Benson, Larry D., ed.
Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Based on The Riverside Chaucer, 3rd edition, providing a corrected text and set of glosses, with essentially the same apparatus, updated and adapted for beginning students.
Benson, Larry D., ed.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974.
Twenty-five essays by various authors, plus an appreciation of the teaching of Bartlett Jere Whiting, a list of his publications, and a poetic analogue to "Thomas of Erceldoune." For nine essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Learned and the…
Benson, Larry D., gen. ed.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
A compilation by thirty-three Chaucerians (based on "The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer," edited by F. N. Robinson [2d ed., 1957]), this new edition updates, expands, and revises its predecessor while generally preserving its sequence. Entirely rewritten…
Interlinear translation in modern English of the selections from Chaucer in the 8th edition of the "Norton Anthology of English Literature" (2006), edited by Alfred David and James Simpson. Includes GP, MilPT, MLE, WBPT, PardPT, NPT, ParsP, Ret,…
A series of interlinked webpages that provides a variety of texts, translations, glossaries, selected essays and graphics, instructional aids, and supporting information about language, analogues, social conditions, and other backgrounds to Chaucer's…
Benson, Robert G.
Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Batter, 1980.
Treats Chaucer's use of and experimentation with conventional gesture as modified by genetic considerations in CT, TC, PF,HF, Anel, LGW, BD, Rom, and minor poems. Includes an appendix of relevant passages.
Benson, Robert G., and Susan J. Ridyard, eds.
Rochester, N.Y., and Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2003.
Ten essays by various authors and a descriptive introduction by Derek Brewer. The papers were originally delivered at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium at the University of the South in April 2000; the colloquium was devoted to Chaucer's work on the…
Considers the uses of gestures in Chaucer's poetry: "simplistic" uses in HF and PF, broad variety in CT, and the complex characterization of Pandarus in TC. Focuses on expressive movements and postures of body and face, along with laughing, moaning,…
Bentick, Eoin.
Dissertation Abstracts International DAI C81.04 (2019): n.p.
Studies the portrayals of alchemy and alchemists in fourteenth-and fifteenth-century English verse, including discussion of Chaucer's negative depiction of alchemy and its practitioners in CYPT, and John Gower's positive view in "Confessio Amantis."
Surveys medieval and early modern study of alchemy and writing about alchemy, with particular attention to its obscurities of language and limited potential for progress. A section called "Playing with Obscurity: Chaucer's Manipulation of the 'Tabula…
A biography of Blake, "William Blake, ein ausgezeichneter Künstler, Dichter und Narr," mentions his work on his "Canterbury Pilgrims" and his troubled relationships with Thomas Stothard and Robert Cromek.
Bentley, Joseph.
South Atlantic Quarterly 64 (1965): 247-53.
Maintains that the details and description of astrology in MilT along with its foreshadowing imagery establish a theme of Boethian determinism in the Tale. Accordingly, the character of each of the three male actors determines his unforeseen fate and…
Benton, Andrea Gronstal.
Dissertation Abstracts International A69.09 (2009): n.p.
Benton contrasts SqT and the work of the "Gawain"-poet with popular romances as a way of understanding how romances employ descriptive passages as an essential "formal and conceptual" element.
Benton, Megan L.
Paul C. Gutjahr and Megan L. Benton, eds. Illuminating Letters: Typography and Literary Interpretation ( Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001), pp. 71-93.
Exploring the relationship between gender identity and book production at the turn of the twentieth century, Benton assesses the format and typography of the Kelmscott Chaucer (1896) and Eric Gill's illustrations to The Canterbury Tales (1930). Also…
Berensmeyer, Ingo.
Eva von Contzen and James Simpson, eds. Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022), pp. 155-71.
Focuses on the "Chaucerian tree catalogue[s]" in Philip Sidney's "Old Arcadia" and Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene," tracing the device as a "subtype of epic catalogue" in classical tradition and in KnT and PF, exploring its narrative,…
Berensmeyer, Ingo.
Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2022.
Historical survey of the relations between literary texts in English and material presentation, from oral and dramatic performance through manuscripts and books, to audio, visual, and digital forms. Includes a section on key terms, a timeline, and an…
Berger, Harry, Jr.
Chaucer Review 1.2 (1966): 88-102 and 1.3 (1967): 135-56.
Interprets SqT and FranT as "expressions of their tellers," with the latter being an "instructive modification" of the "Squire's attitude toward life." Contrasts the uses of rhetorical devices in SqT and KnT in order to show the Squire's youthful,…
Berger, Rainer,and William Matthews.
PACT: Revue du Groupe Europâeen d'Âetudes pour les Techniques Physiques, Chimiques, et Mathâematiques Appliquâees à l'Archâeologie 49: 99-106, 1995.
Report of radiocarbon dating and dendrochronological analysis of the oak panel of the UCLA Chaucer portrait, indicating a date of about 1400. This makes it likely that the portrait "represents a close likeness of the poet" at the end of his life.
The entry on Chaucer (pp. 213-15, written by Paul Bacquet) summarizes the poet's life and comments on his language, his prosody, and the importance of CT.
Bergeron, David M.
University Review 35 (1969): 279-86.
Treats WBPT as an analogue to Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew," observing shared "allusions, rhetorical formulas, [and] character presentations" as well as the theme of the "problems of marriage." The two works share "many common…
