Vaughan Williams, Ralph.
Franklin Lakes, N. J.: Desto Records, 1970.
Side one includes a recording of Chaucer's MercB, set to music by Vaughn Williams, and sung by Lois Winter (soprano), accompanied by Marvin Morgenstern (violin), Hiroko Yajima Rhodes (violin), and John Goberman (cello). An inner sheet includes the…
Middle English reading of PardPT (6.327-966), FranPT (complete), and NPT (complete), with introductory notes by Derek Brewer in accompanying booklet. Read by Richard Bebb; edited by Sarah Butcher. Recorded at Motivation Sound Studios, London.
Items not seen; cited in WorldCat. Readings of selections from CT in modern poetic translation by Frank Ernest Hill. Volume I (3 CDs; 1995) includes GP, KnT, MilT, PardT, MerT and FranT. Volume II (3 CDs, 2002): WBPT, ClT, RvT, and NPT. Volume III (3…
Dor, Juliette.
Frédéric Duval and Fabienne Pomel, eds. Guillaume de Digulleville: Les pèlerinages allégoriques (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2008), pp. 401-23.
Dor compares ABC with its source, revealing that Chaucer's translation is a rewriting that achieves intense dramatic power. Transformations of the figure of Mary ,some shifts in the poem's tone, and ironical remarks invite us to reconsider the poem's…
Erzgräber, Willi.
Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach, 1997.
Twenty-two essays by Erzgräber, most of them previously published. Eight of the essays pertain to Chaucer, one published here for the first time: "Predestination in Langland and Chaucer" (pp. 179-201). In it, Erzgräber surveys St. Augustine's…
Examines "ironic references" to frame tales in Guy de Maupassant's story, "Boule de Suif," tallying similarities and differences between these references and Boccaccio's "Decameron," Chaucer's CT, and Marguerite de Navarre's "Heptaméron." Also…
Stemmler, Theo.
Fritz Peter Knapp and Manuela Niesner, eds. Historisches und Fiktionales Erzählen im Mittelalter (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2002), pp. 45-62.
Stemmler assesses representations of the Uprising of 1381 in several contexts: the "Anonimalle Chronicle," Henry Knighton's "Chronicon," Thomas Walsingham's "Historia Anglicana," Jean Froissart's "Chroniques," John Gower's "Vox Clamantis," Chaucer's…
Reorients the critical habit of assessing the structure and details of HF in light of Gothic architecture, arguing that the poem affiliates "Gothic" and "Other," and "dramatizes" the narrator's encounter with the "familiar world of the self and the…
Griffith, John Lance.
Fu Jen Studies: Literature and Linguistics 41 (2008): 13-45.
Reads KnT as a "tale of anger rather than (as is often the case) a tale of pity" which reveals Chaucer's ambivalence about anger as both "necessary and destructive" in human affairs. Explores Thomistic and Stoic notions of anger and assesses the…
Presents the first of two successive articles on RvT and its analogues. Claims that "The Mylner of Abyngton" has not drawn as much critical attention as it deserves. Compares "The Mylner of Abyngton" with three continental analogues and discusses…
Rogers, H. L.
G. A. Wilkes and A. P. Riemer, eds. Studies in Chaucer (Sydney: University of Sydney, 1981), pp. 3-27.
An explication of the MerT and FranT using the Hengwrt manuscript order, the article surveys some critical interpretations of the two tales, concerning the clerical or secular nature of the tellers.
Lawton, D. A.
G. A. Wilkes and A. P. Riemer, eds. Studies in Chaucer. (Sydney: University of Sydney, 1981), pp. 38-63.
Explicates PardT with a concern for the division between the tale proper (lines 463-903) and its frame. The tale is structurally a digression, theologically orthodox, but unconvenional in "tone," and is to be taken seriously.
Gray, Douglas.
G. H. V. Bunt, E. S. Kooper, et al., eds. One Hundred Years of English Studies in Dutch Universities (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987), pp. 1-27.
"Gentilesse" for Chaucer implied honor or "good name," as well as good words and deeds. His ideas on the concept are rooted in the classics and in Christianity but also look forward to the humanists. FranT is probably nearer to a last word on this…
Dragstra, H. H.
G. H. V. Bunt, E. S. Kooper, et al., eds. One Hundred Years of English Studies in Dutch Universities (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987), pp. 187-97.
In their use of the term "modern," modern Chaucer scholars agree on three aspects: modern critical, scientific method;modern literary aesthetics; and the artistic personality of Chaucer himself as seen through modern eyes. Though D. W. Roberson,…
Zangen, Britta.
Gabriele Genge, ed. Sprachformen des Körpers in Kunst und Wissenschaft. Kultur und Erkenntnis, no. 25 (Tübingen and Basel: A. Francke, 2000), pp. 244-58.
CT is startlingly antifeminist ("erschreckend frauenfeindlich") in its depiction of women and of male attitudes toward women. Recent criticism has begun to recognize this antifeminism but has not fully overcome adulation of the author.
Johnston, Andrew James.
Gabriele Rippl, ed. Handbook of Intermediality: Literature--Image--Sound--Music (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015), pp. 50–64.
Describes "medieval approaches to vision, to the relations between text and image and to ekphrasis" before assessing KnT as Chaucer's critique of "attempts to essentialise and keep separate different media and genres, especially the verbal and the…
Maggioni, M[aria]. Luisa.
Gabriella Di Martino and Maria Lima, eds. English Diachronic Pragmatics. Proceedings of the International Conference on English Diachronic Pragmatics. (Naples, Italy: CUEN, 2000), pp. 103-14.
Examines relationships between the roles of women in medieval society and the language used by women in Arthurian romances, especially interpersonal relationships as depicted in dialogue, forms of address, indicators of politeness, and the emerging…
Whitley, David.
Gabrielle Cliff Hodges, Mary Jane Drummond, and Morag Styles, eds. Tales, Tellers and Texts (New York: Cassell, 2000), pp. 68-76.
Explores how "contemporary academic criticism" has influenced twentieth-century adaptations of CT for children, commenting on versions by Eleanor Fargeon, Selina Hastings, Ian Serraillier, Geraldine McCaughrean, and Joel Myerson.
Gaffke, Carol T., ed. Poetry Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Poets of World Literature, Volume 19 (Detroit: Gale, 1997), pp. 1-79.
Excerpted selections from Chaucer criticism, ranging from 1809 (William Blake) to 1995, prefaced by a brief introduction to his life and works and followed by suggestions for further reading.
Barrington, Candace
Gail Ashton and Daniel T. Kline, eds. Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 13-28.
Asserts that PrT "depends upon, and perpetrates, the worst stereotypes of Jews," and assesses thirty-two YouTube dramatizations and adaptations of the tale (posted 2006–11) as evidence of its contemporary reception among high school audiences,…
Sylvester, Louise.
Gail Ashton and Louise Sylvester, eds. Teaching Chaucer (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 81-95.
Explores an apparent disconnect between pedagogical goals of classes that study Chaucer's literature and those that study the history of the English language, suggesting that sociolinguistic approaches can help bridge the gap.
