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Chapter 3, section 2 discusses Chaucer's verbs "meten" and "dremen" as words that are thought to be synonymous-even though they are not.

Traces uses of various prepositions ('of,' 'for,' 'with,' and 'in') and participles in conjunction with the adjective 'weary,' identifying when and where the uses were most frequent in Old and Middle English. Draws examples from Chaucer.

Several examples from Chaucer illustrate late Middle English combinations of come with infinitives and with participles.

Traces the development of the impersonal to the personal construction on the basis of evidence found in Chaucer.

Seven essays by various authors who challenge "orthodox views about dialects and dialectology" while discussing topics of dialect and "standard" in English, especially British English. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Debating…

Locates the earliest efforts to identify Standard English in William of Malmesbury's comments on language and foreignness, arguing that awareness of foreignness (and little more) underlies the ideal of a standard. Comments on various discussions of…

Surveys electronic databases for the historical study of English; includes a one-page summary of Old and Middle English corpora, including those with Chaucer texts, accompanied by web addresses.

Describes seventy-five Chaucerian examples of the verb "bid" from semantic and syntactic points of view, and examines the extent to which it is a causative or an auxiliary.

PardT and Boece provide examples of voiced "s" as equivalent of "z."

Explores the role of taboo on the semantic shift of the term 'bug' from an object of terror to an insect. Assesses the occurrence of the word in the Delaware manuscript at NPT 7.2936, where other manuscripts have devils.

Twenty-seven essays by various authors, addressing issues of linguistic history, dialect, lexicon, syntax, and prosody. Includes an introduction by the editors and a subject index. For six essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Placing Middle…

Tabulates late-medieval uses of ought (owe) as a past form and as a modal auxiliary and explores the forms of infinitives used after ought. Compares Chaucer's uses with those of other late-medieval writers to show that his uses reflect the "unsettled…

Thirteen essays on the interactions of English, French, Latin, and Welsh in late-medieval English records-literary, mercantile, religious, and governmental. One essay pertains to Chaucer: William Rothwell, "Aspects of Lexical and Morphosyntactical…

Surveys twentieth-century manifestations of Chaucer and his works outside of academe, considering the Kelmscott Chaucer and various other reflections of popular perception: occasional essays, translations, audio and visual reproductions of his life…

Several Chaucerian poems--especially the multiple voices and amatory perspectives of CT and the request for patronage in Purse--helped "later writers invent the social person of 'selfe.'" Fowler suggests comparisons for pedagogical purposes.

Describes the literature with which Shakespeare was familiar, as reflected in his works, their sources, their allusions, etc. Discusses the relationship of Two Noble Kinsmen to KnT and of Troilus and Cressida to TC.

Assesses the latent anti-Semitism in Wordsworth's "Song for a Wandering Jew," his "A Jewish Family," and his translation of Chaucer's PrT. The translation and contemporary reviews of it reflect nineteenth-century understanding of Chaucer.

Both Donne ("The Sun Rising") and Chaucer (TC 3.1415-1527) were familiar with Ovid's Amores 1.13), but Chaucer may well have influenced the Renaissance poet directly. Such intertextual issues are complicated by the fact that Renaissance editors had…

Compares Charles's "Fortunes Stabilnes" with James I's "Kingis Quair," focusing on their dream visions and the narrators' responses to dreams. James's poem is more distinctly Chaucerian in its political and philosophical implications, while Charles's…

Discusses the reception history of Chaucer, ranging from Spenser through Shakespeare to the English Romantics. Panelists include Nahoko Miyamoto, Yoshiko Kobayashi, and Atsuhiko Hirota.

Comprehensive description of four paintings pertaining to The Canterbury Tales: Blake's (1810), Stothard's (1807), Corbould's (1840), and Mileham's (1924).

Assesses aspects of "Regement of Princes" to demonstrate Hoccleve's poetic subtlety, especially the ways he capitalizes on the idea that as a member of the "emergent administrative class," he had "restricted information." Discusses Pandarus of TC as…

Cites echoes of FranT in Shakespeare's "The Tempest" as evidence of Chaucer's influence, focusing on the "generous view of diminished art" in both.

Argues that Chaucer uses rhyme words in the ballade form (Ros, Ven, For, Purse, Sted, Gent, Wom Nob, Buk, Scog, Truth, Wom Unc) for stylistic effects, not because of linguistic limitation. As a translator, Chaucer employs several methods of…

Lydgate was not an incompetent Chaucerian imitator; he used a different verse design. Parametric comparison of Chaucer's and Lydgate's verse designs demonstrates Lydgate's use of a tradition older than Chaucer's iambic pentameter. Lydgate had only…