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Chaucer's passages about Arthurian knights, though brief, reveal the poet's understanding of the traditions of Arthurian romance.

Studies the portrait of the Wife in GP and the self-portrait she confesses in WBP and explains difficulties of interpretation.

Deals with Chaucer's influence on and relation to humanism.

Chaucer's style is ambiguous and oblique when aimed at irony and satire but is straightforward and simple when didactic.

Chaucer reached a temporal conclusion that free will is allowed when one seeks after goodness in compliance with Providence.

Analyzes the similarities in Chaucer's and Shakespeare's views of the universe.

Discusses ABC, Pity, Lady, and Mars in relation to the literary temperament of the poet's later works.

Although fools hardly appear in Chaucer, in his own self-caricature the poet often plays the clown, as in CT and TC. Italian influence on Chaucer's comic vision is greater than that of the French "fabliaux."

Some characteristics of the legend of Philomene, Phyllis, and Hypermnestra are discussed. The brief conclusion proves that the poet's attitude toward LGW is ambivalent; he seems to be mocking, satirical, and at the same time serious and even…

The stories about Hypsipyle, Medea, Lucrece, and Ariadne are treated. In each case it seems that the poet finds feminine virtue in masculine vice. Except for the case of Lucrece, simplicity and flippancy on the part of women are exempted from moral…

The "epilogue" of TC apparently reveals Chaucer's denial of worldly love. However, it should be interpreted as the poet's complexity and uncertainty in his attitude towards "love," one of his major themes.

Chaucer's attitude toward love should be observed in the continuity of his works. LGW, which comes in between TC and CT, plays an important part in this connection. Here, human love is once again taken up to be praised with some controversial…

The poet's involvement in HF is an extension of similar involvement in BD, modified by Chaucer's occupation as an officer in the London Customs House.

Tabulates and analyzes the scribal variants of modal auxiliaries in CT, commenting on the implications for understanding late-medieval English usage.

A critical bibliography of studies on TC in Japan in five categories: courtly love, tragic nature of the story, idea of fate, character portrayal, meaning of the Epilogue.

Chaucer's "Frere" is compared unfavorably with Saint Francis of Assisi to encourage reform.

Examines the contradictory religious and secular aspects of the complex Prioress, an important personality in CT.

TC scholarship is reviewed. It is important to read TC in terms of the Christian view of life.

Chaucer's optimism, humor, and satire as well can be properly appreciated only in the light of his Catholic view of life. Some typical mistakes in translation are also made from lack of enough knowledge of Catholicism: the doctrines, liturgies,…

Chaucer's Prioress is said to be a miniature of CT. Just as Madame Eglantine is a religious with fairly secular characters, so CT shows all kinds of people, with their sublime and indecent faces, their beauty, and their ugliness.

CT is basically religious in spite of its various secular elements. The religious connotation depends rather on Chaucer's Catholic views of life than on the outward signs. All the characters and their tales, both sacred and secular, are equally…

Chaucer's Monk is by no means an ideal clergyman. He is one of the best targets of Chaucer's satire. He shows the degenerating status of the Church and the religious orders, to remind the readers of the need of renovation from within.

Some typical references are introduced to classify the characteristics of each period of Chaucerian scholarship from the fourteenth century to the present time. The paper also shows the necessity of trying a religious approach especially to CT to…

Although TC is not a source for "Othello," Pandarus and Iago use similar tactics to manipulate others.

Considers Chaucer's realism, seeking to define it "inductively" through close reading of GP, the links between the tales, and the "confessional monologues" of CT. Focuses on concrete descriptions, dialogue, and "haphazard organization and…