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Ryan, Lawrence V.   English Literary Renaissance 17 (1987): 288-302
Francis Kynaston's translation of TC in Latin rhyme-royal stanzas was influenced by Henryson's and Shakespeare's depictions of Criseyde. Substantial omissions in Books 4 and 5 of the translation simplify the character and reduce readers' sympathy by…

Newman, John Kevin.   Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986.
Anatomizes the tradition of the classical epic in Western literature, from Homer to Tolstoy and Thomas Mann, tracing the "Alexandrian" mode that originated with Callimachus and his school and runs counter to the more strictly restrained tradition of…

Jost, Jean E.   Medieval Perspectives 2 (1987): 73-80.
Reads MLT and CYT as opposed tales. Custance of MLT is a "worthy victim" of the broken promises of others and someone who "steadfastly" keeps her own. CYPT, on the other hand, is "marked by changeability, mutability, and vacillation"; its characters…

Killough, George [B.]   Text: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship 3 (1987): 183-209.
Analyzes mid-line virgules as punctuation in a number of manuscripts of Middle English verse, concluding that the practice was neither tied to native alliterative meter nor strikingly unusual. The practice was erratic, and seems to have been scribal…

Logan, Harry M.   Language and Style 20.3 (1987): 207-13.
Applies to Chaucer's CT Dell Hymes's model of analyzing speech acts, SPEAKING (Situations, Participants, Ends, Act Sequence, Key, Instrumentalities, Norms, Genres), exemplifying the utility of the model, its relationships to more traditional literary…

Clemens, John K., and Douglas F. Mayer.   Homewood, Ill.: Dow Jones-Irwin, 1987
Included in this "practical book about leadership" are claims that CT reveals that "people can't be stereotyped" because they are essentially paradoxical. Comments most extensively on the Wife of Bath, who is "incapable of being classified, sorted,…

Berkeley, Michael, comp.   Philip Jones Brass Ensemble. PJBE Finale: Music Written for Philip Jones (London: Chandos, 1987). 1 CD: tracks 9-13.
A five-movement suite, composed by Michael Berkeley for the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, who are recorded here. Includes "Triton's Trumpets" (1:25), "The Grieving Queen" (3:46), "A Fanfare for the Huntsmen" (0:35), "The Sorrowful Knight" (1:51), and…

Meier, Hans H.   Caroline Macafee and Iseabail Macleod, eds. The Nuttis Schell: Essays on Scots Language Presented to A. J. Aitken (Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Press, 1987), pp. 116-23.
Describes several literary representations of Older Scots language; includes RvT because Older Scots and Northern English "are not generally considered as distinct" in the late medieval period. Commends Chaucer for his comprehensive "imitation of…

Mulryne, J. R.   M[arie]-T[hérèse] Jones-Davies, ed. Le Roman de Chivalerie au Temps de la Renaissance (Paris: Jean Touzot Libraire-Editeur, 1987), pp. 75-106.
Reads Shakespeare and Fletcher's "Two Noble Kinsmen" as written in commemoration of the chivalric ideals and sudden death of Henry, Prince of Wales, and composed "under the creative discipline" of KnT. For the playwrights, Chaucer's poem provided…

Daly, Vincent, ed.   New York: Garland, 1987.
Edits "The Isle of Ladies," with accompanying notes, glossary, and commentary, the latter including discussion of the text, language, date, authorship, literary context, style, and meter of the poem. The poem was first printed by Thomas Speght in…

Moseley, C.W.R.D., ed.   Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1987.
Presents the Manly and Rickert text (1940) of KnT, with facing-page notes and end-of-text glossary and glossary of rhetorical terms. The Introduction (pp. 11-69) includes commentary on Chaucer's life, various techniques and themes of KnT, and the…

Myers, Kathy, and Beth Obermiller, eds.   Logan, Iowa: Perfection Learning, 1987.
An anthology of eight short stories by British writers, including PardT (pp. 65-77), each accompanied by a "Vocabulary Preview," explanatory notes, and a closing commentary. Illustrations by Clint Hanson.

Burrow, J. A.   Pat Rogers, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 1-58.
Illustrated survey of Old and Middle English literature, with recurrent attention to linguistic conditions and the development of literary genres and conventions. Includes many comparative references to Chaucer in the discussion of Middle English…

Brown, Peter, and Darryll Grantley, eds.   London: Yorick, 1987.
Produced to accompany a dramatic presentation of adapted versions of selections from CT. Includes comments on adapting the tales and directing the adaptations, accompanying music, parallels with medieval drama, medieval cooking, the "Tale of Beryn,"…

Lester, Geoffrey, ed.   Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Education, 1987.
Study guide to PardPT and to the GP description of the Pardoner that first summarizes Chaucer's biography, his language (including a list of "difficult or confusable words") and writings, and his literary context. Includes a summary/commentary on the…

Marsh, Nicholas.   Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Education, 1987.
Study guide to WBPT that includes commentary on their place in the CT, their sources and backgrounds, and medieval and modern ways of assessing the Wife's character. Includes a summary/commentary of the narratives, arranged in segments, followed by…

Moseley, C. W. R. D., ed.   Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1987.
A "critical study, incorporating Chaucer's text." Includes F. N. Robinson's text (1957) of PardPT and of GP description of Pardoner, with facing-page notes and end-of-text glossary. The introduction describes Chaucer's life and various literary,…

Samson, Anne.   Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Education, 1987.
Study guide to KnT that includes an introduction to Chaucer's court culture and courtly tradition and discussion of KnT in relation to part one of CT (GP, MilT, RvT, and CkT). Includes a summary/commentary on KnT, arranged in narrative fragments,…

Wilcockson, Colin.   Harlow: Longman, 1987.
Study guide to ClT that includes a plot summary and glosses (text not included), and commentary on various subjects: the patient wife as a literary motif, characterization in ClT, medieval clerks, linguistic and stylistic features of ClT (including…

Vajda, Miklós, and Ferencz Gyözö.   [Budapest]: Európa, 1987.
Translation of CT into Hungarian, with notes by Miklós Vajda and Gyözö Ferencz and an epilogue by Adám Nádasdy. Reprints the 1950 translation by a team of translators, in verse and prose: László Benjámin, Fodor András, Gábor…

Dirckz, John H.   American Journal of Dermatopathology 9 (1987): 537-42.
Surveys the medical knowledge evident in CT, commenting on Chaucer's breadth of learning. Includes a glossary of medical terms found in CT.

Bowden, Betsy.   New York and London: Garland, 1988.
London: Routledge, 2015.
Lists recordings of Chaucer, of Middle English excluding Chaucer, and of Old English. Analyses of elocutive style and evaluations are provided for Chaucer only. Includes a review of Chaucer scholarship relevant to pedagogy as well as a bibliography.…

Smith, J. J.   J.J. Smith, ed. The English of Chaucer and His Contemporaries: Essays by M.L. Samuels and J.J. Smith (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988), pp. 96-113.
Working from an "archetypal" corpus of Gower's spelling forms,Smith explores the continuity and dissolution of these forms in manuscript tradition, as well as the relation of the corpus to the progress of Standard Written English and to practice in…

Smith, J. J.   J.J. Smith, ed. The English of Chaucer and His Contemporaries: Essays by M.L. Samuels and J.J. Smith (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988), pp. 51-69.
Analyzes the dialectical "Mischsprachen" (linguistic mixture) in Harley 7334 and Corpus Christi, Oxford, 198, and in products of the Gower D-Scribe. Since all three show an "idiosyncratic mixture of West Worcestershire forms and the learnt form,…

Carroll, Virginia Schaefer.   Medieval Perspectives 3 (1988): 76-88.
MilT and RvT raise the issue of "maistrie" in relation to the economic stability of the family. Women are defined as passive, in terms that equate sexual loyalty and commercial value. Wives "quyte" (repay) their husbands through financial loss and…
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