Considers Robert Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid" as a tragedy and the role of writing in the demise of the central character. Also explores medieval attitudes toward leprosy, versions of the Criseyde story before Henryson, and Henryson's debt to…
Woodbridge, Linda.
Yearbook of English Studies 25 (1995): 22-40.
Challenges various assumptions about fundamental differences between oral and literate composition, assessing various features of folktale, drama, and narrative in early English culture. Cites MilT as an example where "legend" becomes a short story,…
Describes the pedagogical use of museum objects (from the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame) in support of a Freshman Seminar in medieval literature, with particular focus on CT, Santiago de Compostela, and pilgrimage.
Goossens, Louis.
Louis Goossens, and others. By Word of Mouth: Metaphor, Metonymy, and Linguistic Action in a Cognitive Perspective. Pragmatics & Beyond, New Series, no. 33 (Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1995), pp. 175-204.
Uses data from Aelfric, Chaucer, and Shakespeare to demonstrate how metonymy "works as a tool for meaning extension in a diachronically diverse data base," arguing that there is "something of a metonymy-metaphor continuum" and a complex relation…
Cowgill, Kent.
Rochester, Minn.: Lone Oak Press, 1995.
A comic novel that derives its characters from GP and most of its sub-plots from CT, cast as the thirty-year reunion of a hapless college baseball team, the Tabelard Bees, with first-person narration by the team's utility player, Jeffrey Shoemaker,…
Pomerleau, Mary Farrell, trans.
Arcadia, Calif.: Charlemagne Press, 1995.
Modern translation of ParsPT, Ret, and the GP description of the Parson, accompanied by brief notes and a glossary, Farrell's pen-and-ink illustrations, and her introduction (pp. 15-29) that comments on the structure and outlook of ParsT and what we…
Ridyard, Susan J., and Robert G. Benson, eds.
Sewanee, Tenn.: University of the South Press, 1995.
Fourteen essays from the seventeenth Sewanee Mediaeval Colloquium, on late-classical and medieval ideas of Nature, science, and human perception. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Man and Nature in the Middle Ages under Alternative…
Provost, William.
Susan J. Ridyard and Robert G. Benson, eds. Man and Nature in the Middle Ages (Sewanee, Tenn.: University of the South Press, 1995), pp. 185-98.
Describes Chaucer's various uses of the terms "kynde" and "nature" (and their derivatives), focusing particularly on their semantic range and potential as personifications
Spearing, A. C., ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Edition of KnT, originally published in 1966, based on F. N. Robinson's 2d edition (1957), with a new Introduction (pp. 1-111), "reconsidered" notes, and a corrected glossary, both included at the end of the volume, much as in the 1966 original. The…
Yuan, Xianjun.
Beijing: Peking University Press, 1995.
Reads TC as a "jubilant celebration of earthly love" which "testifies to the accessibility of Christian salvation by means of human love" (xi). Earthly love and divine love are balanced in the poem, with Troilus regarding Criseyde as the "Blessed…
Mitchell, John D., in collaboration with Donald Berwick and George Drew.
John D. Mitchell and others. Men Stand on Shoulders (Key West, Fla.: Published by Institute for Advanced Studies in the Theatre Arts Press in association with Florida Keys Community College, 1996), pp. 1-71.
A film script which combines "key lines and phrases" from Boccaccio's "Filostrato," TC, and Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," interspersed with appearances of the three writers in moments of fictional biography. Re-tells the broad outlines of the…
Mey, Jacob.
Eva Hajicová, Miroslav Cervenka, Oldrich Leska, and Petr Sgall, eds. Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague/Prague Linguistic Circle Papers, I (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1995), pp. 261-94.
Considers the question of how language may (or may not) preserve technological knowledge over time by commenting on the linguistic features of "Inland English," invented by Russell Hoban in his futuristic novel "Riddley Walker" (1980). Uses…
Adaptation of selections from CT, intended for young adolescents. Selections include GP, KnT, MLT, portions of MkT, NPT, WBPT, FrT, SumT, ClT, FranT, PardPT, CYT, and Ret, each accompanied by prompts for discussion. The volume also includes a brief…
Study guide to GP for adolescent readers, with a modern translation accompanied by running commentary that focuses on key words and unfamiliar concepts. The Introduction concerns themes, images, and social conditions, and the volume concludes with a…
Introduces Dafydd ap Gwilym as a contemporary of Chaucer, but provides no comparative analysis. Describes Dafydd's works and reception, and includes French translations of three of his poems.
Fyler, John M.
William S. Anderson, ed. Ovid: The Classical Heritage (New York: Garland, 1995), pp. 143-65.
Describes Ovid's response to Virgil, and gauges Ovid's influence on Chaucer, focusing on the latter's acquaintance with "Ars Amatoria," "Remedia Amoris," and "Amores," and on the "self-conscious, obtrusive narrator." Like Ovid, and unlike Virgil,…
Jackson, Kevin, ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
An anthology of excerpts and selections from poetry, fiction, drama, and essays on the topic of money, arranged by sub-topics. Includes the following pieces by Chaucer: Purse and the apostrophe to poverty from MLP, in the section called "Riches and…
Scarry, Elaine.
Elaine Scarry, ed. Fins de Siècle: English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), pp. 1-36.
Explores why the world is "newly alert to its need for poetry" at the end of each century, including comments on Chaucer's writing of CT at the end of the fourteenth.
A variety of essays, reprinted and original, by Ewald Standop, including reprinted versions of two essays that pertain to Chaucer: "Zur Allegorischen Deutung der 'Nonnes Preeste Tale'" (1961) and "Chaucers Pardoner: Das Charakterproblem und die…
Includes versions of the GP description of the Pardoner and lines 591-640 of PardT in normalized spelling, with a brief Introduction that identifies several indications that the Pardoner is gay.
Score of musical setting for MercB, with text in Middle English, and an introductory note by Michael Kennedy. The score was published originally in 1922.
Voelker, Sarah Ray.
Piscataway, N. J.: Research & Education Association, 1995.
Study guide to the CT, with character lists, plot summaries and analyses, and study questions and answers for each tale. Also includes introductory backgrounds and suggested essay topics. Illustrated by Karen Pica. Reissued in 2003.
The section entitled "Authentic Languages" includes a sub-section on Chaucer that raises questions about modern ability to gauge the authenticity of the northern literary dialect in RvT.
