Episode from a science fiction series about memory erasure and personality manipulation via futuristic technology. Several scenes set in a classroom and teacher's office with references to Chaucer and the Wife of Bath, including a brief reading from…
Helgeland, Brian, dir.
Escape Artists and Columbia Pictures, 2001.
Feature-length film that includes a fictionalized version of Geoffrey Chaucer (played by Paul Bettany) who serves as herald to a would-be knight, William Thatcher (Heath Ledger). Released on DVD by Columbia Tristar.
Spanish prose translation of CT (except Mel and ParsT), with Th and the Envoy to ClT in verse; translated by Ramón Sopena. Twelve color plates reproduce the sequence of the months from "Les Très Riches Heures" of Jean, Duke of Berry.
Borges, Jorge Luis.
Andrew Hurley, trans. Collected Fictions: Jorge Luis Borges (New York: Viking, 1998), pp. 508-15.
Fantasy story about the transmission of Shakespeare's memory from one man to another; includes several references and allusions to Chaucer. The story was first published in Spanish in a limited edition. "La Memoria de Shakespeare" (Buenos Aires:…
Interrelated fictional narratives told in poetry and prose by travelers in modern Nigeria; modeled on CT, with an opening General Prologue and tales told by various vocational types, e.g., the Air-hostess, the Journalist, the Female Petrol Attendant,…
Fictional autobiography of Chaucer in which he recounts the arrival of a thirty-first Canterbury pilgrim, a woman who narrates how she has been impregnated by an extraterrestrial being. Illustrated by Giselda Leirner. In Portuguese.
Knight, Stephen.
London: Angus and Robertson, 1973
A series of five case studies in cloxe reading that demonstrate Chaucer's skill with prosodic and rhetorical devices; includes an appendix that defines and exemplifies "figures of style" (pp. 236-42). Chapter 1 contrasts the stylistic virtuosity of…
Thorpe, James.
San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1974.
Reproduces in color the illustrations of the CT pilgrims from the Ellesmere manuscript, and comments on CT, Chaucer and his portrait, and the production and transmission of the manuscript.
Provost, William.
Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1974.
Presents a "structural description" of TC which anatomizes its five-book construction, its "time units" and their chronology, and its "narrative units" (signaled by shifts in narrative "modes") and their patterning. The description of these various…
Crampton, Georgia Ronan.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1974.
Examines the commonplace theme of "agere et pati" (to act and to suffer) in the works of Chaucer and Spenser, especially KnT and books 1-4 of Spenser's "The Faerie Queene," exploring oppositions between deed and emotion, action and passion, and…
Brandom, Lisa, ed.
Siloam Springs, Ark.: Moon Lake Publishing, 2005.
Presents the personal and pedagogical diary of Dr. John Panage, including his teaching career at John Brown University. The CD records a class session of October 9, 1972, conducted by Panage, that pertains to Chaucer's GP, including the teacher's and…
Jones, Mike Rodman.
Burlington, Ver.: Ashgate, 2011.
Includes Chaucerian apocrypha, "The Plowman's Tale" and "Jack Upland," in an examination of the figure of the plowman in English early modern imagination, from "Piers Plowman" to the 1590s. Argues that there was a "highly politicized tradition of…
Weiss, Judith.
Rhiannon Purdie and Michael Cichon, eds. Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts. Studies in Medieval Romance (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2011), pp. 121-34.
Surveys representations of male and female fainting in medieval romances and "chansons de geste," and describes the medieval medical status of fainting ("syncope"). Considers Troilus' swoon in TC 3, observing that the "precision of Chaucer's medical…
Karath, Tamas.
Andrew C. Rouse, Gertrud Szamosi, and Gabriella Voo, eds. CrosSections, no. 2, Selected Papers in Literature and Culture from the 9th HUSSE Conference Pécs (Pécs: Institute of English Studies, University of Pécs, 2010), pp. 17-24.
Examines the narration and the interpretations of Troilus's dream in Book V of TC, the questions of sources and authority, and the function of the Latin argument to Cassandra's speech in manuscripts.
Sprunger, David.
Enarratio 15 (2011 for 2008): 100-123.
Comments on Chaucer's reputation as a Wycliffite reformer or Lollard that resulted from his depictions of clergymen (especially the Parson) and from apocryphal tales attributed to him. Edits and assesses a 1641 pamphlet that includes two poetic…
Sánchez-Marti, Jordi.
English Studies 92 (2011): 360-74.
The author addresses the question whether Chaucer had Adam Pynkhurst in mind when berating his scribe Adam for his sloppy work and, on the basis of palaeographical evidence, seeks to determine whether Pynkhurst's performance improved afterwards. To…
The ludic responses depicted in these two lines bear out Barry Windeatt's assertion that Chaucer's "displacement of tragedy by comedy" at the end of TC took its inspiration from Dante's "Commedia."
Kuczynski, Michael P
Chaucer Review 45 (2011): 321-39.
More critical attention to the codicological contexts, Latin sources, rhetorical devices, and clerical "authorial milieu" of Middle English lyrics would release them from the categories of the "practical or boring," and give their refinement and…
In Purse, For, and Scog, Chaucer employs the basic elements of an official 'supplicacio' "with great freedom, voicing them in a variety of unexpected ways."
An examination of Skeat's Rime-Index to Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" shows that "vowel length is an unneeded hypothesis" and Chaucer's vowels may be classified solely on the basis of "quality, not quantity."
Chaucer draws upon the festive tradition of mock saints early in TC to poke fun at "the pretensions of 'fin amor'"; as the poem progresses, the inversions of carnival come to represent "a necessary part of being a lover." By the time Troilus laughs…
