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Robbins, Rossell Hope.   Lock Haven Review 10 (1968): 3-6.
Explores Middle English examples of the word "wombe" to suggest that it may mean genitals as well as belly in MerT 4.2414.

Robbins, Rossell Hope.   Trivium 2 (1967): 1-15.
Presents a late-fifteenth-century analogue to Chaucer's account of Ugolino, titling it "The Legend of Ugolino," found in MS. 6 of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York. Comments on the relation of the "Legend" to Chaucer's version,…

Robbins, Rossell Hope.   Mieczyslaw Brahmer, Stanislaw Helsztynski, and Julian Krzyzanowski, eds. Studies in Language and Literature in Honour of Margaret Schlauch (Warsaw: PWN--Polish Scientific Publishers, 1966), pp. 335-41.
Traces in medieval medical tradition references to the fifteen authorities cited in the GP description of the Physician (CT 1.429-434), arguing that Chaucer's "list contains just those names that an educated doctor of his day would have cited."

Robbins, Rossell Hope.   Moderna Språch 64.3 (1970): 231-44.
Comments on the limitations of Lydgate's "Siege of Thebes" and the Prologue to the "Tale of Beryn" as imitations of Chaucer, and discusses at greater length how his fabliaux are superior to "Dame Sirith" and to later English comic tales such as "The…

Robbins, Rossell Hope.   Modern Language Review 49 (1954): 289-92.
Describes and edits an anonymous lyric, here titled "An epistle to his mistress for remembrance," spuriously attributed to Chaucer in Trinity College Cambridge 599 (R. 3. 19).

Roberts, Anna, ed.   Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998.
Ten essays by various authors, including discussions of AElfric's female saints, "Emare," English translations of Christine de Pizan, and other topics. Includes a slightly revised reprint of Carolyn Dinshaw's "Rivalry, Rape, and Manhood: Gower and…

Roberts, Fulton.   New York: Disney Press, 1991.
An illustrated adaptation of NPT for children, with added characters and significant changes to the plot. Illustrated by Marc Davis.

Roberts, James L.
Grafton, Ellen, reader.   New York: Wiley, 2000.
Study guide to CT, with backgrounds to Chaucer and the poem, along with summaries and commentaries on all of the tales, sample character analyses and short essays, and resources for review and further reading. An audiobook version of this text was…

Roberts, Jane.   Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen, eds. Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry. King's College London Medieval Studies, no. 5 (London: King's College Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 1991), pp. 103-21.
Explores the "moralitas" of Henryson's poem and conjectures that KnT was a "major shaping force" in it.

Roberts, Jane.   Medium Aevum 80.2 (2011): 247-70.
Challenges the identification of Adam Pynkhurst with Scribe B (the "label nowadays given to the scribe" of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts of CT). Surveys the history of identifying Pynkhurst as Scribe B, examines paleographical and linguistic…

Roberts, Ruth Marshall.   Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association (1988): 137-42.
Chaucer's ability to draw female characters--in particular, Criseyde and the Wife of Bath--sets him apart from contemporaries in a male-dominated society. The subjectively described Criseyde, with her "slydynge" heart, and the objectively described…

Roberts, Valerie S.   Chaucerian Shakespeare (Ann Arbor: Michigan Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 1983), pp. 97-117.
The gardens of MerT and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" are not idyllic "gardens of love" but "gardens of vanity," the setting for human deceit, folly, and cruelty.

Robertson, D. W. (Jr.)   Medievalia et Humanistica 13 (1985): 143-71.
Treats the "relevant historical events, some basic attitudes (of the era), literary stragtagems," and TC itself, which is a "vivid example of the degrading and disastrous consequences" when a noble, valorous man places his seduced private will above…

Robertson, D. W. Jr., ed.   New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970.
An anthology of literature produced in Britain and Ireland in the Middle Ages: Celtic, Latin, Old English, French, and Middle English. The section pertaining to Chaucer (pp. 467-569) includes introductions to Chaucer's life and language, along with…

Robertson, D. W., Jr.   Costerus 1 (1974): 1-26.
Characterizes the Franklin in light of his social status, administrative and judicial offices, his "Epicurean concern for externals," and his association with the Sergeant at Law. Then reads FranT as an ironic indictment of the narrator's foolish…

Robertson, D. W., Jr.   New York: John Wiley & Sons,
An account of London in the late fourteenth century, including descriptions of its historical topography and architecture, the city's customs, a chronicle of its major events and history, and its role as an intellectual center. Chaucer is mentioned…

Robertson, D. W., Jr.   John Mahoney and John Esten Keller, eds. Mediaeval Studies in Honor of Urban Tigner Holmes, Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1965), pp. 165-95.
Assesses BD as a late-medieval "public funerary poem" rather than a portrait of psychological grief, interpreting the Black Knight as a generic, Boethian figure deprived by fortune, rather than as John of Gaunt, and discussing the character Blanche…

Robertson, D. W., Jr.   Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1962.
Articulates an allegorical approach to medieval literature (also called patristic, exegetical, Augustinian, historical, or iconographical criticism), clarifying its assumptions and methods and applying them to Chaucer's works and to works that…

Robertson, D. W., Jr.   Modern Language Notes 69 (1954): 470-72.
Suggests that Pierre Bersuire's account--"or one like it"--of a hunter-devil dressed in green may account for Chaucer's similar description in FrT 3.1382ff.

Robertson, D. W.,Jr.   Chaucer Review 23 (1988): 129-39.
The Physician's misunderstanding of his tale adds to the comedy of CT. He concludes the tale with a warning to forsake sin, not realizing that--like Appius, who betrays the innocence of Virginia--he betrays the innocence of those who come to him "in…

Robertson, D. W.,Jr.   Francis X. Newman, ed. Social Unrest in the Middle Ages, (Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1986), pp. 49-74.
Robertson discusses hardships such as war, crime, extortion, maintenance and procurement, legal abuses, and the ordinances of Edward III and Richard II that serve to illuminate BD, FrT, PardT, and the GP Wife of Bath, Prioress, Monk, Merchant,…

Robertson, D. W.,Jr.   Studies in Philology 84 (1987): 418-39.
Given historical events in the age of King Richard II, details of the Knight's portrait in GP would have been irrelevant before 1393 or after 1396. Chaucer may have inserted the Knight's description into GP, altered other details in GP, planned…

Robertson, D. W.,Jr.   David Lyle Jeffrey, ed. Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1984), pp. 3-32.
Understanding medieval literary use of scriptural tradition requires knowledge of relevant social history, especially for Chaucer--not merely a "textual" man but a "moral, social, and political man." The complex Christian tradition, functioning…

Robertson, D. W.,Jr.   Studies in the Age of Chaucer 6 (1984): 1-20.
Discuses Ovid, "Roman de la Rose," and the theme of Midas in WBT. The Wife alters the story of Midas, ironically exposing both her own shortcomings and those of the knight in her tale.

Robertson, D. W.,Jr.   Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press, 1981.
A collection of Robertson's most important work--materials on Medieval Latin, Old French, Provencal, and Old and Middle English.
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