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Zarins, Kim.   Elisabeth Dutton, with John Hines and R. F. Yeager, eds. John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation, and Tradition (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010), pp. 239-53.
Zarins assesses Gower's and Chaucer's uses of rime riche ("in which rhyme patterns appear identical but diverge in meaning"), focusing on instances in which the device lends seriousness (or mock seriousness) in characters' dialogue. Appends a partial…

Bowers, John M.   Elisabeth Dutton, with John Hines and R. F. Yeager, eds. John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation, and Tradition (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010), pp. 276-87.
Bowers describes LGW as "work-in-progress" of the 1390s and dates the G-prologue between 1392 and 1394, offering various comments to help justify these datings and explore their implications: LGWP emulates Gower's Ricardian prologue to "Confessio…

Driver, Martha.   Elisabeth Dutton, with John Hines and R. F. Yeager, eds. John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation, and Tradition (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010), pp. 315-25.
Driver contrasts Shakespeare's limited attention to Chaucer with his lionization of Gower in "Pericles," commenting on representations of Gower in modern stage productions of the play.

Schibanoff, Susan.   Elizabeth A. Flynn and Patrocinio P. Schweickart, eds. Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts, and Contexts (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), pp. 83-106. Reprinted in Ruth Evans and Lesley Johnson, eds. Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature (Routledge, 1994), pp. 221-45.
Discusses the "well-established 'topos' of manuscript literature that women readers alone are offended by antifeminist texts" and examines Chaucer's defense of himself in portraying Criseyde's guilt. Asserts that Chaucer's Wife of Bath, being…

Boffey, Julia.   Elizabeth A. New and Christian Steer, eds. Medieval Londoners: Essays to Mark the Eightieth Birthday of Caroline M. Barron (London: University of London Press, 2019), pp. 55-70.
Includes discussion of the location and implications for readership of Chaucerian materials found among the fascicles of MS HM 140: ClT, Truth, and a selection from Anel.

Archibald, Elizabeth.   Elizabeth Archibald, and Ad Putter, eds. The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 139-53.
Archibald surveys subversions and satires of Arthurian literature, commenting that Chaucer "seems to be fairly hostile to the Arthurian world," even if implicitly so.

Mann, Jill.   Elizabeth Archibald, Megan G. Leitch, and Corinne Saunders, eds. Romance Rewritten: The Evolution of Middle English Romance; A Tribute to Helen Cooper (Martlesham, D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 85-102.
Argues that various narrative and stylistic devices in KnT evoke the question "Does human life have a final meaning?" The poem begins with an ending and ends with a beginning, these complemented throughout by stoppings and startings and various…

Archibald, Elizabeth.   Elizabeth Barnes, ed. Incest and the Literary Imagination (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002), pp. 17-38.
Although the Catholic Church in the twelfth century had developed "extraordinarily rigorous" prohibitions against intermarriage by persons related by blood, by the thirteenth century these standards had to be relaxed. Archibald discusses various…

Evans, Ruth.   Elizabeth Herbert McAvoy and Teresa Walters, eds. Consuming Narratives: Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002), pp. 182-95.
Surveys originary myths in which human females have sex with supernatural beings, focusing on versions of the story of Albina and her sisters, who have sex with demons-incubi and give birth to the giants of Albion. Evans reads the Wife of Bath's…

Niebrzydowski, Sue.   Elizabeth Herbert McAvoy and Teresa Walters, eds. Consuming Narratives: Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002), pp. 196-207.
Reads the Sultaness of MLT as the antithesis of Western medieval ideals of motherhood, the opposite of Constance, and a reification of distorted notions of women of color.

Hussey, S. S.   Elizabeth Maslen, ed. Comedy: Essays in Honour of Peter Dixon by Friends and Colleagues (London: Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, 1993), pp. 1-13.
The comedy of MerT is brought out through Chaucer's manipulation of various literary sources and styles.

Bott, Robin.   Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose, eds. Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 189-211.
Death is preferred to rape in both PhyT and "Titus Andonicus" because both works take for granted the notion that rape results in pollution or disease. In this way, the works contribute to negative views of women and their bodies in Western…

Rose, Christine M.   Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose, eds. Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 21-60.
Rose surveys instances of rape or threatened rape in Chaucer's works, arguing that, though Chaucer presents rape as a trope that enfigures reader response or male competition, we must recognize and confront its literal value, accepting it both in…

Robertson, Elizabeth.   Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose, eds. Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 281-310.
Examines "the role rape plays in the formation of Criseyde's character," contrasting Criseyde with Helen of Troy and Lucretia. Criseyde is a "choosing subject," and the language of rape helps to define the ambiguities of choice she faces.

Amsler, Mark.   Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose, eds. Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 61-96.
Although "mythographers allegorized Ovid's rape narratives as stories of cosmological creation or spiritual desire," Christine de Pizan presents Apollo's assault on Daphne (Épîstre d'Otha) as a disfigurement of the female body; in his tale of…

Prendergast, Thomas, and Stephanie Trigg.   Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Federico, eds. The Post-Historical Middle Ages ((New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 117-37.
The authors contemplate the relationship of medievalism to medieval studies, considering several (re)constructions of the Middle Ages, including Brian Helgeland's A Knight's Tale and various critics' efforts to gloss "queynte." Such considerations…

Ingham, Patricia Clare.   Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Federico, eds. The Post-Historical Middle Ages ((New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 13-35.
Ingham considers evidence from the exhumation of Petrarch's skull and from Chaucer studies to demonstrate the role of "amorous dispossessions" in historicist pursuits. Lacan's comments on courtly love theorize such dispossessions and complicate…

Scala, Elizabeth.   Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Federico, eds. The Post-Historical Middle Ages ((New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 191-214.
Indicts the "patrilineal logic by which the [masculine] gender of historicism is perpetuated and reproduced," surveying how recent publications in medieval studies (especially Chaucer studies) embody the structures of the "patriarchal family."

Fradenburg, Aranye.   Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Federico, eds. The Post-Historical Middle Ages ((New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 87-115.
Fradenburg contemplates similarities between Freud's "Interpretation of Dreams" and medieval dream theory (especially Chaucer's in PF, BD, and NPT) as a way to explore the continuities of history and human psychology.

Edmondson, George.   Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Federico, eds. The Post-Historical Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 139-60
The appearance of naked "Geoff" Chaucer in Brian Helgeland's film, "A Knight's Tale," "challenges the logic of the present . . . assumed by presentism," even while reminding us that historical periods exist, "each one haunted by the moment of its…

Harley, Marta Powell.   Elizabeth T. Hayes, ed. Images of Persephone: Feminist Readings in Western Literature (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994), pp. 20-32.
In alluding to the triple goddess Diana-Lucina-Prosperina to characterize Emily in KnT and May in MerT, Chaucer "simultaneously represents female assertiveness ... and vulnerability." However, he allows the potential to depict female pain to…

Fernández Rodríguez, Carmen María.   Elizabeth Woodward Smith, ed. About Culture (Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Coruña, 2004), pp. 139-46.
Describes Maria Edgeworth's view of the education of women through her adaptation of ClT in "The Modern Griselda" (1805), intended as a warning against sensibility and defense of rational women.

Diller, Hans-Jurgen.   Elmar Lehmann and Bernd Lenz, eds. Telling Stories: Studies in Honour of Ulrich Broich on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: B. B. Gruner, 1992), pp.1-16.
By confining his version almost entirely to observable details, Chaucer achieves more in MilT than do writers of analogous stories. He does not interpose his narrator between the reader and the narrated events, and he spares the reader the glib…

Erzgräber, Willi.   Elmar Lehmann and Bernd Lenz, eds. Telling Stories: Studies in Honour of Ulrich Broich on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: B. B. Gruner, 1992), pp.188-204.
In HF, Chaucer reflects on the literary tradition he follows and on the written and oral materials available to him. James Joyce does the same in his novels, although he was not directly influenced by Chaucer. Each connects with the literary…

Rutter, Russell.   ELN 36.3 : 23-33. , 1999.
Traces the history of the metaphor of Satan as a "fowler" who seeks to trap souls as he would trap birds. Discusses examples from the time of the Church fathers to Shakespeare, including three instances in which Chaucer employs related metaphors: WBT…
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