Of the sixteen extant manuscripts of TC, the organization of the Morgan, Corpus Christi, and St. John's shows the greatest concern for both readers and listeners of the fifteenth century.
Valentine, Virginia Walker.
Tampa, Fla.: Axelrod, 1994.
Six critical essays by the author on topics ranging from Old English to modern literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer's Knight: A Man Ther Was under Alternative Title.
Powell, Brian.
Maria Isabel Toro Pascua, ed. Actas del III Congreso de la Asociacion Hispanica de Literatura Medieval (Salamanca, 3 al 6 de octubre de 1989), II. 2 vols. (Salamanca: Biblioteca Espanola del Siglo XV, Departamento de Literatura Espanola e Hispanoamericana, 1994), pp. 789-96.
Compares narrative aspects of CT and Juan Ruiz's "Libro de buen amor," especially their uses of irony and an author-narrator; also explores relations between the Prioress and Ruiz's Dona Garoca.
Valentine, Virginia Walker.
Virginia Walker Valentine. Chaucer's Knight: A Man Ther Was (Tampa, Fla.: Axelrod, 1994), pp. 1-23.
Argues from evidence in KnT and GP that Chaucer presents not an idealized figure but a complex, realistic character. Valentine treats the narrative and rhetorical features of KnT and its relations with Boccaccio's "Teseida" as evidence of the…
Valentine, Virginia Walker.
Virginia Walker Valentine. Chaucer's Knight: A Man Ther Was (Tampa, Fla.: Axelrod, 1994), pp. 25-33.
Though there are elements of courtly love in TC, the poem does not evaluate Criseyde by courtly standards. Instead, it shows her choosing the "lesser harm" of being unfaithful rather than endangered.
Bowden, Betsy.
Translation & Literature 3:30-46, 1994.
Examines select passages of moderizations of ShT by John Markland, Henry Travers, Andrew Jackson, and William Lipscomb for how their diction, imagery, and emphases encourage us to approach the Tale as "implied performance." All four interpret and…
Astell, Ann W.
Carmina Philosophiae 3: 23-36, 1994.
Argues that Boethius's "Consolation" inspired many "amatory imitations" (especially the "Roman de la Rose" and TC) because its opening scene parallels--and perhaps helped inspire--the visual commonplace of the (love)sick man tended by a female who…
Johnson, Ian.
Carmina Philosophiae 3 (1994): 1-21, 1994.
Compares Troilus's speech on free will and predestination (TC 4) with John Walton's poetic exposition of the source passage in Boethius 5, prose 3. Aware of TC, Walton "competes" with Chaucer and better succeeds in clearly rendering the nuances of…
In The General Prologue, Troilus and Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women Prologue, The Friar's Tale, and The Summoner's Tale, Chaucer probes the indeterminacy of language and his own precarious use of words as means to truth. Discusses Diomede's use…
Remley, Paul G.
Peter C. Herman, ed. Rethinking the Henrician Era: Essays on Early Tudor Texts and Contexts (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994), pp. 40-77.
Remley describes the Devonshire manuscript (British Library Additional 17492) and assesses the role and purposes of Shelton's writing it-e.g., protesting the incarceration of Margaret Douglas and Thomas Howard, reflecting Tudor practices of "making"…
Heidt, Edward R.
Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1994.
Chronological survey of representative depictions of church ministers in a variety of works, from Chaucer to Morris West, briefly considering works by Shakespeare, Trollope, John Henry Newman, George Eliot, Ibsen, Edmund Gosse, Joyce, Graham Greene,…
Blake, Norman F., ed
Okayama : University Education Press, 1994.
A comprehensive concordance to CT based on Blake's text from the Hengwrt manuscript. Includes an alphabetical and frequency word list; describes spellings, words, syntax, and metrics.
Stock, Lorraine Kochanske.
Carmina Philosophiae 2 (1994): 1-37.
Explores the late medieval traditions of the Wild Man and idealized primitivism, arguing that they are useful in understanding and interpreting Chaucer's additions to the Boethian materials in Form Age.
Berry, Craig A.
Studies in Philology 91 (1994): 136-66.
Reads two sections of Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene" (the opening lines and Arthur's dream, 1.9) as examples of inscripted biographical details and the poetic anxiety of the work. Considers Spenser's adaptations of PF and, especially, Thop, reading…
Argues that the autobiographical portion of Hoccleve's "Regement of Princes" and its "praise and portrait" of Chaucer indicate that the poem is part of a broader "program of kingly self-representation" undertaken by Henry, Prince of Wales, who…
Gross, John, ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Selections of comic verse in English, from Chaucer to Glyn Maxwell. The Chaucer selection (pp. 1-4) includes the descriptions of the Monk, Summoner, and Pardoner from the GP.
Surveys English literature from the Old English period to "Post-War and Post-Modern Literature," including a chronology and a comprehensive index. The section on Chaucer (pp. 55-63) emphasizes his "delight in the concept of cosmic, natural, and human…
Griffith, Kelley.
New York: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1994.
Pedagogical anthology designed to demonstrate the range of narrative fiction: ancient and modern; eastern and western; short stories, novels, and their predecessors in myth, epic, romance, tales, and narrative poetry. Includes Theodore Morrison's…
Winny, James, ed. Rev. ed. Sean Kane and Beverly Winny, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Middle English edition of WBPT and GP description of the Wife of Bath, with end-of-text notes and glossary. The Introduction (pp. 1-32) discusses sources, the relation of WBP to WBT, themes, etc. Includes Chaucer's Gent and a selection from…
Vantuono, William, ed.
New York: Peter Lang, 1994.
A pedagogical anthology designed for use in classes on the History of the English Language. The materials that pertain to Chaucer (pp. 81-115) include Bo 2m5 ("The Former Age"), a guide to pronunciation, lines 1-42 of GP, and PardPT.
