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A collection of articles by various hands. For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, of this volume.

Examines a few specimens of "public poetry' (of the type Anne Middleton identified in FranT and MLT), poetry to serve "the common good," dating 1265-1462.

Chaucer created a literary dialect that influenced writers centuries later. Elliott focuses on Chaucer's dialect, pronunciation, and grammar; Hardy's words and syntax; and Garner's rythms and cadences.

In sociolinguistic terms, Burnley examines orthography among literary scribes of Chaucer's day to find that spelling was far from standardized.

Continuation of SAC annual bibliography (since 1975); based on 1987 "MLA Bibliography" listings, contributions from an international bibliographic team, and independent research. A total of 334 items, including reviews.

The 1988 report of the Committee on Chaucer Bibliography and Research; lists 386 Chaucer studies.

An updated account of individual and collaborative work on Chaucer.

Discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1986.

Corrects "Chaucer Life-Records" reference to the Weardale campaign as P.R.O. E101/35/ m.1.

Analyzes "the state of Chaucer studies in China" by reviewing "Fang Zhong's translation into Chinese" of MilT. Beginning in the 1930s, Fang Zhong translated TC and most of CT in prose, modifying the Middle English version in two ways: changes to…

Contains GP, KnT, MilT, RvT, CkP, WBPT, FrP, ClPT, MerP, FranPT, PardPT, PrPT, NPPT.

An edition with copious marginal glosses and bottom notes, designed especially for first-time readers.

Closer attention to external and internal evidence should make scholars more cautious about accepting as canonical such passages as NPE, BD 31-96, Ret, and the lists of Chaucerian works in MLT and LGWP.

A community of tradespeople-artisans in small shops on Paternoster Row near Saint Paul's Cathedral was engaged in book production during Chaucer's last decade and the early fifteenth century. The editor, text writer, and artists of Ellesmere may be…

Adduces evidence that Thynne's edition of 1523 is the work of a careful, conservative editor. Thynne did not invent his unique readings but based them on Caxton, Fairfax, and Bodley. In other words, his HF "is truly an edition."

Largely ignored for forty years, Manly and Rickert's "The Text of the 'Canterbury Tales'" is being reconsidered because it favors the Hengwrt. Chaucer's text is now being reconstructed by "Hengwrtism." The soft approach takes Hengwrt as a guide but…

Although twentieth-century editors of Chaucer have produced increasingly sophisticated and tasteful editions of CT, their practices reject methodology dependent on purely objective criteria.

Since the late 1970s, manuscript study has become a major part of Middle English scholarship, but such study has not affected edditorial practice. The "Riverside Chaucer," for example, "is scarcely revolutionary in its method and biases."

Robinson's first edition (1933) is founded on unsound editorial practices, most notably an overreliance on Skeat (Robinson's true base text, not Ellesmere as usually claimed). Even in his second edition (1957), Robinson failed to profit from the…

Discusses the medieval practice of selling "Canterbury signs" to the visitors of Beckett's shrine (as mentioned in 'The Tale of Beryn'), the archeological finds, and the possibility that Ellesmere portraits may have been modeled on the signs. The…

Manly and Rickert were unable to trace the provenance of MS Phillipps 6570, now University of Texas Library 46, Austin. From the handwriting in notes, Wright deduces that Samuel Pegge the elder (1704-96) had MS Phillipps 6570 in his possession from…

Ovid's views on humanity's decline from the first age influence Chaucer's "Former Age": Chaucer's use of Lamech in WBT, SqT, and Anel; and his distrust of rhetorical ornament (as evidenced by the Franklin and BD, for example).

Payne first considers the question of Dante's influence on fourteenth-century English poets and the ways it can be studied. In the following four chapters, she examines the relationship of the "Divine Comedy" to "Pearl" and to HF, studies the…

Examines classical sources for HF, LGW.

Chaucer was indebted to Dante for turns of phrases, images, stories, and poetic and philosophical aims. Chaucer's most pervasive use of Dante was as "a spur and a background against which he defined his own, very different poetic and moral vision."