Hatton, Thomas J.
Papers on Language and Literature 7 (1971): 72-75.
Summarizes the Scriptural tradition in which spiritual fame is associated with sweet tastes and good odors, and suggests that Absolon's association with their opposites in MilT reinforces his humiliation and his concern with "fame among men."
Hatton, Thomas J.
Chaucer Review 3.2 (1968): 77-87.
Argues that the GP description of "Chaucer's perfect Knight . . . seems carefully constructed to accord with the aims" of a "unified crusade" that was articulated by Philip de Mézières in his proposal to organize an Order of the Passion of Jesus…
Hatton, Thomas J.
Papers on Language and Literature 3 (1967): 179-81.
Contends that parallels between the "sacrifices" in FranT and two analogous ones found in Jean Froissart's "Chroniques" 2.137-38 encourage us to see the offer of the Franklin's magician to be illusory and worthless while Arveragus's offer of the…
Hatton, Thomas J.
Papers on Language and Literature 3, supplement (1967): 31-39.
Argues that Chauntecleer's character in NPT "reflects not only the victims in the Monk's tragedies but the Monk himself," focusing on "echoes and parallels" between NPT and MkT, their concern with fortune, and the Nun's Priest's warning to the Monk.
Hatton, Thomas J.
Chicago: Dramatic Publishing, 1982.
Adapts WBT for the stage, maintaining its Arthurian setting, the life-question, concern for female mastery, and faithful/faithless choice. Eliminates the rape motif (here a kiss) and the magical transformation (here a matter of disguise). Characters…
Hatton, Thomas Jenison.
Dissertation Abstracts International 27.02 (1966): 456-57A.
Uses late-medieval literary and historical sources to define the Anglo-French ideal of a "perfect knight," and applies this understanding to KnT, MkT, WBT, and FranT.
Hatton, Tom.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 67 (1968): 266-71.
Reads the widow of FrT as a figural "type of the Church" that contributes to the "comic irony" of the Tale and deepens the guilt of the summoner by "playing off" of the biblical story of Rebecca.
Hauck, Comfort.
[Jay Ruud, ed.] Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota ([Aberdeen, S.D.: Northern State University, 1989), pp. 63-72.
Comments on the anti-Semitism of PrT and suggests that it does not lessen the beauty of the tale.
Haug, Walter.
Dorothee Lindemann, Berndt Volkmann, and Klaus-Peter Wegera, eds. "Bickelwort" und "wildiu maere": Festschrift fur Eberhard Nellmann zum 65. Geburstag (Goppingen: Kummerle, 1995), pp. 354-65.
Compares RvT with its analogue in Boccaccio's "Decameron" and with the Middle High German "Studentenabenteuer," exploring their concerns with disorder and its effects.
Haught, Leah.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 114 (2015): 240-60.
The Middle English romance "Amis and Amiloun" explores the complex concept of "trewth" in the fourteenth century. This essay contends that the binding oath made by childhood friends is reminiscent of the agreement of the GP pilgrims, as well as…
Havely, Nicholas (R.)
Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 51-59.
The development of literary imagery and language in TC, book 3, reveals the distinctiveness of Chaucer's approach to Dante's "Purgatorio;" Chaucer's power and control over the language far exceed Boccaccio's in the "Filostrato."
Havely, Nicholas R.
Medium Aevum 61 (1992): 250-60.
The discourse of antifraternalism is important in understanding Pandarus's role in relation to Troilus and, especially, Criseyde. Havely examines words that form part of that discourse.
Havely, Nicholas R.
Chaucer Review 13 (1979): 337-45.
The Friar's varied activities are recounted in terms that have both commercial and non-materialistic applications. Ambigous diction points toward deeper questions about the use of wealth and, together with the sexual innuendoes and the enumeration…
Havely, Nicholas R.
A. J. Minnis, Charlotte C. Morse, and Thorlac Turville-Petre, eds. Essays on Ricardian Literature: In Honour of J. A. Burrow (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), pp. 61-81.
The Dantean aspects of HF, especially its invocations, not only recall the "Divine Comedy" but also reflect contemporary Italian reception and performance of Dante's masterpiece.
Havely, Nicholas R., dir.
[Provo, Ut.]: Chaucer Studio, 2002.
Complete Middle English audio recording of HF, read by Ros Allen, Tom Burton, Nicholas Havely, Derek Pearsall, Felicity Riddy, and Paul Thomas. Includes three interpolated songs.
An edition and translation of "Filostrato," "Teseida" (excerpts), and "Filocolo" 4.31-34 (excerpts). Includes introduction, bibliography, notes, index of personal names, and three appendices: "The Fortunes of Troilus"; Benoit de Sainte-Maure,…
Havely, Nicholas R., ed.
Durham: Durham Medieval Texts, Department of English; Provo, Ut.: Chaucer Studio, 1994.
An edition of HF based on a collation of all five witnesses (three menuscripts plus editions of Caxton and Thynne), with a substantial, though incomplete, set of variants.
Havely documents Dante's reception in sixteenth-century England, focusing on the perception of Dante in relation to England as "empire" and treatments of Dante as a "proto-Protestant" writer. Observes recurrently how Dante and Chaucer were yoked in…
Havely, Nick.
Seeta Chaganti, ed. Medieval Poetics and Social Practice: Responding to the Work of Penn R. Szittya (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012), pp. 109-23.
Reads the relationship between the formel and Nature in PF in light of late medieval practices of wardship, informed by attention to "yerde" as an emblem of authority. Comments on the formel's decision not to marry and on parallels between the formel…
Havely, Nick.
Isabel Davis and Catherine Nall, eds. Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015), pp. 43-56.
Describes how in Book III of HF Chaucer engages with Dante's "Commedia", especially Canto XI of the "Purgatorio"; focuses particularly on speaking silences, tacit allusions, and concerns with infamy.
Havely, Nick.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Assesses the general or "public" familiarity with Dante and his works in British culture, acknowledging his impact on poets such as Chaucer, Milton, and T. S. Eliot, but exploring instead a more pervasive presence. Includes references to Chaucer's…
Havely, Nick.
Miriam Wendling, ed. Cardinal Adam Easton (c. 1330–1397) (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020), pp. 119-38.
Demonstrates Adam Easton's "detailed engagement" with Dante's "Monarchia" (especially Book 3) in his "Defensorium ecclesiastice potestatis," and suggests that Easton and Chaucer "might well have known about each other's work." Includes comments on…
