Raymo, Robert [R.] .
New York : Grolier Club, 2000.
Brief descriptions of the 93 items in the exhibition, intended to present a "comprehensive view of modern representations of Chaucer and his work" (ii). Also includes a brief chronology of Chaucer's life, an index of major editions (between 1447 and…
Kennedy, William J.
Patrick Cheney and Lauren Silberman, eds. Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000), pp. 45-62.
Kennedy examines how Spenser fused aspects of Chaucer's Thopas and SqT with features of Ariosto's Innkeeper's Tale (Orlando Furioso 28) in creating his Squire of Dames, found in books 3 and 4 of Faerie Queene.
Summit, Jennifer.
Chicago and London : University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Historicizing the "commonplace" conception that women writers stand in opposition to literary tradition, Summit assesses how the conception itself "dialectically fashioned both 'the woman writer' and 'English literature' in the medieval and early…
Zangen, Britta.
Gabriele Genge, ed. Sprachformen des Körpers in Kunst und Wissenschaft. Kultur und Erkenntnis, no. 25 (Tübingen and Basel: A. Francke, 2000), pp. 244-58.
CT is startlingly antifeminist ("erschreckend frauenfeindlich") in its depiction of women and of male attitudes toward women. Recent criticism has begun to recognize this antifeminism but has not fully overcome adulation of the author.
Finlayson, J. Caitlin.
Philological Quarterly 79 : 225-47, 2000.
A major source of Keats's poem is the Middle English "La Belle Dame sans Mercy," mistakenly attributed to Chaucer in the 1782 edition of "The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer," which Keats owned.
Knight, Stephen.
James Bothwell, P. J. P. Goldberg, and W. M. Ormrod, eds. The Problem of Labour in Fourteenth-Century England (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, 2000), pp. 101-22.
Knight considers Chaucer's Plowman (among other figures) in an effort to construct a "structure of feeling" pertinent to late-medieval English labor. As in the mystery plays and in Piers Plowman, the depiction of labor in CT is first idealized, then…
Myerson, Jonathan, dir.
Cardiff: S4C and Christmas Films, 2000.
Animated versions of SqT (with a completed plot), CYPT, and MilT and RvT (with plots interpolated), presented as tales told on each of three days as the pilgrims return from Canterbury to London. Includes a teacher's guide (pamphlet). Distributed by…
Reads Theseus as a uniquely dynamic character in KnT and in CT more generally--able to "change over time in response to experience." In the course of the Tale, Theseus achieves some of the detachment and insight that characterize the Knight.
Deeply engaged with literary tradition and the dynamics of translation, TC resists "the patriarchal biases of the founding myth the narrator transmits to us." It "denaturalizes the masculine literary corpus" by revealing the "radical contingency of…
Minnis, A. J.
Phillip Lindley and Thomas Frangenberg, eds. Secular Sculpture: 1300-1550 (Stamford: Shaun Tyas), 2000, pp. 124-43.
Minnis considers possible sources or inspirations for Chaucer's techniques of describing the architecture and statuary in the Temple of Venus of HF, surveying previous scholarship. Despite the possible influence of actual art and architecture or the…
Tournoy, Gilbert.
George Hugo Tucker, ed. Forms of the "Medieval" in the "Renaissance": A Multidisciplinary Exploration of a Cultural Continuum (Charlottesville, Va.: Rookwood, 2000), pp. 175-203.
Traces the developments and distortions of the classical myth of Apollo's service to Admetus and its association with love; includes discussion of the allusion in TC 1.659-65.
This appreciative biography uses "Chaucer Knight" as the title of chapter sixteen, deriving the appellation from a memorial in the "Cambridge Review" on the occasion of Lewis' death.
An anthology in Spanish of seventeen pieces of short fiction from international medieval and modern sources, and a prologue by Montero that discusses the motif of the unfaithful woman. Includes WBPT (pp. 89-119).
An anthology of appreciative poetry, narratives, and essays (some in excerpts) that pertain to organs, organ music, and organists, including a selection from SNT in Middle English (pp. 5-6; lines 8.120-40) and a brief commentary.
Devlin, Mary
San Jose, Calif.: Writers Club Press, 2000.
A murder mystery that incorporates details from Chaucer's life and from CT, featuring Chaucer in the role of detective seeking to solve three murders on the pilgrimage to Canterbury, with the aid of John of Gaunt.
Fleming, John V.
Susan J. Ridyard, ed. Death, Sickness, and Health in Medieval Society (Sewanee, Tenn.: University of the South, 2000), pp. 123-32.
Describes Chaucer's fusion of sources--Boccaccio, Boethius, the Bible, and Horace--in his presentation of Troilus' love as sickness and as analogous to the art of writing, focusing on Troilus' complaints and Pandarus' advice about letter-writing.
Wolpers, Theodor.
Theodor Wolpers, ed. Der Sturz des Mächtigen: Zu Struktur, Funktion, and Geschichte eines Literarischen Motivs (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000), pp. 105-47.
Traces the "fall of the mighty" (or "fall of princes") motif in "de casibus" narratives and its intersections with tragedy in works by Boccaccio and Chaucer and in the sixteenth-century "Mirror for Magistrates," with particular attention to Adam and…
Ahl, Frederick.
George W. M. Harrison, ed. Seneca in Performance (London: Duckworth, 2000), pp. 151-71.
Laments the difficulties of translating wordplay, drawing examples from Chaucer to clarify examples from Seneca and other classical drama. Shows where modern translations of Chaucer's works lose puns, audio echoes, "syllabic play," and anagrams
This collection of critical essays by Cousins includes a discussion of Shakespeare's "Lucrece," part of which is entitled "Versions of the Lucretia Story by Ovid, Livy, Boccaccio, Chaucer and Gower" (pp. 48-58), a survey of the various accounts which…
Lambdin, Robert Thomas, and Laura Cooner Lambdin,eds.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.
An alphabetical one-volume encyclopedia of medieval "literary works, authors, historical figures, events, themes, and genres," with a general emphasis on "early British literature" and individual entries for Continental literatures. Many entries are…
Levine, Gloria.
San Antonio, Tex.: Novel Units. 2000.
Pedagogical activities and assessment tools designed for the high school classroom, focusing on GP, KnT, MilT, WBPT, MerT, FranT, PardPT, PrT, and NPT. Targeted skills include vocabulary-building, critical thinking, reading comprehension, and…
Pinsky, Robert, and Maggie Dietz, eds.
New York: Norton, 2000.
Anthologizes a large number of selections from responses to Robert Pinsky's request that Americans submit an example of their favorite poetry and "comment on the poem's personal significance." The volume includes GP, lines 1-18, and brief comments by…
Thomson, Peter.
Peter Thomson. On Actors and Acting (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2000), pp. 16-25.
Includes commentary (pp. 16-18) on the "entrances" of Chanticleer and Russell into NPT, suggesting parallels between features of the Tale and the staging of a play.
Study guide to CT, arranged topically, with sections that introduce the Host, the narrator, and other "voices"; genre and the relations of teller and tale; and several thematic concerns: ideal womanhood and its subversion, writing and authority, and…
