Shoaf, R[ichard] A[llen].
Jonathan Culler, ed. On Puns: The Foundation of Letters (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988), pp. 44-61.
Unpacks the meanings and implications of sample puns from Chaucer, Langland's "Piers Plowman," and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," suggesting that they evince a medieval respect for the transcendent potency of language. Chaucerian examples include…
Leavy, Barbara Fass.
Barbara Fass Leavy, To Blight with Plague: Studies in a Literary Theme (New York and London: New York University Press, 1992), pp. 41-82.
Assesses how and in what ways "disease of both body and soul" is a recurrent concern in CT, especially in fragment 6 which includes PhyT and PardT. Surmises that the fragment may have influenced Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year," and…
White, Patrick
Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 12 (1992): 213-28.
Adds FranT to the list of possible sources of George Bernard Shaw's "Candida." Evidence for the influence includes a similar tone in the two works, concern with a "rash promise" or "reckless declaration," plot resolution through "magnanimity," and…
Bawcutt, Priscilla J.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Surveys what is known of the life and context of William Dunbar, and discusses his canon and language, focusing on Dunbar's range of genres and his idea of himself as a poet or "makar." Comments frequently on Dunbar's debt to Chaucer (and others),…
Regards Henryson's changes to Chaucer's TC in "The Testament of Cresseid" as evidence of Henryson's assertion of "his own authority." In changing Chaucer's plot, he remakes his poetic antecedent and emulates Chaucer's own poetic practice.
Wheatley, Thomas Edward.
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 805A-06A.
The "forms of allegory" found in Walter of England's Latin "Fabulae," as well as its "structure and vocabulary of scholastic presentation, profoundly influenced the fables of Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate, and Robert Henryson." Discusses NPT,…
Wilson, Janet.
Sandra J. McEntire, ed. Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Garland Medieval Casebooks (New York: Garland, 1992), pp. 223-37.
Treats Margery Kempe and the Wife of Bath as carnivalesque female figures, although each is "mediated and hence vindicated by a masculine consciousness"--Margery's scribe and Chaucer. Both narrators are characterized by "grotesque realism,"…
Berkeley, Michael, comp.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Commissioned in 1983 by the BBC "as incidental music for a series of radio programmes to texts by Chaucer." Includes parts for instruments (two trumpets, one horn, one tenor trombone, one tuba, and "Optional Percussion"), with scoring for five…
Wrinkle, Johanna
San Antonio, Tex.: ECS Learning Systems, 1992.
A guide for teaching CT in the high school literature curriculum, with an emphasis on physiognomy and the humours. Includes introductory information and various assignments, tests, and activities.
Pedagogical guide to selections from Tennyson, Chaucer, and African poetry, with recommendations on how to explicate poetry, focusing on theme and style. The Chaucer section (pp. 60-111) addresses GP and NPT, emphasizing Chaucer's goals of moral and…
Collects sixty-two case studies, accompanied by "questions to consider," designed as exercises in decision-making for library managers. Study number 58, "This Is the Year for Chaucer" (pp. 105-07), pertains to the development of the Chaucer…
Study guide that includes text and facing-page prose translation of FranT and the GP description of the Franklin, with end-of-text notes and glosses, study questions, and a description of Chaucer's language. Includes a description of Chaucer's life…
Study guide that includes text and facing-page prose translation of KnT and the GP description of the Knight, with end-of-text notes and glosses, study questions, and a description of Chaucer's language. Includes a description of Chaucer's life and…
Barnbrook, Geoff.
Gerhard Leitner, ed. New Directions in English Language Corpora: Methodology, Results, Software Developments (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992), pp. 277-87.
Explores the potential for "training" a computer to identify spelling variants in Middle English texts, using Robinson's edition (1957) of CT as a basis for analysis. Describes a methodology, results, and perceived shortcomings.
Black, Maggie.
London: British Museum Press, 1992.
An illustrated, indexed cookbook of medieval recipes, drawn from the resources of the British Museum, with one chapter entitled "Chaucer's Company" (pp. 34-50) that includes seven recipes, linked to the CT pilgrims.
Sturges, Robert S.
Jessica Munns and Penny Richards, eds. Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe (Harlow, U.K.: Pearson/Longman, 2003), pp. 40-54.
Focuses on John Heywood's "The Foure PP" and on the "Tale of Beryn" for their uses of the figure of the "Chaucerian Pardoner" and his "irreducible ambiguity" as a means to explore the "rule of the phallus" and the ways that each of the two texts…
Roe, John, ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Includes discussion (pp. 35-41) of the influence of Chaucer's account of Lucrece (LGW) on Shakespeare's "The Rape of Lucrece," focusing on Chaucer's "particularly sympathetic defence" of Lucrece, despite his overstating of St. Augustine's compassion…
McArthur, Tom, ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Includes an entry entitled "Chaucer, Geoffrey [1343?-1400]," by Whitney F. Bolton, which surveys Chaucer's life, works, language, and style, with a brief bibliography. The same information is published in McArthur's "Concise Oxford Companion to the…
Notes Chaucer's attention to "loss of sexual power" in the process of aging, commenting on two brief passages in modern translation: WBP (3.198-203) and RvP (1.3879-382, 3887-98).
Kawasaki, Masatoshi.
Eigo Seinen 137.11 (1992): 558-60.
Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography, where it is described as concerned with the garden imagery and sources in Chaucer. In Japanese.
Knopp, Sherron E.
James M. Dean and Christian Zacher, eds. The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992), pp. 91-107.
Explores Chaucer's radical, bookishly theoretical preoccupation with language and art and argues that the social and psychological "realism" seen by earlier critics is also present. Knopp examines the Ovidian section of BD as an example of narrative…
Comic novel cast as the first-person memoir of British academic who identifies with Shakespeare's Hamlet (p. 7) and alludes to Chaucer at least once, citing his own feelings as being similar to those of the "ghost of Troilus at the end of Chaucer's…
