Richmond studies British and American adaptations of Chaucer's CT for children, from Charles Cowden Clarke's "Tales from Chaucer in Prose" (1833) until World War I. She examines the selections and adaptations of the Tales and the accompanying…
Saunders, Corinne [J.]
Corinne Saunders, ed. A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary. (Malden, Mass: Blackwell, 2004), pp. 85-103.
Chaucer transcended and transgressed the commonly accepted conventions of "romance": Th parodies the genre, while BD elevates its status by associating romance with classical works. Th, KnT, SqT, FranT, and WBT reflect a variety of approaches to…
Cannon, Christopher.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Cannon combines Marxist and Hegelian ideas of "form" to argue that "form is that which thought and things have in common" (5), enabling a valuation of form as a record of thinking in and about a culture. Formalist criticism (in this sense) of Middle…
Caie describes features of manuscript ordinatio, material, glossing, etc. to show how late medieval English vernacular manuscripts (especially those of Chaucer and Gower) lay claim to authority even while their authors assert that they are only…
Kaylor, Noel Harold, Jr.
Uwe Boker et al., eds. Of Remembraunce the Keye: Medieval Literature and Its Impact Through the Ages. Festschrift for Karl Heinz Goller on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2004), pp. 17-45.
English translation of a German essay that was first published in 1969, assessing the narrative techniques, structure, characters, and major themes of TC.
McCarthy explores how marriage is represented in medieval English literary and legal texts and the "relationship of these representations to actual practice." Subjects range from Beowulf and Old English laws to late medieval ecclesiastical statutes…
Battles, Dominique.
New York and London : Routledge, 2004.
Examines the Chaucerian treatment of Theban matter. Unlike Boccaccio's "Teseida," Anel represents Thebes as a viable urban center even after the siege, while KnT disentangles Theban from Trojan history and re-creates Thebes as a pagan site. Both…
Boker, Uwe, et al., eds.
Frankfurt am Main : Lang, 2004.
Twenty-one essays by various authors and a bibliography of Goller's publications. The essays focus on medieval romances and their reception in later traditions, German and English. For four essays pertain to Chaucer, search for Of Remembraunce the…
Pugh assesses the "nonnormative" features of several genres in medieval literature--lyric, fabliau, tragedy, and romance--exploring not only representations and suggestions of homosexual behaviors but also how these behaviors disrupt readers'…
Moulton, Ian Frederick, ed.
Turnhout: Brepols, 2004.
Nine essays by various authors on reading habits and the trope of reading in the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. The introduction by Moulton (ix-xviii) comments on evidence of reading practice in GP and other literature and summarizes…
Eight essays by various authors, selected from the papers presented at SEM (Studientag zum Englisches Mittelalter) 4 and 5, held in Potsdam in 2002 and 2003, respectively. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Riddles, Knights and…
Schleburg, Florian.
Uwe Boker et al., eds. Of Remembraunce the Keye: Medieval Literature and Its Impact Through the Ages. Festschrift for Karl Heinz Goller on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2004), pp. 79-93.
The three main characters of TC "embody three widely different ways of handling the roles they want to be judged by": total identification (Troilus), total detachment (Pandarus), and acceptance with reservations (Criseyde). Although Chaucer could not…
Summers assesses the commonalities and differences among Usk's "The Testament of Love," "The King's Quair" of James I of Scotland, Charles d'Orléans' "English Book of Love," the "Testimony" of William Thorpe, the "Trial" of Richard Wyche, and…
Johnston, Andrew James.
Thomas Honegger, ed. Riddles, Knights and Cross-dressing Saints: Essays on Medieval English Language and Literature (Bern: Lang, 2004), pp. 1-32.
Johnston compares uses of medieval details, anachronisms, and hermeneutic concerns in two films (Brian Helgeland's "A Knight's Tale" and David Fincher's "Seven") and Umberto Eco's novel, "The Name of the Rose." Includes attention to Chaucer…
Explores Sir Walter Scott's knowledge of Chaucer and the novelist's use of themes and techniques reminiscent of those in BD and the apocryphal "Flower and the Leaf." Alluding to these works in "The Antiquary," Scott emphasizes their concerns with…
Ullyot, Michael.
Ian Frederick Moulton, ed. Reading and Literacy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), pp. 45-62.
Assesses how two seventeenth-century modernizations reflect the reception of their Middle English originals. Jonathan Sidnam's modernization of the first three books of TC (ca. 1630) offers respectful tribute to Chaucer and seeks to preserve his…
Snell, William.
Hiyoshi Review of English Studies 44 (2004): 157-72
Explores why Samuel Johnson did not carry out his publicized intention to produce an annotated edition of Chaucer's works. If he had relied on Urry's edition, the annotated edition would have proved a sorry rival to Tyrwhitt's.
Richmond, E. B., trans.
London : Hesperus Poetry, 2004.
Facing-page translation of PF and nineteen short poems and lyrics by Chaucer, with introduction and brief notes. The translations maintain Chaucer's metrical forms and, where possible, original rhymes, while normalizing spelling and modernizing…
Japanese translation of PF, based on Derek S. Brewer's 2nd edition (1972) and The Riverside Chaucer. Includes Japanese translation of Brewer's commentary.
Boggel, Sandra.
Thomas Honegger, ed. Riddles, Knights and Cross-dressing Saints: Essays on Medieval English Language and Literature (Bern: Lang, 2004), pp. 193-222
Metacomnmunicative markers are more frequent in Middle English religious texts than in Early Modern English religious texts. Boggel focues on such structural and directional markers as "you must remember this" or "let us first examine." Examples…
Pouzet, Jean-Pascal.
Comptes-rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres 1 (2004): 169-213
Pouzet surveys the late medieval activities of Augustinian canons in the production of Anglo-Norman and Middle English manuscripts and texts. Considers evidence of the commitment of members of the order to the transmission of Chaucer material.
DeSpain, Jessica.
Journal of the William Morris Society 15.4 (2004): 74-90
In his Kelmscott Chaucer, Morris presents Chaucer as a proponent of anti-capitalist socialism, consistent with Morris's own arts and crafts movement. The essay comments on the heteroglot voices of the Canterbury pilgrims and the Kelmscott…
