Alphabetical dictionary of people, places, institutions, and events of the Middle Ages; the entry on Chaucer (p. 116) summarizes his life and works and comments on his dependence on Boccaccio.
Dane, Joseph A., and Seth Lerer.
Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 11.4 (1999): 468-79.
Assesses variations in copies of Stow's edition of Chaucer and suggests that copies with woodcuts may have been printed before those without and that Stow himself may have been involved in in-house corrections to the text, particularly that of Adam.…
Hallam, Elizabeth, and Andrew Prescott, eds.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Photographic reproductions of records from British cultural history, arranged chronologically from the departure of the Romans to late-modern multi-culturalism. Reproduces in color (p. 31) three images that pertain to Chaucer: a page from the…
Justman, Stewart.
Stewart Justman. The Springs of Liberty: The Satiric Tradition and Freedom of Speech (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1999), pp. 22-33.
Bakhtinian analysis of Chaucer's polyphonic satiric techniques in CT, especially GP and MilT, emphasizing their place in the development of English satire and the rise of realism and journalistic claims of accurate reportage. Treats Chaucer's…
Klassen, Norm
Stanley E. Porter, Michael A. Hayes, and David Tombs, eds. Resurrection (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 264-74.
In BD, CT (especially the opening of GP and ParsT), and LGWP, flower imagery evokes the "muted presence" of the "motif of resurrection," which Chaucer presents in a characteristic "collocation of Christian theology and authorial self-reflexivity."
Ingpen, Robert.
Port Melbourne, Victoria: Lothian Books, 1999.
Includes drawings of each of the Canterbury pilgrims, plus a scene of the gathering at the Tabard Inn, interspersed with short quotations from GP (Nevill Coghill translation) and a brief introduction.
A survey of fantasy literature in England, arranged topically in six categories: secondary world, metaphysical, emotive, comic, subversive, and children's. Includes commentary on various works by Chaucer in an opening chapter called "The Origins of…
De Roo, Harvey, dir.
Provo, Ut. : Chaucer Studio,1999 and 2005. Also available as a Download.
Dramatic recitation of TC, with a cast of eight: Jane Camfield (Antigone and Ladies), Harvey De Roo (Calkas and Troilus), Melanie Yeats (Cassandra, Eleyne, and Ladies), Mary-Ann Stouck (Criseyde), Eric Ball (Deiphebus), Tom Burton (Diomede), Ken…
Quinn, William A.
Studies in Scottish Literature 31 (1999): 232-44.
Reads Robert Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid" as a "compilatio" addressed to an audience of women, gauging the tone, theme, and unity of the poem. Includes recurrent comments on Henryson's uses of Chaucer's attitudes and perspectives, especially…
Includes selections from GP, RvT, and FranT, along with selections from BD, HF, PF, TC, LGWP, and the complete Pity. Texts in Middle English, with occasional end-of-text glosses.
Andretta, Helen R[uth].
Jonathan Gates, ed. Proceedings: 1999 Northeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature (Surf City, N. J.: American Graphic Services, 2000), pp. 1-13.
Compares T. S. Eliot's worldview in "The Waste Land" with Chaucer's view of the "world as a wilderness" in CT and Truth. Both poets see the need for renewal.
A pantomime adaptation of CT in two acts, with script, song list, properties list, and suggestions for costuming and staging. The characters are drawn from Chaucer's pilgrims, and the plot centers on the pursuit of a "magic story," with motifs,…
Twenty-one original woodcuts of birds and related scenes, each accompanied by a single poem of "suitable verse," by various authors. The first selection is from ManT (9.163-74). Printed in a limited edition of 180 copies.
A history of international English poetry, with recurrent attention to the history of the language, verse forms and style, political contours, and the anxieties of influence. The structure is chronological until the twentieth century, when Schmidt…
Falstein, Mark, trans.
Upper Saddle River, N. J.: Globe Fearon Educational Publishers, 1999.
Selections from CT, adapted and abridged in modern English for a juvenile audience; includes GP, KnT, MLT, NPT, WBPT, FrT, SumT, ClT, FranT, PardPT, CYPT, and Ret, with linking material. Illustrated by Laurie Harden.
Ebi, Hisato.
Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 144.12 (1999): 746-48.
Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography, where it is described as concerned with the application of phylogenetic analysis of the stemmatics of WBP.
Smith, Marcus A. J., and Julian N. Wasserman.
Parentheses: Papers in Medieval Studies 1 (1999): 145-86. [Web publication.]
Considers strategies that have been used to accuse and excuse Chaucer (and others) of prejudice against women, homosexuals, and Jews, suggesting that medieval language theory and Chaucer's awareness of the semiotic gap between sign and signified…
Purdon, Liam O.
Parentheses: Papers in Medieval Studies 1 (1999): 187-204. [Web publication.]
Considers theories that Alison conspired with Jankyn to murder her fourth husband, assessing matters of criminal intent and liability, and exploring ways that WBP situates the reader as a victim of the Wife's special pleading.
Jost, Jean E.
Parentheses: Papers in Medieval Studies 1 (1999): 53-82. [Web publication.]
In PF Chaucer deconstructs antifeminist courtly conventions and appropriates power for women. The poem challenges the views of woman promulgated by courtly love by alluding to contemporary political events (marriage of Anne of Bohemia) and by…
Argues that Dorigen of FranT is educable and capable of philosophical speculation but, as a woman limited by her culture, "she is unable to reason out ethical choices for herself." Through Dorigen (and other female characters), Chaucer criticizes the…
Opus Anglicanum.
Farnham, Surrey: Herald AV, 1999.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, which indicates that it includes passages from GP read in modern English by John Touhey, interspersed with sung music from Chaucer's time, recorded at Dorchester Abbey (1994).
