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Anthologizes 131 poems "that illustrate the range and variety" of Middle English lyrics. Includes none by Chaucer, but refers to his works recurrently to clarify themes and techniques, both in the Introduction and in discussions of individual lyrics…

Includes links to verse modernizations of CT (Mel and ParsT excerpted in prose) TC, the Dream Poems, and various lyrics, imitating Chaucer's meter and rhyme schemes; translated and uploaded 2007-2008.

Quantitative analysis of Chaucer's uses of rhetorical techniques in TC, including "suasive" techniques, proverbial materials, and rhetorical figures.

This first in-depth description of MS. Harley 7333 provides textual information, lists editions, and describes relationships to other medieval texts. The contents shed light on scribal editing in CT.

Examines scribal interventions in the CT portion of British Library MS Harley 7333 (produced at Leicester Abbey) as examples of "ideological editing." Its corrections, variants, and omissions indicate efforts to suppress Chaucer's criticism of the…

Recommends incorporating MilT and WBPT into a sophomore-level survey of early British literature.

Assesses the scenes of swearing and oath making in FrT, arguing that the Tale is not only a theological exemplum but also a reflection of "cultural anxiety concerning the nature of changing social and economic relations as mediated by new forms of…

Details the strategy of "obeisant self-authorization " by which Lydgate places himself in Chaucer's debt, simultaneously embracing the older poet's influence and "overthrowing" his "paternal presence." He does this by controlling the Host-figure and…

Chaucer's additions to his sources in PhyT emphasize the "domestic contours" of the story. PhyT is a critique of the "social efficacy of the patriarchal family." Virginius first fails to protect his daughter and then murders her; he is "no better a…

Virginius's fatal encounter with his daughter Virginia in PhyT can be seen as an instance of "torture," as Elaine Scarry defines it, the "most extreme" of political situations. In Scarry's terms and from Virginius's perspective,Virginia's existence…

Posits a "Children's Cluster" of tales in CT (including all of fragments 6 and 7) wherein a "child has a central place" in each tale. Then argues that Virginia's voice and the tensions and "digressions" in PhyT encourage an ethical interpretation of…

Describes a pedagogy for using role-playing exercises in teaching CT in advanced undergraduate and early graduate classes. Comments on theories of "play and game," including notions of role-playing games, and explains a nested set of assignments and…

Sixteen essays by various authors, most of them addressing individual texts as literature written for children--for example, "The Babees Book," "Sir Gowther," Aelfric's "Colloquy," and selections from the "Gesta Romanorum" and from Gower's "Confessio…

Works such as Pearl, PhyT, PrT, and Lydgate's Siege of Thebes present children as transgressive social agents whom society represses through ill treatment to stabilize traditional hierarchies.

Describes the presentations of selections from CT in nineteen fifteenth-century manuscripts, and explores what these presentations indicate about understandings of the tales.

Argues that the "allegory of the Four Daughters of God" (also known as "The Reconciliation of the Heavenly Virtues" and "The Parliament of Heaven") influenced several details of ABC.

Advocates robust participation in academic "shared governance" and general education curricula as a way for medievalists to serve their own professional interests; includes opinions about how Chaucerians are well equipped for such participation.

Emphasizes the stylistic and rhetorical innovation of Chaucer's narrative voice, arguing that it can be perceived behind his various narrators and implied authors.

Chaucer writes in a "highly literate cultural code of poetry," which reveals the evolving persona of the poet. It is possible that he read HF aloud in installments and that the original ending--reflecting, no doubt, some crisis at court--was…

Chaucer was well aware that he was writing for an audience that read his poems aloud. In his four dream poems, he familiarizes his audience with the subject matter through communication strategies, including conversational interjections such as "that…

Assesses the "linguistic, communicative and narrative markers of performativity" in BD, HF, and PF, arguing that Chaucer composed them for live performance but also with an eye to repeated performance or reading.

Surveys Chaucer's reception in Danish scholarship, curricula, and translations, emphasizing the need for a Danish translation of CT that does not lose Chaucer's "subtlety and poetic forcefulness."

Klitgård assesses the translation practices of two Danish translations of Chaucer: T. C. Bruun's 1823 translation "The Wife of Slagelse; After Pope's The Wife in Bath," which follows the modernizations of Dryden and Pope; and Charlotte Louise…

Testing the premise of A. C. Spearing's "Textual Subjectivity" (2005), Klitgård explores the dramatic monologues of the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner and uses of narrative personae.

Provides comprehensive study of reception and translation of Chaucer's works in Denmark from the late eighteenth century to 2012. Study reveals cultural changes and links between Denmark and England, and provides analysis of current Chaucerian…