Beidler, Peter G.
Chaucer Review 6.1 (1971): 38-43.
Argues that we do not know whether or not Damian completed the act of copulation in the pear tree of MerT, impregnating May, despite Emerson Brown's claims that he did neither. More important are the facts that January has been cuckolded and that he…
Beidler, Peter G.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 72 (1971): 735-38.
Summarizes the plot of French fabliau "Bérenger au long cul" and suggests that it helps to "explain the background upon which Chaucer was drawing when he decided to make January a knight of Lombardy" in MerT.
Beidler, Peter G.
Chaucer Review 3.4 (1969): 275-79.
Compares the plots and characters of FranT and PhyT, arguing that they share parallels that are "significant" and "quite possibly intentional." Focuses on Dorigen and Virginia.
Beidler, Peter G.
English Record 18 (1968): 54-60.
Argues that the subject matter, irony, depiction of love, and touches of humor in KnT are "in no way inappropriate" to the characterization of the Knight evident elsewhere in CT
Beidler, Peter G.
Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2015.
Describes how Chaucer adapted his source, Heile of Beersele, increasing the "theatricality" of plot and details in making MilT, concentrating on the architectural setting (house and window), dramatic details, and additional "scenes." Surveys and…
Beidler, Peter G.
Seattle: Coffee Town Press, 2011.
Offers instructions for pronunciation and phonetic transcription of passages from Chaucer's works, with an introduction to the history and grammar of his Middle English dialect, and a glossary of his basic vocabulary. Designed for classroom use, with…
Beidler, Peter G.
Chaucer Review 56.3 (2021): 296-308.
References a previous article from thirty-five years ago that discussed various translations of important passages from Chaucer and appraised them. As a companion piece, considers ten verse translations of the opening lines of CT. Concludes with an…
Beidler, Peter G., and Elizabeth M. Biebel, ed.
Toronto, Buffalo, and London : University of Toronto Press, 1998.
A comprehensive annotated bibliography of scholarly and critical discussion of WBPT, subdivided into the following categories: editions and translations (items 1-82), sources and analogues (items 83-206), the "Marriage Group" (items 207-56),…
Beidler, Peter G., and Sierra Gitlin.
John Cartafalsa and Lynne Anderson, eds. The Joy of Teaching: A Chorus of Voices. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2007, pp. 3-17.
An epistolary exchange between teacher and student on the intellectual and emotional challenges of reading Chaucer in a twenty-first century undergraduate classroom.
Beidler, Peter G., ed.
Boston and New York: Bedford-St. Martin's, 1996.
Based on the Hengwrt manuscript, this edition of WBPT and the Wife's sketch from GP is designed for classroom use. It includes notes and glossary, a biographical sketch of Chaucer, a guide to pronunciation and verse, and a summary of historical…
Beidler, Peter G., ed.
Cambridge; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1998.
An introduction by the editor, plus seventeen essays by various authors. The collection includes one essay on the Host, thirteen on CT, and three on TC. For the individual essays, search for Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness under…
Beidler, Peter G., trans. and ed.
New York : Bantam, 2006.
Facing-page translation of selections from CT, based on the 1964 version by A. Kent Hieatt and Constance Hieatt, augmented with expanded selections and apparatus. Selections include GP, KnT, MilPT, RvPT, WBPT, MerPT, FranT, PardPT, ShT, PrPT, and…
Beidler, Peter G.,Jennifer McNamara Bailey, Christine G. Berg, Sister Elaine Marie Glanz, Anne M. Dickson, Tracey A. Cummings, and Elizabeth M. Biebel.
Chaucer Yearbook 3 (1996): 1-20.
Six brief essays from a graduate seminar explore how select medieval plays of the Flood, Nativity, Annunication and Slaughter of the Innocents and Jean Bodel's "Le jeu de Saint Nicholas" illuminate Chaucer's characters in MilT.
Encourages separation of teller and tale in interpreting CT, reading MerT in light of its sources but not MerP. The narrator of the Tale identifies more with Justinus than with January and shows "a measure of sympathy" for May. In this way the Tale…
Beidler, Peter.
Studies in American Indian Literature 15 (2003): 92-103.
Comments on the possible influence of CT on the frame-tale structure of Erdrich's "Tales of Burning Love" and considers to what extent parallels between the Wife of Bath and Lulu Nanapush ("Love Medicine") indicate that Chaucer's work is a source for…
Bela, Teresa.
Jan Nowakowski, ed. Litterae et Lingua: In Honorem Premislavi Mroczkowski (Wroclaw: Pol. Akad. Nauk, 1984), pp. 51-55.
FrT is a tale warning Chaucer's audience about the stupidity of sin. The Friar tells a story of a foolish summoner who gives in to at least three of the deadly sins. Stupidity, not wickedness, leads the Summoner to hell.
Bell, Adrian R.
John France, ed. Mercenaries and Paid Men: The Mercenary Identity in the Middle Ages. Proceedings of a Conference Held at University of Wales, Swansea, 7th-9th July 2005. Smithsonian History of Warfare, no. 47 (Leiden: Brill, 2008), pp. 301-15.
Bell analyzes the military record of 5,600 soldiers from Chaucer's lifetime to discover how many had records of military service similar to the experience of Chaucer's Knight. It was not uncommon for English soldiers to serve as mercenaries in…
Comments on the GP sketch of the Knight, Gower's "To King Henry the Fourth," and the Wilton Diptych as evidence of English support for Philippe de Mezieres's promotion of the 1396 crusade against the Turks, perhaps evidence of English participation…
Bell, Jack Harding.
Dissertation Abstracts International A77.09 (2016): n.p.
Suggests that Chaucer engages the Boethian tradition in TC and HF, only to challenge (and ultimately reject) that tradition's ideas of self-regulation.
