."
King, Pamela M.
Studies in Scottish Literature 19 (1984): 115-31. Available at https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol19/iss1/10. Reprinted in Pamela M. King and Alexandra Johnston, eds. Readings Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 89-101.
Related to court pageantry, "The Golden Targe" is important politically. Imagery suggests courtly origins and borrowings from Chaucer and the masque.
McColly, William (B.)
Chaucer Review 18 (1984): 239-49.
Computerized statistical and stylistic analysis indicates that this work is a pale imitation of Chaucer. The imitator, perhaps Clanvowe, used Chaucer's tricks with context-independent function words.
Byrd, Forrest M.
Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 10 (1984): 29-43.
Examines the role of conditional language structures--subjunctive, disjunctive, hypothetical, contingent--in irony, ambiguity, and attempts to control the future.
Morgan, Gerald.
John Scattergood, ed. Literature and Learning in Medieval and Renaissance England: Essays Presented to Fitzroy Pyle (Blackrock, Country Dublin, Ireland: Irish Academic Press, 1984), pp. 59-102.
Defines the freedom of the lovers in TC as a freedom involving the will--the sensitive soul being passive or dark and the rational soul being active or light. The misery of Troilus and Criseyde is not unjust but results form their wrong choices.
