Interprets the GP description of the Prioress as a satire of an institution rather than a critique of an individual, offering the reading as a prolegomenon to a comparative discussion of the challenges of teaching English and teaching foreign…
Varty, Kenneth.
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 26 (1963): 347-54.
Identifies similarities and differences between marginal illustrations in the Smithfield Decretals (British Museum Royal MS. 10 E.iv) and narrative motifs in versions of the "Roman de Renart," commenting briefly on the presence of the distaff in the…
Surveys uses of primary and secondary interjections (i.e., exclamations and oaths) in Anglo-Saxon through modern English, exploring how the "inventive ability is more marked in some centuries than in others." Comments on oaths based in religion (God,…
Includes discussion of the setting of "Eger and Grime" in the "Land of Beame," i.e., Bohemia, and provides background for understanding the popularity and influence of Anne of Bohemia and Bohemian fashion at the English court after her arrival in…
Pręczkowska, Helena, trans.
Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich – Wydawnictwo, 1963.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that Margaret Schlauch wrote an Introduction and that Witold Chwalewik edited the commentary in this Polish translation of selections from CT.
Richardson, Lilla Janette.
Dissertation Abstracts International 24.03 (1963): 1176.
Shows that Chaucer uses "rhetorical figures . . . [to] produce imagery," analyzing the "use of imagery" in FrT, RvT, ShT, MerT, and MilT--in comparison with sources, where available--and focusing on how he uses imagery to create ironic effects not…
Ussery, Huling Eakin, Jr.
Dissertation Abstracts International 24.06 (1963): 2491.
Studies "historical background" to Chaucer's Monk, Clerk, and Physician, comparing their characterizations with historical personages. Argues that the Monk is "probably either Benedictine or Cistercian," and "primarily realistic" rather than satiric.…
Edits portions of CT (KnT, MilT, WBP, MerT, FranT, PardT, NPT, and PrT), selections from TC, and from lyrics (Truth, MercB) in Middle English, with introduction, notes, and glossary.
Edits portions of CT (KnT, MilT, WBP, MerT, FranT, PardT, NPT, and PrT), selections from TC, and from lyrics (Truth, MercB) in Middle English, with introduction, notes, and glossary.
Lindfield, Eric G., and Egon Larsen, eds.
London: Jenkins, 1963.
Comments on the legacy of Chaucer's humor in English literature, and includes a brief introduction to CT and selections from GP (descriptions of Wife Bath, Miller, Summoner, and Pardoner) in modern English translation (by Nevill Coghill), accompanied…
Wright, David, trans.
New York: Random House, [1964].
Translates into "straightforward contemporary prose" all of CT, except for Th (here in verse) and Mel and ParsT (here summarized briefly). The Introduction (pp. ix-xii) summarizes Chaucer's life and comments on the translation.
Offers evidence from medieval naturalists and bestiaries to clarify that the she-ape simile in ParsT 10.424 means that the "proud dandy . . . is ridiculously like a wretched ape sticking up its bare bottom when the moon is full."
Bloomfield, Morton W.
Thought: A Review of Culture and Ideas 39 (1964): 335-58.
Explores the narrative devices used by modern and premodern writers of fiction to establish "an air of truth or plausibility"--first-person point of view, intimate tone, details drawn from the real world, and various "tricks" used to compel readers…
Maintains that the characterizations of the Monk in GP and in MkPT are consistent, and attributes their differing tones to the Monk's decision to "change his image" in the eyes of his fellow pilgrims while requiting the Host's derision with the…
Investigates the "active tension" between the characterization of the Manciple and the nature of ManT, analyzing differences between the Tale and its sources and analogues (especially characterizations and moralizations) to show how Chaucer…
Clogan, Paul M.
Studies in Philology 61 (1964): 599-615.
Describes the commentaries and glosses that are included in medieval manuscripts of Statius's "Thebaid," and shows that Chaucer was influenced by such glosses in details and passages of HF, Anel, TC, and KnT. The influence of Statius and the glosses…
Clogan, Paul M.
Philological Quarterly 43 (1964): 272-74.
Suggests that the explanation of Cybele as the "flower of spring" in the "Liber Imaginum Deorum" of Albricius I (also known as Mythographer III, perhaps Alexander Neckham) may be the source of Chaucer's reference to Cybele in his praise of Alceste…
Gaylord, Alan T.
Studies in Philology 61 (1964): 19-34.
Analyzes the lexical and thematic nuances of "gentilesse" in TC, exploring how subtle changes in meaning and usage help to characterize Troilus and the other main characters. tracing the "evaporation of the ideal of 'gentilesse'" as "moral vertu,"…
Grennen, Joseph E.
Journal of the History of Ideas 25 (1964): 279-84.
Identifies details of the characterization of the Canon and his Yeoman in CYP that derive from alchemical practice and materials, including the Canon's "distillation" (perspiration) and "mercurial" personality and his Yeoman's transformation and…
Grennen, Joseph E.
Modern Language Quarterly 25 (1964): 131-39.
Identifies parallels between the effects of grief on the Black Knight in BD (486-512) and late-medieval medical descriptions of the "falling of the heart" due to sorrow or distress, quoting parallels from John of Gaddesden and Jacopo Berengario Da…
Explores the relationship between reality and romance in KnT, comparing the Tale's presentation of details and ideals with those found in Froissart's "Chronicle," and arguing that the Knight operates with the "assumptions of chronicle history" and…
Hieatt, A. Kent, and Constance Hieatt, eds. and trans.
New York: Bantam, 1964.
Middle English text with Modern English translation, line-by-line, of GP, KnT, MilPT, WBPT, MerPT, FranT, PardPT, PrPT, and NPT, with a brief glossary of names and terms and a bibliography appended. The Introduction describes Chaucer's life and the…
Joselyn, M., O. S. B.
College English 25 (1964): 566-71.
Uses principles of Kenneth Burke's rhetoric of form to analyze NPT, commenting on aspects of its progressions (syllogistic, inverted, and repetitive), aspects of its genre conventions, and examples of its rhetorical ornamentation.
