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.
Gower's reputation as "moral" rests on his mid-1380's stance as a reformer, a classicist, and a clear and consistent portrayer of good and evil. By citing him in TC, Chaucer encourages moral interpretation of the hero's attitude at the end of the…
Spearing, A. C.
Robert F. Yeager, ed. Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1984), pp. 333-64.
The truncated nature of CT challenged Chaucer's followers. Casting Chaucer in the role of Laius, Lydgate's "Siege of Thebes," in imitation of Chaucer, was designed as the first tale of the homeward journey as counterpart to KnT, in high style though…
Yeager, Robert F., ed.
Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1984.
Essays on reviews of scholarship, language and paleography, and literary criticism. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays under Alternative Title.
Sasagawa, Hisaaki.
Journal of General Education Department, Niigata Univeristy (1984): 1-11.
Reconsiders the structure and usage of figurative negation in Chaucer treated by Hein (1983), in relation to context and rhyme and in comparison with "Roman de la Rose." Figurative negation is related to rhyme.
Wood, Chauncey.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 6 (1984): 21-40.
Reading is a "two-way" process: "texts affect us while we affect texts." Chaucer typically "plays" with his readers, leading them to expect one meaning but giving them another. Any interpretation is influenced both by Chaucer's techniques and by…
Dor, Juliette De Caluwe.
Andre Crepin, ed. Linguistic and Stylistic Studies in Medieval English. Publications de l'Association des Medievistes de l'Ensignement Superieur 10. (Paris, 1984): pp. 63-79.
Reconsiders Fisiak's survey of Chaucer's derivational affixes in function of her corpus of French loan words in the conversational sections of CT. Distinguishes between wholesale borrowings and French words onto which morphemes had been attached,…
