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…
Hieatt, A. Kent, and Constance Hieatt, trans.
New York: Golden Press, 1961.
Adaptations of selections and abbreviations of CT in modern prose: GP, KnT, WBPT, FrPT, ClPT, FranPT, ThPT (in stanzaic poetry), NPPT, PardPT, CYPT, ManPT, and MLPT. Includes numerous color illustrations by Gustaf Tenggren and an Introduction (pp.…
Hieatt, A. Kent.
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1975.
Spenser drew upon Chaucerian and Milton upon Spenserian narrative for mythopoeic embodiments of moral ideas, which they in turn adapted and transformed. From PF, KnT, Marriage Group, and SqT Spenser assimilated ideas of continuity, harmony and free…
Hieatt, A. Kent.
Theresa M. Krier, ed. Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998), pp. 147-64.
Books 3-4 of "The Faerie Queene" are a meditation on the nature of sexual passion, deeply influenced by FranT (which Spenser paraphrases in part) and its emphasis on companionship as a brake on sexual passion. Spenser develops the meditation in his…
Hieatt, A. Kent.
Richardson, David A., ed. Spenser and the Middle Ages: Proceedings from a Special Session at the Eleventh Conference on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan 2-5 May 1976 (Cleveland: Cleveland State University, 1976), pp. 216-29.
Argues that Spenser emulated a four-part mythic pattern of Chaucer's KnT in his own version of SqT, as well as elsewhere in Books 3-4 of "The Faerie Queene," where Spenser also reflects the influence of Chaucer's concerns in the Marriage Group…
Associates Scudamour of Edmund Spenser's The Fairie Queene IV.x with "Chaucerian" mastery in love, drawing parallels with love in KnT and contrasts with love in FranT, the latter quoted by Spenser in III.i.25, 8-9.
Hieatt, Constance B.
English Studies in Canada 14 (1988): 400-18.
Dreams in medieval literature are conventionally used for foreshadowing, rarely with psychological implications. In TC, however, Chaucer combines the prophetic "somnium coeleste" with the psychological "somnium animale" such that neither can be…
Hieatt, Constance B.
Edward Vasta and Zacharias P. Thundy, eds. Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays presented to Paul E. Beichner, C.S.C. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979), pp. 139-63.
Food and eating provide central images and activities in Chaucer's poetry. Misunderstanding the foods mentioned, Chaucer's readers may miss points essential to their comprehension of his poetry. The revolution in tastes and eating habits may be…
Hieatt, Constance B.
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 199-209.
Comments on each of the three appearances of the Cook in CT--the GP sketch, CkP, and ManP--providing historical and cultural background for Chaucer's "proprietor of a cookshop," including several recipes.
Hieatt, Constance B.
Martha Carlin and Joel T. Rosenthal, eds. Food and Eating in Medieval Europe (London and Rio Grande, Ohio: Hambledon Press, 1998), pp. 101-15
Corrects a number of misconceptions about medieval recipes and includes clarification of the meaning of "gyngebreed" in Th (CT 7.854).
Hieatt, Constance B.
R. Barton Palmer, ed. Chaucer's French Contemporaries: The Poetry/Poetics of Self and Tradition (New York: AMS Press, 1999), pp. 163-86
Assesses Machaut's knowledge of falconry and his depiction of the falconer/falcon relationship in "Dit de l'Alerion" as an extended metaphor of love. Also explores the influence of Machaut's metaphor, including its impact on Chaucer (TC, LGW, WBP,…
Hieatt, Constance B.
The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1967.
Explores the nature and function of dream vision in late-medieval English literature, focusing on BD, HF, PF, LGWP, "Pearl" and "Piers Plowman," and commenting on other works. Considers this poetry in light of post-Freudian psychology as well as…
Hieatt, Constance B.
Studia Neophilologica 42 (1970): 3-8.
Identifies nine aphoristic statements in NPT and assesses the extent to which they can be considered the "moralite" referred to by the narrator in 7.3440. Considers analogous fables and claims that Chaucer's version demonstrates "a common Chaucerian…
Hieatt, Constance B., ed.
New York: Odyssey Press, [1970].
Edits MilT with notes and glossary, an introduction, a discussion of Chaucer's language, a brief bibliography, and a translation of the Flemish analogue to MilT, "The Three Guests of Heile of Bersele." The introduction considers the date of…
Higashinaka, Hana.
Colloquia (journal by postgraduates at the Department of English and American Literature, Keio University) 44 (2023): 53-64.
Examines MilT through the lens of medieval optical theories, particularly those of Ibn al-Haytham and Roger Bacon. Argues that Chaucer's depictions of visual perception, distance, and light may be influenced by these optical theories, using them…
Gauges the implications of the wide range of musical images in GP, exploring the exegetical roots of Chaucer's uses of these images, and assessing concord, discord, and silence as indicators of moral approval or censure. Chaucer's uses are not…
Higdon, David Leon.
Papers on Language and Literature 8 (1972): 199-201.
Suggests that the liturgy for the Lenten holiday of Refreshment Sunday underlies the Wife of Bath's two references to refreshment (WBP 3.37-38 and 3.143-46) and the juxtaposition of the seconmd one with her reference to the parable of the loaves and…
Higgins, Anne.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 89 (1990): 17-36.
Spenser's indebtedness to Chaucer is several times acknowledged in "The Faerie Queene," but only in a curious, ambiguous way, "reducing rather than elevating Chaucer's reputation." Chaucer, for example, was hardly the poet of "warlike numbers" that…
Higgins, Anne.
Teresa Tavormina and R. F. Yeager, eds. The Endless Knot: Essays on Old and Middle English in Honor of Marie Borroff (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1995), pp. 113-27.
One key to recognizing the parody of hagiography in LGW is the identification of Alceste as Alice de Cestre in LGWP.
Higgins explores the "incidental affiliations" between CT and "The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy," demonstrating how flyting tradition informs CT, especially Part 1 and the debate between the Wife of Bath and the Clerk. The tale-telling contest is…
Higgins, Iain Macleod.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 620-35.
Examines "The Kingis Quair" and "The Testament of Cresseid," the 'two Scottish works that respond most fully' to Chaucer's corpus, demonstrating how these poems rework Chaucerian verse and its framings for new and possibly subversive ends. Compares…
Higgs, Elton D.
Huntington Library Quarterly 45 (1982): 155-73.
The Knight and the pilgrims in his group represent the physical world and its transformation, the Clerk and his group reflect the changes in the intellectual sphere of society, and the Plowman and the Parson are the ideal representatives of the…
