Surveys Chaucer's attention to the theological issue of bodily resurrection in FrT, SumT, and PardT, set against a survey of orthodox and heterodox positions in the Church Fathers and Dante. Then establishes Chaucer's "conservative" attitude toward…
Ruud, Jay.
Nicholas Wallerstein and Roger Ochse, eds. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature (Spearfish, S. D.: Black Hills State University Printing, 2002), pp. 74-83.
Examines Chaucer's translation of Petrarch's Sonnet 132 (TC 1.400-420), commenting on his facility with Italian and his comprehension of the sonnet and other verse forms. Chaucer's translation redirects the emphasis of the lyric to concern for…
Assesses several aspects of the "ballade" in LGWP to argue that the differences between the F and G versions of the interpolated poem (itself composed as a standalone lyric) indicate that the F version predates the G.
Ruud, Jay.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 24, no. 1 (2017): 141-59.
Argues that John Gardner's "The Life and Times of Chaucer" (1977) is better approached as a "nonfiction novel" than as a "scholarly literary biography" and that its strengths outweigh its weaknesses as a pedagogical text, offering suggestions for how…
A detective mystery set in the court of King Arthur, featuring Gildas of Cornwall and Merlin as a team of sleuths. The second volume in the Merlin Mystery series; loosely, the plot adapts WBT, with touches from its analogues.
Ryan, Francis X., SJ.
SEL: Studies in English Literature 35 (1995): 1-17.
Explores More's likely knowledge of Chaucer by examining the former's references and allusions to Chaucer, his quotations of the earlier poet, and their uses of similar proverbs.
Ryan, Lawrence V.
English Literary Renaissance 17 (1987): 288-302
Francis Kynaston's translation of TC in Latin rhyme-royal stanzas was influenced by Henryson's and Shakespeare's depictions of Criseyde. Substantial omissions in Books 4 and 5 of the translation simplify the character and reduce readers' sympathy by…
Ryan, Lawrence V.
Chaucer Review 8 (1974): 297-310.
Argues that the "ritual outlined in the confessional manuals" underlies the depiction of the Canon's Yeoman's "psychological predicament." Still attracted to alchemy and disguising the connection between his Canon and the canon of his tale, the…
Ryan discusses problems of unity in dream-vision poems, particularly the concepts of beginning and ending. She suggests that Joseph Frank's theory of spatial form may be applicable to analysis of the dream visions and tests this approach on BD.
Applies Joseph Frank's theory of "spatial form" in the modern novel (forms in which meaning is created through simultaneity and juxtaposition rather than through linearity and causation) to BD, PF, and HF. Examines particularly the use of myth (Seys…
Rydel, Courtney.
Medieval Translator/Traduire au Moyen Age 16 (2017): 289-302.
Explores how vernacular translators of Jacobus de Voragine's "Legenda Aurea" lend theological authority to their works by appropriating or emulating the onomastic etymologies in Jacobus's work. Includes discussion of Chaucer's close following of…
Identifies limitations in the Manly-Rickert "Corpus of Variants" and urges caution in its use, explaining that their use of the term "variant" excludes dialectical variants as well as spelling variants. Regional dialectical variants are especially…
Rylands, George, dir.
London: Argo, 1971. [Argo: ZPL 1003-ZPL 1004].
Item not seen. The WorldCat record indicates that this reading of TC in Middle English features Derek Brewer, Richard Marquand, Peter Orr, Prunella Scales, and Gary Watson.
Rylands, George, dir.
London: Argo, 1966. (RG 466)
A reading of NPT in Middle English by John Burrow, Nevill Coghill, Lena Davis, and Norman Davis, recorded in association with The British Council. The insert comprises the text, with notes and glosses.
Sabadash, Deborah Margaret.
Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1994): 561A.
Expands Ernst Curtius's world-upsidedown topos through Bakhtinian theories of textual dialogue and the carnivalesque to reveal the rich variety of a wide sampling of medieval texts, including CT.
Sabine, Maureen.
Jonathan Hall and Ackbar Abbas, ed. Literature and Anthropology (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1986), pp. 52-95.
Reads PardT as evidence of the "darker undercurrents" of Chaucer's worries about his worldly success, especially as reflected in the night-time setting of the tale, its demonic imagery, and the Old Man's associations with avarice, death, and the…
Sackler, Howard, dir.
Morrison, Theodore, trans.
Holloway, Stanley, reader.
MacLiammoir, Michéal, reader.
New York: Caedmon, 1962. (TC 1130)
Readings of PardPT (MacLiammoir) and MilT (Holloway) in Theodore Morrison's modern verse translation. Caedmon also released this recording on cassette tape.
Sadlack, Erin A.
Dissertation Abstracts International 66 (2005): 1782A
In a larger discussion of women's letter-writing, Sadlack notes that "Ovid, Chaucer, and Gower suggest that letters are often the best means for women to communicate."
Sadlek, Gregory [M.]
Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2004.
Bakhtinian analysis of the discourse of love's labor in classical and medieval love literature, focusing on two traditions: one, rhetorical, playful, and concerned with the labor of courtship; the other, serious, philosophical, and concerned with the…
Sadlek, Gregory M.
Klaus Jankofsky, ed. The South English Legendary: A Critical Assessment (Tubingen: A. Francke, 1992), pp. 49-64.
In "St. Michael," the image of the Devil's five fingers is a homiletic, mnemonic device to convey a lesson on sin. Chaucer's version in ParsT has a clear literary quality.
Sadlek, Gregory M.
Chaucer Review 26 (1992): 350-68.
Chaucer altered his source to make Troilus guilty of the sin of sloth, depicting him as one who dislikes "love's work" and who rarely does it. By exploring this concept of sin in a courtly context, Chaucer shifts the moral focus of his work, causing…
