Hussey, Maurice, A. C. Spearing, and James Winny.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965.
Designed as a "not too bulky" introduction to Chaucer and his life for the Cambridge University Press series "Selected Tales of Chaucer," providing fundamental information about Chaucer's life, language, social contexts, and intellectual background,…
Hussey, Maurice, ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966.
Presents MerPT in Middle English (following Robinson's 1957 edition), with notes and glossary at the end of the text. The Introduction (pp. 1-34) comments on the GP description of the Merchant, the relations between MerT and ClT and between MerT and…
Hussey, Maurice, ed.
Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1965.
Presents CYPT in Middle English (following Robinson's 1957 edition) with end-of-text notes and glossary and a one-page appendix of the spurious link between CYT and PhyT. The Introduction (pp. 1-22) considers the "surprise" of the presence of CY…
Hussey, Maurice, ed.
Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1965.
Presents NPPT and NPE in Middle English (following Robinson's 1957 edition) with end-of-text notes and glossary. The Introduction (pp. 1-44) considers the tale-teller relations of NPPT, the "digressions" (dreams, sermons, and rhetoric) of NPT, and…
Hussey, Maurice.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967.
Compiles more than 100 maps and images that illustrate the Chaucer's world and the imagery therein, arranged loosely around the GP descriptions of Chaucer's pilgrims, with additional topics. The accompanying text includes appreciation of Chaucer's…
Hussey, S. S.
Edward Donald Kennedy, Ronald Waldron, and Joseph S. Wittig, eds. Medieval Studies Presented to George Kane (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Wolfeboro, N.H.: D. S. Brewer, 1988): pp. 153-65.
Examines the Host as the "unifying feature of the whole pilgrimage fiction." Chaucer's "revisions" of the character and function of the Host increase his "realism" and serve as a structural device.
Hussey, S. S.
Elizabeth Maslen, ed. Comedy: Essays in Honour of Peter Dixon by Friends and Colleagues (London: Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, 1993), pp. 1-13.
The comedy of MerT is brought out through Chaucer's manipulation of various literary sources and styles.
Hussey, S. S.
Modern Language Review 67 (1972): 721-29.
Treats various features of book 5 of TC (lack of proem, several amplifications, various sources) as "apparently gratuitous or insufficiently integrated matter," evidence that Chaucer intended to write his poem in four books but found that he needed a…
Hussey, S. S.
London: Methuen, 1971; 2nd ed. 1982.
Introduces Chaucer's life and works to the modern reader, summarizing the plots of individual works and explaining medieval practices and details that underlie them, and attending to their relative chronology, sources, innovations, genres, and…
Hussey, Stanley S.
Wolf-Dietrich Bald and Horst Weinstock, eds. Medieval Studies Conference Aachan 1983 (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1984), pp. 121-30.
Examines CT characters for individuality not conditioned by the story in FranT, MilT, TC, GP's Host and Merchant, MerP, MerT, and RvT.
Hutchins, Christine E.
Ben Jonson Journal 15 (2008): 248-70.
Late sixteenth-century Elizabethan reception of Chaucer focused as much on his "recreational" talents as a vernacular poet and stylist as on his doctrinal or philosophical themes. Constructed as a "prodigal" poet as well as a laureate, Chaucer was…
A St. Valentine's Day entertainment, PF emphasizes the inevitable, though unembraced, participation in "kynde" of its audience. The narrator's use and misuse of his authorities frustrate the expectations of his readers, thereby forcing them to…
Huth, Jennifer Mary.
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1997): 159A.
Examines the rise of professionalism and women's efforts to achieve autonomy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England as represented in the mystery cycles, Chaucer's Wife of Bath, and Margery Kempe.
Hutmacher, William Frederick.
Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1977): 779A.
De Worde's 1498 edition of CT uses no other source than CX2. The many variants between the two texts result from his attempts to correct the CX2 edition and his adherence to common practices of early printers. One significant variant in de Worde's…
Hutton, Ronald.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.
Surveys the origins and development of versions of the fairy queen and related figures in western tradition. Includes a brief description of Chaucer's contribution to this development in WBP, 860 ("The elf-queen") where he blends "the classic image…
Huws, Daniel.
National Library of Wales Journal 25:1 (1987): 114-18.
Now renamed NLW MS 21972D, the early-fifteenth-century Merthyr Fragment, containing NPT, is described and compared to other manuscripts. The Merthyr Fragment is about 200 lines of text now visible, in whole or in part, about 20 more than previously…
Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is an interview of Huxley with John Chandos, recorded July 7, 1961, and includes discussion of Chaucer and psychology. First published in 1964.
Huxtable, Michael J.
C. P. Biggam and C. J. Kay, eds. Progress in Colour Studies: Volume I. Language and Culture (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2006), pp. 199-217.
Huxtable surveys medieval philosophical and religious understanding of sight and color as background to commentary on social concerns with color in sumptuary habits and heraldry. In ParsT 10.424-27, colorful clothing indicates a sinful nature.
Hwang, Joon Ho.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 12 (2006): 371-92.
HF reflects Chaucer's efforts to imitate Dante's innovation and use of the vernacular; the poem shows Chaucer's struggles with nonstandard forms of English and the lack of an English literary tradition.
The Pardoner's invitation is not a physical threat to the pilgrimage but a further sign of his propensity to profit from others and to compensate for his "sexual difference." Storm's essay appeared in PMLA 97 (1982): 810-18.
Hyder, Clyde Kenneth.
Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1962.
Describes the life and professional career of George Lyman Kittredge, prominent critic of Chaucer, editor of Shakespeare's plays, and scholar of ballads, folklore, and more. Quotes from a number of personal and professional letters as well as…
Hyman, Eric.
Essays in Literature (Macomb, Ill.) 16 (1989): 155-71.
HF might best be perceived "as a comic monologue, as a series of jokes with comic business instead of a controlling theme." It is thus closer in tone and intent to W. S. Gilbert than to Dante or Boethius.
Comic novel set in a modern university, replete with literary references and allusions, including several to Chaucer, e.g., a quotation from GP 1.308 in its dedication, PardT 6.895-903 as an epigram, and a parody of Ret at the end of the book.
