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Diachronic study of verbs like "become," "grow," "wax," and "turn" used as both linking and regular verbs. Old, Middle, Early Modern, and Modern English show a decline in dominant meaning, allowing for linking-verb use. Includes data from Chaucer.

Includes a brief biography of Chaucer and a lengthy chronological work-by-work introduction to his oeuvre. Also includes a chapter on Chaucerian apocrypha, relations with Gower, and influence on later poets.

Murder-mystery short story in which Chaucer and Froissart in Italy seek to solve the death by poison of Duke Lionel. Published in the U.K. in The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits: Third New Collection (London: Robinson).

Story of murderous intrigue at the court of Richard involving Robert de Vere, Anne of Bohemia, John of Gaunt, and others, featuring Chaucer as sleuth.

Short story in which Chaucer, on peace mission to France, solves the mystery of a murder thereby helping Bertrand du Guesclin, who had been falsely accused.

In ClT and especially MLT, Chaucer examines the problem of undeserved suffering. He combines embodiments of patience with realism, producing not exempla but "semi-allegorical" narratives which set out "universal positions."

By looking at two surviving "Patient Grissel" plays, the prose chapbook, and the ballad on the same subject, Baldwin shows that the popularity of Chaucer's ClT extended into the sixteenth century. Greene loosely modeled his "Pandosto" on the story…

Argues that a seventeenth-century play, "The Wisest Have Their Fools About Them," may reflect the influence of Chaucerian fabliau and some late-medieval stage traditions. Baldwin's analysis focuses on stereotypical characters.

Considers the implications of treating the Canon (CYP and CYT, Part I) and the canon (CYT, Part II) as the same character, exploring the unity of the prologue and parts, and assessing the characterization of the canon(s), the Canon's Yeoman, and his…

Gathers secular and religious travel narratives of England
and France. The volume is divided into three sections: critical essays; twenty-six texts, or excerpts, from narratives, including SqT; and supporting bibliographies.

A study of the "reiteration, instability and changing valence of the Jewish image as inscribed in medieval English books," focusing on four generic narratives: the Jew of Tewkesbury, the Marian miracle of the boy singer, the cult of Robert of Bury…

Surveys medieval notions of authorship from the twelfth century to the late fifteenth century, commenting on topics such as anonymity, laureateship, Mandeville's "Travels," "The Cloud of Unknowing," "The Book of Margery Kempe," and the development…

Discusses "non-Christian religion" represented in the CT and examines what it means to be a Jew in PrT or a Muslim in MLT. Argues that Chaucer's understanding of Judaism in PrT and Islam in MLT reveals the "ironies of self-identity and the patterns…

Examines connections between Chaucer and Lydgate, tracing "some of the ways in which Lydgate received and (re)constructed Chaucer's poetry." Concentrating on "The Mumming at Bishopswood," the "Siege of Thebes," and the patronage between Lydgate and…

Recounts personal experiences of studying PrT and its reception as a prelude to examining the role and status of medieval studies in twenty-first-century British educational culture, particularly its inequalities, colonialisms, and appropriations,…

Investigates late fifteenth-century English representations of Ottoman Turks and Rhodes, assessing Caxton's first-printed indulgence (and related ones), John Kay's "Siege of Rhodes," a Paston letter, and "The Turke and Sir Gawaine" for the ways they…

Assesses the Troy stories in BD and HF, exploring issues of cultural memory, authorization, and Chaucer's visual depiction of the traditional narrative.

Reviews development of late fourteenth-century English poetry and the canonization and recognition of Chaucer and Gower as founders of English literature. Claims that their literature contributes to a sense of belonging, through the use of the…

Studies Chaucer's engagement with Ovidian sources to consider how LGW is a "narrative of metamorphosis." Argues that the metamorphosis is due to the creative process of ""vernacularization of the classical authority,""which establishes a shared…

Traces usage of generic 'they,' following an epicene antecedent (such as 'anyone' or 'everyone') to the late fourteenth century. The Hengwrt manuscript of CT shows an eighteen percent occurrence of 'euery,' 'ech, 'and 'euerich' as antecedents to…

Compares a folktale analogue found in County Tyrone with FrT, examining issues and implications.

Presents Chaucer's Wife of Bath and James Joyce's Molly Bloom as counter-cultural figures, from the perspective of their characters, their views of man-woman relationships, and their sexuality. Contrasts the different forms of expression of their…

Proceedings from a seminar on Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's short story, "The Wife of Bath," in which a modern character (a Jane Austen fan) travels to Bath and meets a woman, Alice, whose life recalls Chaucer's character in several ways. The story is…

The wife's attack upon her husband Symkyn at the end of RvT is not an accident as commonly believed. Rather, the action is a deliberate attempt to conceal her adultery.

Explores the roots of medieval poetic theory in medieval rhetorical handbooks, and examines MilT, PrT, PhyT, MerT, and ClT) for evidence that Chaucer was influenced by the "received medieval poetic," even though his "narrative procedure . . . may be…