Chaudhuri, Supriya, and Sukanta Chaudhuri, eds.
Calcutta : Allied, in collaboration with the Department of English, Jadavpur University, 1996.
Eleven essays by various authors, on topics relating to Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Petrarchan tradition, Renaissance ballads and drama, and George Herbert. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Writing Over under Alternative Title.
Winton, Calhoun.
Calhoun Winton, John Gay and the London Theatre (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1993), pp. 26-40.
Assesses how John Gay's play, "The Wife of Bath," sheds light on "what Gay and his contemportaries, most especially [Alexander] Pope, knew and thought about Chaucer," exploring Pope's influence on Gay's interest in Chaucer and the nature of Gay's…
NPT illustrates the alternation of sexual dominance in CT. The Priest among his nuns is like Chanticleer, "paragon des phallocrates," among his wives. But neither maintains dominance. Moreover, in NPT, as in CT as a whole, questions of sexual…
Robbie, May Grant
California English Journal 3.1 (1967): 47-54.
Argues that Pandarus is "honorable and well-intentioned in each of his three roles" in TC: traditional friend to Troilus, courtly friend to Troilus, and protective and loving kinsman to Criseyde. Chaucer's efforts to "knit together" these sometimes…
Includes a section entitled "Shorter Chaucer Tales" (pp. 21–51) with five pieces inspired by CT: "The Host Tale," "The Summer Tale (Deus Hic, 1)," "The Franker Tale (Deus Hic, 2)," "The Not Tale (Funeral)," and "Fried Tale (London Zoo)." The…
Kratzmann, Gregory,and James Simpson,eds.
Cambridg : D. S. Brewer, 1986.
Nineteen essays by various hands emphasizing religious and ethical change and focusing on Chaucer's religious poetry and "Piers Plowman" but including religious writings in the Old English period and the sixteenth century.
Cole, Andrew.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Post-Wycliffite writing has a different character from that which preceded it. Writers of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, including Chaucer, produced works with this novel character, often defined as heretical. Cole connects…
Lerer, Seth.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Assesses various aspects of Tudor political and literary culture (e.g., privacy and voyeurism, theatricality, letter-writing and -reading), discussing Pandarus and the Renaissance reception of TC as tropes for understanding such concerns. Tudor…
Hellinga, Lotte, and J. B. Trapp, eds.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Twenty-eight essays by various authors, arranged under three major headings: Technique and Trade, Collections and Ownership, and Reading and Use of Books. The last is subdivided into Books for Scholars, Professions, and The Lay Reader. References to…
Kirkham, David, and Valerie Allen, eds.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
School-text edition of GP, accompanied, on facing pages, by extensive glossing and pedagogical commentary and discussion questions. Also includes synoptic descriptions of Chaucer's pilgrims and brief essays on pertinent topics, including pilgrimage…
Krueger, Roberta L., ed.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Fifteen essays and an introduction introduce the reader to "the voyages, transformations, and interrogations of romance as its fictions travel within and between the linguistic, geo-political, and social boundaries of Europe from 1150 to 1600." For…
Solopova, Elizabeth,with contributions from N. F. Blake, Daniel W. Mosser, and Peter Robinson. , eds.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Includes complete and interlinked digital images, transcriptions, collations, and descriptions of fifty-three fifteenth-century manuscripts and printed editions of GP. Spelling databases (original and regularized) enable examination of all variants.
Allen, Valerie, and David Kirkham, eds.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
School-text edition of the GP description of the Franklin and FranPT, accompanied, on facing pages, by extensive glossing and pedagogical commentary and discussion questions. Includes brief essays on pertinent topics, including gentilesse, astronomy…
Burrow, J. A. .
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Explores the functions and significances of "non-verbal signs" (glancing, pointing, winking, hand-clasping, kissing, bowing, etc.) in medieval literature, concentrating on Dante's Commedia, the romances of Chrtien de Troyes, Froissart's Chronicles,…
Williams, Deanne.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Traces the "representations of, and responses to" France and Frenchness in BD and Chaucer's Prioress, the Corpus Christi plays, Caxton's publishing career, the poetry of Stephen Hawes and John Skelton, and Shakespeare's history plays. English…
Miller, Mark.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Although Chaucer is often considered a poet of love or of philosophy, an examination of the philosophical facets of CT--especially practical reason, individual agency, and autonomy--illuminates the ideologies of sex, gender, and love within his…
Hanna, Ralph.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Analyzes the cultural conditions of literary production and the books produced in England, 1300-1380, focusing on English vernacular works but also attending to Latin and French ones, seeking to understand the textual communities defined by such…
Reference guide on fourteenth-century usage of legal terms, concepts, and officials, valuable for legal historians and students of Chaucer, Gower, and the "Pearl"-poet.
Boitani, Piero, and Anna Torti, eds.
Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 1990.
Twelve essays by various hands. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Religion in the Poetry and Drama of the Late Middle Ages in England under Alternative Title.
Explores the variety, subtleties, and complexities of Chaucer's "costume rhetoric" in GP, examining how details of the secular pilgrims' dress and accoutrement capitalize on late-medieval English clothing practice and extend literary tradition.…
Powell, Susan, and Jeremy J. Smith, eds.
Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2000.
Thirteen essays by various authors: seven interpretations of alliterative poems and six textual analyses of Middle English works. Includes a memoir by Derek Pearsall. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for New Perspectives on Middle…
Ogilvie-Thomson, S. J.
Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2000.
Describes all manuscripts in the Laudian collection that contain English prose composed ca. 1200-1500, including Laud misc. 600, which includes incomplete versions of Mel (one folio lacking) and ParsT (through 10.914, completed in seventeenth-century…
