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Since the late 1970s, manuscript study has become a major part of Middle English scholarship, but such study has not affected edditorial practice. The "Riverside Chaucer," for example, "is scarcely revolutionary in its method and biases."

An annotated bibliography of thirty German translations of Chaucer's works published between 1826 and 1992, with additional commentary that notes patterns of reception.

Establishes the authenticity of Shakespeare's "A Lover's Complaint" and suggests that the female falcon's complaint in SqT is a possible analogue. Both laments belong to the complaint tradition.

A three-stanza poem in praise of the Virgin Mary--from a single leaf inserted after Lydgate's Life of Our Lady in Bodleian Library MS Bodley 120--alludes to or echoes SqT (5.347) and TC (5.1670).

Offers evidence that "goddes boteler" was a "conventional epithet for Ganymede" and that the "most probable source" for Chaucer's of the phrase in HF and for his use of "stellifye" in the same context is Petrus Berchorius's moralization of Ovid.

Examines geographical and literary backgrounds to Chaucer's use of "Carrenare" in BD, 1029, identifying it with "Caramoran" (especially as found in Marco Polo and Mandeville), and suggesting it helps to separate Blanche from the vanities of the…

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The tautologies of the "Roman de la Rose," formally co-ordinate and semantically emphatic, Chaucer usually renders by conservation, grammatical transcategorization, amplification, or emphasized reduction.

Cooper discusses the poetic confraternities called "puys," devoted to competitive writing of poetry. An edition and translation of Renaud de Hoiland's "Si tost c'amis" serves as an example of the kind of civil performance being rejected by the…

Significantly, the setting of GP is located outside the limits of London proper, and most of the pilgrims are not Londoners. CkT offers a clear vision of fourteenth-century London and reflects what is both good and appalling about the city.

As reflected in ShT, medieval urban space allows the powerful to exert political influence by converting capital into noncommercial culture.

Chaucer's begging poem reflects his anxieties about money within the complex moneyed economy of fourteenth-century London. Reprinted in Scattergood's Occasions for Writing: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Politics, and Society…

Davis discusses Alexander Pope's "The Temple of Fame," a translation of HF.

The warm acclaim the Victorians gave to Chaucer reflects the nineteenth century's anxious and conflicted responses to rapid urbanization.

In Mel, Chaucer depicts space reflecting the split interests and antagonisms that dominated contemporary London.

Butterfield situates the study of Chaucer and London within a framework of theoretical approaches to the construction of urban space.

Reads Chaucer's London in relationship to three topics: social space, Plato's order of the city, and the political tie between sovereign and subjects.

Troy is insistently present in TC as a model of subjective citymaking.

CYT is Chaucer's London tale par excellence; its "craft sounds" evoke both what the city is and what it is not.

Argues that a substantial turn away from the topic of idealized love in Chaucer's writing after 1387 demonstrates a shift in his real and imagined audiences. In the second half of his career, Chaucer's audience may have been an almost exclusively…

Explores the roles of distress, dislocation, and thoughtfulness in medieval academic discourse, theology, and literary invention. Includes comments on the scene of encountering marvels in SqT (81ff., esp. 189–95)--among the "many [examples] to…

Explains how George Colvile's 1556 translation of Boethius's "Consolatio" is a "medieval throwback," tracing its marginal explanatory notes to medieval commentary and finding similar commentary "intercalated" with Boethius's poems, tentatively…

Briefly surveys the practice of drawing lots in ancient history, the Bible, medieval literature, and Chaucer's works, focusing on the GP "lottery" to select who will tell the first tale.

Designed for "graduate and advanced students," this selective bibliography includes 3215 citations (more than 800 added to 1st edition, 1968), arranged in fourteen categories and sub-divided in several subordinate categories, with separate sections…

Argues that Chaucer is "multivoiced" and a "realist par excellence" whose "verism . . . encompasses minor elements like obscenity and bawdry." Draws examples from TC and CT, WBPT most extensively.