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Cooper, Helen.   Penguin Classics Essays. <http://us.penguinclassics.com/static/cs/us/10/essays/chaucer.html>. 10 July 2002.
Month-by-month (April to March) commentary on the significance of dates and months in Chaucer's life and works, with occasional quotations. Initial version posted April 2001. An addendum includes the transcript of a "Question and Answer Session" with…

Bergvall, Caroline.   PennSound (Sound recording; MP3 format. Recorded in London, September 22, 2006.) [writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Bergvall.php].
Four poems inspired by Chaucer's CT, written and recorded by Bergvall: "The Host's Tale"; "The Summer Tale (deus hic, 1)" [link to text included]; "The Franker Tale (deus hic, 2)" [link to text included]; and "The Not Tale (funeral)."

Breckenridge, Jay.   Pennsylvania English 15:1 (1990): 37-48.
Breckenridge discusses his stage dramatization of Geoffrey Chaucer and the problems regarding Chaucer's life and personality engendered by life records and critical appraisal of Chaucer the man and Chaucer the persona.

Hughes, Alan.   Pentrefoelas, Wales: AlaNia, 2003.
Hughes reads CT as an allegorical political critique of the reign of Richard II. The GP descriptions allegorically represent aspects of Richard's personality or persons in his court. Each of the individual tales comments on specific political events…

Beal, Jane.   Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture 6.3 (2018): 105-29.
Analyzes the "thematic sexualization of the mappaemundi" in Ros, Shakespeare's "Lucrece," and Donne's "Weeping," providing interpretive background for the imagery, explaining the poets' familiarity with T-O maps, and exploring the range of…

Rowland, Beryl.   Perspectives on Earle Birney (Downsview, Ontario: ECW Press, 1981), pp. 73-84.
Tallies Birney's contributions to Chaucer scholarship, particularly his studies that pertain to irony and close reading, and assesses their importance in the tradition of twentieth-century Chaucer criticism.

Klitgård, Ebbe.   Perspectives: Studies in Translatology 16.3-4 (2009): 133-41.
Klitgård assesses the translation practices of two Danish translations of Chaucer: T. C. Bruun's 1823 translation "The Wife of Slagelse; After Pope's The Wife in Bath," which follows the modernizations of Dryden and Pope; and Charlotte Louise…

Malaczkov, Szilvia.   Perspectives: Studies in Translatology 9.1: 33-44, 2001.
Malaczkov assesses Chaucer's techniques of translation in Bo, focusing on his glosses and arguing that Chaucer chose to translate for meaning or content rather than for form.

Martin, Ellen E.   Persuasions 21: 83-89, 1999.
Identifies WBP as the inspiration for Harriet Byron's burning of a prayer book in the second act of Jane Austen's play, "Sir Charles Grandison," noting in both works the importance of hyperbole, the manipulation of language, and ironic commentary on…

Petrikova, Klara.   Peter Brown and Jan Čermák, eds. England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2023), pp. 159-67.
Describes two fifteenth-century Czech "responses" to Petrarch's tale of Griselda, one in Latin and its translation into Czech: "Historia infidelis mulieris" and "O Bryzelde rec zla o zle" (An Evil Tale of Evil Briselda). Shows how "the Bohemian text…

Dienstbier, Jan.   Peter Brown and Jan Čermák, eds. England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2023), pp. 168-80; 6 b&w illus.
Provides context for the link between death and the tapping of a barrel in RvP, 3892-94, and for the relationship between the Pardoner and Kit the Tapster in the prologue to the "Tale of Beryn," mentioning other English analogues and describing…

Boffey, Julia
Edwards, A. S. G.   Peter Brown and Jan Čermák, eds. England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2023), pp. 203-13.
Assesses evidence of influence on Chaucer of Bohemian culture, focusing on transmission of this culture and on the "possible role" of Anne of Bohemia as influence on and "likely commissioner" of LGW, attending especially to the "queenly rulers" in…

Wallace, David.   Peter Brown and Jan Čermák, eds. England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2023), pp. 214-37.
Describes cultural contact and marital negotiations among Plantagenets, Bohemians, and Viscontis as background to Anne of Bohemia's recurrent presence in Chaucer's works, often as an imperial daughter and/or mediatrix, and often reflecting "Marian…

Brown, Peter.   Peter Brown, ed. A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture c. 1350--c.1500 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), pp. 307-21
Explores relations between the late-medieval debate on religious images and imagery in literature, including detailed assessment of the portrait of Chaucer that is included in manuscripts of Thomas Hoccleve's "Regiment of Princes." Assesses the…

Miller, Mark.   Peter Brown, ed. A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350-c.1500 (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2007), pp. 554-69.
Miller presents CT as a series of case studies on how social and ideological formulations shape subjectivities. He focuses on "aristocratic formalism" in KnT, sexuality and commodification in WBP, and notions of ethical perfection and moral purity in…

Brown, Peter.   Peter Brown, ed. Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 22-50.
Argues that Middle English dream visions from the second half of the fourteenth century allowed writers to experiment with altered states of consciousness and liminality. Discusses French and Middle English dream visions, including BD, HF, LGW, and…

Kruger, Steven (F.)   Peter Brown, ed. Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 51-83.
Traces the influence of medieval medical texts on the understanding of the bodily causes of dreaming, arguing that the dreamer's body plays an important role in dreams. In BD, the dream works to masculinize and "heterosexualize" the ailing narrator,…

Aers, David.   Peter Brown, ed. Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 84-98.
Unlike the dream interpretations in the works of Freud and Milton, dreams in Chaucer's poems reveal the strategies of power and gender that shape the interpretation of dreams. Discusses WBP, NPT, and TC.

Lynch, Kathryn L.   Peter Brown, ed. Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 99-124
Examines Renaissance views of Chaucer and argues that Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" was influenced by LGW. Discusses Chaucer's and Shakespeare's complex treatment of dreams and the treatment of Theseus in KnT, HF, and LGW.

Remley, Paul G.   Peter C. Herman, ed. Rethinking the Henrician Era: Essays on Early Tudor Texts and Contexts (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994), pp. 40-77.
Remley describes the Devonshire manuscript (British Library Additional 17492) and assesses the role and purposes of Shelton's writing it-e.g., protesting the incarceration of Margaret Douglas and Thomas Howard, reflecting Tudor practices of "making"…

Ames, Ruth M.   Peter Cocozzella, ed. The Late Middle Ages (Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1984 (for 1981)), pp. 71-88.
Treats themes of predestination, Lollardy, and priestly celibacy in CT and TC.

Fleming, Martha H.   Peter Cocozzella, ed. The Late Middle Ages (Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1984 (for 1981)), pp. 89-101.
Ironic treatment of anger in SumT.

Perfetti, Lisa.   Peter Dickinson, Anne Higgins, Paul St. Pierre, Diana Solomon, and Sean Zwagerman, eds. Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice (Lanham: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013), pp. 41-53.
Asks to what extent CT and Boccaccio's "Decameron" advocate "women's equality," exploring female laughter in these works, and focusing on Boccaccio's Pampinea and on the Wife of Bath as a "comic performer who has an intent to play."

Standop, Ewald.   Peter Erlebach, Wolfgang G. Muller, and Klaus Reuter, eds. Geschichtlichkeit und Neuanfang im sprachlichen Kuntswerk. Studien zur englischen Philologie zu Ehren von Fritz W. Schulze (Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1981), pp. 59-69.
All attempts by critics to ascribe psychological implications to conventional self-revelations of a fictional character such as Chaucer's Pardoner lead to a false evaluation. The text does not contain the slightest suggestion that the Pardoner is a…

Fradenburg, Louise O.   Peter G. Beidler, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer: "The Wife of Bath." (Boston and New York: Bedford-St. Martin's, 1996), pp. 205-20.
Psychoanalytic analysis of WBP reveals the development of the narrator's identity through the history of her losses and pleasure, suggesting the failure of society to structure her desires. Through fantasy, WBT idealizes a version of the past and…
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