Ridley, Florence.
Wolf-Dietrich Bald and Horst Weinstock, eds. Medieval Studies Conference Aachen 1983 (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1984), pp. 121-36.
Asserts that the label "Scots Chaucerian" clearly does not apply to William Dunbar, documenting the "meagerness of the evidence of Chaucer's influence on him" and demonstrating that Dunbar's poetry is "completely continental" rather than Chaucerian.
Pearsall, Derek.
Robert F. Yeager, ed. Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1984), pp. 121-36.
Argues that manuscripts ignored by editors "often deserve far more than the total neglect" they receive, drawing examples from manuscripts of Chaucer and Langland, including a number of cruces from manuscripts of Chaucer's CT and TC. Comments on…
Limited edition (210 copies), photo-litho facsimile of GP from British Library copy of William Caxton's 1476 first edition, with facing-page modern translation by Nevill Coghill, two original wood engravings (a portrait of Chaucer and the Knight…
Stafford, Kim R.
John Witte, ed. 2084: Looking Beyond Orwell (Portland: Oregon Committee for the Humanities, 1984), pp. 17-21.
Contemplates the notion that "space travel helps us to see what we have on earth," musing upon the Apollo 11 moon landing and a number of literary representations of travel through space, ancient and modern, including Troilus's rise through the…
Schoeck, R[ichard] J.
Bamberg: H. Kaiser-Verlag, 1984.
Defines and anatomizes "intertextuality," and proceeds to examine aspects of Thomas More's "Utopia" in this light. Uses examples from Chaucer to help clarify the varieties of the concept: from NPT, Chauntecleer's Latin misquotation as an example of…
Stallworthy, Jon, ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Arranged chronologically, this anthology of 259 poems and excerpts about war ranges from the Bible and Homer to Peter Porter, including a selection from John Dryden's translation of the description of the temple of Mars in KnT.
Dramatic adaptation for the stage of portions of GP, WBPT, MilPT, and RvPT, in a single plot, with Author's Notes and stage directions. The play was "first produced by Theatre Antigonish, Antigonish, Nova Scotia in March 1982."
Sargent, Michael G.
Wilfried Haslauer, ed. A Salzburg Miscellany: Emglish and American Studies 1964-1984. 2 vols. (Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1984): 2:131-80.
The third of the three "notes" is entitled "III. Religious Form, Amorous Matter: Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women' and Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'" (pp. 157-80); it documents a number of similarities of form, theme, and occasion between the two works…
Churchill, Caryl.
London and New York: Methuen, 1984.
A play in two acts that depicts the meeting of various women from fiction and history, including Patient Griselda, who tells her life story in a version of ClT. First produced and published in 1982; this is a fully revised, post-production edition.
Davis, Deborah Ann.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Texas Women's University, 1984. Fully Accessible at https://twu-ir.tdl.org/items/668fcba6-645b-4fcf-a8e3-1ef1c6f4ff36; accessed November 14, 2023.
Argues from internal and external evidence "that there is the strong possibility" that Chaucer's dream visions (BD, HF, PF, and LGWP) influenced five early works by F. Scott Fitzgerald: "The Offshore Pirate" (1920), "The Ice Palace (1920), "The…
Burrow, J. A.
Essays on Medieval Literature (Oxford: Clarendon, 1984), pp. 69-78.
Documents that the honorific "sir" plus a "knight's name" occurs twelve times in Th and "not once elsewhere" in Chaucer's works, suggesting that, confined to a "burlesque context" and similar to historical French practice, this usage should be…
Lodge, David.
New York: Macmillan; London: Secker & Warburg, 1984.
A comic novel that satirizes academic travel and conferencing, particularly in English studies. The "Prologue" opens with a quotation of GP 1-11 in modern translation, replacing pilgrimage with conference-going, followed by a quotation from TC…
Everitt, Charles.
D. Phil. Thesis. Oxford University, 1985. Copyright 1986. Fully accessible via http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:69a69618-50df-4f27-8291-98546df046eb (last accessed January 22, 2026)
Studies the "ars dictaminis" in late-medieval England, focusing on its influence and uses in administrative circles, ecclesiastical and secular, with particular attention to the career of Gilbert Stone, an "episcopal chancellor." Includes discussion…
Gerlach, John.
UIniversity: University of Alabama Press, 1985.
In a section on directness and indirectness in plotting, discusses Boccaccio and Chaucer works as antecedents to modern short-stories, contrasting the directness of "Decameron" 3.5 with the "indirect mode" of CT, particularly NPT (pp. 17-23).
Collins, Marie.
Essays and Studies 38 (1985): 12-28.
Examines depictions of masculine attractiveness in medieval romances, including TC. Influenced by rhetorical and courtly traditions, such depictions (and parallel cautions against seduction) emphasize moral and social qualities rather than personal…
White, Beatrice.
Essays and Studies 38 (1985): 1-11.
Accounts of love from chronicles and letters show that historical love in the Middle Ages was as rich, varied, and earthy as even Chaucer could imagine.
Low, Anthony.
Chapter 5 in Anthony Low, The Georgic Revolution (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985), pp. 155-220.
Two subsections of chapter 5 examine political and philosophical attitudes toward work in the Middle Ages and later eras, specifically the relationships among the revolution in agricultural technology, "the Protestant work ethic," and "modern…
Lewis, R. E.,N. F. Blake, and A. S. G. Edwards,eds.
New York and London: Garland, 1985.
"A record of all extant Middle English prose texts composed between c. 1200 and c. 1500 in both manuscript and printed form in medieval and post-medieval versions." Lists texts and editions through 1982.
Frese, Dolores Warwick.
Charles Foulon, et al., eds. Actes du 14e Congres International Arthurien (Rennes: Presses Universitaires, 1985), pp. 184-207.
In contrast to the prevailing critical view that Chaucer eschewed the use of Arthurian romance material, two Arthurian themes--the quest and amorous fatality--become transposed as pilgrimage and marriage in CT. The Tale of Arveragus, told by the…
