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An anthology of "subversive," parodic, or satiric poetry, arranged in several categories pertaining to religion, authority, war, justice, etc., mostly English or translated from French. Includes RvT (pp. 104-20) in Middle English (with glosses) in…

Argues that the "Kynges Noote" (MilT 1.3217) refers to "Gabriel from hevene came," a Middle English poem accompanied by a Latin version in one manuscript.

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Explores the extent to which the narrator and the dreamer, as separate psychologies, experience consolation through the progress of BD, assessing parallels between the Ceyx and Alcyone account and the dream of the knight' sorrow.

Surveys English literature in Britain from Chaucer to ca. 1970, with the opening section (pp. 13-72) covering Chaucer's life, works, audience and reception, and his cultural environment--both historical and literary. Pays particular attention to CT,…

Compares and contrasts aspects of RvT with two analogues, the A and B versions of "Le Meunier et les .II. Clers," arguing that Chaucer's version achieves greater vitality, clearer characterizations and motivations, and a great deal of comic irony.

Explores the sources of Boccaccio's version of the Griselda story, assessing international oral and literary versions and commenting occasionally on features of ClT. Includes as an appendix summaries of nine Greek and Turkish analogues.

Describes modes of literary analysis and understanding characteristic of the late Middle Ages, derived from the work of "classicizing writers" such as Robert Holcot, John Lathbury, Thomas Ringstead, John Ridewell, John Bromyard, Thomas Waleys, and…

Items not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that these studies were published in English.

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Item not seen. The WorldCat record indicates that this volume includes analysis of one or more works by Chaucer.

Includes discussion of Chaucer's works (pp. 35-45), commenting on the idealized settings found in BD, PF, and LGWP in comparison with their sources; also comments on the lack of such settings in TC and CT.

Demonstrates that John Lydgate's modifications of his sources in his "Troy Book" result in a "convincing picture of the ancient world," although Lydgate did not achieve the superior historical texture that Chaucer produced in KnT.

Revised reprint of Coghill's modernization of the CT, originally published in 1951.

Selections from CT (GP, KnT, MilT, RvT, ShT, MkT, NPT, PardPT, WBPT, FrT, SumT, MerT, SqT, FranT, Ret) in Coghill's modernization (originally published 1951), with illustrations from medieval manuscripts, brasses, stained glass, and other artifacts.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of HF in Middle English, with Kerrigan Prescott in Books 1 and 2 (1963); Piehler reads Book 3 alone (1980).

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler and Bland of selections from Rom in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of BD in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of PF in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of NPT in Middle English and that this was re-issued on CD in 2010.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of FranT in Middle English and that this was re-issued on CD in 2010.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of SumT in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of RvT in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of FrT in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler in Middle English of MilT, summarized as "A comical story about three men after one woman's attention, set in medieval England.