Galbraith, Steven K.
Spenser Studies 21 (2006): 21-49.
Contrasts the absence of Spenser's portrait in the first folio edition of The Faerie Queen with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Chaucer folios, which were printed throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Escobedo treats Chaucer as a link between Spenser and Plato and considers choice a crucial value in PF. Also notes that MerT shows that "mastery cannot compel love" (196).
McCabe views Spenser's alleged completion of Chaucer in "The Legend of Friendship" as a move to represent himself as a "Bonfont" rather than a "Malfont" poet.
Cook, Megan L.
Spenser Studies 26 (2011): 179-222.
Considers how Edmund Spenser's "Shepheardes Calender" "influenced the reception and presentation of Chaucer in the late Tudor period," focusing particularly on how the editorial apparatus of Thomas Speght's "Works" influenced "two of the most…
Argues that Edmund Spenser's adaptations of SqT and "Amis and Amiloun" in Book IV of "The Faerie Queene" "[embody] his theory of friendship," both in the relations and interactions among the characters and in the ways that he asserts his own place in…
Explores how Tudor editions of Chaucer and works by John Gower and John Lydgate "mediate" the presentation of Chaucer and his "authorial identity" in Edmund Spenser's "Shepheardes Calender," arguing that Spenser depicts Chaucer not only as the…
Reads Spenser's imitation of SqT in "Faerie Queene," Book IV, in light of MLE, which introduces SqT in early editions. The sequence alters the Squire's characterization and helps to frame SqT "as the product of an active, metafictional revision."…
Matsuda, Takami.
Spicilegium 1 (2017): n.p. Web publication.
Examines FrT and SumT in the "context of the late medieval vision of the afterlife," and argues that the "two tales tell how one is constantly in the dangerous liminal situation between damnation and salvation, between being physically ravished to…
LeFever, Henry Lewis.
Springfield, PA]: Walden Birch, 2011.
Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates that this volume of poetry includes two poems entitled "From Chaucer's The Franklin tale" and "The Franklin's tale told twice."
Quennell, Peter
Springfield, Mass.: Merriam, 1973.
Surveys English literature produced in Britain from the late Middle Ages to the modern period. The chapter entitled "The Age of Chaucer" includes a section (pp. 24-32) that surveys Chaucer's life and works, emphasizing Chaucer's dexterity with…
Assesses "incongruity in the sheer quality of style" in Pericles, especially the Gower passages, suggesting that Shakespeare was inspired by Thopas--Chaucer's experiment in incongruity produced from the "inferior art" of an earlier tradition.
Compares carnivalesque elements of WBPT to performance techniques of modern, unruly, "women on top" comediennes such as Roseanne Barr and female impersonators such as Barry Humphries (Dame Edna Everage).
Hamada, Satomi.
St. Paul's English Review (Rikkyo University) 43 (2014): 1-20.
Investigates uses of the words of address "heren," "herken," "herknen," "listen," and "listenen" throughout CT to find out differences of usage among them. Points out the peculiarity in the choices of such words in Th and discusses Chaucer's…
Rogers, Nicholas, ed.
Stamford, Conn.: Paul Watkins, 1993.
Includes five essays on relations between image and text, three on literature, and three on the church and society. For one essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for England in the Fourteenth Century under Alternative Title.
Tallies various instances from GP where Chaucer "shows in his deployment of nonce-words, key-words, status-terms and moral terms, that character and language are inseparable, that words and values change as societies change, that the only true value…
Klassen, N.
Stanford Humanities Review 2:2-3 (1992): 129-46.
Surveys the late-medieval science of optics, focusing on Alhazen, Grosseteste, Bacon, Ockham, and their links between optics and epistemology. In Boccaccio's "Filostrato," sight is merely a convention of courtly literature, but Chaucer's optical…
Heinzelman, Susan Sage.
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Law Books, 2010.
Heinzelman examines the interdependencies of literary and legal discourses and the representations of women in them, seeking to define the development of the novel as a stage in the separation of the two discourses. She reads various French and…
Josipovici, Gabriel.
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1971.
Studies modernism in English and French literature from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, focusing on narrative fiction and critical perception and misperceptions of what constitutes modernism. Includes a chapter (pp. 52-99) entitled…
Kolve, V. A.
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1984.
Juxtaposes "visual materials and their literary analogues" to illuminate larger images created by narrative action. Seven chapters treat medieval hypotheses of audience and image; Chaucerian aesthetics of the image in the poem; KnT, the…
Lynch, Kathryn L.
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1988.
Examines the "marriage of matter and form in high medieval philosophy and poetics," the "grammar of dream and vision," and vision and dreams in Alain de Lille's "De planctu naturae, Jean de Meun, Dante, and Gower. Lynch presents a model that may be…
Taylor, Karla.
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1989.
Chaucer was indebted to Dante for turns of phrases, images, stories, and poetic and philosophical aims. Chaucer's most pervasive use of Dante was as "a spur and a background against which he defined his own, very different poetic and moral vision."
