Describes and assesses Blake's understanding of Chaucer and his Canterbury pilgrims, and surmises (in Appendix A) that Blake used Tyrwhitt's edition of CT. Includes reproductions of Blake's engraving of Chaucer's Pilgrims and of Thomas Stothard's…
Mertz, J. B.
Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly 32.3 (1998-1999): 73-74.
Records a copy (the second known) of William Blake's 1809 Chaucer "Prospectus," pasted into the flyleaf of Francis Douce's copy of Tyrwhitt's edition of CT, now in the Bodleian Library. Pasted opposite is a prospectus for Robert Hartley Cromek's…
Historical novel; a prequel to CT and cast as Chaucer's notebook or journal as he plans and writes his poem, drawing inspiration from his fellow travelers on the current journey. Includes portions of CT in fictional drafts (GP extensively) and…
García, Ricardo L.
Bloomington, Ind.: iUinverse, 2011.
Satiric narrative poetry in rhymed couplets, with thirty-five tales told by academics from the University of Montana on their way Silicon Valley; parodies CT and includes several references to Chaucer and his work. WorldCat records indicate that a…
David, Alfred.
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1976.
As Chaucer struggled to reconcile "auctorite" and "experience" the concern in his poetry evolved from "love celestial" to "love of kynde." In TC the moralist in Chaucer opposes the artist, and the poem's didactic failure is its artistic success. …
Sells, A. Lytton.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1955.
Assesses the influence--direct and mediated--of Italian literature on English poetry from Chaucer to Robert Southwell (excluding verse drama), considering issues of meter and style as well as plot, atmosphere, and theme. Opens with appreciative…
Kern, Edith.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980.
Mikhail Bakhtin's study of the grotesquerie of medieval folk festivals encourages us to view certain Chaucerian characters in the carnivalesque spirit of absolute comedy: moral offenders such as Alysoun of MilT escape unscathed; Nicholas is punished…
Lindahl, Carl.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
Examines Chaucer's use of contemporary oral material and traditions of play in CT, especially by the churls. In part 1, Lindahl examines the "shapes of play and society": community of players, role of the pilgrim, shape of performance, and…
Harwood, Britton J.,and Gillian R. Overing, eds.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
Although criticism on gender and class has suggested their mutual exclusion, this collection of eight essays focuses on their intersections. Three articles on Old English examine the elegies, "Judith," and the "Exeter Book," while those on Middle…
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this is a fictional narrative that includes phallic parodies of various works of literature; CT is among them in a short account of a pilgrimage to the ketchup-bottle-shaped water tower in Ketchup City,…
Offers pedagogical advice for developing interactive games, concentrating on character development, narrative structure, and technique. Invokes CT at several junctures, commending Chaucer's innovative techniques as background to developments in…
Describes the erudition of Anne of Bohemia, reads CT "alongside contemporaneous works in Czech, German, and Latin" (languages familiar to Anne), and maintains that Anne was Chaucer's "imagined reader" who "shaped the way he wrote and what he chose to…
Mehl, Dieter.
Boika Sokolova and Evgenia Pancheva, eds. Renaissance Refractions: Essays in Honour of Alexander Shurbanov (Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2001), pp. 47-54.
Compares how Chaucer's Criseyde and Shakespeare's Cressida reflect each respective author's concerns with literary and historical authority.
Thaisen, Jacob.
Boletín Millares Carlo 24-25 (2005-06): 379-94.
Analysis of MS Gg.4.27 of CT, combining a codicological approach with analysis of linguistic aspects such as graphemic and graphetic variants. This multifocal approach helps identify the process of copying as well as the scribal profile.
Medieval vernacular literature, which inherits and deeply re-elaborates themes and modes of Latin culture, is at the origin of "European" literary production. Italy followed soon after France in establishing a vernacular literary tradition, anchored…
Traces the meanings and nuances of "discrecioun" (moral and rational judgment) in classical and medieval traditions, examining Chaucer's uses of the word and its thematic implications across his career as a poet. Includes references to most of his…
Barr, Helen.
Bonnie Lander-Johnson and Eleanor Decamp, eds. Blood Matters: Studies in European Literature and Thought, 1400-1700 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), pp. 238-48.
Describes the iconography of Thomas Becket's blood in Canterbury Cathedral and its "Christomimetic" associations, and explores parallels between Becket's blood and the Pardoner's blood in the "Canterbury Interlude" that precedes the "Tale of Beryn,"…
Jost, Jean (E.)
Bonnie Wheeler, ed. Feminea Medievalia I: Representations of the Feminine in the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Academia Press, 1993), pp. 117-38.
Not acknowledged or accounted for, feminine desire is a powerful force in the plot of MerT. Because January ignores May's sexual desires, he involuntarily provokes her to pursue a more appropriate mate. May takes what January proffers--his money…
Goyne, Jo.
Bonnie Wheeler, ed. Feminea Medievalia I: Representations of the Feminine in the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Academia Press, 1993), pp. 139-60.
Explores the limitations and parameters of word and will in ClT. Chaucer asserts that words must not encumber the will beyond its limited capacity, even in the service of virtue.
Everhart, Deborah.
Bonnie Wheeler, ed. Feminea Medievalia I: Representations of the Feminine in the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Academia Press, 1993), pp. 23-42.
Uses Heidegger's language concerning the "concealing" and "unconcealing" of truth to examine the narrative layers through which readers interpret Criseyde's character. Criseyde's speeches subtly but forcefully unconceal her own "trouthe," raising…
