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Assesses "bibliophilism" in Chaucer's works as indicators of his own access to and attitudes towards books, learning, and learning spaces or libraries. Focuses on the uses of "librarye" (Bo 1.pr.4.41 and 1.pr.5.41) as early instances in English and…

Traces the careers of Caxton, de Worde, and others to show (amid much else) that their interest in publishing Chaucer and other vernacular writers can be correlated with a "movement from opportunistic diversification...to forms of consolidation and…

Dane argues on the basis of two copies of Thynne's edition that one cannot properly speak of them as "corrected" or "uncorrected."

Reviews Furnivall-Halliwell correspondence, which is concerned mainly wiht the affairs of the New Shakespeare Society, but also includes accounts of Furnivall's work on Chaucer manuscripts.

Places Thynne's long-time interest in Chaucer in the context of his busy bureaucratic career.

The Northumberland manuscript of CT (Alnwick Castle 455) shows evidence that the scribe had access to a manuscript of CT that included the Prologue and Tale of Beryn and that he worked in a scriptorium that produced multiple copies of popular texts.

The arrangement of quires in this early fifteenth-century manuscript indicates that the scribe was working from an unrubricated text, the order of CT was not yet stable, and the scribe may have helped create the Ellesmere ordering.

Annotations by 16th- and 17th-century readers show an ongoing interest in Chaucer as a source of sententiae and a focus of antiquarian interest; they also shed light on the role of women readers and on the household as a reading center. Their net …

Traces the history of two related series of woodcuts. The first, cut for Caxton's 1483 edition, apparently derives from miniatures in the manuscript now known as the Oxford Fragments (Ox1 and Ox2). The second series was copied from Caxton for…

Describes the annotations made by book-collector Stephan Batman (c. 1542–84) in his copy of John "Stow's edition of The "Woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer" (1561), explaining how they evince Batman's habits and interests.

A collection of twenty-six essays, fourteen of which address Chaucer and his works. Includes papers presented at a 1990 conference at the University of Liege marking the retirement of Paule Mertens-Fonck. Each essay addresses women's issues in…

Collects twenty-six essays by various hands. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Multiple Worlds, Multiple Words under Alternative Title.

Clarifies the nature and functions of the historical present tense in English, and examines Chaucer's "discourse pragmatic" uses of it in KnT, particularly alternations of "present and past tenses in discourse" where the narrator "dynamically…

Maciulewicz examines Neoclassical rewritings of medieval texts, focusing on Dryden's and Pope's reworking of Chaucer (CT and HF). Close readings show that eighteenth-century revisions seek to elevate Chaucer to promote national literature and,…

Considers "some unnoticed passages" that shed light on Chaucer's references to "Trophee" and the Pillars of Hercules (MkT 7.2117-18), identifying no specific source but showing that parallel information was available in medieval accounts such as the…

Three features characterize the collections of tales of Don Juan Manuel, Boccaccio, and Chaucer, especially as they relate to cultural context: marks of realism or authentication, thematic concern with unity and diversity, and the presence of the…

Highlights political aspects of ClT, interpreting the cruelty Walter inflicts on Griselda as a projection of his inner conflict between a hereditary ruler's "body politic" and his "body natural"--a conflict prompted by the pressure to provide an heir…

Examines Chaucer's works, particularly BD and LGW, in connection to female patronage networks in the late fourteenth century in England, France, and the Iberian Peninsula. Argues that the new cultural and political role of many aristocratic women had…

Engages major critics of TC on the matter of interpretation, accepting the Robertsonian definition of TC as a tragedy and viewing Robertson's work as implicit in three decades of critical controversy. Examines textual dilemmas basic to the…

Ebin shows that "instead of being inept imitators of Chaucer and his company," the fifteenth-century poets "departed from their supposed models.

Thinness of critical response shows modern failure to perceive LGW's intended complexities. The question of which version of the Prologue was written first has not been settled. In a discussion based on F, Rowe identifies the daisy and Alceste as…

Introductory study edition of WBPT, with Middle English text, interlinear translation, and side-bar commentary and glosses, preceded by introductions to Chaucer's Life and World (pp. 6-9) and to his backgrounds, language, phonology, and versification…

Includes a chronology of Chaucer's life and works, a discursive "Sketch of His Life and Times," a description of his language, summaries and commentaries on all of CT (in Ellesmere order), a list of the pilgrims with brief characterizations,…

Introductory study edition of GP, with Middle English text, interlinear translation, and side-bar commentary and glosses, preceded by introductions to Chaucer's Life and World (pp. 6-9) and to the backgrounds, language, phonology, and versification…

Chaucer explicitly identifies TC as an epic. Like most epics,it uses the structural and thematic device of the "descensus." It also contains many reminders of and allusions to other epics, but also frees him from the confines of Christian allegory…