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A collection of essays on the editorial practices of great editors of Chaucer: Caxton, by Beverly Boyd; Thynne, by James E. Blodgett; Stow, by Anne Hudson; Speght by Derek Pearsall; Urry, by William L. Alderson; Tyrwhitt, by B. A. Windeatt; Wright,…

Designed as the basic text of CT for the "Variorum Chaucer," a facsimile of the Hengwrt, which may have been produced in Chaucer's lifetime, one of the earliest and most reliable of the manuscripts of the CT.

Studies several versions of the story of PardT, identified as tale type AT 763 ("The Treasure Finders who Murder One Another"). Assesses the functions of the characters, the genres in which it has been written, and the purposes of the story…

Discusses Pasolini's trilogy of films adapted from Boccaccio's "Decameron," Chaucer's CT, and "The Arabian Nights." Looking at the trilogy in the contexts of film and of literature, Rumble investigates the cultural and ideological implications of…

The films "The Decameron," "Canterbury Tales," and "The Arabian Knights" make up Pasolini's "Trilogy," here explored for how the films reflect understanding of the literary works from which they derive--in particular, how Pasolini's "Abiura," or…

Interprets "chiere" of KnT 1.2683 as "frame of mind" or "state of feeling," and maintains that this obviates the question of the whether or not the preceding two lines on the fickleness of women are spurious.

Presents eight Breton lays in Middle English, each with bottom-of-page glosses, a facsimile manuscript page, a bibliography, and a general Introduction (pp. xiii-xxx) that describes the nature of the genre, its history, and French sources of the…

Discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1990.

A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1991.

An examination of some works commonly classified as romances--WBT, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," "The Tale of King Arthur," "The Tempest," "The Winter's Tale," and "As You Like It"--yields a definition of "romance." It is the magician who…

Explores the reception of John Gower as an alchemist in the sixteenth century, including description of Elias Ashmole's notion that Gower was Chaucer's "master" and "mentor" in alchemical science.

Explores the "moral value for Chaucer's audience" of CYPT and articulates "alchemical connections" elsewhere in CT, especially SNT. Focuses on the diction and imagery of CYP, on CYT as a negative exemplum, and on the Yeoman's final rejection of…

Describes uses of "iconic extant narratives" in twenty-first-century refugee writing, using CT as a "key and core example," and focusing on how it adds "to the ethical potential" of three volumes of "Refugee Tales" (2016, 2018, and 2019) edited by…

Comments on the role of refugee literature in the "shifting contexts of [literary] canonisation" and then explores "the role of Chaucer in 21st-century refugee writing," focusing on aspects of CT (especially MLT) that resonate in Patience Agbabi's…

The BBC adapted the bottom scenes of MilT "to suit the tastes of early evening TV spectators by eliminating the most explicit passages."

Places Chaucer in a tradition of English visionary literature that culminates in the second generation of Romantic poets.

Studies of Chaucer's rhymes have traditionally assumed that textual criticism and historical phonology together could recover lost information about the pronunciation of his verse. The rhymes, however, possess their own unique written properties. …

Introduction to the social and cultural milieu of CT, with narration by Roy Cane and discussion by Christiania Whitehead and Peter Mack. Includes selected readings in Middle English (by Vanessa Adye) and historical illustrations. Produced by…

Considers briefly Chaucer's influence on the revival of poetic couplets in early modern English verse, especially as mediated by George Puttenham's "The Arte of English Poesie."

Rushton suggests that Th and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" may be accountable for the lack of sustained academic focus on medieval popular romance. Modern popular fiction, games, and films have, on the other hand, embraced many features of the…

Reviews scholarly criticism of TC. Argues that the effectiveness of the work is in part the result of Chaucer shaping the reader's complicity with Pandarus. Also discusses Criseyde's desirability, and the theme of sexuality in TC and LGW.

Maintains that Pearson's novel for juvenile readers "A Perfect, Gentle Knight" (2007) "earns the quotation that provides its title" from GP, 73, identifying echoes of the father–son relationship of Chaucer's Knight and Squire, even though the novel…

Investigates several motifs in the LGW account of Philomela: victimhood, "inappropriate sovereignty," muteness, orality and legal witnessing, "tapestry-as-prosthesis," rape as a property crime, and lack of legal remedy, arguing that Chaucer's tale…

Feminist science-fiction novel; concludes with a colophon that echoes TC 5.1786-99.

Considers PrPT in light of the GP description of the Prioress and ShT, arguing that the tone, style, verse form, and liturgical echoes of PrPT are appropriate to the vocation of the Prioress and create a powerful impression of strength, humility, and…