Sinnreich-Levi, Deborah M.
Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, ed. Eustache Deschamps, French Courtier-Poet: His Work and His World. (New York: AMS Press, 1998), pp. 123-30.
The misogynist female voices in a number of Deschamps's poems seem to share common sources with WBPT and MerT.
Sinnreich-Levi, Deborah M., and Gale Sigal, eds.
New York: AMS, 1992.
This collection of fourteen essays honors Helaine Newstead and focuses on the sources--primarily Celtic--of Arthurian literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Voices in Translation under Alternative Title. …
Sinnreich-Levi, Deborah M.,ed.
New York: AMS Press, 1998.
Thirteen essays reexamining Deschamps's work and life. While critics in the first half of the century saw Deschamps as a possible source for Chaucer and as an admirer of Chaucer's work, these essays investigate a wider context for his work, including…
Širca, Alen.
Primerjalna književnost 44 (2021): 87-105.
Surveys depictions of Antigone in western literature from Antiquity through the late Middle Ages, with assessment of Chaucer's characterization of her in TC as an interweaving of Trojan and Theban traditions. In Bulgarian with English abstract.
Sirles, Michael Timothy.
Dissertation Abstracts International A80.05 (2018): n.p.
Contends that William Baldwin's "Mirror for Magistrates" (1559) was previously seen as linking the medieval literature of Chaucer and Boccaccio with the early moderns.
Sisam, Celia and Kenneth, eds.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1970.
Selections from Chaucer (pp. 257-316) include excerpts from HF, LGWP, TC, GP (Prioress, Clerk, Wife of Bath, and Reeve), WBP, and PardT, along with the complete RvT, Form Age, the rondeau from PF, Truth, Purse, and MercB. All are in Middle English,…
Through its "nostalgic" recollection of an idealized "bygone era," CYPT "casts a shadow" on the reformist thinking of SNT. Like many advocates of ecclesiastical reform, the Nun idealizes the primitive Church, but the Canon's Yeoman's performance…
Sisk contends that a number of late medieval works, including Fragment 8 of CT, "obliquely" address contemporary religious issues. These works mark a departure from more traditional (and clearly didactic) religious treatises and may even suggest that…
Sisk, Jennifer.
Eva von Contzen and Anke Bernau, eds. Sanctity as Literature in Late Medieval Britain (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015), pp. 116-33.
Explores how Chaucer addresses the sacred authority of hagiography, posing it in tension with the poet's own authority in LGWP, and examining authority and authorization in the "pseudo-hagiographies" of CT (MLT, ClT, and PhyT) where Chaucer…
Anthologizes a wide range of selections from British and American literature--poetry, fiction, drama, and translations, with brief, appreciative introductions to individual authors and their works. Includes description of Chaucer as a "poet of…
Skala, Elizabeth.
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, John T. Thompson, and Sarah Baechle, eds. New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 363-83.
Examines Derek Pearsall's Variorum Edition of NPT and suggests that the Nun's Priest's "self-conscious literary performance transforms" the tales of CT, which are enhanced by Chaucer's quotations, allusions, and references to his own works. In…
Examines marital rape across CT, acknowledging that, while marital rape was impossible in medieval English law, it was a topic discussed and handled throughout CT. Gives particular attention to MerT, SNT, MkT, WBPT, and ShpT.
Performance of music composed by Logan Skelton, including "Chaucer Songs," a "set of six songs with a textless interlude" set to poems by Chaucer (from MercB, from Bal Compl, BD 1223-44, Purse, from Lady, and PF 680-92). Sung by Philip Frohnmayer;…
Skerpan, Elizabeth Penley.
Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 5 (1984): 41-54.
Explores Chaucer's depictions of physicians, focusing on how they exemplify the tension between "medici corporals" (bodily medicine) and "spirituals" (spiritual medicine). None of Chaucer's physicians exhibit an ideal balance; Chaucer explores a…
Sklar, Elizabeth S.
Neophilologus 76 (1992): 616-28
Chaucer's tale of Hypsipyle and Medea (LGW 4) shares verbal features with the "Gest Historyale of the Destruction of Troy" and the "Laud Troy Book." Not derived from one another, they may go back to an earlier Middle English translation.
Sklute, Larry (M.)
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1984.
Dream visions, TC, the "outer form" of CT, and individual tales reveal an authorial evasion of closed, authoritative determinations of meaning and moral values--correlative to the cognitive indeterminacy of late-medieval nominalism. CT is suited to…
Sklute, Larry M.
Chaucer Review 16 (1981): 119-28.
Unlike his earlier dream visions, Chaucer's PF exhibits no structural confusion. Rather, the poet poses the possibility of variable pluralisms and leaves the poem inconclusive. The narrator is relatively uninvolved in the action, which permits…
Sklute, Larry.
Studia Neophilologica 52 (1980): 35-46.
Chaucer builds his descriptions of the pilgrims according to the traditional catalogue plan of the accumulation of details. But he breaks with tradition in drawing details of a portrait from differing angles, thereby surprising his reader and…
Calchas's speech at the beginning of book 4 extends and enlarges the perspective of the narrative grown increasingly narrow during the course of books 1-3. Whereas in TC 1-3 the lovers are portrayed as increasingly confined--both spatially and…
Slade, Tony.
Modern Language Review 64 (1969): 241-47.
Treats WBT as an "expression of her personality," focusing on the "matter-of-fact" tone of the tale, its humor, and its "tolerant sexual irony." However, Chaucer undercuts "her views and reactions" ironically, particularly in the pillow lecture of…
Slaughter, Eugene E.
Essays in Honor of Walter Clyde Curry (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1954), pp. 61-76.
Explores parallels and tensions between earthly and heavenly love in TC, investigating how the theological "doctrine" of grace--inflected by ideas of merit, hope, and despair--is adapted to courtly, earthly conventions in the poem. Focuses on uses of…
Slaughter, Eugene Edward.
New York: Bookman, 1957.
Classifies various kinds of love in Chaucer's works--religio-philosophical, courtly, heroic, and syncretistic--with sub-categories of virtues, vices, and sins in each. Describes the sources, characteristics, and overlapping of the classifications,…
Situates Criseyde and her agency in discussions of freewill and the effect of secular society on Boethian notions of the highest good, and argues that Chaucer's depiction of Criseyde throughout the poem undercuts her apparent agency. The poem's…
