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Musical setting for the song at the end of PF (ll. 680-90; 691 is omitted), in modernized Middle English; printed from the original in British Library, Additional MS 54779 as edited by Graham Parlett.

This triad, repeated through the romances and the Marriage Group, and the unifying figure of the Host, in both GP and the links, demonstrate Chaucer's command of rhetoric and his originality.

Eleven essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors consider various aspects of narrative technique from Chaucer to Daniel Defoe. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe under…

Argues that the shift from exaggerated romance to philosophical discourse between Th and Mel, the voicing of these tales by Chaucer as narrator, and the responses of the pilgrims to the two tales, indicate a general shift of "literary aesthetics"…

Uses Victor Turner's idea of "social drama" and medieval notions of the status of food, cooks, and kitchen work to argue that, in GP, the Franklin's cook and the Cook of the Guildsmen effectively reflect and/or reinforce the social aspirations of…

Describes the comic humor of Chaucer's Purse and Thomas Hoccleve's "Complaint to Lady Money" and "La Response,"

Provides background to franklins in medieval England and uses Stephen Greenblatt's notion of "self-fashioning" to assess the characterization of the Franklin in GP, in his words to the Squire (Sq-FranL), and in FranT as an "embodiment of the 'new…

Using concepts derived from Roland Barthes, argues that PF is both a "text of pleasure with its reflection of courtly culture" and a "text of bliss with its unconcluded conclusion."

Surveys the presence and significance of the anus and excrement in medieval culture, particularly the religious thought and literature of the age. Includes brief comments on Chaucer's references to dung, farting, and rear-ends in MilT, MerT, SumP,…

Explores the characterizations in TC of Troilus, Pandarus, and, most extensively, Criseyde, explaining how Chaucer modifies their antecedents in Boccaccio's "Filostrato" by adapting the conventions and rhetoric of courtly love and creates rich…

RvT is a denunciation of the university system and its participants. The two clerks abandon their learning and stoop to the anti-intellectual level of the miller.

Examines the "conditions that allow for [Criseyde's] betrayal" in TC, including the "structure of courtship" which establishes the duplicity of the relationship between the lovers, the deceptions upon which it is based, and the fundamental…

The Sarum liturgy provokes powerful emotional response, as evident in PardT and in "Piers Plowman" (Passus 15; Passus 19).

A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1977.

A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1973.

A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1972.

A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1971.

A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1970.

A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1969.

A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1968.

A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1966.

A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1967.

Discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies published in 1977.

A bibliographical essay surveying Chaucer criticism for 1978.

A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1976.