Justifies accepting PF 99-105 as the more likely immediate source of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" 1.4.70-88 than Claudian's "De Sextu Consultat Honorii Augusti," Preface, 3-10, the ultimate source of both English texts.
Maxwell, J. C., and Douglas Gray.
Notes and Queries 214 (1969): 170.
Identifies two echoes of PF 22-25 in John Hardyng's "English Chronicle in Metre," also mentioning the later use of the PF lines in Speght's 1598 edition of Chaucer's works.
Mayer, Lauryn Stacey.
Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 565A, 2001.
Studies the manuscript transmission ("more akin to gene splicing than copying") of Old English poetry and prose, chronicle histories, and Chaucer. To establish Chaucer as a forerunner of later poetry, printers deliberately modify his works.
Links the characterizations of Nicholas and John in MilT to the genre fluidity of medieval literature and the interdependence of reading and performance. Focuses on Nicholas's "hyperliterate status," the "theatrical props of his learning implements,"…
Mazzon, Gabriella.
Dieter Kastovsky and Arthur Mettinger, eds. The History of English in a Social Context: A Contribution to Historical Sociolinguistics. Trends in Linguistics; Studies and Monographs, no. 129. (Berlin and New York: Gruyter, 2000), pp. 135-68.
Mazzon demonstrates a "clear correlation between discourse strategies and pronoun use and switching" in CT. You and thou forms indicate "politeness" as well as social status, gender, and characterization.
Mazzon, Gabriella.
Jacek Fisiak, ed. Studies in English Historical Linguistics and Philology: A Festschrift for Akio Oizumi Studies in English Language and Literature, no. 2 (Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2002), pp. 255-66.
Classifies Chaucer's verbs of "verbal activity" (gestural, onomatopoetic, and performative), treating verbs of saying as a subset of performative verbs.
Pedagogical guide to selections from Tennyson, Chaucer, and African poetry, with recommendations on how to explicate poetry, focusing on theme and style. The Chaucer section (pp. 60-111) addresses GP and NPT, emphasizing Chaucer's goals of moral and…
Refers to Elizabeth Gaskell's footnotes to "Mary Barton" that explain unfamiliar phrasing in terms of Chaucer and Langland, identifying them as evidence for the synchronic nature of the bigamous return plot in sensation novels.
Discusses the "contrarious juxtaposition" in KnT design as a factor in determinacy. At work in KnT, the familiar medieval "topos" of "concordia discors" and marriage as a mediating device are examined in light of symbol, imagery, and wordplay with…
McAlpine, Monica E.
Toronto; Buffalo, NY; London: University of Toronto Press, 1991.
Annotated entries are alphabetized in five chronological periods (1900-30, 1931-60, 1961-70, 1971-80, 1981-85) under two headings: Knight in the GP (and Links) and KnT.
McAlpine, Monica E.
John V. Fleming and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 2, 1986. (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1987): pp. 147-55.
Discusses pedagogical techniques for teaching vocabulary study and translation and recitation of Chaucer's language.
In Chaucer's famous line "I trowe he were a geldyng or a mare" the word "mare" is best glossed "homosexual," and the description of the Pardoner fits all three medieval confusions with homosexuality: effeminacy, eunuchy, and hermaphroditism.
McAlpine, Monica E.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978.
"De casibus" tragedy stems from a single event which determines the protagonist's career. By contrast, the genre of TC is Boethian, depicting multiple crises in the lives of its characters with no single experience as the crucial one. The story of…
McAlpine, Monica E.
Robert R. Edwards, ed. Art and Context in Late Medieval English Narrative: Essays in Honor of Robert Worth Frank, Jr. (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994), pp. 79-92.
Critical studies of NPT fall primarily into two groups: allegorical, or interpretive readings, versus mock-epic, or "noninterpretive" readings, based on the premise that the poem has "no meaning except its escape from meaning."
McAlpine, Monica E.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 25: 199-224, 2003.
In her "active suffering," Criseyde reflects a Boethian notion of agency. In her prudential counseling of Troilus, she properly dissuades him from "treasonable elopement in time of war." The article explores how Criseyde's advice to Troilus and her…
McAlpine, Monica Ellen.
DAI 33.12 (1973): 6877-78A.
Reads TC as a critique of the "old tragic idea" of fall through fortune, emphasizing the poem's concern with human choice derived from Boethius's "Consolation," and observing a "Boethian comedy" in Troilus and a "Boethian tragedy" in Criseyde. TC…
McArthur, Tom, ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Includes an entry entitled "Chaucer, Geoffrey [1343?-1400]," by Whitney F. Bolton, which surveys Chaucer's life, works, language, and style, with a brief bibliography. The same information is published in McArthur's "Concise Oxford Companion to the…
McAvoy, Elizabeth Herbert, and Teresa Walters, eds.
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002.
Seventeen essays by various authors. The book is divided into three sections: Sexual/Textual Consumption; Monstrous Bodies; and Consuming Genders, Races, and Nations. Includes an introduction by the editors, a select bibliography, and an index. For…
This guide for undergraduates treats astrology, the zodiac, humors, therapies, Chaucer's authorities, medieval attitudes toward medicine, and the GP Physician.
Argues that post-medieval notions of comedy obscure the relations between sense and sententiousness in Chaucer's poetry, explaining that Boethian, analogous thinking underlies Chaucer's art and that Hebraic and Graeco-Roman poetic traditions help to…
G. K. Chesterton's "Chaucer" makes the "spaciousness" and capacity of Chaucer's writings available to twentieth-century readers. Chesterton associated Chaucer's sanity and vitality with Aquinas, who shared with Chaucer medieval orthodox Christian…
