Schoeck, R[ichard] J.
Bamberg: H. Kaiser-Verlag, 1984.
Defines and anatomizes "intertextuality," and proceeds to examine aspects of Thomas More's "Utopia" in this light. Uses examples from Chaucer to help clarify the varieties of the concept: from NPT, Chauntecleer's Latin misquotation as an example of…
Schoeck, R[ichard]. J.
Notes and Queries 200 (1955): 140.
Lends authority to Gerard Legh's claims about Chaucer's status at the Inner Temple (and writing HF for a ceremony there) by adducing Legh's "standing as a heraldist."
Schoeck, Richard J.
Constance S. Wright and Julia Bolton Holloway, eds. Tales Within Tales: Apuleius Through Time: Essays in Honor of Professor Emeritus Richard J. Schoeck (New York: AMS Press, 2000), pp. 97-106.
Explores various kinds of game or play in TC: rhetorical games, war games, courtly games, and the games of life. Suggests Troilus may be seen as homo ludens (man playing).
Schoeck, Richard J.
The Bridge: A Yearbook of Judaeo-Christian Studies 2 (1955): 239-55.
Argues that Chaucer's characterization of the Prioress in GP "leaves shadows of doubt" about the Prioress, along with "several kinds of uncertainty" and some "strong implications" for the audience. Further, in PrT, her "own words . . . convict her of…
Schoeck, Richard J., and Jerome Taylor, eds.
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1961.
An anthology of seventeen twentieth-century essays or excerpts by various authors on TC (twelve examples), BD, HF, PF, courtly love, and dream vision poetry--sixteen reprinted and one original: R. E. Kaske, "The Aube in Chaucer's 'Troilus'."
Schoeck, Richard J., and Jerome Taylor, eds.
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1960.
Reprints two poems about Chaucer (by e. e. cummings and Henry Wordsworth Longfellow) and fifteen twentieth-century essays or excerpts on CT by various authors, plus one previously unpublished essay: Paul E. Beichner's "Characterization in the…
Schoen, Jenna.
Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 2021,
Dissertation Abstracts International A83.01(E).
Explores the interplay between romance and religious poetry in late medieval English vernacular literature, and includes discussion of how, as a parody of romance, Th "primes the reader for the prudential lessons" of Mel.
Schoenberg Thomas J., and Lawrence J. Trudeau.
Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau, ed. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Volume 173 (Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2010), pp. 225-346. [Electronic book].
Reprints twelve examples of critical studies of TC published between 1962 and 2008, several in excerpts. An introduction (pp. 225-27) summarizes the plot of TC and comments on its characters, major themes, and critical reception. Closes with…
Schoff, Rebecca L.
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007.
Circumstances of transmission affect not only how authors are received but also how they write. This effect was particularly strong in late medieval culture, when authors such as Chaucer, William Langland, and Margery Kempe were aware that readers…
Schoff, Rebecca Lynn.
Dissertation Abstracts International 65 (2004): 1773A
Examines the works of Chaucer, Langland, and Margery Kempe in the context of the standardization of textual discourse that accompanied the development of printed books.
Score for voice and orchestra in forty-two bars (fifteen minutes). The text that accompanies the score, compiled from twenty-six lines selected from KnT and Truth by Daphne Burgess, is given in Middle English; a modern "paraphrase" also included.
Chapter 4 is "The London of Yevele and Chaucer, 1300-1400"; gazetteer and map (182-83) "show main sites where the remains of the medieval and Tudor City of London can still be visited."
Schooler, Victoria D.
Dissertation Abstracts International 65 (2004): 1773A
Schooler examines WBPT, KnT, and TC, using speech-act theory to reveal Chaucer's attitudes toward prayer as personal utterance rather than rote activity.
A detailed comparison of the Job story and Boccaccio's Decameron 10.10. Boccaccio's novella is seen as a variation of the biblical Job story that lacks the justification of God's divine attributes. Schöpflin argues that Boccaccio and subsequent…
Schotland, Sara Deutch.
Albrecht Classen and Marilyn Sandidge, eds. Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Explorations of a Fundamental Ethical Discourse (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010), pp. 525-41.
Canacee's kindness toward the formel eagle shows Chaucer's sympathy for women and appreciation of female friendship. The formel, like other females in Chaucer, has been abused by men--and warns Canacee against them. In creating a painted mew for the…
Schotland, Sara Deutch.
Carolynn Van Dyke, ed. Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 115-30.
In SqT Chaucer practices a form of anthropomorphism that acknowledges its representational limits. The relationship of Canacee and the falcon shows "a commonality among living creatures" and offers a model of female friendship. Canacee nurses the…
Schowerling investigates the influence of Chaucer's TC on four writers of the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. Writers and works discussed include Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid," Sidnam's paraphrase of TC, Shakespeare's "Troilus and…
Schrader, Richard J.
Chaucer Review 4.4 (1970): 284-90.
Argues that the allusions in NPT to mermaids as sirens and to Burnel the ass help to indicate Chauntecleer's own culpability in his temporary downfall as well as contributing comedy to the Tale.
Creates in reconstructed Middle English a description, prologue, and tale for an additional pilgrim, the warrener. The description and prologue are in couplets (including speeches by the Host and Prioress), and the prose tale is an adaptation of the…
Explores how John Gower's tomb in Southwark lent "authority" to the character of Gower-as-chorus in Shakespeare and George Wilkins's play "Pericles." Includes examination of how the title pages, commemorative verses, and Chaucer's portrait in Thomas…
Schreyer, Kurt.
Comparative Drama 55 (2021): 185-210.
Identifies narrative, linguistic, and thematic similarities between Chaucer's KnT, MilT, and RvT and Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus," and argues that the brutal treatment of Lavinia in Shakespeare's play resonates with the aspects of courtly love…
Schricker, Gale C.
Philological Quarterly 72 (1993): 15-31.
The epilogue reveals that the narrator of TC undergoes (in Freudian terms) a neurotic crisis. Ultimately, however, he demonstrates the psychic health of his ego by integrating conflicting forces of the id (functions of the received tale), the…
