Reid, Lindsay Ann.
Explicator 72.02 (2014): 158-62.
Identifies the classical sources (Virgil and Ovid) and explores the implications of two tree metaphors that Pandarus uses to encourage Troilus to court Criseyde.
Reid, Lindsay Ann.
Dissertation Abstracts International A74.08 (2014): n.p.
Assesses how "mythological heroines from Ovid's "Heroides" and "Metamorphoses" were catalogued, conflated, reconceived, and recontextualized in vernacular literature," particularly as they reflect his "interest in textual revision and his…
Reid, Lindsay Ann.
Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2018.
Argues that Shakespeare's uses of Ovid in his plays and poems was largely mediated by medieval works, specifically ones by Chaucer and John Gower. Shows that the dream frame of BD influenced "The Taming of the Shrew" and "Cymbeline," that Chaucer's…
Reid, Lindsay Ann.
Renaissance Quarterly 72.2 (2019): 537-81.
Analyzes Ovid's "Metamorphoses" in Renaissance poetry, with some attention to how Chaucer, in LGW, and Gower, in "Confessio Amantis," may have influenced sixteenth-century Tudor England's Ovidian poetry.
Reid, Lindsay Ann.
Comparative Drama 55 (2021): 211–33.
Focuses on depictions of Dido in HF and in Shakespeare's "Titus," arguing that "Shakespeare found in Chaucer's "House of Fame" a medieval vernacular model for . . . [the] Virgilian-Ovidian hybridity" of the character, and showing that the two works…
Reid, T. B. W.
Notes and Queries 209 (1964): 373-74.
Argues that an analogue (perhaps source) of Chaucer's image of a coin-shaped ("farthing") spot of grease in his GP description of the Prioress (1.134) is "Clef d'amors," line 3236. The play in the French may derive from a punning echo of "speck" and…
Reidy, John.
Harald Scholler, ed. The Epic in Medieval Society: Aesthetic and Moral Values (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1977), pp. 391-408.
In KnT Theseus usually acts honorably according to medieval military code. He gradually discovers, however, the insufficiency of such a code as he gains insight into Boethian philosophy.
Explores the characterization of the Canon in CYP and the first part of CYT, arguing that he is embarrassed at being a "simple puffer" and not an illuminati of the alchemical arts--"a pathetic if not a tragic figure, broken through following a…
Reidy, John.
Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 47 (1962): 595-603.
Identifies patterns that indicate Chaucer's "careful planning" of a sequence of groupings of pilgrims in GP, focusing on audience expectations, points of views, tones, satirical targets, and the traditional three estates.
In PardT, the youngest thief's use of "capouns" rather than "hennes" or "coks" functions both realistically, as an indicator of the value of the chickens, and symbolically, as a reminder of the sterility of the Pardoner.
Reiff, Raychel Haugrud.
Essays in Medieval Studies 26 (2010): 69-84.
Reiff examines uses of second-person singular pronouns "thou" and "you" to indicate relationships among characters in KnT, particularly idealized chivalric relationships, Theseus's changing attitude toward the knights, the unfaltering brotherhood…
Reilly, Cyril A.
Modern Language Notes 69 (1954): 37-39.
Argues that details and source material make clear that the description of Tiberce's visit to Pope Urban in SNT 8.352-53 indicates Tiburce received the sacrament of Confirmation as well as the sacrament of Baptism.
Reilly, Robert.
University of Portland Review 20.3 [for 21.1] (1969): 23-36.
Considers love in TC in light of medieval understandings of "caritas" and "cupiditas," identifying several specifically Christian details in the poem, and assessing tensions between its Christianity and the "religion" of courtly love. Argues that the…
The influence of KnT on Conrad's "The Lagoon" is evident in several details, in narrative method, and, more distantly, in the fact that each is written in English that is "unfixed and de-centered."
Reiman, Donald H.
Texas Studies in Literature and Language 5 (1963): 356-73.
Presents ClT as an "elaborate academic joke," concerned primarily with proper submission to "God's law," reading Griselda as "pathetic rather than virtuous," satirized by the Clerk for submitting herself and (as she thinks) her children to Walter,…
Reimer, Stephen R.
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 161-76.
Summarizes questions of Lydgate's canon and its relation to Chaucerian apocrypha. Describes a series of computer-assisted stylistic analyses used to clarify the canon, showing that Lydgate tends to use "large and complex syntactic structures" and…
Reimer, Stephen R.
Chaucer Review 41 (2006): 105-09.
Proofs of George Vertue's prints held in the University of Southern California's Doheny Memorial Library provide firm evidence that Vertue executed all but one of the engravings in the 1721 edition of John Urry's The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and…
Reimer, Stephen R.
Edmonton: University of Alberta, 1996.
Lists a variety of items (some annotated) that pertain to the study of Chaucer. Eighteen topical sub-headings address social and literary contexts, as well as critical studies of Chaucer's works.
Reimer, Stephen R., ed.
Toronto : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1987.
Includes a translation of the hymn "Alma Redemptoris Mater," which in the manuscript is accompanied by a note referring to the miracle Chaucer retold in PrT.
Reinbold, Charlotte Rose Alice.
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Cambridge, 2017. Abstract available at https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/e26e369b-4069-465e-a00d-49e07967cbcd (accessed February 22, 2026); full-text embargoed until January 1, 2400.
Argues "that conventions of setting, familiar themes or locations which create expectations in the reader about the content of the dream itself, provide a valuable and largely overlooked perspective upon the genre of Chaucerian dream poetry."…
Reinbold, Lotte.
Yearbook of English Studies 53 (2024, for 2023): 115-33.
Explores how Alexander Pope's posing of his "Women ben ful of Ragerie" as a Chaucerian work reflects eighteenth-century concerns about literary history and authenticity and "provides us with new ways of understanding how Chaucer was read,…
Reinecke, George F.
Paul Ruggiers, ed. Editing Chaucer: The Great Tradition (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1984), pp. 231-51.
Describes the "elephantine gestation" of Robinson's edition of Chaucer's "Works," summarizes its early reception and progress to becoming a "standard edition," and assesses the text as "conservative, highly informed, and eclectic, though arrived at…
Reinecke, George F.
Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 81-93.
Confronts several questions or matters of internal inconsistency in CT (1.164; 1.361; 3.45; 4.1222; 5.673; 2.96; 6.443) and speculates about possible resolutions and their usefulness in the Chaucer classroom.
Reiner, Emily.
Dissertation Abstracts International A71.04 (2010): n.p.
Investigates various characterizations of Greeks in Old French and Middle English, including that of Diomede in TC, a depiction "informed by classical ideas and Chaucer's depictions of Jews and Saracens in other works." Troilus, in contrast, is…
