Items not seen; cited in WorldCat. Readings of selections from CT in modern poetic translation by Frank Ernest Hill. Volume I (3 CDs; 1995) includes GP, KnT, MilT, PardT, MerT and FranT. Volume II (3 CDs, 2002): WBPT, ClT, RvT, and NPT. Volume III (3…
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, which indicates that this is an Italian translation of Geraldine's McCaughrean's adaptation of selections from CT (1984), designed for a juvenile audience, with illustrations by Victor G. Ambrus.
Bennett, Andrew, and Nicholas Royle.
New York: Prentice Hall, 1995.
Comments (pp. 6-7) on T. S. Eliot's allusion to GP at the beginning of his "The Waste Land" and discusses (pp. 78-79) the comedy of MilT as "very specifically linguistic," turning on a double meaning of the word "water," as well as depending upon the…
Uriarte Rebaudi, Lía N.
Martha Vanbiesem de Burbidge, ed. Il Coloquio Internacional de Literatura: "El Cuento," I-II (Buenos Aires: Fundación María Teresa Maiorana, 1995), II:209-12.
Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography, which indicates that the essay addresses marital fidelity in CT, Boccaccio's "Decameron," and Juan Manuel's "El Conde Lucanor."
Robb, Candace [M.]
New York: St. Martin's; London: Heinemann, 1995.
Murder mystery involving a nun who apparently comes back to life; Chaucer figures as a secondary character. Translated into Italian as "La Reliquia Rubata: Thriller Medioevale" (Casale Monferrato: Piemme, 2001).
Fincher, David, dir.
Burbank, Calif: New Line Cinema, 1995.
Murder-mystery action drama in which the serial killer uses the Seven Deadly Sins to organize his crimes. Includes several visual and verbal references to ParsT and CT.
Watkins, John.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.
Includes discussion of how Chaucer's influence on Spenser's works inflects the Virgilian "epic paradigm" of the Renaissance poet, observing how in his treatments of Dido in HF and LGW Chaucer "figures his poetic identity . . . in terms of…
Ellis, Jeremy R.
Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Publishing, 1996.
A discursive lexicon of "dirty" language, sexual and scatological, including a brief section (pp. 8-14) on Chaucer's vocabulary, listing sample words and describing several scenes and examples from MilT, WBP, and elsewhere. Reprinted under the title…
Cooper, Helen.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. 2d rev. ed., 1996. 3d rev. ed, 2023.
The Oxford Guides offer summaries of what is known about Chaucer's work and include "fresh interpretations based on recent advances in both historical knowledge and theoretical understanding." Cooper includes commentary on all aspects of CT as a…
Archibald, Diana C.
Studies in Medievalism 7 (1996): 169-80.
William Morris's attempt to produce the ideal book "fails to match form with content." The harmonious presentation of his Kelmscott "Chaucer" disguises the diversity of tales and conceals unresolved problems of text and structure.
Allen, Mark,and Bege K. Bowers.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 18 (1996): 317-96.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on MLA Bibliography listings, contributions from an international team, and independent research. A total of 352 items, including reviews.
Pask, Kevin.
Kevin Pask. The Emergence of the Author: Scripting the Life ofthe Poet in Early Modern England. Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, no. 12 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 9-52.
Traces the process by which Chaucer's biography developed through Bale, Leland, Spenser, Speght, Thynne, Dryden, Urry,and Johnson. Topics include laureation, Chaucer in print, nationalistic and humanistic impulses, and Chaucer as a symbol of…
Reproduces "The Riverside Chaucer" texts of GP, KnT, MilT, RvT, and CkT, with original glosses on left-hand pages facing the text on the right- hand pages. Includes a brief descriptive introduction, a select bibliography, and thirty pages of…
Costomiris, Robert Douglas.
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 4783A.
William Thynne, the first true editor of Chaucer's oeuvre, performed fewer duties for the royal household than has been believed; thus, he had more time for editing. Familiar with the three previous printings and with many manuscripts, he built on…
Examines how the form and ideology of Thomas Speght's Renaissance editions of Chaucer contribute to the monumentalization of the man and his works. Speght's critical apparatus, his expansion of Chaucer's corpus, and even the size and title pages of…
Nakamura, Tetsuko.
Roger Ellis and Rene Tixier, eds. The Medieval Translator/Traduire au Moyen Age, 5 ([Turnhout, Belgium] : Brepols, 1996), pp. 322-33.
Surveys eighteenth-century translations of portions of Chaucer's CT, examining Ogle's translation of ClT as an example in which the translator adapted the original to contemporary taste. Ogle's Walter and Griselda are a couple with human feelings…
An electronic text of "Canterbury Tales" can give explicit attention to important philological issues--e.g., metrics, Middle English dialects, pronunciation, etymologies--so that class time can be devoted to the literary, historical, social, and…
Robinson, Peter, ed., with contributions from N. F. Blake, Daniel W. Mosser, Stephen Partridge, and Elizabeth Solopova.
Cambridge: Cambridge Unviersity Press, 1996.
Contains original-spelling transcripts of all fifty-four manuscripts and four pre-1500 printed editions of WBP, with digitized images of every page of text contained in these sources (1,200 images in all). The transcripts are linked with two…
Boffey, Julia.
Stephen G. Nichols and Siegfried Wenzel, eds. The Whole Book: Cultural Perspectives on the Medieval Miscellany (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998), pp. 69-82.
Discusses whether British Library MS Harley 116 and Cambridge University Library MS Hh 4.12 were meant to be anthologies or whether the quire signatures indicate discrete works that came together by accident.
In addition to large formal sections, the "ordinatio" of fifteenth-century TC manuscripts marks categories of text and genre shifts (songs, letters, lyrics). Such practice, resembling that in manuscripts of Machaut and Froissart, suggests that TC…
Cavin, John A., III.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 198A.
Considers the opposing theories of James Thorpe and G. Thomas Tanselle and emphasizes the need for full understanding of the aesthetic of meter, as with Chaucer's "heroic" line.
Dixon, Lori Jill.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 674A.
Sixteen fifteenth-century CT Tales" manuscripts-- anthologized on the basis of theme, subject, or interest--survive. They reveal middle-class taste through their moral and devotional content and indicate the popularity and availability of…
Cains, Anthony G.
Huntington Library Quarterly 58 (1996): 127-57.
Discusses the disbinding, preservation, and rebinding of Huntington Library MS El 26C9. Provides new information regarding earlier bindings, inks, pigments, the relationship of text and decoration, repairs, etc.
Edwards, A. S. G.
Stephen G. Nichols and Siegfried Wenzel, eds. The Whole Book: Cultural Perspectives on the Medieval Miscellany (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996), pp. 53-67.
Examines various aspects of late-medieval manuscript compilation in light of Selden B.24, a "transitional collection" that extends the Chaucerian canon and connects with the emerging print culture.
