Given-Wilson, Chris.
London and New York: Routledge, 1987.
Studies the chief preoccupations of the noble and knightly families of the fourteenth century; politics (both local and national), the lands, and the family structure.
Glancy, Ruth.
Westport, Conn.; and London:: Greenwood, 2002.
Glancy surveys twenty-nine themes (some with sub-themes) in British poetry, describing their occurrence from the late Middle Ages to the present. Topics include beauty, death, love, old age, sleep, and war. Glancy summarizes Chaucer's Marriage Group…
Verse translation of CT with several tales abridged or excerpted (KnT, MLT, ClT, SqT, FranT, MkT) and several summarized (Mel, CYT, ManT, ParsT), based on the Riverside edition. Converts Chaucer's pentameter couplets into octosyllabic couplets to…
Glaser, Joseph, trans., and Christine Chism, intro.
Indianapolis: Hackett, 2014.
Translates TC into modern English rhyme royal stanzas, with footnotes and occasional marginal glosses. The introduction (by Christine Chism, pp. vi-xxx) addresses the social contexts of the poem; anachronisms; Chaucer's audience; the frontispiece…
Glasser, Marc D.
Tennessee Studies in Literature 23 (1978): 1-14.
Contrary to Donald Howard, who found in SNT the church's "highest ideal" of marriage and Chaucer's final answer to the Marriage Group, the tale actually denies the basis of true wedlock as subordinating the wife's personal concern for her husband to…
Surveys two medieval attitudes toward marriage (pro-matrimonial [Aquinas] and anti-matrimonial [Jerome] and their depictions in various tales of virgin martyrs, analyzing SNT most extensively.
The Pardoner's motivation is understandable if we hear his prologue and tale through the ears of Harry Bailly; the Pardoner's performance is not merely one more ad hominem attack by one of the pilgrims but a questioning of the story-telling rules…
Compares the theme of forced marriage in WBT, "The Marriage of Sir Gawaine," "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell," and Gower's "Tale of Florent." While all the works concern forced marriages, Chaucer's knight undergoes "greater coercion,"…
Gleason, Mark J.
Medievalia et Humanistica 15 (1987): 161-87.
Treats the previously ignored commentary of Trevet on "The Consolation of Philosophy," which served Chaucer as the primary or sole commentary in his translation of Bo and which he drew for TC 3.
Gleason, Mark J.
A. J. Minnis, ed. The Medieval Boethius (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1987), pp. 89-105.
Gleason addresses three misunderstandings: disparagement of the literary value of Bo and its sources; inaccurate evaluation of Chaucer's use of sources, especially Trevet; and lack of information about Trevet's commentary, which is significant in…
Gleason, Mark J.
Dissertation Abstracts International 45 (1985): 2096A.
In his most Boethian poem, Chaucer relies heavily on Nicholas Trevet's "Commentary" on the Consolation of Philosophy, even versifying one of Trevet's glosses and adopting his Aristotelian interpretation.
Glencoe Literature Library.
New York: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, with the following abstract: "Provides teaching strategies, background, and suggested resources; reproducible student pages to use before, during, and after reading." Also available at…
Gloss, Teresa Guerra.
Dissertation Abstracts International 50 (1990): 3221A.
Humor may be classified as visual, antirepressive, and linguistic-stylistic (sophisticated and often ironic). Gloss treats seven authors of four nationalities, including Chaucer.
Glover, Kyle Stephen.
Dissertation Abstracts International 46 (1986): 3346A-3347A.
Covenants, a pervasive theme in CT, may bind guest and host, ruler and subject, spouses, kin, or God and humanity. The covenant supports a willingly assumed hierarchy, a model for order; yet these bonds may be reversed.
Glowka, Arthur W.
Interpretations 14.2 (1983): 15-19.
Chaucer changed the order of the five steps to sin of Peraldus's "Summa de vitiis" and followed Ovid's "Metamorphoses" (10.343-44) instead. Glowka speculates on implications of change.
Glowka, Arthur W.
Language Quarterly 21 (1983): 15-17.
In PF, NPT, TC, ManT, and MerT, Chaucer uses onomatopoeic bird talk for puns, verbal wit, irony, e.g., finds hints in MerT of May as turtle-dove-cuckoo.
Glowka, Arthur Wayne.
Lanham, Md., New York, and London: University Press of America, 1991.
Designed as a supplemental textbook for college courses on Chaucer or English prosody; includes brief exercises at the end of each of seven chapters. Introduces the basics of meter and rhythm and analyzes Chaucer's verse in traditional foot…
Gnerro. Mark L.
Notes and Queries 207 (1962): 164-65.
Locates the origins of Pandarus's "proverbial expletive" about "haselwodes" (TC 3.890) in the tradition of magical divination by sticks (rhabdomancy), commenting on the "appositeness" of assigning the proverb to the "hard-headed, skeptical Pandarus."
Goddard, Richard.
Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 170-86.
Examines how Chaucer's understanding of medieval trade, finance, and commerce is reflected in the Merchant's portrait in GP. Connects historical fluctutions in the English and Italian wool trade to the Merchant's business acumen in MerT.
Godden, Malcolm, Douglas Gray, and Terry Hoad, eds.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1994.
Eleven essays by various authors, assessing materials from the eighth to the fourteenth century. Most essays pertain to the development of language and literary forms; Chaucer mentioned "passim."
Uses HF--along with Langland's "Piers Plowman," "St. Erkenwald," and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"--as evidence in a discussion of the medieval understanding of the memorialization process, suggesting that fame "becomes emblematic" of the…
Psychoanalytic argument that the old woman's curses are pivotal to the workings of hostility, manipulation, and eroticism in FrT. The summoner, the devil, and the woman reenact a patriarchal version of the Oedipal scenario, disrupted by the woman's…
