Includes eight essays by various authors, an Introduction by the editor, and a comprehensive Index. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Postmodern Poetics and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics under Alternative Title.
Johnson, Valerie B. and Kara L. McShane, eds.
Boston: De Gruyter; Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 2022.
Includes fifteen essays on early English, Irish, Scottish, and Robin Hood studies, with an Introduction by the editors, an appreciation of Thomas Hahn's career by Theresa Coletti, and a comprehensive Index. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer,…
An alphabetical dictionary that lists people, personifications, and allusions (direct and indirect) in Chaucer's works, providing brief identifications and exhaustive citations of occurrences. Entries for sources, such as the Bible, Boccaccio, Dante,…
The bibliography includes books, articles, dissertations, reviews, reprints, and background studies. Annotations identify general, introductory, or background studies and those designed for undergraduates.
An anthology of criticism, with a brief introduction (pp. vii-ix) that characterizes CT as "unique" because "no other work so fragmentary creates such an illusion of completeness." The volume reprints essays and excerpts by twenty-one writers,…
A romance novel of the life of Katherine Swynford, rich in psychological and historical detail. Includes a wide variety of historical characters, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Katherine's future brother-in-law, who she instinctively recognizes at their…
Pratt, Robert A., ed.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966.
Edits CT (excluding Mel, MkT, SNT, CYT, and Pars), along with Ros, Form Age, Adam, Buk, Purse, and Truth, following the Robinson's edition of 1957, with modification from Manly and Rickert's collations. Marginal glosses and bottom-of-page notes…
Kinney, Arthur F., Kenneth W. Kuiper, and Lynn Z. Bloom, comps.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970.
Item not seen; the WorldCat record indicates that this is a compilation of literary works and extracts from the classical era to the twentieth century, including WBT.
Pratt, Robert A., ed.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974.
Edits CT, with marginal glosses, bottom-of-page notes, and an additional "Basic Glossary." The text is based on Robinson's 1957 edition, with variants explained and listed in a "Comment on the Text" (pp. 561-79). The Introduction (pp. ix-xxxiv)…
Robinson, F. N., ed.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin; London: Oxford University Press, 1957.
Edits the complete works of Chaucer from various manuscripts, with end-of-volume explanatory notes, textual notes, and glossary. A general Introduction summarizes Chaucer's life, the canon and chronology of his works, his language and meter, and the…
A study of Middle English, specifically Chaucer's English; lexicography; and obsolete words. Includes bibliography and indexes, as well as an appendix, "Chaucer, 'The Plowman's Tale', and Henry VIII."
Anthologizes a wide range of selections from British and American literature--poetry, fiction, drama, and translations, with brief, appreciative introductions to individual authors and their works. Includes description of Chaucer as a "poet of…
Kennedy, X. J., ed.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1966.
A textbook designed for reading and analyzing poetry in the college classroom, with discussions of prosody, poetic devices, and genres; study questions; and an anthology of illustrative poems, including Chaucer's Purse in Middle English (p. 292) with…
Introduces "Chaucer's allegorical tales as poetic play and playful poetry." In CT, Chaucer questions the nature of reality and the function of language in a complex interplay of realistic, grotesque, and sublime. Chapters deal with historical…
Although technically a "second edition," Payne's "Geoffrey Chaucer" is essentially a new book, having little in common with the first Twayne Chaucer, written by Edwin J. Howard and published in 1964. Payne's seven chapters treat Chaucer's life,…
Argues that Chaucer's concerns in HF are metalinguistic by drawing an analogy between verbal inflation (high style) and monetary inflation (which was rampant in Chaucer's day). Both words and coins are arbitrary signs and mediums of exchange;…
Treats contents and history of the volume bequeathed to Magdalene College by Samuel Pepys. The first of the two manuscripts in the volume preserves texts of LGW, ABC, HF, Mars, Ven, For, PF, and several non-Chaucerian works.
The introduction treats contents, date, material and structure, ruling, layout and presentation of texts, handwriting, punctuation, correction and annotation, decoration, binding, and the history of the volume bequeathed to Magdalen College by Samuel…
Broughton, Bradford B.
Bradford B. Broughton, ed. Twenty-Seven to One: A Potpourri of Humanistic Material Presented to Dr. Donald Gale Stillman on the Occasion of His Retirement from Clarkson College of Technology ([Potsdam, N. Y.], 1970), pp. 71-84.
Assesses various historical documents that pertain to the marital life and legacy of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster, arguing that the evidence indicates John was dedicated to Blanche, even after her death.
Stein, Gabriele.
Braj B. Kachru and Henry Kahane, eds. Cultures, Ideologies, and the Dictionary: Studies in Honor of Ladislav Zgusta (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1995), pp. 127-39.
Examines citations of Chaucer and Lydgate in John Palsgrave's "Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse" (1530) as indications of the dictionary-maker's efforts to record "special language use," i.e., dialectical use and varying registers.
