Noble, Thomas F. X.
Chantilly, Va.: Teaching Company, 2004.
Includes two thirty-minute audio-visual recordings of lectures (nos. 35 and 36) on "Geoffrey Chaucer--Life and Works" and "Geoffrey Chaucer--'The Canterbury Tales'." The first surveys Chaucer's life and works; the second describes CT, with attention…
Adaptation of NPT in Modern English pentameter verse, designed for staging by a cast of seven, with a brief introductory note for performance and stage directions. The frame-story characters are pilgrims who decide to "dramatize the Fox and…
Blake, Norman F.
Antonio R. Celada, Daniel Pastor García, and Pedro Javier Pardo García, eds. Actas del XXVII Congreso Internacional de AEDEAN = Proceedings of the 27th International AEDEAN Conference (Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca, 2004), n.p. CD-Rom.
Proposes that Chaucer probably started with a provisional notion of the overall order of CT, which he experimented with, adjusted, and had not completely sorted out before he died. The scribes copied the text in stints as the best way to adapt…
Sáez-Hidalgo, Ana.
Antonio R. Celada, Daniel Pastor García, and Pedro Javier Pardo García, eds. Actas del XXVII Congreso Internacional de AEDEAN = Proceedings of the 27th International AEDEAN Conference (Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca, 2004), n.p. CD-Rom.
Analyzes Chaucer's notion of tragedy in TC against the background of classical and medieval conceptualizations of the genre and Chaucer's own rewriting of sources.
Hernández Pérez, María Beatriz.
Sonia Villegas and Beatriz Domínguez, eds. Literature, Gender, Space (Huelva: Universidad de Huelva, 2004), pp. 131-42.
Assesses the hospitality of female characters in LGW, showing that the betrayal suffered by these women is not the result of their fickleness but of a failure of the courtly code.
Fernández Rodríguez, Carmen María.
Elizabeth Woodward Smith, ed. About Culture (Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Coruña, 2004), pp. 139-46.
Describes Maria Edgeworth's view of the education of women through her adaptation of ClT in "The Modern Griselda" (1805), intended as a warning against sensibility and defense of rational women.
Comic novel featuring literary detective Thursday Next, set in a world where reality and literature are permeable. Includes references to Chaucer, to discrepancies in CT, and to many works of fiction.
Gray, Douglas.
H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, eds. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 61 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004): 11: 247-59.
Biography of Chaucer, with brief bibliography. Sub-sections include "Early Life," "Poetry: The Beginnings," "Journeys on the King's Service--Italy," "Chaucer at the Customs House and Aldgate," "Works of the 1370s and early 1380s," "Life in London,…
Thompson, John J.
Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds. Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005), pp. 353-61.
Considers the omission of ABC from Chaucer's canon and what it reflects about the editorial habits of John Stow and Thomas Speght; religious-political pressures on editors of the time; and the reception of the Marian devotion of ABC in Protestant…
Knapp argues that a historicized, aesthetic appreciation of Chaucer is possible, despite recent tendencies to focus on ideological issues only. The aesthetic theories of Kant and Gadamer help to explain the roles of subjectivity, universality, and…
Ransom, Daniel J.
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 205-15.
Offers adjustments or expansions to explanations of several of Chaucer's allusions: the labors of Hercules, Lucia, Xantippe, Chrysippus, a number of place names, etc.
Masi investigates depictions of women in Chaucer's works compared to depictions in works of other authors, including Christine de Pizan, Aquinas, and Boethius. He links Chaucer's LGW and Pizan, suggesting that Eustace Deschamps may have been a…
Economou, George D.
Robert M. Stein and Sandra Pierson Prior, eds. Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005), pp. 290-301.
Economou considers a range of possibilities--that Chaucer and Langland knew each other, knew each other's works, or shared the same literary context. Focuses on GP and Ret of CT.
Brown, Peter.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 27 (2005): 261-67.
Brown describes a "recent crisis" that threatened the survival of the Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Tudor Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
Eight previously printed essays, seven on Chaucer and one on Shakespeare's Cressida. For the essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer and Women under Alternative Title.
Braswell, Mary Flowers.
Chaucer Review 39 (2005): 402-19
Haweis's two books--Chaucer for Children (1877) and Chaucer for Schools (1881)--reveal much about Victorian Chaucerians, their conversations, and their research. A scholarly popularizer, Haweis supported Chaucer's reputation during the formative…
Ellis, Steve, ed.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Thirty-six essays on individual topics, plus an introduction (by Ellis) and a postscript (Julian Wasserman). Part 1 (historical contexts): Chaucer's life (Ruth Evans), society and politics (S. H. Rigby), nationhood (Ardis Butterfield), London (C.…
Hanks, D. Thomas, Jr.
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 219-36.
Surveys Chaucer's concern with the coexistence of a beneficent God and the suffering of humans in KnT, MLT, ClT, and FranT. Chaucer often poses this issue by alluding to Job.
