O'Hara, Robert,and Peter Robinson.
Norman Blake and Peter Robinson, eds. The 'Canterbury Tales' Project Occasional Papers, Volume I (Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication Publications, 1993), pp. 53-74.
Discusses the application of computer-assisted cladistic analysis to manuscript stemmatics and describes the use of "Collate" software, designed to analyze and refine generalizations produced by cladistics. The essay details how texts of the Old…
O'Hear, Anthony.
Anthony O'Hear. The Great Books: A Journey Through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature (Wilmington, Del.: ISI [Intercollegiate Studies Institute] Books, 2009), pp. 177-95.
Description of CT that comments on Chaucer's social range and authenticating detail, arranges the Pilgrims into social classes, and comments on the plot of each of the Tales.
An anthology for children of animal tales from Aesop, the Grimm brothers, etc., including a selection from NPT (pp. 51-56; excludes the dream commentary and philosophy), as "retold by" Stephen Corrin. Plates and illustrations by Angel Dominquez.
O'Neal, Cothburn M.
Martin Shockley, ed. Proceedings of [the] Conference of College Teachers of English of Texas, no. 32 (Lubbock: Texas Technical College, 1967), pp. 18-23.
The stellar phenomenon of TC 3.624-25 certainly occurred in 1385, more likely May 12 (though Saturn was not quite in Cancer, something which Chaucer's Tables may have erred about) than June 9, when a crescent moon may not have been visible in London.
O'Neill, Maria.
Brian J. Worsfold, ed. Women Ageing Through Literature and Experience (Lleida and Catalunya, Spain: Department of English and Linguistics, University of Lleida, 2005), pp. 73-81.
O'Neill surveys Chaucer's attitudes toward age and gender in CT, with particular focus on WBPT. In CT, the "medieval, ageing Englishwoman as a sexual being emerges with . . . dignity and vitality."
O'Neill, Michael, ed.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Fifty-three individual essays by various authors on topics ranging from Old English poetry to various movements, individual poets, and postmodern concerns. Arranged chronologically, with a cumulative bibliography and an index. For three essays that…
Discussing fiscal metaphors for the state of the soul in the Middle English period, O'Neill suggests that Ret is Chaucer's effort to escape "the imperatives of stewardship," evoking instead "a relationship of mutual intercession with his readers."
O'Neill, Rosemary.
Sharon M. Rowley, ed. Writers, Editors, and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. 101-24.
Explores marital struggles and "postnuptial renegotiation of marriage obligations" in WBPT and "The Book of Margery Kempe." Presents "contemporary feminist theories of contracts, consent, and choice" to reveal limitations of "choice" and negotiations…
O'Neill, Ynez Violé.
Medical History 12.2 (1968): 185-90.
Proposes that the "greyn" in the mouth of the clergeon in PrT (7.622) may be related to a common medieval medical prescription for various maladies, including loss of speech: a "castorea."
O'Reilly, William M., Jr.
Greyfriar 10 (1968): 25-39.
Argues that "there is an ironically complex relationship of the speaker to what he says" in CYPT, particularly in the way that the Yeoman's simplistic understanding of alchemy leads him to abandon the evils of alchemy while the Canon's intelligent…
Obenauf, Richard.
Dissertation Abstracts International A77.01 (2015): n.p.
As part of a consideration of censorship, subjects several works, including PF, to a hypothetical "model of intolerance" based on Abelard, Ockham, and John of Salisbury.
Oberembt, Kenneth J.
Chaucer Review 10 (1976): 287-302.
The Wife of Bath first weakens the conventional notion of men as reasonable and women as sensual by showing how sensual and unworthy of sovereignty were her five husbands. Then she overthrows this notion when her own feminine-sensual image dissolves…
Obermeier, Anita.
Amsterdam and Atlanta, Ga. : Rodopi, 1999.
Surveys authorial apologies in literature from the classical period to the late Middle Ages, discussing classical tradition, Christian tradition, medieval Latin tradition, and medieval vernacular literatures, including German, French, Italian,…
Obermeier, Anita.
Stephen B. Partridge and Erik Kwakkel, eds. Author, Reader, Book: Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice (Toronton: University of Toronto Press, 2012), pp. 80-105.
Describes Gower's and Chaucer's "metaphorical and historical connections to Richard II," as reflected in ManT.
Obeso, Kimberth D., Mary Joy J. Tumada, Shelley Mai M. Chua, and Niña Jen Ruta-Canayong.
Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Arts and Sciences 6, no. 2 (2019): 58-63.
Briefly describes differences between TC and Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," focusing on genre and style, characterization, and attitudes toward women.
Obst, Wolfgang, and Florian Schleburg.
Heidelberg : C. Winter, 1999.
Includes twelve chapters, organized as follows: a passage from TC (usually 100 lines each from MS Cambridge Corpus Christi 61) is followed by a discussion of specific grammatical or phonological features. Thus, chapter one contains the first night…
Odegard, Margaret.
Nicholas J. Karolides, Lee Burress, and John M. Kean, eds. Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints (Metuchen, N.J.; and London: Scarecrow Press, 1993), pp. 144-58.
Describes the "host of moral issues for high school readers to consider" in MilT and WBPT and argues for an ethic of inclusion rather than exclusion in selecting books.
In CT, Chaucer "counters authority with the fracturing and multiple perspective of comedy," most clearly seen in NPT, which best represents the structure of the CT as a whole. Chaucer's multiplicity is ultimately, however, like Boethius's leap "to…
Argues that the category of "allegorical animal poems" disguises the fact that such poems "simultaneously hide and reveal the contested nature of the boundary between humans and animals." Comments on fable tradition, the nature of allegory, and…
