Edwards, A. S. G.
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 10 (1985): 175-82.
Early in his career Lydgate borrowed from Chaucer for particular effects: echoes of GP appear in "The Siege of Thebes." In his later career Lydgate tried to create a Latin-derived poetic language linked to Chaucer.
Fleming, John (V).
Thomas J. Heffernan, ed. The Popular Literature of Medieval England (Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1985), pp. 148-66.
Proposes that Erasmus's satiric "Peregrinatio religionis ergo"--detailing a pilgrimage to Canterbury--is influenced by the cynicism of Chaucer's CT. The parodies on "dulia" and "latria" in KnT, of Moses and Aaron in the Pardoner and Summoner, and…
Hale, David G.
Shakespeare Quarterly 36 (1985): 219-20.
Documents an additional Chaucerian allusion in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Like the dreamer in BD, Shakespeare's Bottom says his dream cannot be interpreted; it can only be written down.
Koff, Leonard Michael.
Chaucer Review 19 (1985): 338-51.
In his translation of ManT and comments Wordsworth reveals typical Romantic preoccupations and premises, notably that feelings are inherently moral and unrestrainable.
Waller, Martha S.
College English 47 (1985): 873-74.
Woman was made from Adam's rib (rather than his head or foot) so that she would be a fellow to man. This idea is found in Chaucer's ParsT and earlier in Aquinas's "Summa Theologica," pt. 1, chap. 92.
By his choice of stanza Chaucer invites us to compare four tales: SNT, PrT, MLT, ClT, each an elevated tale of saintly suffering involving impingement of secularism upon the saintly ideal. Completed earlier, PhyT is not in rhyme royal.
Bald, Wolf-Dietrich.
Mary-Jo Arn and Hanneke Wirtjes, eds. Historical and Editorial Studies (Groningen: Wolters-Nordhoff, 1985), pp. 175-89.
Diachronic study of verbs like "become," "grow," "wax," and "turn" used as both linking and regular verbs. Old, Middle, Early Modern, and Modern English show a decline in dominant meaning, allowing for linking-verb use. Includes data from Chaucer.
Beeck, Frans Jozef van.
Neophilologus 69 (1985): 276-83.
An examination of thirteen passages in TC and CT indicates that "ther," sometimes an impersonal introductory form word in Middle English as in Modern English, has been given too much adverbial weight by editors.
Based on the language of Robinson's second edition, treats phonology and morphology of Chaucer's works and examines the differences between Chaucer's language and Modern English.
Arn, Mary-Jo, and Hanneke Wirtjes, eds.
Groningen: Wolters-Nordhoff, 1985.
Fifteen essays by various hands. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Historical and Editorial Studies in Medieval and Early Modern English under Alternative Title.
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y.
Fifteenth-Century Studies 11 (1985): 1-5.
Trede-fowl, the controlling image of a Middle English lyric (Sloane MS 2593), often cited as an analogue to images in NPT and MkT, suggests pagan, early Christian, priestly, and bawdy meanings.
Beidler, Peter G.
Chaucer Review 19 (1985): 290-301.
Translations of Chaucer are inadequate and have no place in serious literary scholarship. Reviews of translations are also misleading since they may suggest that modern English versions lift a veil from the opacity of Chaucer's poetry.
Benson, Larry D.
Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 23-47.
Discusses bawdy words, obscenities, and euphemisms in Chaucer,exposing fallacies in overzealous scholarly search for obscene puns.
Berman, Constance H., Charles W. Connell, and Judith Rice Rothschild, eds.
Morgantown: West Virginia Unviersity Press, 1985.
Twelve essays on Hrotsvita, the Skaldkonur, Heloise, Mechthild von Magdeburg, Margery Kempe, Marie de France, and others, including two essays on Chaucer. For the two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Worlds of Medieval Women under…
Bloom, Harold, ed.
New York: Chelsea, 1985. Reissued in 1987.
Nine previously published essays or exerpts. Topics include Chaucer's "greatness" (G. K. Chesterton), the ending of TC (E. Talbot Donaldson), the impact of MerT (E. Talbot Donaldson), Wife of Bath as narrator (David Parker), Chaucer in the…
Breckenridge, Jay Rankin.
Dissertation Abstracts International 45 (1985): 2868A.
A sixty-year-old Chaucer is represented as reading from his works to students at an English school, digressing for audience understanding; includes commentary, playscript, and videotaped reading for beginning students of Chaucer.
