Glosses "party" in "party white and rede" (KnT 1.1053) as "literally 'parti-colored,'" referring to a single kind of flower, the daisy, citing LGWF 42-43 as evidence.
Merrill, Thomas F.
Texas Studies in Literature and Language 4 (1962): 341-50.
Treats Friar John's "digression" on anger in SumT as an "instance of mistaken penitential preaching" that is, satirically, aimed at Huberd the Friar. The awkward, inappropriate length of the address is part of the Sommoner's riposte to his adversary…
Mogan, Joseph John, Jr.
Dissertation Abstracts International 22.10 (1962): 3669-70.
Traces the development of the notion of mutability from decay to progress, with related motifs, and assesses its place in Boethius' "Consolation of Philosophy" and the "De Contemptu Mundi" of Innocent III. Then examines Chaucer's "peculiar…
Neuse, Richard.
University of Toronto Quarterly 31 (1962): 299-315.
Explores comedy and irony in KnT, both extending from the Knight's perspective on Christian chivalric values in a pagan epic setting and his disclosure of the "absurdity of earthly action." Focuses on Theseus's political opportunism and his…
Edits these two examples of Chaucerian apocrypha, with introduction, textual and critical notes, glossary, and bibliography, observing that the "only reason for the attribution" to Chaucer is "their inclusion in the sixteenth-century collected…
Olson, Paul A.
Studies in Philology 59 (1962): 1-17.
Characterizes Oswald the Reeve as a guiler beguiled and a "judge who unwittingly judges himself by his own principles," examining aspects of GP (Miller and Reeve), MilPY, and RvPT for the ways that Oswald's retributive assault on Robin lacks…
Pratt, Robert A.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 61 (1962): 244-48.
Cites the Wife of Bath's allusion to "Crisippus" (WBP 3.677) to suggest that St. Jerome's "Epistola adversus Jovinianum (1.48) is the source of Pandarus's reference to "natal Joves feste" (TC 3.150) and that the locution is part of Pandarus's…
Suggests that Jerome's "Ad Rusticum Monachum" (125:11) is the ultimate source of the linking of "baskettes" and the apostles in PardP 6.444-47, and aligns the Pardoner with the Wife of Bath through their shared anti-asceticism.
Richardson, Janette.
Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 198 (1962): 388-90.
Traces the scribal and editorial history of capitalizing (or not) "S/summoner" in FrT 3.1327, advocating the lower case "s" for the way it maintains the ambiguity of reference to the protagonist of FrT and the Friar's pilgrim-opponent.
Robertson, D. W., Jr.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1962.
Articulates an allegorical approach to medieval literature (also called patristic, exegetical, Augustinian, historical, or iconographical criticism), clarifying its assumptions and methods and applying them to Chaucer's works and to works that…
Rosenberg, Bruce A.
Centennial Review 6 (1962): 556-80.
Summarizes the principles of "alchemical theory," exploring Jungian associations and emphasizing Christian interpretations in medieval and early modern commentaries. Focusing on imagery of CYP, suggests that the canon is associated with the…
Explores the possibilities of using folklore, ornithological markings, and Chaucer's possible first-hand experiences to offer perspective on several birds and their attributive qualities referred to in PF, and one each in MilT, RvT, and SumT.
Sackler, Howard, dir.
Morrison, Theodore, trans.
Holloway, Stanley, reader.
MacLiammoir, Michéal, reader.
New York: Caedmon, 1962. (TC 1130)
Readings of PardPT (MacLiammoir) and MilT (Holloway) in Theodore Morrison's modern verse translation. Caedmon also released this recording on cassette tape.
Salter, Elizabeth
London; Arnold; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1962.
Discursive, analytic commentaries on KnT and ClT, treating source relations, styles, themes, rhetorical patternings, and aesthetic success in Chaucer's "full realisation of the human predicament" in both tales. The discussion of KnT emphasizes the…
Schaut, Quentin L., O.S.B.
Greyfriar: Siena Studies in Literature n.v. (1962): 25-39.
Surveys the history of indulgences in Church history as background to Chaucer's character of the Pardoner, commenting on abuses and critiques of the practice recorded in English documents as corroboration of Chaucer's depiction.
Thompson, W. Meredith.
Norman Davis and C. L. Wrenn, eds. English and Medieval Studies Presented to J. R. R. Tolkien on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday (New York: Humanities; London: Allen and Unwin, 1962), pp. 183-99.
Surveys Chaucer's translations of passages from the Bible, commenting on his Biblical knowledge, his artistry in translating and using scripture, his mediating sources, his possible uses of the Vulgate and Wycliffite versions, and his "attitude" to…
Williams, George.
Modern Language Review 57 (1962): 173-78.
Argues that several prominent figures in the "Troilus" frontispiece (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61) represent John of Gaunt; his second wife, Constance of Castile and Laon; his mistress, Katherine Swynford; his first wife, Blanche of…
Adams, John F.
Essays in Criticism 12 (1962): 126-32.
Identifies ways that word-play, echoic details, and thematic patterning contribute to the "dramatic" irony in SumT whereby the friar's hypocritical glossing is revealed and insulted without overt glossing by the narrator.
Baker, Donald C.
University of Mississippi Studies in English 3 (1962): 35-41.
Explores how exempla and citations of authority--both largely via allusive names--are used by the Friar and the Summoner in order to compete with the Wife of Bath and criticize each other.
Surveys "unreliable" information about Constantine Africanus in scholarly discussions of Chaucer's references to him in GP 1.433 (Doctour of Phisik) and MerT 4.1810-11. Then clarifies Constantinus's importance in the history of medicine, what is and…
Garbáty, Thomas Jay.
Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 47 (1962): 605-11.
Reviews evidence in GP that Chaucer's Summoner suffers from venereal disease rather than leprosy, using it as an example of little-known or overlooked scholarship that might be lost or ignored. Cites other examples more briefly, including the record…
Linke, Hansjürgen.
Die Neueren Sprachen: Zeitschrift für Forschung und Unterricht und Kontaktstudium auf dem Fachgebiet der Modernen Fremdsprachen n.v. (1962): 485-96.
Examines the style and techniques of Chaucer's quasi-optical, quasi-cinematic ("quasi-optische," "quasi-filmescher") scene changes in CT, with particular attention to those in MerT. Focuses on relations between external and internal drama in such…
Mahoney, John F.
Annuale Mediaevale 3 (1962): 81-99.
Revisits the concept of "Chaucerian tragedy," considering KnT, MLT, and NPPT, as well as TC and MkT, and explores the faults or faultlessness of Fortune's victims in these works, the moral sophistication of the narrators of the tales, classical…
