Bishop, Ian.
London and Melbourne: Everyman's University Library, 1987.
Reviews various theories about the overall design of CT, warning that individual tales can be ignored, though CT is greater than the sum of its parts, and that Chaucer's final intentions concerning the order of the tales are unknown. In an analysis…
Bishop, Ian.
Bristol: Univeristy of Bristol Academic Publications, 1981.
The poem's central interest lies in the attempt by two human souls to establish the deepest and most testing of relationships. The representation of this relationship involves more than a dialogue: it insinuates a dialectical process that worries…
Bishop, Ian.
Review of English Studies 30 (1979): 257-67.
A framework for the function of the medieval world of learning in NPT can be found in the scheme of the Seven Liberal Arts (grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, astrology, arithmetic, geometry, and music). Although arithmetic and geometry are too abstract…
Bishop, Ian.
Boris Ford, ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Volume 1, Part 1: Medieval Literature: Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition (New York and Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1982), pp. 174-87.
Treats TC and KnT together because each derives from a source by Boccaccio and because each includes Boethian thought; also considers the Shakespearean analogues of each and compares each with opera, Books 1-3 of TC correspond to the "medieval…
Attributes the aesthetic success of the three-rioters account in PardT to Chaucer's suggestive "economy" of characterization and narrative and to the double perspective ("drunken fantasy" and "sober calculation") that irrevocably leads to death,…
Bishop, Kathleen [A.]
Nancy M. Reale and Ruth E. Sternglantz, eds. Satura: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honour of Robert R. Raymo (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2001), pp. 227-37.
Identifies a number of points of comparison between Juan Ruiz's "El Libro" and CT: wide range of genres, ecclesiastical satire, comparable characters (e.g., the Prioress and Doña Garoa; the Wife of Bath and Trotaconventos), narrators'…
Bishop, Kathleen A.
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4643A.
Explores how classical comedy (especially Plautus and Ovid) and medieval elegiac comedies influenced Chaucer's fabliaux and the fabliau elements of ManT, WBP, TC, and the Prologue to the apocryphal Tale of Beryn.
Bishop, Kathleen A.
Chaucer Review 35: 294-317, 2001.
Classical and medieval Latin influences on the fabliaux are as important to analyze as are the analogues Chaucer draws upon for his tales. Specifically, a close consideration of Plautus and Latin elegiac comedy can lead to a fuller understanding of…
Bishop, Kathleen A.
Kathleen A. Bishop, ed. "The Canterbury Tales" Revisited--21st Century Interpretations (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008), pp. 16-26.
Asserts several parallels between the window scene in MilT and reports of the sodomitical execution of Edward II.
Bishop, Kathleen A., ed.
Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008.
Eighteen essays by various authors, with a foreword by David Matthews (pp. x-xiv) and a preface by the editor (pp. xv-xvi). For individual essays, search for "CanterburyTales" Revisited under Alternative Title.
Bishop, Kathleen A., ed.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
Thirteen essays by various authors, most of them concerned with the influence of Chaucer's work or his reception. For individual essays, search for Standing in the Shadow of the Master? under Alternative Title.
Bishop, Laura M.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 106 (2007): 336-63.
Bishop assesses how the apparatus ("peritext") in Speght's edition of Chaucer's Works evokes Chaucer as a living presence and situates his poetry in the midst of Tudor politics. Although Speght derives much of his peritext from Thynne and Stow, his…
Bishop, Louise M.
Texas Studies in Literature and Language 44 : 231-46, 2002.
Augustine's glossing of God's corporeality (especially pertaining to Exodus 33) underlies the comments on the limitations of human knowledge in MilP. Confusion about the nature of flesh and about orifices hints at the ultimate ineffability of God's…
Bishop, Louise M.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007.
Surveys medical metaphors and the rise of English vernacular writing to trace diminution of belief in the "intrinsic healing quality" of words. As the healing power "evaporates," we find the separation of material and immaterial things, healing and…
Bishop, Louise M.
Martha W. Driver and Sid Ray, eds. Shakespeare and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Performance and Adaptation of the Plays with Medieval Sources or Settings (Jefferson, N. C.: McFarland, 2009), pp. 232-44.
Bishop argues that Paulina's "female eloquence" reflects the influence of Chaucer's Mel on Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale," commenting on the fact that the folio editions of Chaucer present Mel as "The Tale of Chaucer" and observing how Richard…
Bishop, Morris, ed.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1970.
An anthology of Latin, Continental, and English medieval narratives in modern translation, including RvT (pp. 305-09) in a section called "Merry Tales and Salty Fictions."
Item not seen. The WorldCat record states that this is a "Shortened edition of The Horizon book of the Middle Ages, published in 1968 by American Heritage, New York," with a section on Chaucer.
Bisson, Lillian M.
Medieval Perspectives 7 (1992): 19-33.
Chaucer's and Eco's works appear to be structured as "unicursal labyrinths" but are really based on "multicursal labyrinths" in which no center can be found. Chaucer's aesthetic demonstrates the open quality that Eco finds specific to contemporary…
Bisson, Lillian M.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Reads Chaucer's works for the ways they reflect the "conflicting realities he confronted in his world." An opening section on "The Poet and His World" introduces the "double vision" of the intellectual world Chaucer inherited and describes his…
Studies Chaucer's first-person narrators of BD, PF, and HF as "students" who are instructed by some pedagogical authority, considering also the narrator of TC as well as the student-teacher relationship between Pandarus and Troilus. Assesses the…
Bitner, Kendall, and Kyle Dase.
Digital Medievalist 14, special issue (2021). 34 pp.
Explains the "necessary compromises and more efficient practices" that underlie changes to the original transcription principles of the Canterbury Tales Project, offering illustrative examples, and emphasizing the goal of making textual materials…
Bitot, Michel, ed., with Roberta Mullini and Peter Happe.
Tours: Universite Francois Rabelais, 1996.
Twenty-eight essays by various authors addressing Chaucer, Langland, medieval drama (English, Spanish, and French), Malory, Thomas More, and Renaissance drama, especially Shakespeare. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Divers Toyes…
Explains PardT 6.406 to mean "to be damned" in light of the figurative associations of brambles with sins and the picking of fruit with spiritually dangerous activity, corroborated in exegetical commentary and other medieval literature.
