The glosses to Mel and ParsT in Wynkyn de Worde's CT (1498, STC 5085) are closely related to those in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R.3.15, suggesting that they shared a common exemplar, W. That hypothetical exemplar clarifies aspects of the history…
Partridge, Stephen.
Alexandra Gillespie and Daniel Wakelin, eds. The Production of Books in England, 1350-1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 79-103.
Observes that scribes often used more than one exemplar. In the case of at least one CT manuscript (Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 198), the scribe's addition of glosses from an exemplar apparently received late in the copying process resulted in…
Partridge, Stephen.
Stephen B. Partridge and Erik Kwakkel, eds. Author, Reader, Book: Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice (Toronton: University of Toronto Press, 2012), pp. 106-53..
Argues that Ret elevates Chaucer's status as author, and creates the "illusion of Chaucer's presence and agency" for the reader of CT. Connects Chaucer's use of Ret to French literary culture, which helped define Chaucer's own sense of authorship.
Limited edition (210 copies), photo-litho facsimile of GP from British Library copy of William Caxton's 1476 first edition, with facing-page modern translation by Nevill Coghill, two original wood engravings (a portrait of Chaucer and the Knight…
Pask, Albert Kevin.
Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1994): 578A.
Pask develops a distinct genre from Foucault's formulation of an "author-function": the life-and-works narratives that emerge in the historical perceptions of readers of Chaucer, Sidney, Spenser, and Donne.
Pask, Kevin.
Kevin Pask. The Emergence of the Author: Scripting the Life ofthe Poet in Early Modern England. Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, no. 12 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 9-52.
Traces the process by which Chaucer's biography developed through Bale, Leland, Spenser, Speght, Thynne, Dryden, Urry,and Johnson. Topics include laureation, Chaucer in print, nationalistic and humanistic impulses, and Chaucer as a symbol of…
Pask, Kevin.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013
Explores developments in the writing of fantasy literature, describing WBT along the way as an indication of an early stage in the diminishing status of romance, migrating from "elite to popular culture."
Pasnau, Robert.
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 53 (2023): 519-43.
Offers precedents from medieval texts to show that to learn from a text, readers "have reason to consider what its author means"; that, when readers are "morally engaged with a text," they have reason to engage with the author's intentions"; and…
Pasolini, Pier Paolo, dir.
Produzioni Europee Associati; Les Productions Artistes Associés, 1972.
Selections from CT adapted for film, including portions or versions of GP, MerT, CkT, MilT, WBP, RvT, PardT, SumPT, and additional ribald material. Screenplay by Pasolini. Available with sub-titles and/or dubbing in various languages, including…
Historical novel; a prequel to CT and cast as Chaucer's notebook or journal as he plans and writes his poem, drawing inspiration from his fellow travelers on the current journey. Includes portions of CT in fictional drafts (GP extensively) and…
Passmore, S. Elizabeth
Medieval Feminist Forum 36: 36-40, 2003.
Passmore discusses three examples of "written women," whose stories are "filtered through the impressions and words of a male writer." The Wife of Bath's question about who painted the lion (WBP 3.692) indicates that women's writings, if unmediated…
Passmore, S. Elizabeth, and Susan Carter, eds.
Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007. xix, 272 pp.
Eleven essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors. Each of the essays touches on WBT and its relationship with Irish and/or English analogues, and seven of them consider WBT at length. The volume includes an index. For the articles…
Passmore, S. Elizabeth.
Medieval Feminist Forum 36: 36-40, 2003.
Passmore discusses three examples of "written women," whose stories are "filtered through the impressions and words of a male writer." The Wife of Bath's question about who painted the lion (WBP 3.692) indicates that women's writings, if unmediated…
Passmore, S. Elizabeth.
S. Elizabeth Passmore and Susan Carter, eds. The English "Loathly Lady" Tales: Boundaries, Traditions, Motifs (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007), pp. 3-41.
Female counsel is a consistent theme in Irish and English versions of the loathly lady story, in which women offer advice or prophesy to aristocrats. This theme reinforces connections among the analogous tales, paralleling the visual motif of female…
Passon, Richard H.
Chaucer Review 2.3 (1968): 166-71.
Argues that the repetition of the word "entente" in FrT affects the Tale's "characterization, plotting, and pervasive irony," and indicates "one of the fundamental theological dimensions of the piece"--disguised evil.
Pastoor, Jennifer.
Dissertation Abstracts International A78.05 (2016): n.p.
Considers the use of women and their bodies as metaphorical vehicles for the consideration of Christian life, with particular attention to MLT and SNT.
Patch, Howard R.
Jess B. Bessinger, Jr., and Robert P. Creed, eds. Franciplegius: Medieval and Linguistic Studies in Honor of Francis Peabody Magoun, Jr. (New York: New York University Press, 1965), pp. 255-64.
Describes a series of recurrent concerns in Chaucer's poetry: pity (but not sentimentality), remarkable female characterizations, a complicated view of love, and the "theme of death."
Patch, Howard R.
Modern Language Notes 70 (1955): 8-12.
Suggests sources in Boccaccio's "Filostrato" for the "corounes tweyne" of TC 2.1735 (noting parallels with SNT 8.221) and for the Invocation to light in the Proem to TC 3, reinforced by several other echoes of "Filostrato."
Patrouch, Joseph A., Jr
David M. Hassler, ed. Patterns of the Fantastic (Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1983), pp. 63-66.
Opens a discussion of Harlan Ellison's uses of a "speaking voice" in his fiction by commenting on Chaucer's multiple narrative voices and the depiction of "Chaucer reading aloud" in the Troilus frontispiece (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61).
Pattenaude, Annika J.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Michigan, 2022.
Dissertation Abstracts International A84.03(E).
"[A]nalyzes scenes of 'undisciplined reading' in late medieval texts: that is, scenes in which characters read without formal training and with the 'wrong' emotions." Includes discussion of NPPT as a "bungled interpretation of Marie de France's…
Patterson Lee.
James M. Dean and Christian Zacher, eds. The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992), pp. 55-71.
Chaucer maintained a persistent interest in the complaint genre. Its modest dimensions and unprepossessing claims are part of its appeal, but Chaucer raises large questions about the foundations of cultural and metaphysical truths through the…
Patterson, Annabel.
Sally McKee, ed. Crossing Boundaries: Issues of Cultural and Individual Identity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1999) pp. 155-87.
Assesses the Chaucer portraits in the Ellesmere manuscript and in Hoccleve's Regement of Princes as evidence in the study of the development of individual identity. Considers literary portraits of John Locke, John Milton, John Donne, and Chaucer,…
Patterson, Lee, ed.
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1990.
A collection of seven articles on late-medieval culture, literature, and the problems of historical interpretation. Treats Chaucer, Langland, and others.
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);…
