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From opening sign of Aries to closing sign of Libra, the pilgrimage moves between the termini of Creation and Doomsday, using symbolism of spring and autumn in the day's cycle.

The medieval medical view of love as materialistic, deterministic, and ethically neutral shapes the thematic development of TC. In the first three books, Troilus, Pandarus, and Criseyde are patient, physician, and cure. In bks. 4 and 5, Troilus's…

The "Legend of Dido" explicitly evokes its pretexts: the narrator names Virgil and Ovid and summarizes, paraphrases, and purposefully distorts the texts.

Describes structural devices found in the medieval "artes poeticae," for example, those in treatises by Matthew of Vendome, Geoffrey of Vinsauf, and John of Garland, illustrating them with various literary works, including works by Chaucer. Discusses…

Calls into question subject-oriented readings; proposes reading of PF as process and act. The narrator is an element of his own fiction. Refers to Chaucer's model, Graunson's "Songe Sainct Valentin."

In WBP, Alison asserts the primacy of "experience" but is challenged by Jankyn's "authority." Alison's greatest enemy is Heloise, whose arguments against marriage inspired Abelard to make the first antigamous collection, prototype of Jankyn's book…

In TC 5.1095, "publisshed" (contained in five manuscripts) is preferable to "punisshed" (in fourteen manuscripts) because the fourteenth-century sense of "denounced publicly" better suits the immediate context in the poem and the widespread bad…

Through readings of Dryden's translation of WBT and Pope's translation of WBP, Morsberger details how "translation" serves as an attempt to understand the Other, to redefine language, and to discover other voices.

Chaucer exposes the Ricardian practice of chaste marriage "for what perhaps it really was: sexual hypocrisy posing as virtuous Christian abstinence." The false romantic passion and comic fusion of the clerkly and courtly in male characters such as…

Associative thinking in WBP may have drawn on the model of Aristotelian psychology and argumentation as understood in Chaucer's day. As a consequence, the Wife of Bath's voice remains more real to a modern audience than does the debate she…

Commentary on and recording of the extant music mentioned in Chaucer, arranged for harp and voice and embellished with other instruments; also includes other medieval songs. The commentary describes fourteenth-century harps and harping. The recording…

Report of radiocarbon dating and dendrochronological analysis of the oak panel of the UCLA Chaucer portrait, indicating a date of about 1400. This makes it likely that the portrait "represents a close likeness of the poet" at the end of his life.

Assesses CT as a web of Tales and voices, focusing on KnT, MilT as a response to KnT, the Marriage Group, and Chaucer's Italian sources, especially Boccaccio. Includes sections on the adaptations of KnT in Shakespeare, in Fletcher's "Two Noble…

Includes discussion of PrT as one of several "possible intertexts" for Ezra Pound's "Usury Cantos." In PrT Chaucer presents usury as a defining characteristic of Jews, antithetical to Christian notions of virginity, and aligned with lust and the…

Presents evidence that William Thynne used MS Hunter 409 as his source when preparing Rom for his 1532 edition of Chaucer's Workes," "resorting to the French original when in doubt," and recurrently archaizing the text by adding the y-prefix to…

Describes the pragmatic complexities of greetings and farewells and the limitations of using edited literary examples to explore their history. Tabulates and analyzes 140 instances of greetings and farewells in CT, attending to concerns of social…

Translates the full text of CT, based on Robinson's edition (1957), presenting the poetry in close imitation of Chaucer's verse forms and approximating Chaucer's syntax in the prose. Includes brief glossary of people, places, and terms.

A defense of evolution cast as an imitation of CT, with a prologue and several arguments in iambic pentameter, presented as the tales of the Astronomer, the Philosopher, the Physicist, the Biblical Scholar, the Cosmologist, etc. Revised editions in…

Argues that in TC Chaucer "initiates" a tradition of presenting the "multiple significations" of the story, while "Henryson makes it Scottish and Shakespeare unintentionally reflects the unification of the two countries on a literary level."…

Describes the process and challenge of translating Chaucer into Italian. The volume also includes a round table discussion of translation, including comments about Chaucer, London standard, and Chaucer's stylistic and linguistic variety (pp. 91-103).

A brief description of the works of Chaucer and his contemporaries; the second chapter of a history of English literature designed for Italian undergraduate study.

Compares and contrasts Chaucer's "Pandare" of TC with Shakespeare's Pandarus of "Troilus and Cressida," emphasizing the degenerate nature of the latter and Shakespeare's reduction of the "great depth of . . . personality" that characterizes…

Friar Lawrence of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet echoes Pandarus of TC. As rhetors, both are fond of apothegms; dramatically, each acts as a go-between; thematically, each reflects how truth escapes human efforts to capture it in fiction.

Deals with the order of CT in group C. Establishes parallels,antitheses, and thematic similarities regarding morality, sacrifice, and characters in PardT and SNT.

Compares the first and second editions of Caxton's CT. Using digital tools to collate the first and second editions, finds that Caxton not only added and removed lines, but made over 3,000 changes based on a manuscript source that was closer to the…