Gulley, Alison.
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession 3 (2022): 31-39.
Discusses the Pardoner's "queerness and fitness to tell a moral tale" in light of ethical concerns about J. K. Rowling's "public comments about trans women," suggesting pedagogical uses.
Turner, Marion, Eleanor Baker, Rodger Caseby, Clare Cory, Jim Harris, Nicholas Perkins, and Charlotte Richer
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession 3 (2022): 70-78.
Collaborative reflection on the presentation and value of a study-days enhancement program called "Chaucer's World," designed both to help UK secondary education students prepare for the A-level English Literature exam and to increase appreciation of…
Raybin, David, and Susanna Fein.
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession 3 (2022): 86-94.
Describes and assesses NEH K-12 Seminars for high school teachers pertaining to CT and held in London, 2008–14; reflects on 2014 legislation that discontinued funding for such programs held outside the USA; and encourages future collaboration…
Studies the "co-articulation of the transhistorical issues of gender, race, and sex" in WBPT and Zadie Smith's "Wife of Willesden," arguing that they "invoke similar forms of sexual assault and feminine abuse while undermining analogous abstractions…
Advocates the use of student-generated creative writing in a course called "Surviving Trauma in the Middle Ages," focusing on reading ClT in tandem with Patience Agbabi's retelling of Chaucer'stale, "I Go Back to May 1967," from "Telling Tales"…
Flannery, Mary C.
New College Notes (Oxford) 12 (2019): 1-4; 3 illus.
Addresses "scribal playfulness," rather than error or accuracy, focusing on instances of copyists' engagement with Chaucer's "bawdy humour," particularly the diction, imagery, and details of a ribald expansion of the pear-tree episode of MerT (and…
Sylvester, Louise.
New Comparison: A Journal of Comparative and General Literary Studies 11 (1991): 137-57.
Chaucer's borrowings from "Decameron" are more often poetic strategies and individual episodes than complete plots. The wife in ShT echoes Peronella in "Decameron" 7.2; MilT reflects "Decameron 2.4 more than RvT does 9.6. Generally, Chaucer extends…
Surveys British literary responses to "some aspects of the Muslim spiritual system," identifying instances in which British literature was influenced by Sufi mysticism or reflects awareness of it. Includes summary (pp. 37-39) of parallels between…
Indraguru, Bhavatosh.
New Delhi: DK Printworld, 2019.
Compares and contrasts early narratives of India and Western Europe, theorizing a "morphology" of relations among characterization and character development, narrative mode, and meaning. Includes discussion of differences between the…
Lall, Rama Rani.
New Delhi: New Statesman Publishing Co., 1979.
The satiric fable, with oral origins among the Orientals and Greeks, is usually characterized by economy, light-heartedness, and singleness of impression. The popularity of the genre continued into the Middle Ages and beyond not only because of its…
Orme, Nicholas [I.]
New Haven and London : Yale University Press, 2001.
Orme surveys medieval childhood, from the seventh to the mid-sixteenth century, with emphasis on England. Topics include birth and family life, danger and death, children's literature, learning to read and reading for pleasure, play, children and the…
Crampton, Georgia Ronan.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1974.
Examines the commonplace theme of "agere et pati" (to act and to suffer) in the works of Chaucer and Spenser, especially KnT and books 1-4 of Spenser's "The Faerie Queene," exploring oppositions between deed and emotion, action and passion, and…
Doob, Penelope B. R.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1974.
This study of madness in Middle English literature generally mentions Chaucer only in passing, but includes a brief discussion of a "pedestrian and highly traditional account of Nebuchadnezzer" in MkT. Clearly based on the Book of Daniel, the account…
Ormrod, W. M.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990.
Analyzes the contribution of Edward III to England's growth as a nation, emphasizing such institutional changes as the development of the Commons in Parliament, the emergence of a systematic exchequer, and the commissioning of justices of the peace. …
Saul, Nigel.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997.
A biography that assesses Richard II, the quality of his rule, and the events of his reign. Uses Shakespeare's play as a point of departure and argues that Richard's accomplishments and excesses resulted in large part from the fusion of "exercise of…
Strohm, Paul.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998.
Combines New Historicism and cultural psychoanalysis to explore how the Lancastrian dynasty and its supporters responded to and helped to construct a response to Henry Lancaster's usurpation of Richard II's throne.
Lerer, Seth, ed.
New Haven, Conn., and London : Yale University Press, 2006.
An introduction and ten essays by various authors, with several appendices (chronology, a guide to textual studies, order and pattern within CT, and maps), plus a bibliography and an index. Aimed at an American audience, the volume seeks to "combine…
Hill, John M.
New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 1991.
Chaucer's works explore and promote "cognitive credence"--belief as a way of knowing the truths reflected in fiction. In BD, HF, PF, and LGWP, the narrators' confrontations with various fictions show that belief and emotional involvement are…
Borroff, Marie.
New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 2003.
Ten essays by the author, three of them published here for the first time. Topics include CT, "Pearl," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," and Shakespeare's "Hamlet." For two new essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Traditions and Renewals under…
Payne, Robert O.
New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press for the University of Cincinnati, 1963.
Explores how "the problems and operations of poetry and the poet are repeatedly raised into the consciousness of the reader" of Chaucer's poetry, adding a "peculiar dimension" to engaging with his works by requiring a "deliberate assent to their…
Burrow, J. A.
New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1971.
Proposes the label "Ricardian" for the late fourteenth-century period of English literature and "looks at the four chief poets of the time . . . as a group," identifying their common stylistic features, rooted in earlier English tradition of…
