Hudson, Anne.
Helen Cooper and Sally Mapstone, eds. The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), pp. 313-29.
Describes how John Bales sought to preserve English literary tradition by cataloging it in his "Scriptorum illustrium maioris Brytanniae...Catalogus" (1557 and 1559). Comments on Bale's treatment of Chaucer in the "longest entry concerning a…
Hudson, Anne.
Paul Ruggiers, ed. Editing Chaucer: The Great Tradition (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1984), pp. 53-70.
Best known for his "Survey of London," John Stow produced an edition of Chaucer's works in 1561 that influenced Elizabethan readers, even though it is largely a reprint of William Thynne's edition of 1532 (1550 reprint) that adds several works,…
Huerta, Monica.
Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021.
Creative non-fiction contemplation of storytelling, Chicanx identity, and spatial politics, including, in Chapter 3, "Disciplines and Disciples," a brief consideration of "discipline" in CYT (8.1253), as it relates to alchemy, deception,…
Huey, Peggy.
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. 14-26.
Explores the lexical and cultural meaning of "squire" as background to the GP sketch of the Squire. Chaucer's portrait is an idealized one, counterpointed by the lack of rhetorical skill in SqT.
Huffman, Rebecca.
Dissertation Abstracts International A81.04 (2019): n.p.
Includes discussion of the version of ParsT in Longleat, MS 29, a compilation of devotional works where Chaucer's name is "cut from the tale and the work presented in an unambiguously religious context."
Hughes reads CT as an allegorical political critique of the reign of Richard II. The GP descriptions allegorically represent aspects of Richard's personality or persons in his court. Each of the individual tales comments on specific political events…
Hughes combines travelogue and appreciative criticism as he traces the lives and footsteps of Chaucer, Froissart, and Boccaccio, exploring what each author contributed to growth in popular literature. Focuses on Chaucer's life and CT.
Hughes, Gavin.
Gerald Morgan, ed. Chaucer in Context: A Golden Age of English Poetry (New York: Peter Lang, 2012), pp. 83-108.
Looks at CT and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" from a "military historical and archeological perspective." Focuses on the Knight in GP and KnT, and on warfare scenes in Th and Sir Gawain.
Hughes, Geoffrey.
English Studies in Africa 25 (1982): 61-77.
The literature of courtly love does not accurately reflect medieval behavior in matters of love and sexual relations. Criseyde's "Who yaf me drinke?" (TC 2.651) derives from the motif of the love potion, which symbolizes "the overwhelming, obsessive…
Hughes, Geoffrey.
Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2006.
Several hundred entries cover a wide range of historical and conceptual topics, individual words, important landmarks in the history of swearing, etc. Very few entries are given over to individual writers, although the entry on Chaucer is lengthy…
Tallies various instances from GP where Chaucer "shows in his deployment of nonce-words, key-words, status-terms and moral terms, that character and language are inseparable, that words and values change as societies change, that the only true value…
Hughes, Jacob Alden.
Dissertation Abstracts International A75.11 (2015): n.p.
Identifies characters throughout Shakespeare's canon who "process and engage Chaucer's ideas on theater, authorship and performance," and demonstrate "how Chaucer's poetry is relevant to drama and theatricality."
Hughes, Jonathan.
New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
Studies the reception of Dante in England, 1370–1450, focusing on ecclesiastical concerns about the "Divine Comedy" (DC) and literary responses to the poem and its worldview. Includes assessment of possible routes for Chaucer's initial access to DC…
Critiques Morton W. Bloomfield's "The Man of Law's Tale: A Tragedy of Victimization and a Christian Comedy," commenting on the artistic quality of MLT and the Man of Law as narrator.
Hughes, Ted.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998.
A series of husband-to-wife [Hughes to Sylvia Plath] love poems in free verse, including two poems that refer to Chaucer: "St Botolph's" (pp. 14-15) which connects Chaucer with Dante and astrology, and "Chaucer" (pp. 51-52) which commemorates a…
Hühn, Peter.
Peter Hühn, and others, ed. Eventfulness in British Fiction. Narratologia: Contributions to Narrative Theory, no. 18 (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010), pp. 17-30.
Examines the tripartite plot structure of MilT and its "two oppositional" contexts, i.e., the ethical demands of its religious allusions and the subversiveness of its fabliau genre. The combination produces a "complex event structure full of…
Hui-jeong, Seon.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 22.2 (2014): 31-59.
Examines the irony and paradoxes of ClT, claiming that through the Tale, the Clerk "challenges an audience as Griselda's impassive patience challenges Walter." Views the Clerk as a "complicated figure of utter submissiveness and essential silence…
Hult, David F.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 252-69.
Frames Rom "in a lineage of narrative fiction going back to the twelfth-century predecessors of the two authors [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun] and attempts to describe their respective innovations." Includes and interprets various texts…
Hultin, Neil C.
Annuale Mediaevale 9 (1968): 58-75.
Considers the courtly conventions that are used in Mars, and argues that they are deployed ironically and comically to "show the moral deficiencies" of the courtly "system" and lead the reader to judge it accordingly. Considers the allusive…
Dreams in Chaucer function as authoritative texts within power structures. In PF, the systems represented by Affrycan and Nature protect authoritative knowledge and devalue individual experience. In TC, because knowledge and belief are interactive,…
Read in the light of late medieval letter collections and conduct manuals for women, the comedy of ShT springs from a recognition of the merchant's wife's "clever manipulation of her roles: as hostess, social networker, housekeeper, business…
Hume, Cathy.
Studies in Philology 105 (2008): 284-303.
Chaucer, having established an egalitarian marriage ideal at the beginning of FranT, explores how such an ideal would be tested by real-world circumstances.
