Kinch, Ashby McDalton.
Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 3988A, 2001.
Central to medieval love poetry is the figure of dying for love--found in works by Marcabru, Bernart de Ventadorn, Dante, Petrarch, Chaucer (BD, TC, complaints), and Alain Chartier, as well as in the Harley lyrics and the Findern manuscript. Donne…
Female involvement in construction of the Findern anthology (Cambridge University Library MS Ff 1.6) resulted in "subtle interventions" in thematic concerns of several works included in the anthology: for example, "female eloquence" (in Gower's story…
Kinch, Ashby.
Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Visual Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 3-22.
Establishes the linked "material, domestic, and spiritual economies" apparent in the Luttrell Psalter as a creative analogue of CT since both texts emphasize "meta-artistic play," hybridity, and multiple frames of reference. Reading images in the…
Reads the House of Rumor in HF as "an echo object through which we can recover Chaucer's complex and dynamic view of human cognition." Reads the basket-like structure as Chaucer's "uncanny" anticipation of "neuroplasticity," the "capability of the…
Kindrick, Robert L.
New York and London: Garland, 1993.
Summarizes fundamental information about Henryson and surveys his use of and familiarity with the medieval rhetorical arts ("ars poetriae," "ars dictaminis," and "ars praedicandi"). Kendrick mentions Chaucer throughout as a source and model for the…
Surveys anti-chivalric sentiment in literature, including polemics and sermons as well as satires and "anti-romances." Includes discussion of Th, among other works.
Kindrick, Robert, moderator.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, n.s., 2 (1991): 5-22.
Panelists (Larry Benson, John H. Fisher, Derek Pearsall, Alfred David) discuss recent difficulties and opportunities in teaching Chaucer, focusing on student interests and capabilities.
Interrelated fictional narratives told in poetry and prose by travelers in modern Nigeria; modeled on CT, with an opening General Prologue and tales told by various vocational types, e.g., the Air-hostess, the Journalist, the Female Petrol Attendant,…
King, Andrew, and Matthew Woodcock, eds.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2016.
Presents a collection of essays that respond to and commemorate Helen Cooper's "contribution to the study of medieval and Renaissance literature, literary history and periodisation." For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for Medieval into…
King, Andrew.
Review of English Studies 52: 22-58, 2001.
Spenser calls attention to his sources and models in "The Faerie Queene." SqT, "Orlando Furioso," and English medieval romances are specific sources, while narrative collections such as CT, anthologies of romances, or perhaps Malory's "Morte Darthur"…
Argues that the name "Strother" in RvT is not a place name but a surname, and suggests a connection between the tale's fictional clerks, John and Aleyn, and two junior members of the prominent Strother family of Northumberland.
King, Francis, and Bruce Steele, eds.
Melbourne: F. W. Cheshire, 1969.
A textbook edition of selections from CT (GP, MilPT, RvP, PardPT, PrPT, Tho, NPT, WBPT, ManPT, ParP, a selection from ParsT, and Ret) in Middle English, with facing-page glosses and end-of-text notes and commentary. Also includes passages from…
King, John N.
Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, ed. Renaissance Genres: Essays on Theory, History, and Interpretation. Harvard English Studies, no. 14 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986), pp. 369-98.
Connects Spenser's "association of pastoral with a Protestant gospel ethos" in "Shepheardes Calendar" with the Renaissance construction of medieval anticlerical satire as proto-Protestant. The spurious attribution of the "Plowman's Tale" to Chaucer…
King, Joyce.
Notes and Queries 263 (2018): 533-35.
Argues that Chaucer's "daun Russel the fox" in NPT 7. 3334 belongs to a centuries-long cohort of foxes whose tastes and tendencies Shakespeare applies to his wily Falstaff.
King, Laura Severt.
Dissertation Abstracts International 54 (1994): 3757A.
Among the handful of converted whores, Mary Magdalene is best known in late medieval writing through the homily "De maria Magdalena" (which Chaucer translated) and the Digby play. These works reveal remarkably literal physicality in which carnal…
King, Lauren Rebecca.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of California, Los Angeles, 2021
Dissertation Abstracts International A83.06(E).
Argues that Pizan and Chaucer "used their writing to open up educational opportunities" for their readers, seeking "to facilitate practices of engaged reading" for an expanding vernacular audience, with Chaucer modeling "problematic reading…
King, Pamela M.
Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen, eds. Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry. King's College London Medieval Studies, no. 5 (London: King's College Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 1991), pp. 1-14.
Surveys the metafictional aspects of TC, HF, and NPT, defining narrative and stylistic self-consciousness as recurrent themes. Henryson, Dunbar, Skelton, and James I of Scotland accomplish similar ends through self-reflexive and intertextual…
King, Pamela M.
Studies in Scottish Literature 19 (1984): 115-31. Available at https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol19/iss1/10. Reprinted in Pamela M. King and Alexandra Johnston, eds. Readings Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 89-101.
Related to court pageantry, "The Golden Targe" is important politically. Imagery suggests courtly origins and borrowings from Chaucer and the masque.
King, Pamela M.
Leeds Studies in English 32 (2001): 212-28. Reprinted in Pamela M. King and Alexandra F. Johnston, eds. Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 102-18.
Explores the possible "theatrical context" of MilT, clarifying the cultural value of Absolon's status as a parish clerk and arguing that Chaucer's plot and treatment of gender in his characterization of Absolon were inspired by "amateur theatricals…
King, Pamela M.
Harlow: Longman; London: York Press, 2000.
Study guide to MilPT and the GP description of the Miller that includes a plot synopsis, running commentary, and glosses (text not included, except for three passages in Middle English, with closer analysis). Also includes descriptions of the…
King, Pamela M.
Harlow: Longman; London: York Press, 2003.
Study guide to MerPT that includes a plot synopsis, running commentary, and glosses (text not included, except for three passages for closer analysis). Also includes descriptions of the Merchant's character and the characters in his tale, various…
King, Pamela M.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
Provides close readings of canonical medieval texts, including "Piers Plowman," Malory's "Morte Darthur," and CT. Emphasizes KnT, GP, MilT, PrT, SumT, PardT, and FrT.
King, Ronald, illustrator.
Guildford, Eng. : Circle Press, 1978.
Fine art printing of GP, with accompanying abstract visual renderings. Each copy (250 printed) includes one of twenty additional original screen prints by King and an accompanying poem or commentary by Roy Fisher, Andrew Crozier, Kevin Power, or…
