Boitani, Piero.
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2002.
Assesses Chaucer's adaptations of his sources and his influences on later tradition, examining his uses of Dante in TC (Paolo and Francesca, idea of gentility, and Paradiso 33) and tracing the transformations of the characters of KnT (particularly…
Shimonomoto, Keiko.
Keiko Shimonomoto. The Use of Ye and Thou in the Canterbury Tales, and Collected Articles (SAC 26 [2004], no. 151), pp. 93-100.
Examines scribal uses of ye versus thou in manuscripts of WBP, excluding the so-called "additional" passages. Variants indicate that second-person pronouns were subject to individual manipulation for "interpersonal goals or creative effects."
Ono, Shigeru.
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. 405-17.
Argues that scribes altered Chaucer's modal auxiliaries, dative verb constructions, infinitives, and negations, simplifying Chaucer's syntax and making his stylistic compactness apparent by contrast.
Adds the Cardigan MS (University of Texas) and British Library Egerton MS 2864 to Matheson's list of manuscripts that include "peculiar versions" of Brut.
A short list of caveats for users of the 1977 photographic facsimile of the Findern manuscript, together with transcriptions of marginalia previously unprinted. Note 1 includes an extensive bibliography of scholarship on the manuscript.
Middle English text of KnT (based on The Riverside Chaucer), with interlinear phonetic transcription and facing-page translation. Annotations derived from earlier editions.
The annotations from Virgil and Seneca in a copy (not previously discussed) of Stow's edition of TC act much like footnotes in modern editions to identify such things as analogues. They also demonstrate that classical tag-lines had become common by…
Recounts the aims and accomplishments of the modernization of Chaucer edited by Horne in 1840-41, with contributions by Leigh Hunt, William Wordsworth, and Elizabeth Barrett, among others. Correspondence helps to clarify what individual contributors…
Eisner, Sigmund, ed.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.
Edition of Astr based on Bodley 619 and Digby 72, Bodleian Library, Oxford, with collated variants from all known manuscripts and scholarly editions through The Riverside Chaucer. Contains explanatory notes and critical notes variorum through 1997.…
Discusses prefaces to CT as marketing and self-promotion that linked the authority of editors and a dedicatee, Henry VIII, to the authority of the author.
Copeland, Ann.
Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 33.3-4: 161-80, 2002.
Copeland describes the difficulties and potential for confusion in imprecise library cataloging of digital versions of books, focusing on differences between particular works and books and assessing as one example the 1998 Octavo CD-Rom version of…
Coote, Lesley A., ed.
Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Poetry Library, 2002.
A student edition of the complete CT based on British Library MS Harley 7334, supplemented with Hengwrt. The edition-Middle English text with modern punctuation and normalized spelling (y/i, u/v, /th)-includes marginal glosses, brief introductions…
Describes and analyzes a deed of property conveyance indicative of the complex relations and interactions among Thomas Chaucer, Richard Wyot, William Paston, Sir John Fastolf, John, duke of Bedford, and others. Compares Thomas Chaucer's appended seal…
Thomas, Paul R., dir.
[Provo, UT] : Chaucer Studio, 2002.
Middle English audio recording of MkP, MkT, and NPP (through line 2807), read by Alan T. Gaylord. Recorded at the 36th International Congress of Medieval Studies.
29 July 2003. Critique of Pier Paolo Pasolini's "I Racconti di Canterbury," commenting that it is the "poor cousin" within Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life" and observing its concern with death. Moliterno includes quotations from Pasolini about his…
Examines postmodern elements in two pseudomedieval films, arguing that awareness of film theory and formal film analysis are more illuminating than comparison with medieval sources. Jerry Zucker's First Knight is a "star vehicle" and a "director's…
Havely, Nicholas R., dir.
[Provo, Ut.]: Chaucer Studio, 2002.
Complete Middle English audio recording of HF, read by Ros Allen, Tom Burton, Nicholas Havely, Derek Pearsall, Felicity Riddy, and Paul Thomas. Includes three interpolated songs.
Foster, Edward E., and David H. Carey.
Aldershot; and Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, 2002.
Lists Chaucer's religious, ecclesiastical, and liturgical terms and proper names (about 500), alphabetically arranged by Chaucer's spelling and cross-listed. Many terms are defined at greater length than in a lexical dictionary. Others are lengthier…
Chapman, Don.
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. 37-49.
Describes the variety of ways Chaucer uses noun-adjective compounds to produce "strong connotations or heightened effects."
Examines all fifteenth-century witnesses of WBP, which are available on CD-Rom (SAC 20 [1998], no.11). Some scribes still had a system for the use of final -e, here studied in strong and weak adjectives in early, mid-, and late-fifteenth-century…
Proposes a Wittgensteinian approach to Chaucer's language that eschews the inherent limitations of linguistic description and stylistic analysis. The poet's works are about language.
