Prendergast, Thomas, and Stephanie Trigg.
Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Federico, eds. The Post-Historical Middle Ages ((New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 117-37.
The authors contemplate the relationship of medievalism to medieval studies, considering several (re)constructions of the Middle Ages, including Brian Helgeland's A Knight's Tale and various critics' efforts to gloss "queynte." Such considerations…
Prescott, Andrew.
English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700 17 (2012): 173-99.
Anayzes scribal activity in medieval English administrative documents, and contends that Adam Pinkhurst, and other English scribes, may have been involved in "both literary and documentary work."
Prescott, Anne Worthington.
Chaucer Newsletter 11:2 (1989): 1, 6-7.
Chaucer's "modernity" and "humanity" are experienced through his lyrics, says Prescott, who, as composer and librettist, has drawn her own original libretti from CT, HF, LGW, and TC and had them set to music by Roger Nixon.
Prescott, Anne Worthington.
Santa Barbara, Calif.: Fithian, 2003.
Prescott introduces HF to the general reader as simple to read, yet full of Chaucer's mischievous fun. In HF, Chaucer reveals the way fame was viewed by his contemporaries, plus the way he thinks they and we should see it. He gives readers much to…
Prescott, Anne Worthington.
Once and Future Classroom 1.1 (2002): n.p. [Web publication]
Describes a pedagogical session at a meeting of the New Chaucer Society, provides translations for several passages from HF, and lists nine questions concerning HF for discussion in high school classrooms.
Prescott, Donna D.
Troy, N.Y.: Troy Book Makers, 2019.
Item not seen. Identified in WorldCat as a modern reworking of CT set on a twenty-first-century train trip from Chicago to Memphis to visit Graceland, home of Elvis Presley, with characters and tales adapted from Chaucer.
Presron, Raymond.
Notes and Queries 206 (1961): 7-8.
Offers information about "medieval papal denunciations of anti-semitism" and how they can be seen to indict the Prioress, especially PrT 7.684-87, particularly because "Chaucer's references to the Hebrew people," outside PrT, "are not at all…
Presson, Robert K.
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 7 (1967): 239-56.
Inculdes comments on the "somnium animale" in classical and medieval literature, particularly Chaucer's dream poetry. Explores the possibility that the dream in PF influenced Mercutio's dream of Mab in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."
Presson, Robert K.
English Miscellany 15 (1964): 9-21.
Surveys Chaucer's uses of thematic and stylistic contrast, antithesis, and contention, treating them not as examples of a divided mind "but rather of a mind most aesthetically aware how best to state what is experienced most intensely." Draws…
Using the fourteen extant manuscripts of PF as points of reference, Preston questions reductive thematic approaches to compilations and argues that other factors--authorial attribution and class, for instance--are equally plausible as explanations…
Read as symptoms of a "childlike" individual "dealing with a number of psychosexual developmental issues," the Prioress's personal habits and narrative performance register anxiety not only about boundaries of the individual human body but also about…
Price, Merrall Llewelyn.
Valerie B. Johnson and Kara L. McShane, eds. Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture: Essays on Marginality, Difference, and Reading Practices in Honor of Thomas Hahn (Boston: De Gruyter; Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 2022), pp. 99-118.
Explores how the Pardoner resonates with Thomas Becket's miraculous healing of a castrated man, Eilward, depicted in stained glass in Canterbury Cathedral. Considers issues of wholeness, healing, sanctity, and their antitheses reflected in details of…
The Parson is exceptional among the Canterbury Pilgrims for his corporeal invisibility; his GP portrait gives no corporeal details and ParsPT efface his body, along with fiction, verse, and the colors of rhetoric. Moreover, ParsT displays hostility…
In his account of Katherine in the "Legendys of Hooly Wummen," fifteenth-century poet Osbern Bokenham "rebels" against his poetic fathers, namely Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate. Bokenham allows Katherine to persuade her audience with the Nicene Creed…
Price, Vicki Kay.
Yearbook of English Studies 53 (2024, for 2023): 70-84.
Connects the "[f]inancial discourse" of WBP with those of "The Book of Margery Kempe" and of "Paston women's papers," showing that fictional and historical women share a mutual mercantile "understanding of life" that unites their "spiritual, marital,…
Priest, Hannah.
Myra Seaman, Eileen A. Joy, and Nicola Masciandaro, eds. Dark Chaucer: An Assortment (Brooklyn, N. Y.: Punctum Books, 2012), pp. 117-23.
Meditates fictively on Custance and her loss of identity.
Traces Chaucer's reputation in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and examines the impact of his works (including apocrypha) and reputation on the poetry of John Keats--structure and form, characterization, realism in balance with…
Tallies John Keats's early references and allusions to TC in his letters to Fanny Brawne and assesses how his lyric "What can I do to drive away" follows Chaucer's poem in representing the "rhythmic experience of pain passing into sweetness and…
Prins, A. A.
Beryl Rowland, ed. Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1974), pp. 342-47.
Resolves the apparent inconsistencies of astronomical dates in GP and MLP by explaining that Chaucer knew of and calculated by means of the "precession of the equinoxes," as is evident in FranT.
Provides lexical and grammatical evidence to argue that the verbal form "last" in ClT 4.266 "more than likely" means "extend in space," a "loan-sense from the French" influenced by development of the similar meaning of "dure."
Clarifies the basic meaning and history of the Middle English collocation "look who," meaning "whoever," analyzing the usage at WBT 1113 and discussing similar usages elsewhere in Chaucer, with two instances in Gower. Explains how scribal and…
Explores nuances of "tregetour" in FranT 5.1141 and 1143; HF 1260 and 1277, arguing that their magic would have been understood by Chaucer and his original audience to entail illusion rather than mechanical contrivance or sleight of hand.
Prior, Sandra Pierson.
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 16 (1986): 57-73.
Not mere humorous touches, Chaucer's complex parodies of the mystery plays of Noah and Herod cover "biblical figures and events, the contemporary religious drama,...and exegesis, which lay behind the widespread use of typology." MilT explodes in…
