Walsh, Brian.
Religion and Literature 45.3 (2013): 81-113.
Takes an in-depth look at the influence of John Gower's "Confessio Amantis" on Shakespeare's "Pericles," focusing on cultural spirituality and the portrayal of death. Briefly contrasts the editorial process through which Chaucer's works evolved with…
Dinkler, Michal Beth.
Religion and Literature 47, no. 1 (2015): 221-35.
Within the framework of examining Chaucer and Dostoevsky, discusses critical approaches to literary examples in relationship to teaching the Bible as literature.
Applies Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of "work-utterance" to Chaucer's influence on Shakespeare, focusing on how Chaucerian (and other medieval) narratives are involved in Shakespeare's "generic innovations" in "Troilus and Cressida," "Pericles," and "Two…
Argues that details and attitudes depicted in WBPT and in the description of the Wife in GP influenced various aspects of Shakespeare's "All's Well that Ends Well."
Reid, Lindsay Ann.
Renaissance Quarterly 72.2 (2019): 537-81.
Analyzes Ovid's "Metamorphoses" in Renaissance poetry, with some attention to how Chaucer, in LGW, and Gower, in "Confessio Amantis," may have influenced sixteenth-century Tudor England's Ovidian poetry.
Rudat, Wolfgang E. H.
Renascence 35.3 (1983): 167-82.
Reads the allusions to Chaucer's GP, Virgil's "Aeneid," and, most extensively, Pope's "Rape of the Lock" in Eliot's "The Waste Land" as signals to his rejection of the "Classical/Christian tradition."
PardT, ParsT, and Ret all treat the moral complexities of language. Applying a text from Timothy, quoted by both the Pardoner and the Parson, reveals that the Pardoner's discourse is barrren; the Parson's fruitful. Ret is the fruit of ParsT.
G. K. Chesterton's "Chaucer" makes the "spaciousness" and capacity of Chaucer's writings available to twentieth-century readers. Chesterton associated Chaucer's sanity and vitality with Aquinas, who shared with Chaucer medieval orthodox Christian…
The ending of TC is unified with the rest of the poem. Its abrupt shift from pagan setting to Christian message is a structural imitation of the Boethian distinction between temporality and eternity.
Fragment 7 of CT is unified by its focus on the problem of human violence and the "potential of literature to perpetrate or remedy this problem." In ShT, PrT, and Th, Chaucer shows their respective genres' "mythologies" of violence. Mel counsels…
Argues that moral and psychological interpretations of TC--readings that judge the characters and those that empathize with their experiences--are "not as incompatible as their adherents would have us believe." Chaucer's rich depictions of his…
Explores the contrast between the Marian womb imagery of SNP (7.43-49) and the deflated bladder of Almachius's power in SNT (7.437-41), finding in the contrast "a vision of the Church that attests freedom and obedience, as well as Chaucer's embracing…
Draws on data derived from "EDD Online"--a digitization of Joseph Wright's "English Dialect Dictionary"--to investigate "the role of Chaucer's language for 18th- and 19th-century dialects: of English, summarizing Chaucer's interests in dialects,…
Describes the political and aesthetic motives that underlie the four volumes of David Herd and Anna Pincus's "Refugee Tales" (2016–21), exploring their modeling on the variety, unity, and thematic concerns of Chaucer's panoramic short fiction in…
Sherman, Gail Berkeley.
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and Timea Szell, eds. Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991), pp. 136-60.
By allowing the pilgrims no comment on the hagiographic discourse of the faceless, feminine "Second Nonne," and by allowing the Prioress to identify with the Word and the bearer of the Word, CT interrogates the doctrines on which it rests:…
Sensitive to contemporary political events, Shakespeare parodies Spenser's Tears of the Muses in A Midsummer Night's Dream. In addition, the dream of the elf queen in Chaucer's Th is the source of Bottom's dream, as well as Arthur's dream in Faerie…
Translations of Chaucer's works, especially CT, into modern English reflect individual translators' valuations of Chaucer's poetic virtues, whether "freshness," modernity, humor, irony, or something else.
Tripp, Raymond P. Jr.
Rendezvous 6.1 (1971): 23-28.
Explores the "idea of limitation" in KnT, identifying "statements and narrative situations [that are] suggestive of what we cannot know and cannot say." In some ways like the death of Blanche in BD, Arcite's death is inexplicable and inexpressible,…
The problems of rendering Chaucer into Chinese are formidable,but the fact that much of Chaucer's language and culture seems foreign even to native readers today makes the task somewhat less difficult than treating certain contemporary authors.
Mack, Maynard.
Rene Welleck and Alvaro Ribeiro, eds. Evidence of Literaary Scholarship (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979), pp. 105-21.
Pope's copy of Chaucer, with his own youthful annotations, still survives. And though his marking of the text shows careful perusal of it (especially Rom), these early annotations are ultimately not very revealing of Pope's maturer feelings about…
Takamiya, Toshiyuki.
Reports of the Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies (Tokyo) 15 (1983): 199-212.
Margery has much in common with Alisoun: middle-class status, outspokenness, avid interest in or obsession with sex, devotion to Christianity, and passion for pilgrimages.
