Greene, Darragh.
Religion & Literature 54 (2022): 141-62.
Focuses on CT and PardT, specifically. Discusses the Pardoner's fabrication of relics and the "preposterous" transformation of "accident into substance," a reversal of the trope used in PardT, the narrative voice in both GP and PardT, and deception…
Considers locations in Chaucer's corpus where he might have depicted divine speech, before highlighting how Jesus' words serve as "auctoritas" in ParsT. Comparing this method to the absence of depictions of divine speech in Chaucer's other works,…
Greene, Logan Dale.
Literatura em Debate 2.3 (2008): n. p. [Electronic publication]
Examines the "archetype, or mytheme," of the loathly lady in WBT and related stories, considering the implications that the story derives from "ancient Celtic myth with its archetypal patterns of masculine development." In Portuguese and English.
Greene, Richard Leighton.
Notes and Queries 211 (1966): 169-71.
Discourages pursuit of ironic and sexual implications in details in Tho (7.748-59), suggesting that the mention of "bukke and hare" is best understood as parodic conjoining of two categories of hunted beasts.
Greene, Richard Leighton.
Notes and Queries 210 (1965): 446-48.
Argues for a "plain and straightforward" (i.e., non-ironical) reading of a portion of Canacee's falcon's complaint in SqT, disagreeing with a previous discussion of the passage by Robert S. Haller.
Greenfield, Jane.
Yale University Library Gazette 72.1-2: 68-72, 1997.
Describes a Yale University copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer (1896) printed on vellum and elaborately bound (apparently by Douglas Bennett Cockerell) in pigskin stamped with designs by William Morris. Includes 2 figures.
Greenfield, Stanley B.
Medium Aevum 36.2 (1967): 141-51.
Compares and contrasts the characterizations of Calkas in the Troy stories of Guido, Benoit, Boccaccio, and Chaucer, arguing that in TC he is depicted so as to ridicule "astrology-prophetism" even while contributing to the poem's "atmosphere of…
Greenfield, Stanley B., ed.
Weatherhead, A. Kingsley, ed.
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1968.
An anthology of English poetry, arranged chronologically, with a brief introduction on "The Experience of a Poem" and a glossary of poetic terminology. The selections from Old and Middle English poetry are generally given in modern verse translation,…
Item not accessed; reported by WorldCat, with link to a commercial description: "A BBC Radio 4 full-cast [modernization] of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde by poet and writer Lavinia Greenlaw . . . . The cast includes Tom Ferguson as Troilus, Maxine…
Reconstructs the narrative progress of TC in a sequence of some 200 seven-line poems, approximating rhyme royal, keyed by line numbers to Chaucer's work, and arranged in five books; running footers link the verse with the plot. Individual poems give…
Greenspan, Charlotte L., and Lester M. Hirsch, eds.
New York: Macmillan, 1971.
An anthology of literary depictions of "overt prejudice" (p. xi) including a modern translation of PrT in rhyme royal (by Nevill Coghill) in a section called "Roots of Prejudice." The volume is designed for classroom use, with discussion questions…
Greentree, Rosemary.
Rochester, N.Y.; and Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2001.
Descriptive, annotated bibliography of editions and criticism of Middle English lyrics and short poems, focusing on 1900-1995 but including several editions and studies outside this range. Excludes works dedicated exclusively to Chaucer and other…
Greenwood, M. K. Smolenska.
Guy Bourquin, ed. Hier et aujourd'hui: Points de vue sur le moyen age anglais (Nancy: Association des Medievistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, 1997),: pp. 45-55.
KnT creates puzzling effects. Chaucer's subversion of several issues (genre, nobility, love, wisdom) highlights their absurdity.
In GP the Parson and the Plowman are polysemic figures that emerge from the expression of conflicting, dialogic voices--not idealized role models. Free indirect speech in the Parson's description allows the audience to suspect that he is a whitened…
Greenwood, M[aria] K.
Wendy Harding and A. Mathieu, eds. Le futur dans le Moyen Âge anglais (Paris: Publications de l'Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 1999), 1: pp. 153-74
Examines structural and thematic functions of Chauntecleer's dream exempla in NPT. The exempla all suggest "an unresolved sense of guilt" that casts into tragic relief the events in the barnyard, transforming NPT from comedy to tragedy. The Tale…
Greenwood, Maria K.
Juliette Dor, ed. A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck (Liege: University of Liege, 1992), pp. 167-77.
Chaucer's Criseyde in TC and Malory's Elaine and Guenivere in Morte d'Arthur are "modern" in their struggles. Each author illuminates his "diogesis" by narrative use(s) of the heroine(s); both authors "counter reductive views" by providing…
Greenwood, Maria K.
Andre Lascombes, ed. Identites et differences (Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, no. 17, 1992), pp. 27-43.
The Prioress's duplicity has been constructed. Appealing to one or both of the codes by which we define her as a nun or a lady, she manages to invite excuses and build trust whenever mistrust is possible.
Greenwood, Maria K.
Bulletin des Anglicistes Medievistes 45 (1994): 847-69.
Bakhtinian approach to the sketch of the Clerk: there is an intricate dialogue between the latter and the narrator. The facts behind the story and the way it is told reveal much about Chaucer's complex personality.
Greenwood, Maria K.
Colette Stévanovitch, ed. L'Articulation langue-littérature dans les textes médiévaux anglais, II. Actes du colloque des 25 et 26 juin 1999 á l'Université de Nancy II. Collection GRENDEL, no. 3. (Nancy: Publications de l'Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 1999), pp. 143-62.
Explicates Chaucer's uses of grammatical tenses in GP, especially in the descriptions of the Knight, Squire, and Yeoman, distinguishing how various tenses and narrative points of view direct readers' reactions to the pilgrims. Considers indirect…
Greenwood, Maria K.
Rosalynn Voaden, René Tixier, Teresa Sanchez Roura, and Jenny Rebecca Rytting, eds. The Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003), pp. 189-200.
Dryden's translation of KnT "tidies, clarifies, and modernizes" the text for its eighteenth-century readers, turning Chaucer's "subversive parodies back into the illusory heroic idealizations" of Statius and Boccaccio. Greenwood focuses on the…
Greenwood, Maria K.
Colette Stévanovitch, ed. Marges/Seuils: Le liminal dans la littérature médiévale anglaise ((Nancy: AMAES, 2006), pp. 271-89.
As Greenwood has shown in a previous study, garlanding often implied criticism. In KnT and A Midsummer's Night's Dream, however, it is an acknowledgment of power.
Greenwood, Maria Katarzyna.
Roberta Mullini, introd. Tudor Theatre: For Laughs? Puzzling Laughter in Plays of the Tudor Age/Tudor Théâtre: Pour Rire? Rires et Problèmes dans le Théâtre des Tudor (Bern: Peter Lang, 2002), pp. 21-39.
Bakhtinian analysis of references to garlands and garlanding in KnT and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Greenwood traces the classical traditions of garlands of love and glory, arguing that depictions of both "veer towards negative criticism" in these two…
