Grudin, Michaela Paasche.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 11 (1989): 63-92.
Dante's advocacy of absolute rule as necessary for a peaceful state ("De monarchia") was opposed by other fourteenth-century Italian political theorists who saw such a state as tyrannical. Boccaccio's treatment of Griselda in "Decameron" implicitly…
Grudin, Michaela Paasche.
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996.
A recurrent concern in Chaucer's works is the relation between society and discourse, a concern Chaucer shares with Italian humanists. In BD, Chaucer demonstrates the reciprocity of speaker and listener; the playfulness and lack of closure in HF…
Investigates credulity as a feature of radical medieval thought (Marsilio of Padua, William of Ockham, John Wycliffe) and as depicted in Boccaccio and Chaucer. A creative artist rather than a philosopher or theologian, Chaucer uses various characters…
Gruenler, Curtis A.
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017.
Approaches Chaucer's works briefly through contrast with :"Piers Plowman," which is treated here as the key text in a tradition of literature defined by "a distinctive poetics of enigma." Observes that Chaucer explores horizontally across the earthly…
Fragment 7 of CT is unified by its focus on the problem of human violence and the "potential of literature to perpetrate or remedy this problem." In ShT, PrT, and Th, Chaucer shows their respective genres' "mythologies" of violence. Mel counsels…
Grund, Peter J.
Review of English Studies 65, no. 271 (2014): 575-95.
Differentiates "literary" uses of alchemical terms from those of alchemical treatises and shows that Chaucer's CYT is one of the seven most frequent alchemical sources in the seventy citations within the "MED."
Describes the unique copy of portions of "Sidrak and Bokkus" found in Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Amsterdam, MS M199, an early modern alchemical miscellany. Accompanying the selections, manuscript annotations refer to a wide variety of…
Analyzes the development of th- forms of pronouns (as opposed to h- forms), suggesting that they have less to do with Scandinavian influence than with linguistic generalization and assimilation.
A Middle English text and Spanish translation on facing pages, with bibliograghy, notes, and an 80-page introduction contextualizing and discussing main aspects of the work.
Guardia Massó, Pedro.
Mercedes Brea, ed. Marginales e marginados en la Época Medieval. Cuardernos del CEMYR, no. 4 ([La Laguna, Canary Islands]: Universidad de La Laguna, Centro de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas, 1996), pp. 107-24.
Guardia Massó examines ecclesiastical and sexual suppression in Lollardy, "Piers Plowman," and CT (especially in WBP).
Guare, John.
Woodstock and New York, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 2002.
Two plays by John Guare, with additional apparatus, including an "Afterword," comprised of selections from Guare's journal that records, among other things, his thoughts about Chaucer while the playwright was composing "Chaucer in Rome," a play about…
Guastella, Gianni.
Oxford:Oxford University Press, 2016.
Includes a chapter entitled "Chaucer, House of Fame" (pp. 355-83) that describes HF and characterizes Chaucer's treatment of literary reputation as unusual in lacking the "moralistic slant" of his predecessors, opting instead for a "disillusioned…
Pairing three legends from LGW with three of the CT results in useful categories of Chaucer's pathos: Lucrece, PrT--naive portrayal of saintlike stereotype; Philomena, MLT--stock romantic figure of lady in distress; Hypermnestra, PhyT--pathetic, but…
Guerin, Dorothy Jane.
Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1978): 4149A.
Chaucer's chief object in LGW is to explore, through the art of "variatio," irrational sexual passion as a source of human misery. The legends divide into three distinct groups: the pathetic tale, Dido and its variations, and star-crossed lovers.
Guerin, Richard
English Studies 52 (1971): 412-19.
Reconsiders relations among ShT, Sercambi's "Novelle" no. 31, and Boccaccio's "Decameron" nos. 8.1 and 8.2, suggesting that it is "not unreasonable" to think that Chaucer "might have known all three of the analogues."
Guerin, Richard Stephen.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.04 (1967): 1396A.
Adduces evidence of the influence of Boccaccio's "Decameron" on CT by collecting all available indications of similarity--instances of borrowing and less specific parallel details.
Guerra Bosch, Teresa.
Philologica Canariensia 0 (1994): 181-91.
Comments on examples of ecclesiastical satire in CT and "The Decameron," arguing that Chaucer viewed contemporary abuses as comic, through Boccaccio's ironies are "slyer."
Gugelberger, Georg [M.]
Orbis Litterarum 35 (1980): 220-34.
In "ABC of Reading" Pound praises Chaucer above Shakespeare and Dante, and in his "Cantos" he makes important use of Chaucer's works, the short poems especially. Chaucer provides a setting-off point for understanding Pound's ideas about poetry and…
Gugelberger, Georg M.
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1978
Surveys the influence of Provençal and Italian poets on the works of Ezra Pound, and examines Pound's critical commentary about Chaucer (in his "ABC of Reading"), comparing passages from the two poets and exploring the extent to which the "three…
Considers the work of Chaucer, among others, as an example of non-hypertextual writing that nonetheless creates the user disorientation often associated with negotiations of hypertext.
Guidry, Marc S.
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1997): 2224A.
As diplomat, MP, and associate of important political figures, Chaucer understood the operation of government and its rhetoric, reflected in Mel, MLT, ClT, KnT, and MerT. Chaucer's themes of class and gender relate to the nature of counsel-taking.
