Mueller, Alex.
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017. Relocated 2025 at https://opencanterburytales.lsusites.org/
Explores the tension between "solaas" and "sentence" in three features of NPT (its representations of humans and non-humans, its reference to the Uprising of 1381, and its gender politics), investigating the importance of the rhetoric of the Tale in…
Discusses CT, especially WBP, in a study of the construction of the "self" in the late medieval and early modern periods. Focuses on how a complex sense of the self is constructed in "The Book of Margery Kempe" and developed into the seventeenth…
Explores how Chaucer's characters in CT challenge the medieval social norm of community over "pryvetee" by telling tales that expose others' "pryvetee and obscure their own; by profession as a means of asserting individual power over one's pryvetee;…
Compares FranT with the tenth tale (Madassena and Her Rash Promise) of the "Vetalapachisi," identifying common motifs (rash promise, promise to return, and noble theft) and differences in frame, characterization, and setting. Observes relations with…
Mukherji, Sajni.
Supriya Chaudhuri and Sukanta Chaudhuri, eds. Writing Over: Medieval to Renaissance (Calcutta: Allied, in collaboration with the Department of English, Jadavpur University, 1996), pp. 1-10.
Reads the dreams of Criseyde and of the Wife of Bath as "counter discourse" to the male dominant discourse of prophetic dreaming. The dreams of the women are more complex and without clear directives.
Mullally, Evelyn,and John Thompson,eds.
Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N. Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1997.
Thirty-seven essays by various authors arranged under five headings: Contexts for Courtliness, Fashioning History and Romance, Negotiating a Courtly Voice, Texts and Readers, and Limits of Courtliness. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search…
Examines historical and symbolic features of the costumes of select Ellesmere portraits (Squire, Knight, Merchant, Prioress, Monk, Parson, Cook, and Chaucer), arguing that the sequence is an "informed response" to CT, especially GP. Chaucer is…
Mullany, Peter F.
American Notes and Queries 3.4 (1964): 54-55.
Suggests that the assigning of "Pilates voys" to the Miller (MilP 1.3124) may be due in part to the apocryphal notion that Pilate was the son of a miller's daughter, as recorded in the "Legenda Aurea."
Thirty-four essays--half in German, half in English--by various authors. Topics range from general discussions of the reception of the Middle Ages in traditional art and literature to medievalism in architecture and modern and postmodern film,…
A range of medieval literary portraits derive techniques from rhetorical memory devices and, in turn, shape notions of subjectivity. Mulligan considers Langland's Lady Meed, the Green Knight, Henryson's Cresseid, and various Chaucerian characters,…
Mulryne, J. R.
J. R. Mulryne and Margaret Shewring, eds. War, Literature, and the Arts in Sixteenth-Century Europe (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989), pp.165-89.
Mulryne assesses attitudes toward chivalry in early seventeenth-century shows and plays, including discussion of how Shakespeare and Fletcher's Two Noble Kinsmen reflects the magnificence and human pain of KnT.
Mulryne, J. R.
M[arie]-T[hérèse] Jones-Davies, ed. Le Roman de Chivalerie au Temps de la Renaissance (Paris: Jean Touzot Libraire-Editeur, 1987), pp. 75-106.
Reads Shakespeare and Fletcher's "Two Noble Kinsmen" as written in commemoration of the chivalric ideals and sudden death of Henry, Prince of Wales, and composed "under the creative discipline" of KnT. For the playwrights, Chaucer's poem provided…
Mulryne, J. R.
M[arie]-T[hérèse] Jones-Davies, ed. Le Dialogue au Temps de la Renaissance. Centre de Recherches sur la Renaissance, no. 9 (Paris: Jean Touzot, 1984), pp. 169-83.
Places Shakespeare's bird dialogue from the end of "Love's Labour's Lost" in the tradition of bird debates, commenting on other examples of the genre, and noting parallels with PF and Sir John Clanvowe's "The Boke of Cupid," attributed to Chaucer…
Mulvihill, John Francis.
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1995): 1345A.
Ancient and medieval poems often received no titles from their authors. With commercial dissemination, editors provided titles to attract readers, as with poems by Chaucer, Wyatt, Shakespeare, and Dickinson. Authorial titles tend to orient readers…
Mundo, Frank.
West Conshohocken, PA: Infinity, 2010.
Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates this collection of stories in verse emulates CT as a tale-telling contest, conducted by security guards after riots in Los Angeles.
Munoz G., Adrián.
Anuario de Letras Modernas 11 (2002-03): 47-52.
A fanciful conversion between Chaucer and the author about MilT, touching on questions of genre and theme. Chaucer's portion of the dialogue is in mock Middle English.
Munro, Lucy.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Explores the use of "archaic linguistic and poetic style" in poetry and drama, 1590–1674, analyzing how combinations of anachronism and nostalgia help to influence the idea of English "nationhood." Includes recurrent comments on lexical…
Munsterberg, Marjorie.
British Art Journal 18.1 (2010): 12-25.
Claims that writing about painting in England began with Chaucer's "definition of visual art" in PhyT 6.9ff., sketching classical and medieval background to Chaucer's description, particularly Pliny, Bartholomeus Anglicus, John Trevisa, and the Roman…
Murata, Yazaburo.
In Kazuo Araki, and others, eds. Studies in English Grammar and Linguistics: A Miscellany in Honour of Takanobu Otsuka (Tokyo: Kenkyushi, 1958), pp. 289-99.
Describes Chaucer's "power and limitations as a stylist," offering examples, and tabulating more extensively examples of oaths and swearing in Chaucer's works, including strong and weak oaths, wishes, and imprecations.
Murchison, Krista A.
Chaucer Review 49.3 (2015): 371–75.
Argues that the word pair "gent and smal," used in the description of Alisoun in MilT, meant "well-built," with connotations of noble looks and behavior.
