Cooper, Helen.
Heather Hirschfeld, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 55-68.
Surveys theatrical genre labels ("comedy," "tragedy," "play," "drama") in early English, including Chaucer's uses of them. Then surveys the ways in which Chaucer's plots, motifs, and emphases influenced Shakespeare, with comments also on the…
Anderson, David.
Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts 13:1 (1985): 1-17.
Cassandra's "olde stories" of the Calydonian boar and of the siege of Thebes are not digressions but analogies that draw prophetic parallels between Troilus's situation and the circumstances of both the Trojan and the Theban wars. Past disputes led…
Delany, Sheila.
Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts 15 (1987): 27-35.
By omitting details about the Wife's experiences of work and travel, Chaucer deliberately reduces her complexity. His failure to express her social or psychological reality results from his own experience and desires mediated by gender, social…
Mandel, Jerome.
Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts 16 (1988): 27-50.
Explores parallels of character and structure (councils, marriage agreement, feast, tests, restoration) used to establish the architectonic unity of the fragment. Clothing imagery in the tales strengthens these connections.
Spolsky, Ellen.
Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts 16 (1988): 51-67.
Argues that for most Chaucerian scholars historical criticism,which necessarily recognizes generic and cultural differences between our own time and the Middle Ages, is outweighed by aesthetic criticism, which is viewer-centered and oriented toward…
Steimatsky, Noa.
Hebrew Unviersity Studies in Literature and the Arts 15 (1987): 36-43.
PardT contains a series of mirror paradoxes: the rioters' quest to slay Death becomes Death's quest to slay them; the Old Man claims he cannot find Death but directs the rioters to it; and the rioters' success in their quest proves to be their…
Obst, Wolfgang, and Florian Schleburg.
Heidelberg : C. Winter, 1999.
Includes twelve chapters, organized as follows: a passage from TC (usually 100 lines each from MS Cambridge Corpus Christi 61) is followed by a discussion of specific grammatical or phonological features. Thus, chapter one contains the first night…
Gorlach, Manfred.
Heidelberg : Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 1998.
Bibliographical, linguistic, and aesthetic description of saints' legends in Middle English, with focus on the South England Legendary and the Additional Legends in the Gilte Legend (1438).
Sauer, Walter.
Heidelberg : Universittsverlag C. Winter, 1998.
An introduction to the phonetics and phonology of Chaucer's language in two parts: first, the reconstruction of the phonetic and phonemic system of Chaucer's English and its diachronic development; second, the text of GP with a phonetic…
Johnston, Andrew James.
Heidelberg : Winter, 2001.
Tripartite study that first sketches the process of state formation in late-medieval England as a struggle between clerkly and chivalric cultures. Part II locates Chaucer's poetry within this process, assessing his reaction to chivalric culture in…
Johnston, Andrew James, Ferdinand von Mengden, and Thim Stefan, eds,
Heidelberg : Winter, 2006.
Twenty-four essays by various authors, presented as a festschrift for Klaus Dietz. Includes a wide variety of topics within German and English linguistics and medieval studies. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer; search for Language and Text…
Rudat, Wolfgang E. H.
Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitatsverlag, 1985.
Includes chapters on classical allusion in Pope, More, and Milton, and two chapters devoted to Chaucer. Chapter 2 explores Chaucer's allusions to Virgil's "Aeneid" in KnT, concerning fate. Chaucer's view of a chaotic universe is compared to…
Karnein argues that the "De amore" was written at the court of Philip Augustus, not in Champagne; that it was to condemn "courtly love'; and that it was so interpreted by its earlier, clerical audience and only later taken nonironically by lay…
Schmidt-Hidding, Wolfgang.
Heidelberg: Quelle & Meyer, 1959.
Opens with a chapter on Chaucer (pp. 9-35)--followed by ones about William Shakespeare, Henry Fielding, Thomas Sterne, Charles Lamb, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain--surveying his self-portraits, narrative poses, characterizations, ironies, and the…
Federow, Anne-Katrin, and Kay Malcher, eds
Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2021.
Thirteen essays by various authors on representations of Troy and the Trojan War in medieval works, with an introduction by the editors. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Troja Bauen under Alternative Title.
Machan, Tim William, ed.
Heidelberg: Winter, 2008.
A critical text of Bo, collated "with all medieval and late-medieval authorities and also with the modern critical editorial tradition." Includes a list of glosses and an extensive introduction, with a survey of interpretive responses to Bo.
Keller traces the medieval tradition of Troy narratives from Benoît de Saint-Maure and Guido delle Colonne through various Middle English adaptations, including TC. Focuses on the literary interplay of imperial ambition--with its tendency to…
Kelen, Sarah A.
Heidi Brayman Hackel, Jesse M. Lander, and Zachary Lesser, eds. The Book in History, the Book as History: New Intersections of the Material Text: Essays in Honor of David Scott Kastan (New Haven: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, 2016), pp. 235-55.
Compares and contrasts Immerito's and E. K.'s attitudes toward language and archaism in Edmund Spenser's "Shepheardes Calender," with particular attention to how the "overly generous glossing" of the text presumes a "reader's familiarity with…
Ando, Shinsuke.
Heinz Antor and Kevin L. Cope, eds. Intercultural Encounters-Studies in English Literatures: Essays Presented to Rdiger Ahrens on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday (Heidelberg: Universittsverlag C. Winter, 1999), pp. 168-74
Compares Chaucer's notion of tragedy, defined and exemplified in MkPT, with that in Japanese "Kishuryuritan" (legends of exiled nobles). Neither view is easily compatible with modern Western notions of tragedy.
Volk-Birke, Sabine.
Heinz-Joachim Mullenbrock and Renate Noll-Weimann, eds. Anglistentag 1988 Gottingen: Vortrage (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1989),pp. 209-19.
The oral-aural traditions of sermon giving and hearing can be illustrated in Chaucer's PardT, where four principles of sermon writing can be seen: strong interaction between the Pardoner and his audience of pilgrims; syntactic patterns such as…
Kline, Daniel T.
Helen Brookman and Olivia Robinson, eds. Creating Playful First Encounters with the Pre-Modern Past (Leeds: Arc Humanities, 2023), pp. 23-39.
Describes a pedagogy for using role-playing exercises in teaching CT in advanced undergraduate and early graduate classes. Comments on theories of "play and game," including notions of role-playing games, and explains a nested set of assignments and…
