Fletcher, Alan J.
Review of English Studies 58 (2007): 597-632.
Evidence suggests that Chaucer's careless scribe in Adam is Adam Pynkhurst. The Trinity College manuscript, containing prose tracts evincing Wyclif's influence, may be in Pynkhurst's hand. Chaucer's connection with this scribe could account for…
Foster, Michael.
Review of English Studies 59 (2008): 185-96.
Reconsiders the traditional dating of BD in light of the evolving relationship between Chaucer and John of Gaunt, as affected by Katherine Swynford. The date influences our reading of the poem.
Horobin, Simon.
Review of English Studies 60 (2009): 371-81.
Reconsideration of Alan J. Fletcher's evidence (RES 58 [2007]: 597-632) does not support the claim that Adam Pynkhurst is the scribe of Dublin, Trinity College MS 244.
Flannery, Mary C.
Review of English Studies 62, no. 255 (2011): 337-57.
Addresses the "handling of gendered shame" in Chaucer's works, arguing that shamefastness (modesty) is a "point of tension between medieval concepts of manliness and feminine honour." Paradoxically, shame is a feature of female honor, while ideals of…
Stone, Charles Russell.
Review of English Studies 64, no. 266 (2013): 564-73.
Considers Chaucer's attention to the city of Troy in TC, focusing on the Palladium festival in Book 1 and Troilus's ride through the city in Book 5, arguing that the scenes reflect the influence of Virgil's "Aeneid" and associate the fall of Troy…
Adams, Robert, and Thorlac Turville-Petre.
Review of English Studies 65, no. 269 (2014): 219-335.
Within this larger comprehensive study of 'Piers Plowman' in Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 733B (N), the authors note that Chaucer's scribe, Adam Pinkhurst, may have made scribal corrections to the B-text copy M (London, British…
Cooper, Helen.
Review of English Studies 65, no. 269 (2014): 252-65
Briefly mentions Chaucer in a discussion about the literary influences on Milton. John Lane--who continued Chaucer's SqT--may have helped to incite Milton's interest in chivalry and tournaments. Malory is also a likely influence, although never…
Williams, Kelsey Jackson.
Review of English Studies 65, no. 269 (2014): 252-65
Thomas Gray's article "Metrum" "castigates John Urry's edition of Chaucer for its arbitrary insertion of words and syllables to regularize perceived defects" and discounts "George Puttenham's strictures against so-called Chaucerian 'riding rhyme'…
Brammall, Sheldon.
Review of English Studies 65, no. 270 (2014): 383-402.
In both HF and LGW Chaucer adapts the story of Dido in a way that does not exclusively privilege Virgil's text. Though Gavin Douglas objects to Chaucer's "Legend of Dido" in his translation of the "Aeneid" (providing a humanistic model of reading…
James, Sarah.
Review of English Studies 65, no. 270 (2014): 421-37.
Observes parallels between the failed sight of Katherine's guide Adrian and that of January in MerT. Argues that Capgrave's use of such problems of vision highlights the human tendency to rely on "oculi carnis" rather than "oculi mentis."
Grund, Peter J.
Review of English Studies 65, no. 271 (2014): 575-95.
Differentiates "literary" uses of alchemical terms from those of alchemical treatises and shows that Chaucer's CYT is one of the seven most frequent alchemical sources in the seventy citations within the "MED."
Williams, Graham.
Review of English Studies 65, no. 271 (2014): 596-618.
Chaucer's use of ME "glareth" in HF and "glose" in ParsP supports Williams's larger argument that the central theme of "ocular scepticism" in "Pearl" is extended into its formal alliterative structures, especially in polysemous ME "gl"- words.
Spencer, H. L.
Review of English Studies 65, no. 272 (2014): 790 -811.
F. J. Furnivall founded seven literary and publishing societies (including the Chaucer and New Shakespeare Societies). Furnivall describes Wyclif "as the first translator of our Bible and THE FATHER OF ENGLISH PROSE" in an attempt "to foist prose…
Carlson, David R.
Review of English Studies 66, no. 274 (2015): 240–57.
Discusses how Skelton persistently mocks Henry's awarding knighthood to Garnesche by likening him to the silliest knights of romance. Claims that this portrayal of knighthood is influenced by Chaucer's mockery of knights in Th.
Hanna, Ralph.
Review of English Studies 66, no. 275 (2015): 449–64.
Proposes that when Langland revised B into C, the literary landscape was very different (from Edwardian to Ricardian poetry). Chaucerian dream vision, especially PF with its "emphasis upon the poetic figure who seeks to understand the world through…
Brwn, Sarah Annes.
Review of English Studies 66, no. 275 (2015): 465–79.
Argues that Underdowne's "Theseus and Ariadne" (1566) draws on a number of earlier versions of the myth, including Ovid's "Heroides" and Chaucer's LGW.
Spencer, H. L.
Review of English Studies 66, no. 276 (2015): 601-23
Details Furnivall's founding of the Chaucer Society in 1868, and argues that his greatest contribution was his parallel text edition of CT, a publication that has far-reaching consequences for the later editing of Chaucer. Brief references to Astr,…
Burrow, J. A.
Review of English Studies 66, no. 276 (2015): 624-33.
Considers how Nature brings forces to bear that "incline" Hart to feel and behave the way he does in "King Hart." Argues that Chaucer's Wife of Bath uses the same technical term when she says "I folwed at myn inclinacioun / By vertu of my…
Brewer, Charlotte.
Review of English Studies 66, no. 276 (2015): 744–65.
Argues that while quotations of Austen in the revised OED have increased in number overall, those of female authors are still extraordinarily low when compared to the canonical literary male authors: Shakespeare (c. 33,000), Walter Scott (c. 15,000),…
Eckert, Kenneth.
Review of English Studies 68, no. 285 (2017): 471-87.
Reads Th as a "brilliant joke at the Host's expense": not a satire or parody of tail-rhyme romances but a repudiation of the Host's "crude homosocial bantering," his "puerile tastes," and his "pretensions" as a literary critic. Includes comments on…
Perkins, Nicholas.
Review of English Studies 69, no. 288 (2018): 13–31.
Explores the reception and impact of Thomas Hoccleve in the sixteenth century, including the linking of him with Chaucer and proto-Protestant reform. Includes comments on paratextual materials in Speght's 1598 "Works of Chaucer" that pose the poet…
Leahy, Conor.
Review of English Studies 70, no. 295 (2019): 527-49.
Assesses references and allusions to Middle English in poetry written by W. H. Auden between 1922 and 1930, including echoes of GP, MilT, and BD in "The Mill (Hempstead)" and "April in a Town," and perhaps TC and NPT in "Troy Town."
Elias, Marcel.
Review of English Studies 70, no. 296 (2019): 618-39.
Shows how late medieval "anxieties over the corruption of chivalry" and criticism of the morals, motives, and conduct of crusaders" are reflected in the pairing of the GP descriptions of the Squire and Knight, and in KnT and SqT. Argues that…
Demetriou, Tania.
Review of English Studies 71, no. 298 (2020): 19-43.
Refers to a sidenote in Gabriel Harvey's copy of Speght's 1598 edition of Chaucer that is supposed to shed light on the date of Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Argues that the ambiguities in the various interpretations circulating may be unriddled to produce…
