Sheridan, Christian.
Studies in Philology 102.1 (2005): 27-44.
Discusses how readers of MerT are encouraged to view all texts in mercantile terms and how texts (medieval texts in particular) are formed in the interactions among reader, author, and language. Both a product (a text to be consumed) and a producer…
Sheridan, Christian.
Sandra M. Hordis and Paul Hardwick, eds. Medieval English Comedy (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007), pp. 111-23.
Sheridan assesses the "common logic" of puns and money in ShT. Both pose the threat of vacuity--meaninglessness or lack of value--while simultaneously offering pleasure.
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:…
Sherman, John Stores.
Dissertation Abstracts International 37 (1976): 995A.
Chap. I studies Chaucer's awareness of the assets and liabilities of working within a tradition in PF and Purse. Chap. II argues that HF is finished. Chap. III sees the contradiction between the Pardoner's confession and tale as an effort to put…
Sherman, Mark A.
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 163A.
The two great poems of Chaucer and Spenser employ poetics even closer to each other than previously recognized. Just as Th in contrast to KnT revises perception of CT, Spenser's Thopas subverts orthodox interpretation. Both poems, by deferring…
The discourse of KnT displays the Knight's ideological desire to construct a boundary between a stable Christian cosmos and the restless eros of unregulated taletelling by establishing a political and narrative paradigm for the other pilgrims to…
Sherwin, Michael S.
New Blackfriars 94 (2013): 456-74.
Compares the depictions and analyses of love in TC, Annie Dillard's "The Maytrees" (2007), Thomas Aquinas, and modern psychologies of love, arguing that their underlying concerns with conflicts between passions and choices indicate that sustained…
Shetler, Brian M.
Dissertation Abstracts International A80.08 (2019): n.p.
Surveys the history of handpress printing of CT, analyzing 140 editions, with particular attention to paratextual material as indication of Chaucer's reception and the "abundance of mediation."
Studies the role of Theseus in KnT as a "minister Dei," who governs the people in accordance with the leading medieval principle, "utilitas publica prefertur utilitate privatae."
Shibata, Takeo.
Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 145-63.
Examines double-entendre in ShT, especially with words that relate to characters' action.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, with parallel record for a piano/vocal score. A related website, Criseyde: A New Opera by Alice Shields, is available at http://www.aliceshields.com/criseyde/index.html (accessed March 28, 2014).
Shields, Rachel Linn.
Yearbook of English Studies 53 (2024, for 2023): 21-35.
Argues that the "tidal influences" in FranT encourage "feminist interpretation" of Dorigen's promise, "identification of an environmentalist sensibility" in the tale, and attention to human subjection "to natural cycles and forces." Furthermore,…
Contains eight articles and a bibliography. In Japanese. For the essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Wife of Bath (Shigeo) under Alternative Title.
Shigeo, Hisashi.
Hisao Turu, ed. Reading Chaucer's Book of the Duchess. Medieval English Literature Symposium Series, no. 5 (Tokyo: Gaku Shobo Press, 1991), pp. 142-70 (in Japanese).
Analyzes the relationship of the real world to the dream world in BD and surveys noncourtly innovations derived from French romances, taking account of Chaucer scholarship of the late twentieth century.
Shigeo, Hisashi.
Meiji Gakuin Ronso 453: English and American Literature 75 (1990): 1-32.
Criseyde's love of Troilus could be the cause of her love affair with Diomede. This article corrects, supplements, and reinforces the conclusion of an article by the same name in "Poetica" 29-30 (1989): 39-57.
Shigeo, Hisashi.
Kinshiro Oshitari et al., eds. Philologia Anglica (Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1988), pp. 285-98.
From ABC through dream poems to LGW, Chaucer attempts to oppose cupidity to charity by ennobling the latter. However, he amalgamates various types of love in CT.
Shigeo, Hisashi.
Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Sachiho Tanaka (Tokyo: Kirihara Shoten, 1988), pp. 15-24.
Surveys theories of Criseyde's betrayal in TC; maintains that her depravity results in Pandarus's deliberate actions and Troilus's passion, along with her own weaknesses; and emphasizes Chaucer's characterization of Criseyde as a complex woman.
