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Explores the contrast between Theseus and Saturn in KnT as a metaphor for the lives of modern academic Chaucerians.

Rejects conventional readings of BD as a demonstration that art can transcend suffering; instead shows how BD "enacts . . . a disconsolate poetics, in which pain and suffering perdure."

Explores Custance, Virginia, and Emelye as women who recognize they are characters in someone else's narratives. Also suggests that Chaucer was similarly constrained by his sources, leaving him too without freedom to be his own self.

Reads PhyT as a deliberate inversion of hagiography, seen particularly in its failure to end with any positive consequences of the martyrdom.

Suggests that readers most identify with Pandarus in TC because he embodies the type of the folkloric trickster.

Imagines the singing clergeon of PrT as a sort of zombie whose zombie faith is echoed by the Prioress.

Suggests that the textual layout of Th is authorial in the Ellesmere, Hengwrt, Cambridge MS Gg.II.27, and Dd.IV.24 copies of Th. Because other manuscripts do not adhere to this layout, they exemplify how scribes interpret texts rather than transmit…

Concentrates on Ceyx and Alcyone's encounter in BD as a communication failure that aligns with a series of other failed attempts at communication throughout the poem.

Claims that "Chaucer is eschatological" with a recurrent focus on "death, judgment, hell, and heaven," but that he also anticipates in Ret how readers might associate Chaucer the author with Chaucer's texts, thus encouraging "a dynamic of textual…

Argues that Form Age transcends its sources to offer "its own glimmer of hope" for new textual communities.

Considers the anonymous executioner and the three strokes required to execute Cecilia in SNT.

Demonstrates how the resolution of FranT turns on so much semantic play with "fre" that the ending itself remains unresolved or "fre."

Set in "a sort of suburban underworld," SNT and CYT treat "subtle threats" to the established values and ideologies of the city. For Chaucer, "the potential for growth and change...lay beyond the comfortably reassuring town walls in the suburban…

Examines the ironies of LGW and LGWP, observing tensions between Cupid's binary claims and the dialogical voices and approaches in the tales themselves. Mythological allusions and various plays suggest a cycle of fertility at odds with binary…

Reviews scholarship and analyzes ambiguities of the GP characterization of the Prioress.

Examines whether NPT manifests a superficial or an intrinsic religiosity and treats NPT--a tale appropriate to the teller--as a religious allegory with Chauntecler as Man or Adam, Pertelote as Eve, and the fox as Devil.

Argues that Caxton's two editions of CT were prompted by patrons; that the revision of the text from the first to the second edition was a "haphazard affair"; and that Caxton's published remarks on Chaucer are conventional and economically motivated,…

In later medieval Latin and Middle English, Frisia had a negative reputation: "Frise" often means "Phrygia," while Latin "Phrygia" could mean "Frisia." Refutes the general acceptance of "Frise" (Rom 1093) as "Frisia" but accepts the usual…

Ten essays on topics related to medieval notions of afterlife, including several on Langland, Hoccleve, Gower, and Chaucer. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Four Last Things under Alternative Title.

Item not seen. Production trailer from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2012, available at YouTube.

Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates this musical recording includes a track (no. 4; running time 4:01) entitled "Quero Pensar : A Mulher de Bath" [I Want To Think (The Wife Of Bath)], one of sixteen total tracks. Lyrics in Portuguese. Additional…

A frame-tale collection of stories that adapts aspects of CT, told while travelers are trapped on a stalled subway car. Written in rhymed couplets, with a General Prologue and nineteen tales without prologues.

Item not seen. The WorldCat record offers the following notes: "Issued in a case./ Illustrators' notes (2p.) laid in./ Limited ed. of 20. Made entirely by hand, printed on 'Tovil' hand-made paper, and signed by the illustrators."

Parodies GP, featuring twenty-nine character sketches of people who intend to travel together to Pokerbury, a site for gambling, planning to tell tales along the way. Modern professions include the Broker, the Dentist, the Scientist, etc.

A murder mystery set in medieval London, told by Geoffrey Chaucer recounting events in the first person. Includes various historical persons and provides chapter notes at the end of the narrative.