Strohm, Paul.
Andrew James Johnston, Russell West-Pavlov, and Elisabeth Kempf, eds. Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare: "Troilus and Criseyde" and "Troilus and Cressida" (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. 46-60.
Identifies parallel concerns with privacy and erotic tension in TC and Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," both of which pose the closed space of the bedchamber against the pressures of crowdedness in Troy/London, gossip, and public observation.…
Strohm, Paul.
Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 14-23
Contemplates the notion that "identification" with a given author is a "frequent, if unacknowledged, component of literary appreciation." Theorizes the notion in Freudian terms and those of reader-response criticism, exploring the processes and…
Strohm, Paul.
Jonathan Fruoco, ed. Polyphony and the Modern (New York Routledge, 2021), pp. 192-205.
Argues that Chaucer's "polyphony and polyvocality" are both "modern" and "progressive"--justification for dismantling the period boundary between medieval and Early Modern literatures. Surveys mixed, condescending praise by Early Modern critics of…
Strohm, Paul. With an appendix by A. J. Prescott.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992.
An introduction and seven essays explore the mutual contingency of history and literature in late-medieval England. The collection interprets historical texts for contemporary attitudes and ideologies, discovering, for example, the "carnivalesque"…
Chapter 2 focuses on free volition (as formulated by John Duns Scotus), empathy, and fraternal bonding in "Amis and Amiloun" and in SNT. In the latter, Valerian and Tiburce "forgo political loyalties and prioritize their fraternal bond by cultivating…
Pandarus does not commit incest with Criseyde. Chaucer's contemporaries would not have allowed it, and the text itself, while titillating, does not admit of it. One discerns the narrator expressing his own involvement with the heroine, but there is…
Justifies various differences between FrT and its analogues by attributing them to the literal mindedness of the narrator, "one who takes distinctions seriously."
Stroud, Theodore A.
Modern Philology 72 (1974): 60-70.
Reviews two books about Chaucer: "Language of Chaucer's Poetry: An Appraisal of Verse, Style and Structure" by Norman E. Eliason; and "Disembodied Laughter: 'Troilus' and the Apotheosis Tradition" by John M. Steadman.
Stroud, Theodore A.
College English 17 (1955): 109-10.
Identifies modern analogues to ShT and Boccaccio's "Decameron" 8.1 in Thomas Menkel's 1946 short story, "Secret Debt," and Menkel's reported source in a "Scotch joke," surmising general transmission of the tale.
Strouse, A. W.
Dissertation Abstracts International A78.09 (2017): n.p.
Uses WBT as a case study in the development of circumcision's use as a metaphor for situations ranging from shifting of intellectual ground to the process of reading itself.
Autobiographical remembrance/contemplation by a gay medievalist in New York. Includes frequent references and allusions to medieval topics, including Chaucer, here described as "really the most important thing in the world."
Strouse, A. W.
New York: Fordham University Press, 2021.
Uses Pauline "theo-poetics of circumcision" to explore circumcision and "uncircumcision" as hermeneutic tropes, focusing on allegoresis and amplification, and analyzing queerly Augustine's Boy with a Long Foreskin" (from "De Genesi ad litteram");…
Strowe, Anna.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2014. Abstract accessible via https://scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/publication/c185a069-4396-4774-bd76-b36534c2c6bc (accessed April 4, 2026).
Explores "the construction and transmission of the concept of authorship in the Italian novella in late-medieval and early modern Italy and England," Chapter four considers "how English writers and translators worked with the Italian genre, adapting…
Strub, Spencer.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of California, Berkeley, 2018. Dissertation Abstracts International A82.09(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and at https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3cr3q8b9; accessed August 18, 2025.
Explores speech in late medieval English "literature and prescriptive religious writing," focusing on how "inward feelings [are] realized only in intersubjective exchange." Includes discussion of, among others, "Piers Plowman," "Mum and the…
Struck, JoAnn.
[Jay Ruud, ed.] Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota ([Aberdeen, S.D.: Northern State University, 1989), pp. 135-45.
Comments on romance conventions in WBT and its concern with "soveraynetee" and "maistrye."
Stubbs, Estelle, ed.
Leicester : Scholarly Digital Editions, 2000.
Full-color complete facsimile of the Hengwrt manuscript (Hg) and the Merthyr fragment (Me) of CT. Includes transcriptions of Hg and the Ellesmere manuscript by Michael Pidd and Estelle Stubbs, arranged for comparison; transcription of Me by Paul…
Analyzes the "structural sections" of the Hengwrt manuscript (Hg) to describe the complex process of its copying and construction, concentrating on such matters as hands, inks, running titles, quiring, and the abrupt ending of CkT, and suggesting…
Stubbs, Estelle.
A. J. Minnis, ed. Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions. Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, 2001), pp. 17-26.
Names written in manuscripts of CT indicate associations between these manuscripts and a number of Austin friars who were scribes; they also indicate that exemplars of some manuscripts were at Clare Priory. Friars may have copied the manuscripts…
Stubbs, Estelle.
Review of English Studies 58 (2007): 133-53.
Codicological analyses of the structure and details of Corpus Christi 198 support early suggestions by Carleton Brown, Charles Owen, and John Fisher about Chaucer's ongoing revision of CT, especially when considered in light of other early…
