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Williams, Deanne.   Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 147-78.
Williams summarizes the plots and themes of BD, PF, HF, and LGW, emphasizing Chaucer's layering of sources, his valorizing of English, and his concerns with interpretation and the truth value of literature.

Holsinger, Bruce.   Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 179-212.
Holsinger explores each of Chaucer's lyrics and short poems, explicating tensions of form and theme and explaining Chaucer's "cagey manipulation" of metrical and lyric conventions - English, French, and Italian. Rarely an inventor, Chaucer was a…

Summit, Jennifer.   Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 213-42.
Book-by-book examination of TC, with consistent concern for the characters (especially Criseyde) and the construction of their subjectivities. Summit explores the poem's ongoing concern with how textuality and literary transmission are deeply related…

Lerer, Seth.   Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 243-94.
Lerer reads CT as a "set of representative performances" that "question literary and social selves" and explore the functions of language, literature, and the imagination. Recurrent concern with clothing and representation, communication and monetary…

Trigg, Stephanie.   Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 297-323.
Trigg considers recurrent issues in the reception of Chaucer: responses to his self-shaped "poetic signature," admiration for his rhetoric and sentiment, and mourning for the loss of his genius by poets who seek to emulate him. Surveys rewritings and…

Knapp, Ethan.   Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 324-56.
Knapp surveys trends in academic critical approaches to Chaucer, focusing on interactions and tensions between philological study and interpretive criticism. Summarizes Chaucer's place in the rise of university curricula and explores landmark New…

Simpson, James.   Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 55-86.
Simpson explores Chaucer's absorption of and reactions to Continental influences (Latin, French, and Italian), emphasizing the recurrent influence of Ovid as a source and a model. BD is a poem of deference to Gaunt and to French tradition; HF and PF…

Smith, D. Vance.   Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 87-121.
Smith traces various threads of Chaucer's relationships with English poetic tradition: GP and Langland's "Piers Plowman"; Th and native romance; echoes of Sir " Orfeo"; alliterative verse in Chaucer; and the complex concerns of native tradition,…

Lerer, Seth.   Seth Lerer. Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), pp. 70-84.
Characterizes the language of Chaucer's day and emphasizes his range and synthesis of styles, exemplifying features of Middle English and Chaucer's dexterous uses of it in poetry and prose. Comments at length on the opening of GP, on Astr, on uses of…

Hammond, Paul.   Seventeenth Century 23 (2008): 142-59.
Hammond compares and contrasts Dryden's "Palamon and Arcite" from his "Fables Ancient and Modern" with its source, Chaucer's KnT, finding that Dryden reworked religious and political concerns to create a "macaronic fabric" that combines classical, …

Wilkinson, Anouska.   Seventeenth Century 29 (2014): 381-402.
Discloses John Dryden's "profound interest in the rich cultural history of natural law philosophy" through close comparisons of his translations/adaptations of KnT and WBT with their Chaucerian originals, as well as through similar examinations of…

Wilkerson, Anouska.   Seventeenth Century 29.04 (2014): 381-402.
Examines the influence of natural law philosophy on four of Dryden's translations of Chaucer and Boccaccio in "Fables, Ancient and Modern" (1700).

Ridyard, Susan J., ed.   Sewanee, Tenn. : University of the South, 1999.
Eleven papers by various authors on the literature and history of knighthood, with topics ranging from ascetic knighthood to knighthood as a trope. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chivalry, Knighthood, and War in the Middle Ages…

Ridyard, Susan J., and Robert G. Benson, eds.   Sewanee, Tenn.: University of the South Press, 1995.
Fourteen essays from the seventeenth Sewanee Mediaeval Colloquium, on late-classical and medieval ideas of Nature, science, and human perception. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Man and Nature in the Middle Ages under Alternative…

Pugh, Tison.   Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 75-99.
The Clerk's submission to the Host's tale-telling game parallels Griselda's submission to Walter: the two are queerly faithful in ways that bring into focus their "contractual hermaphroditism" and deconstruct traditional gender categories. Griselda's…

Yildiz, Nazan.   Seyda Sivrioglu, and others, eds. Bati Edebiyatinda Mizah / Humor in Western Literature / L'humour Dans la Literature Occidentale / Humor in Der Westlichen Literatur (Istanbul: Kriter, 2016), pp. 345-56.
Argues that through "exaggeration of romance and courtly love elements" in TC and the "heavenly laughter" of Troilus at the poem's end, Chaucer "turns the tragic story of Troilus and Criseyde first into a comedy then into a divine comedy."

Bayilmus Ogutcu, Oya.   Seyda Sivrioglu, and others, eds. Bati Edebiyatinda Mizah / Humor in Western Literature / L'humour Dans la Literature Occidentale / Humor in Der Westlichen Literatur (Istanbul: Kriter, 2016). pp. 381-94.
Describes the comic humor of Chaucer's Purse and Thomas Hoccleve's "Complaint to Lady Money" and "La Response,"

Lerer, Seth, and Deanne Williams.   Shakespeare 08 (2012): 398-410.
Argues that Shakespeare's reading of Thomas Speght's edition of Chaucer's "Works" (1598) provoked his creative imagination as well as providing source material, looking closely at how Chaucer's depiction of Julius Caesar's death in MkT affected…

Lehnert, Martin.   Shakespeare Jahrbuch 103 (1967): 7-39.
Records various early modern reactions to Chaucer, particularly his language and style, and explores similarities between Shakespeare and Chaucer, focusing on their stylistic range, and their attitudes toward social class, education, and human…

Shigeo, Hisashi.   Shakespeare no shiki (Collected Essays on Shakespeare) (Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin, 1984),: pp. 466-74.
Analyzes the similarities in Chaucer's and Shakespeare's views of the universe.

Hamilton, Donna B.   Shakespeare Quarterly 24 (1973): 245-51.
Assesses Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" in the same tradition as Chaucer's account of Cleopatra in LGW, a tradition in which the protagonists along with "other famous lovers of antiquity" are "exemplars of truth and faithfulness."

Hoeniger, F. David.   Shakespeare Quarterly 33 (1982): 461-79.
Describes "the marked incongruity in the sheer quality of styles" in Tho and Mel, commenting on them as "burlesque," and using them to support an argument that Shakespeare intentionally employed mediocre, archaized poetry in the first two acts of…

Hillman, Richard.   Shakespeare Quarterly 34 (1983): 426-32.
Posits FranT as a major source for Shakespeare play, focusing on similarities between the two magicians. Revised version published as "Deceiving Appearances: Neo-Chaucerian Magic in 'The Tempest'," in Hillman's Intertextuality and Romance in…

Bawcutt, Priscilla.   Shakespeare Quarterly 35 (1984): 426-32.
Suggests that the "cluster of ideas" that conclude Shakespeare's Sonnet 38 are a version of the "topos of supplication" that Bawcutt traces back to Boccaccio's "Filostrato," citing mediating examples in TC (1.15-21), KnT (2405-6), and Gavin Douglas's…

Hale, David G.   Shakespeare Quarterly 36 (1985): 219-20.
Documents an additional Chaucerian allusion in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Like the dreamer in BD, Shakespeare's Bottom says his dream cannot be interpreted; it can only be written down.
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