Peverley, Sarah L.
Juliana Dresvina and Nicholas Sparks, eds. The Medieval Chronicle VII (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011), pp. 167-203.
Describes how in the first version of his "Chronicle" John Hardyng was influenced by Lydgate in his descriptions of royal power and social harmony--moments of "great joy and triumph"--while depending upon Chaucer and Walton for his concern with…
Peverley, Sarah.
Gail Ashton, ed. Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), pp. 48-57.
Describes the dramatic adaptations of selections from CT presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company in November 2005, exploring how the adaptations and their staging at times modify and at times convey the "key elements" of Chaucer's work,…
Peyton, Henry H. III.
Tennessee Philological Bulletin 29 (1992): 6-13.
Compared to figures in Boethius's "Consolatio," Pandarus appears neither as Philosophia nor as Fortune but rather as an amplification of Fortuna. The leaping and hopping of TC 1-2 echo the upward climb of Fortuna's wheel, while the silence and…
Peyton, Henry H.,III.
Interpretations 6 (1974): 1-6.
That Diomed was indeed "of tonge large" is to be evinced from his conversations with Criseyde in Book V. His large tongue becomes a symbol of the eventuality of Criseyde's infidelity and of Troilus' tragic demise, as well as of the inevitability of…
Peyton, Henry H.,III.
Interpretations 7 (1975): 8-12.
Although only minor characters, Calkas, Helen, and Cassandra contribute significantly both to the double sorrow of Troilus and to the reader's knowledge of the origin, progress, and inevitable outcome of the conflict between the Greeks and the…
Peyton, Henry H.,III.
Interpretations 8 (1976): 47-53.
Hector, Antigone, and Deiphebus are all instrumental to the development of the poem, particularly to Troilus' initial elevation on the wheel of Fortune. Though their personal integrity remains unblemished, each is manipulated by Fortune into using…
Phelan, Joseph.
SEL: Studies in English Literature 59 (2019): 855-72.
Explains how written correspondence between Arthur Hugh Clough and Francis James Child--recurrently concerned with metrical and linguistic issues--reveals influence of Clough on Child's "Observations on the Language of Chaucer"(1862); Clough's…
Phelan, Walter S.
Journal of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing 6 (1985): 39-54.
Part 1: Semantic categories of vocabulary are useful in tracing Chaucer's macrostructure for CT. Using a computerized morpheme dictionary, Phelan traces medieval static macrostructures such as the seven deadly sins--a deductive approach to his…
Phelan, Walter S.
Zvi Malachi, ed. Proceedings of the International Conference on Literary and Linguistic Computing, Israel (Tel Aviv: Katz Research Institute, 1980), pp. 291-316.
The lexical morphemes of Chaucer's poetic tales have been marked in the data base as narrative "verbs" or "adjectives" (Todorov: dynamic v. static predicate formulas). The character and percentage of formula "per lexical unit" provide a more…
Phelan, Walter S.
Computers and the Humanities 12 (1978): 61-69.
Computer studies of Chaucer's vocabulary can teach the modern philologist much about Chaucer's "logosphere" that earlier concordances or historical dictionaries could never do. Such proposed computerized projects would include the comparative…
Phelpstead, Carl.
Helen Phillips, ed. Chaucer and Religion (Cambridge: Brewer, 2010), pp. 97-110.
Focuses on the "ars moriendi" (art of dying) manuals, that might have influenced Chaucer's writings on death, dying, and Purgatory in the MLT and PardT, among others. Includes background on treatises on the art of dying as well as changing attitudes…
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Phillippy, Patricia Anne.
Dissertation Abstracts International 51 (1990): 843A.
Consistent with Bakhtinian theory, the palinode as textual stratagem has complicated the interpretation of works from the classics through Stampa and Sidney. The Griselda story as told by Boccaccio, Petrarch, and Chaucer demonstrates the role of…
Destabilizes the notion of a progression of "identifiable movements" in English vernacular writing culminating in Chaucer in the fourteenth century, arguing that "The Owl and the Nightingale" (c. 1200) should be taught as an early foundational…
Phillips, Betty S.
College Language Association Journal 61 (1997): 93-103.
Comparison of Romance vocabulary, direct discourse, the first person (singular or plural), finite verb forms, and other grammatical elements such as independent and dependent clauses inKnT and WBT shows that "Chaucer did indeed use the language of…
Phillips, Helen, ed.
Scotland: Universities of Durham and Saint Andrews, 1982.
Critical edition of BD with introduction, text and notes, and an appendix which includes selections from analogous French works by Machaut and Froissart.
Phillips, Helen, and Nick Havely, eds.
London and New York: Longman, 1997
Edits Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, Parliament of Fowls,and portions of Legend of Good Women (G-version Prologue and Dido), providing an introduction, bottom-of-the-page glosses and commentary, selected source material, and textual notes for…
Phillips, Helen, ed.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990.
Includes nineteen essays, an intoduction, a list of Hussey's publications, and a tabula gratulatoria. Topics of the essays include Langland, various mystics, religious lyrics, religious drama, and handbooks of religious instruction.
For two essays…
Critical edition of BD with introduction, text and notes, and an appendix which includes selections from analogous French works by Machaut and Froissart.
Critical essays examine Chaucer's religious writings. Sixteen essays focus on fourteenth-century religious practices, and religious influences on Chaucer's writings, and offer ways of teaching religious themes and issues in Chaucer. For individual…
Phillips, Helen.
English Studies 67 (1986): 113-21.
Contrary to N. F. Blake, textual evidence does not support a rejection of Thynne's edition and his unique lines 31-96 for BD; nor do textual and linguistic matters prove their authenticity. The passage fits into the poem and its thematic patterns…
Critics differ in their assessment of the structure and the nature of the consolation in BD. Chaucer uses juxtaposition as his structural principle. The consolation is Boethian, transcending the intensity of human grief, but Chaucer insists upon…
Examines four principles in Chaucer's translations: redistribution, themes from works, syntactic symmetry, and homonym translation. Relates these principles to medieval practices of reading, writing, and translation, showing that the distinction…
Chaucer's ABC closely reflects its original, a portion of Deguilleville's "Pelerinage." What critics have seen as Chaucer's creative contributions are better described as examples of "redistribution."
