Dor, Juliette.
Guyonne Leduc, ed. Réalité et représentations des Amazones. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2008, pp. 257-72.
Feminist and postcolonial reconsideration of the figure of Emily that focuses on the Knight's adjustment of traditional material; Emily has not submitted to patriarchal values, despite the Knight's modifications. In French.
Federico, Sylvia.
Gwilym Dodd, Helen Lacey, and Anthony Musson, eds. People, Power and Identity in the Late Middle Ages: Essays in Memory of W. Mark Ormrod (London: Routledge, 2021), pp. 56-72.
Offers documentary evidence that roads, markets, and taverns were "conduits for and symbols of" class mobility/motility and rebellious tidings in post-Uprising medieval England, especially in Kent and on the Canterbury road. Against this background,…
Gray, Douglas.
H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, eds. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 61 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004): 11: 247-59.
Biography of Chaucer, with brief bibliography. Sub-sections include "Early Life," "Poetry: The Beginnings," "Journeys on the King's Service--Italy," "Chaucer at the Customs House and Aldgate," "Works of the 1370s and early 1380s," "Life in London,…
Salmon, Vivian.
H. G. Ringbom, ed. Style and Text: Studies Presented to Nils Erik Enkvist (Stockholm: Skriptor, 1975), pp. 263-77.
Evaluation of the characteristics of genuine, spontaneous conversation supports the conclusion that CT provides realistic evidence of English speech in the late fourteenth century. Chaucerian conversation is affected by the need of speech to reflect…
Mertens-Fonck, Paule.
H. Maes-Jelinek et al., eds. Multiple Worlds, Multiple Words: Essays in Honour of Irene Simon (Liege: University of Liege, Department of English, 1987), pp. 175-92.
In their defense of women, Chaucer and the anonymous author of "The Owl and the Nightingale" seem to have drawn on the same description of the Adulterous Woman of Proverbs 7. Chaucer also uses the image of the Virtuous Woman and gives Alice knightly…
Erzgräber, Willi.
H. Maes-Jelinek et al., eds. Multiple Worlds, Multiple Words: Essays in Honour of Irene Simon (Liege: University of Liege, English Department, 1987), pp. 103-21.
Examines Chaucer's fabliaux (MilT and RvT) as designed for a courtly audience and TC as revealing a "subtle interplay between nobility, gentry, and the middle class." Chaucer's work is symptomatic of a general literary development: "the exploration…
Dor, Juliette.
H. Maes-Jelinek et al., eds. Multiple Worlds, Multiple Words: Essays in Honour of Irene Simon (Liege: University of Liege, English Department, 1987), pp. 69-77.
Both the female world of the opening lines and the portrait of perfect lovers possessing all the qualities required by the courtly code were unnatural. Ultimately, Chauctecler rejects the "courtly code and mask" that governed his previous behavior…
Maule, Jeremy.
H. S. Cobb, ed. Parliamentary History, Libraries and Records: Essays Presented to Maurice Bond ([London]: House of Lords Record Office, 1981), pp. 9-16.
Describes various kinds of "parliament-poems" in Middle English, focusing on PF as a model for others, and commenting on the depiction of the parliament scene in TC, Book 4, and its concern with "voting by voices" or assent. Summarizes Chaucer's…
Doltas, Dilek.
Hacettepe Bulletin of Social Sciences and Humanities 3 (1971): 157-75.
While depicting love and marriage in the Marriage Group, Chaucer presents the "delights of both the flesh and the soul." The group opens with Mel; WBPT, ClT, and MerT offer extreme but lively views. FranT presents an ideal secular solution, while…
Lehnert, Martin, trans.
Halle (Salle): Verl. Sprache und Literatur, 1962.
Item not seen. WorldCat link to table of contents indicates that the selections (in English and in German with notes) include GP (selections), MilPT, RvPT, CkPT, WBPT, FrPT, SumPT, PardPT, and ShT, with an introduction, pp. vii-xvi.
Part 2 (pp. 225-379) prints the entire GP, based on the text of Manly and Rickert (1940), with phonetic transcription of lines 1-78; introductory commentary on its meter, stress patterns, syllabification, and rhyme techniques; and a comprehensive…
Kleinstück, Johannes Walter.
Hamburg: Cram, de Gruyter & Co., 1956.
Surveys courtly virtues in Chaucer ("courtoisie," "franchise," "gentillesse," "honour," "joie," "pitie," etc.) and the vices which are grounded in pride and the pursuits of fortune. Focuses on KnT when examining the virtues and on the fabliaux for…
Starkie, Martin, narrator.
Coghill, Nevill, trans.
Hamburg: Deutsche Grammophon, 1968. (139 380 A)
Includes selections from GP in translation by Nevill Coghill, set to music, and narrated by Martin Starkie: the opening of GP and the descriptions of the Knight, the "Knight's Son,", the "Nun," the "Guild," the Monk, the Wife of Bath, the Shipman,…
Barney, Stephen A., ed.
Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1980.
Contains seventeen essays or excerpts from longer works by various authors, fourteen previously published, some with very brief additional "afterwords." For the three newly-published pieces, search for Chaucer's Troilus: Essays in Criticism under…
Yeager, Robert F., ed.
Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1984.
Essays on reviews of scholarship, language and paleography, and literary criticism. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays under Alternative Title.
Barney, Stephen A.
Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press, 1979.
Derives theory and definition from close readings of Prudentius's "Psychomachis," "Piers Plowman," "The Romance of the Rose," and "The Faerie Queene" as well as four more modern allegories.
The relations between diversity and unity, and between particular and general, are a major issue in CT, and emerge especially in the emphasis on profession, the sexes, and the relation of individual experience to normative authority. Emphasis on…
Benson, Larry D.
Hamden, Conn.: Garland Press, 1993.
A complete concordance to Benson's "Riverside Chaucer," excluding only titles, glosses, implicits, and explicits. Includes brief definitions of words and references to definitions in the OED and MED.
Discusses church treatises, didactic works, and books of advice to daughters, or of clerical instruction to women, and mirrors for princesses, to reveal medieval images of women: the virgin, the coquette, the wife and mother, the ruler, the worker.
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y., and Hildegard Schnuttgen
Hamden, Conn.: Shoe String Press, 1988, for 1987.
Definitive coverage of twelve years of Chaucer scholarship, including books, articles, dissertations, and reviews--numbered, cross-referenced, and indexed by author and subject. A continuation, with added features, of previous standard…
Pintor, Ivan, and others.
Hamilton, N. J.: Films Media Group, 2009.
An illustrated interview with Harold Bloom, with commentary and contributions by others. The section entitled "Chaucer and the Creation of Character" includes Bloom's suggestion that the Pardoner is a precursor to Shakespeare's Iago and Edmund, and…
Storms, G.
Handelingen van het drieendertigste Nederlands Filologencongress: Gehouden te Nijmegen op woensdag 17, donderlag 18, en vrijdag 19 april 1974. (Amsterdam: Holland University Press, 1974) pp. 1-12.
Intended for an upper-class public, MilT has high literary value owing to its structure, motivation, style, and place in CT (especially the contrast with the preceding KnT), consistency with the Miller's personality, and also characterization,…
