Bawcutt, Priscilla J.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Surveys what is known of the life and context of William Dunbar, and discusses his canon and language, focusing on Dunbar's range of genres and his idea of himself as a poet or "makar." Comments frequently on Dunbar's debt to Chaucer (and others),…
Berkeley, Michael, comp.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Commissioned in 1983 by the BBC "as incidental music for a series of radio programmes to texts by Chaucer." Includes parts for instruments (two trumpets, one horn, one tenor trombone, one tuba, and "Optional Percussion"), with scoring for five…
McArthur, Tom, ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Includes an entry entitled "Chaucer, Geoffrey [1343?-1400]," by Whitney F. Bolton, which surveys Chaucer's life, works, language, and style, with a brief bibliography. The same information is published in McArthur's "Concise Oxford Companion to the…
Gross, John, ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Selections of comic verse in English, from Chaucer to Glyn Maxwell. The Chaucer selection (pp. 1-4) includes the descriptions of the Monk, Summoner, and Pardoner from the GP.
Trapp, J. B., Douglas Gray, and Julia Boffey, eds.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
An anthology of works from "Beowulf" to Caxton, with a variety of selections from Chaucer (pp. 111-331) in Middle English, with introductions, notes, and glosses: GP, NPPT (with two other fox stories), WBPT (with Dunbar's "Two Married Women and the…
Scase, Wendy.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Studies the "impact of judicial complaint on the formation of literary practice" in late medieval England, describing the "emergence and development" of the "literature of clamour" and exploring the influence of this literature on the rise of English…
Patterson, Lee, ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Ten previously published essays or excerpts from longer works by various authors, with an introduction and a brief bibliography of suggested readings. Topics include GP and estates literature (Jill Mann); design and chaos in KnT (Robert W. Hanning);…
Davis, Paul.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Davis surveys the aesthetics and politics of works by "Augustan poet-translators," including a description of William Cartwright's comments on Francis Kynaston's translation of TC into Latin and an analysis of the modernizations and adaptations of…
Butterfield, Ardis.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Explores the political, linguistic, and cultural relations between "France" and "England" before the stabilization of the areas' geographical boundaries. Interdependence between the two areas challenges modern notions of nationality, linguistic…
Mann, Jill.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Examines "how animals mean" in beast fable, beast epic, and related literature in classical and medieval traditions, focusing on the uses of animals in Marie de France, Nigel of Longchamp, "The Owl and the Nightingale," the Reynard tradition,…
Gross, John, ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Surveys parodies in English, including two brief examples from Alexander Pope that parody Chaucer, plus Stanley J. Sharpless's "The Tale of Miss Hunter Dunn [Geoffrey Chaucer Rewrites Sir John Betjeman]" (pp. 6-7).
Cummings, Brian, and James Simpson, eds.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Thirty-two essays by various individuals and the introduction by the editors exemplify the porous nature of the traditional boundary between medieval and Renaissance in literary history and demonstrate the interpenetration of literature and history.…
Treharne, Elaine, and Greg Walker, with the assistance of William Green, eds.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Thirty-five essays by various authors, with a prologue by Treharne, an epilogue by Walker, and a cumulative index. The individual essays, each accompanied by a bibliography, are arranged thematically under seven thematic headings: Literary…
Ziolkowski, Theodore.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Surveys the figure of the alchemist and the uses of alchemical imagery in western literature, focusing on how satire and trivialization of the subject gave way to more esoteric uses, especially as the practice of alchemy gave way to chemistry.…
Fowler, Alastair.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Contributes to a history of the "pictorial title page" in English printing, identifying continuities and developments by studying sixteen examples (sixteenth-nineteenth centuries), including the frontispiece to William Thynne's edition of Chaucer's…
Parker, Joanne, and Corinna Wagner, eds.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xx
Includes thirty-nine essays by various authors on a wide range of topics relating to medievalisms in Victorian culture, generally British and American, with attention to the historical development of interest in medieval languages, literature, arts,…
Steiner, Wendy.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Considers John Trevisa's translations of "compendious" encyclopedic texts as examples of a prose literary form that is an influential part of a late medieval literary history, an "alternative" to the better-known tradition of Trevisa's poetic…
Daiches, David, and John Flower.
New York: Paddington Press, 1979.
Explains topographical references in the works of various British writers, from Chaucer to Robert Louis Stevenson and James Joyce, and explores how various locales contributed to various works of literature, including works by Shakespeare, Dr.…
Zeikowitz, Richard E.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Examines homoerotic acts between knights (kissing, expressions of love, and forming of lifelong bonds) in a variety of late medieval texts: "Amys and Amylion," the "Prose Lancelot," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," the "Stanzaic Morte Arthur," and…
Shimomura, Sachi.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Set against the eschatology of the Last Judgment, medieval narratives prompt their audiences to employ complex - often deferred - criteria for interpretation or evaluation. Shimomura considers how audience judgment is engaged and complicated in…
Edwards, Robert R.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Seven chapters on topics related to Ovid, Augustine, Hloïse and Abélard, Marie de France, Dante, Roman de la Rose, and Chaucer's relations with Boccaccio and Dante in TC. Grounded in Augustinian, Ovidian, and biblical models, TC (lines 5.540 ff.)…
Mieszkowski, Gretchen.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Western tradition bifurcates the go-between into two separate traditions: the first, working for idealized love; the second, working for lustful sexual conquest. Mieszkowski surveys go-between figures in medieval tradition and discusses how Pandarus…
Crocker, Holly A.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Crocker investigates how the visibility and invisibility of gender in Chaucer are linked to performativity and cultural privilege, especially for men. Discusses the figurative tradition of engendering sight as background to how Prudence in Mel is the…
