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Describes cultural contact and marital negotiations among Plantagenets, Bohemians, and Viscontis as background to Anne of Bohemia's recurrent presence in Chaucer's works, often as an imperial daughter and/or mediatrix, and often reflecting "Marian…

Observes structural and thematic parallels between ClT and its Envoy, arguing that both refute the Wife of Bath's attitudes, one through alternative perspective and the other through mockery.

Explains Chaucer's humor as the "healthy expression of a spiritually sound man" faced with a decadent world and surmises that Chaucer was publicly cuckolded by Philippa and John of Gaunt.

Reinforces connections between the prologue to Lydgate's "Siege of Thebes" and CT. Claims Lydgate responds to Chaucer's caricature of the Monk in defense of monasticism; alludes to the Monk's portrait and the person of the Host in GP; borrows…

Assesses humor and irony in MilT and RvT, with attention to satire and Bakhtinian concerns of social class. In Portuguese, with an abstract in English. Revised by Márcia Maria de Medeiros as "Figurações do Humor em Geoffrey Chaucer--Uma Leitura de…

Chronological description of humor in British literature, with individual discursive bibliographies on literary humor in the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries and on individual writers in these periods. Surveys the criticism of humor in…

Commenting on the paucity of studies that directly address humor in Chaucer, Kendrick explores modern theories and medieval attitudes toward humor, especially as related to notions of tolerance. She examines instances in Chaucer, Deschamps, and…

Examines several bawdy puns, "incongruous situations," and other humorous ironies in KnT, suggesting that they are unintended by the Knight yet consistent with Chaucer's depiction of him as "a romantic, caught by reality but aspiring to the ideal"…

Tests several theories of humor--especially Victor Raskin and Salvatore Attardo's "General Theory of Verbal Humor" (1985) and Thomas D. Cooke's "Comic Climax" (1978)--for their value in analyzing Elizabethan jests and medieval fabliaux, parodies,…

Focuses on Chaucer's humor and irony in the love consummation scene in TC, and how he frames terminology as courtly love, while undermining the concept.

Humor may be classified as visual, antirepressive, and linguistic-stylistic (sophisticated and often ironic). Gloss treats seven authors of four nationalities, including Chaucer.

Describes the comic humor of Chaucer's Purse and Thomas Hoccleve's "Complaint to Lady Money" and "La Response,"

Discusses the "household book" of Humphrey Newton and its relation to "central literary culture." MS Lat. Misc. C.66 includes a section of ParsT (10.601-29), a section of KnT (1.3047-56), and a letter imitating Troilus upon seeing Criseyde.

Argues that Chaucer's use of conventional hunter and prey images in FrT "serves an organic function within the aesthetic whole of the work." Rather than "functioning as mere decoration" it reinforces and deepens "the comic irony both inherent and…

Identifies associations between hunting and Fortune in various Middle English romances, exploring the "shared formal and thematic ambitions" of BD and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" as "two members of this hunting-and-Fortune group." Shows how the…

Focusing on orthography, rhyme, "near-rhyme," and meaning, Vaughan suggests that "hunting for the hurt" in BD, and not just the hart, gives prominence to the narrator's unresolved emotional and physical pain. The hert(e)/hart/heart word-play in BD is…

Explores Chaucer's subtle manipulation of the language and imagery of hunting in FrT.

Explores historical and literary traditions of the noble hunt,addressing Christian and classical backgrounds, hunting manuals, narrative motifs, a variety of Middle English romances, and the figures of Sir Tristrem and Christ as hunters. Middle…

Argues from "codicological and paleographical evidence" that the copy of TC found in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61, was commissioned by a "high-level clerical, Lancastrian patron." Examines the "ornate textura" ("textualis") script ofth e…

Manuscript environment (in the case of Huntington 140, the copying of ClT alongside several pious poems by Lydgate and circulation with a paraphrase of Job, the "Libelle of Englyshe Polycye," and several edifying narratives), combined with the…

Erotic film adaptation of CT; loosely adapted. Screenplay by Hyapatia Lee.

Analyzes the "range of discourses" in several GP descriptions, particularly those of the Monk, Friar, Parson, Clerk, Sergeant at Law, and Prioress. In various ways, Chaucer combines estates satire, free indirect discourse, the opinions of the…

Builds on Homi K. Bhabha's definition of hybridity and studies the pilgrims as "the hybrids and/or mimics of medieval borderline society." Contextualizes these hybrid identities within economic and social changes, and concentrates on the Knight in…

Describes the "large scale social mobility" of late medieval England and argues that its modifications of traditional estates categories are reflected in CT. Uses Homi Bhabha's "postcolonial concepts of hybridity, in-betweenness, third space and…

Argues that Chaucer is indecisive in CT when it comes to his relation to nominalism and realism, maintaining a grey area between the two through love.