Myers, A. R.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1972.
Topographical and social history of late-medieval London and its environs, cast as a description of what a visitor might experience, enlivened by incidents drawn from legal and political records, and including descriptions of various political,…
Muscatine, Charles.
Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1972.
Characterizes late fourteenth-century England as an age of "crisis" and pursues a "style-and-culture" assessment of the poetry of the "Pearl"-poet, William Langland, and Chaucer, summarizing what is known (and not known) of each writer and reading…
Provides historical evidence that females practiced medicine in medieval Europe, identifying several examples of their experience and tribulations, and presenting them as background to Chaucer's "Trotula" (WBP 3.677).
Rofheart, Martha.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.
Historical novel about the life of Owen Glendower (Owen ap Griffith of Wales), presented as a series of first-person recollections by Glendower and several people of his time. Chapter 2 is "Told by Geoffrey Chaucer, squire, customs clerk,…
Mann, Jill.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973.
Establishes that GP is an example of the medieval literary genre of estates satire, i.e., a "satiric representation of all classes of society," based on occupation. Surveys the tradition of the genre, including works that only draw on "estates…
Emonds, Joseph.
Braj B. Kachru, and others, eds. Issues in Linguistics: Papers in Honor of Henry and Renée Kahane (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973), pp. 185-93.
Anatomizes Chaucer's uses of the "'ing'-morpheme," arguing that "Chaucer's dialect did not contain a gerund as a normal grammatical device" (even though examples exist) and that English "participles and derived nominal had become phonetically…
Fifield, Merle.
Muncie Ind.: Ball State University, 1973.
Seeks objective analysis of the "oral-aural" aspects of word stress and metrical stress in Chaucer's "stress system," commenting on linguistic borrowings, affixing, grammatical function, phonetic juncture, and the difficulties of inferring Middle…
An introduction to "those aspects of Chaucer studies which involve manuscripts and incunabula," designed for classroom use, including discussion of binding, manuscript production and materials, decoration and illumination, paleography, book trade and…
An introduction to Chaucer's "life, times, and works" (originally published in 1953; 2nd ed. 1965) which attempts "to suggest (rather than to describe) something of the general quality of Chaucer's age, and to note the chief events of Chaucer's early…
Studies the "meaning of the dream-poems," exploring Chaucer's concerns with the "nature and causes" of dreams, the importance and role of imagination, tensions between courtly and commonplace ideals, and the "contest" between "authority and…
Sequeira, Isaac.
K. P. K. Menon, M. Manuel, and K. Ayyappa Paniker, eds. Literary Studies: Homage to Dr. A. Sivaramasubramonia Aiyer (Trivandum: St. Joseph's Press, for the Dr. A. Sivaramasubramonia Aiyer Memorial Committee, 1973), pp. 34-43.
Explores seven aspects of Chaucer's satiric presentation of the Monk and his failure to follow monastic ideals: claustration, hunting, Benedictine rule, monastic study, poverty, asceticism, and celibacy.
Haskell, Ann S.
English Symposium Papers 3 (1973): 1-45.
Characterizes medieval lyrics and various sub-genres by illustrative examples; then comments on several themes and topoi in Chaucer's lyrics and lyrical passages from his longer works.
Shaner, Mary Carol Edwards.
DAI 34.02 (1973): 739A.
Surveys medieval attitudes toward the women featured as protagonists in Chaucer's LGW and reads Chaucer's characters in light of these attitudes, observing that they vary as "not-so-good" women and "not-so-bad" ones, a reflection of the limits of…
Psychoanalytic analysis of WBT and ClT, reading the two as parallel transformation stories. The first "seems to commemorate the event of the separation of consciousness"; in the second, Griselda "achieved individuation by recognizing her animus."…
Caxton, William, ed.
London: Cornmarket, in association with Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1972.
Item not seen; the note in WorldCat quotes the following: "This facsimile edition of Chaucer's Canterbury tales as printed by William Caxton is limited to 500 copies, of which this in number 280 ..."/ "The present facsimile reproduces for the first…
Booth, Wayne C.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.
Anatomizes irony as a literary device. Includes one example from Chaucer: details of the Monk's description (GP 1.177-82) describing it as straightforward irony that is stable, covert, and local, "firm as a rock" when "discovered by the proper…
Smith, Francis J.
Ball State University Forum 14.1 (1973): 15-22.
Reads PF as a "poem of love and marriage, touching upon the question of pleasure versus the duty of procreation, realistically set in the framework of a dream, and seasoned with wit." Emphasizes the poem's balanced sensibility and "refreshing…
