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In referring to St. Margaret of Antioch in this poem, Hoccleve draws out her "implied presence" in the form of the marguerite in the prologue to Chaucer's LGW.

Discusses the "political implications" of Rom as it reflects Chaucer's attitudes towards French during the Hundred Years' War, suggesting that Chaucer may be "resisting French literary culture." Also assesses Eustace Deschamps' praise of Chaucer as a…

Expressions of hatred of Criseyde belie a persistent love for her and thus motivate new attempts at telling her story. In this way, hatred serves as "a sign of dispossession" of Criseyde "that invites repossession by the next author."

Chaucer draws upon the festive tradition of mock saints early in TC to poke fun at "the pretensions of 'fin amor'"; as the poem progresses, the inversions of carnival come to represent "a necessary part of being a lover." By the time Troilus laughs…

An examination of Skeat's Rime-Index to Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" shows that "vowel length is an unneeded hypothesis" and Chaucer's vowels may be classified solely on the basis of "quality, not quantity."

In Purse, For, and Scog, Chaucer employs the basic elements of an official 'supplicacio' "with great freedom, voicing them in a variety of unexpected ways."

More critical attention to the codicological contexts, Latin sources, rhetorical devices, and clerical "authorial milieu" of Middle English lyrics would release them from the categories of the "practical or boring," and give their refinement and…

The ludic responses depicted in these two lines bear out Barry Windeatt's assertion that Chaucer's "displacement of tragedy by comedy" at the end of TC took its inspiration from Dante's "Commedia."

The author addresses the question whether Chaucer had Adam Pynkhurst in mind when berating his scribe Adam for his sloppy work and, on the basis of palaeographical evidence, seeks to determine whether Pynkhurst's performance improved afterwards. To…

Comments on Chaucer's reputation as a Wycliffite reformer or Lollard that resulted from his depictions of clergymen (especially the Parson) and from apocryphal tales attributed to him. Edits and assesses a 1641 pamphlet that includes two poetic…

Examines the narration and the interpretations of Troilus's dream in Book V of TC, the questions of sources and authority, and the function of the Latin argument to Cassandra's speech in manuscripts.

Surveys representations of male and female fainting in medieval romances and "chansons de geste," and describes the medieval medical status of fainting ("syncope"). Considers Troilus' swoon in TC 3, observing that the "precision of Chaucer's medical…

Reads Chaucer's lyric poetry as an important bridge or "hinge" between the medieval lyric poem and its modern successors.

Includes Chaucerian apocrypha, "The Plowman's Tale" and "Jack Upland," in an examination of the figure of the plowman in English early modern imagination, from "Piers Plowman" to the 1590s. Argues that there was a "highly politicized tradition of…

Comprehensive look at Chaucer's life and analysis of how cultural, literary, and historical events affected Chaucer's poetry.

Complete census of all known extant copies of the Kelmscott "Chaucer." Explores late nineteenth- and twentieth-century book history, and provides anecdotal and bibliographic details of the "Chaucer."

A case study of the difficulty of identifying particular manuscripts in inventories, wills, catalogues, book lists, etc., surveying the Middle English manuscripts once owned by seventeenth-century collector Sir James Ware, focusing on the items that…

Reconsiders Laura Hibbard Loomis's method for gauging Chaucer's familiarity with the Auchinleck manuscript--a method based on collocations shared by Auchinleck and Th--arguing that the method does not prove his familiarity with Auchinleck, but does…

Explores the complexity of using literary translations, discussing Chaucer in relation to Dante, Petrarch, and Dryden in Chapter 15.

Fiction loosely based on framework of CT, with unlikely group of ski enthusiasts brought together during a pilgrimage through backcountry British Columbia.

Argues that Shakespeare's adaptations relied not only on understanding and knowing Chaucerian texts, but on his "memory of Chaucer " and Chaucerian ideas and practices, particularly his mingling of "sources and authorities" in TC.

Experimental retelling of the story of Dido and Aeneas that opens with references to HF and LGW, among other works.

. Murder mystery in which medieval detective Crispin Guest aids Chaucer and the Canterbury pilgrims in seeking a murderer.

Comprehensive interdisciplinary and theoretical study of the history of the English language. Chapter 36 discusses Chaucer's language.

Examines the varying degrees and uses of multilingualism among the Canterbury pilgrims and the characters in their tales, commenting on the facile "linguistic posing" of several speakers (Pardoner, Parson, Wife of Bath, Summoner and his characters)…