Guerin, Richard Stephen.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.04 (1967): 1396A.
Adduces evidence of the influence of Boccaccio's "Decameron" on CT by collecting all available indications of similarity--instances of borrowing and less specific parallel details.
Huber, Joan Raphael.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.04 (1967): 1397A.
Explores the attitudes toward death depicted in ABC, Purse, HF, and Bo, and studies CT for evidence of what Chaucer's own opinion of death may have been.
Leicester, Henry Marshall, Jr.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.03 (1967): 1052-53A.
Studies Chaucer's uses of first-person narration in light of rhetorical tradition and medieval notions of the individual, examining PF as the site of the first "fully realized" instance of Chaucer's "characteristic narrative mode," reading TC as…
Lopresti, Vincent August.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.02 (1967): 636A.
Explores Chaucer's references and allusions to pagan gods in BD, Mars, KnT, TC, and MerT, emphasizing his innovations that are evident in light of source-and-analogue analysis.
Myers, Doris Evaline Thompson.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.06 (1967): 2215-16A.
Studies sermon rhetoric in CT, identifying its roots in preaching handbooks and considering its value for understanding aspects of structure, style, and characterization in SNT, NPT, ParsT, PardT, WBT, and SumT, treating the Pardoner, the Wife of…
Reedy, Elizabeth Katherine.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.03 (19167): 1057A.
Focuses on the tension in TC between the "two dimensions of human experience: the temporal and the eternal," examining the "paradoxical position" of humans as they seek to "discover and affirm" a stable and permanent world while existing as creatures…
Sanders, Barry Roy.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.03 (1967): 1058A.
Surveys scholarship concerning Chaucer's word-play, describes the place of "double-entendre" in rhetorical tradition, and explicates 204 of Chaucer's word-plays in CT, concluding that there is some correlation between punning and the bawdy tales.
Schaefer, Willene.
Dissertation Abstracts International 27.11 (1967): 3850-51A.
Investigates Chaucer's concept of "gentilesse" in light of his sources in Boethius, Dante, and Jean de Meun, and compares his notion with those found in the poetry of his contemporaries. Treats "gentilesse" as a secular virtue, although similar to…
Thomas, Frederick Bryce.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.03 (1967): 1088A.
Evaluates the quality of Thomas Tyrwhitt as a scholar, examining his life, his early works, his edition of CT, and the ongoing reception of this edition. Concludes that Tyrwhitt was "one of the finest examples of the eighteenth-century…
Van, Thomas Anthony
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.02 (1967): 697A.
Summarizes portions of Boccaccio's "Teseida" and assesses parallel portions of KnT in light of these summaries, emphasizing Chaucer's "reworking" of his source in characterizing Palamon, Arcite, and Theseus through "symbolic imagery."
Woolf, Edward J.
Dissertation Abstracts International 27.09 (1967): 3022-23A.
Tabulates and analyzes Chaucer's "normalized diction," i.e., a "diction that is very repetitive and free from syntactic eccentricity, a diction that utilizes the same words to express the same ideas in different contexts." Compares and contrasts…
O'Neal, Cothburn M.
Martin Shockley, ed. Proceedings of [the] Conference of College Teachers of English of Texas, no. 32 (Lubbock: Texas Technical College, 1967), pp. 18-23.
Considers the dates of BD and Jean Froissart's "Dit dou Bleu Chevalier" and explores their similarities, arguing that Froissart's poem inspired the central idea ("l'idée centrale") and many other features of Chaucer's poem--aspects of…
Item not seen. The WorldCat records indicate that this is a score for three pieces of choral music: the roundel from the conclusion of PF (here titled "Now Welcome"), along with "Sweet Rose of Virtue" by William Dunbar and "Pleasure It Is." by…
Bowden, Muriel.
New York: Macmillan; London: Collier-Macmillan, 1967.
Reprints the original version of 1948, with a very brief second preface (half page) and appended additional material and bibliography (pp. 317-28). Throughout the reprinted text, the additional material is signaled by means of daggers included in the…
Queen, Ellery, ed.
[New York]: New American Library, 1967.
Anthologizes twenty-three short prose narratives by English and American writers, with a brief, appreciative literary biography for each, and an introductory essay on the nature of anthologies. Includes an excerpt from PardT (pp. 3-8) in Percy…
Owen, Trevor Allen.
Dissertation Abstracts International 27.11 (1967): 3847A.
Surveys medieval and Renaissance accounts and allusions to Julius Caesar as background to analysis of Shakespeare's depiction of him in "Julius Caesar," including commentary on Chaucer's several references to Caesar and analysis of the Caesar section…
Bessinger, J. B., Jr., reader.
New York: Caedmon, 1967. (TC 1223)
A reading in Middle English of MilPT and RvPT, accompanied by a companion booklet that comprises the text, notes, and glosses based on E. T. Donaldson's "Chaucer's Poetry" (1958).
Bessinger, J. B., Jr., reader
New York: Caedmon, 1967. (TC 1226)
A reading in Middle English of PF, MerB, Ros, Sted, Purse, Adam, and Scogan, accompanied by a companion booklet that comprises the text, notes, and glosses based on E. T Donaldson's "Chaucer's Poetry" (1958).
