Item not seen. Online information indicates that this volume addresses questions about why Chaucer included his legend of Cleopatra in LGW, his sources for the account, and its success as a poem.
Ellison, Darryl William.
Dissertation Abstracts International A75.07 (2015): n.p.
Investigates the role of Chaucerian apocrypha and adaptations in defining "Chaucerian," a concept "that was as much a product of Chaucer's later editors, adapters, and imitators as it was a product of his contemporaries and predecessors." Considers…
Schlett, James.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015.
Recounts the history and events of the nineteenth-century American Philosophers' Camp. The chapter entitled "The Worthy Crew Chaucer Never Had" includes discussion of Ralph Waldo Emerson's notebook commentaries on similarities between the group of…
Estelle Epinoux and Nathalie Martinière, eds. Rewriting in the 20th-21st Centuries: Aesthetic Choice or Political Act? (Paris: Michel Houdiard, 2015), pp. 105-18.
Argues that in her experimental novel "Ryder," Djuna Barnes wrote "under the influence of Chaucer by employing a similar style," that her "use of glosses" in Chapter 10 "demonstrates an intertextuality" with CT, and that in Chapter 22 she "rewrites a…
A novel about a small group of women in a modern setting who travel on pilgrimage from Southwark to Canterbury, telling stories along the way. Includes occasional references and allusions to CT.
Stadnik, Katarzyna.
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 41 [54] (2015): 127-41.
Summarizes aspects of cognition theory and posits that the "knowledge accumulated by past generations is encapsulated in language" and that, like a "palimpsest," imagery retains "vestiges" of the worldviews of the past. Discusses examples of…
Madej-Stang, Adriana.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2015.
Includes discussion of WBPT as background to a survey of women as witches in contemporary British literature. Interprets WBP as evidence that, in Chaucer's time, a "woman, in order to claim her independence . . . has to speak of herself in negative…
Swortzell, Lowell.
Plays: The Drama Magazine for Young People 74.5 (2015): 23-28, 64.
One-act play for eight child actors adapted from PardT, with Chaucer speaking directly to the Pardoner at the opening and closing of the plot. Production notes indicate a running time of approximately 20 minutes.
Fyler, John M.
Studies in Philology 112 (2015): 415-52.
Comments on a wide variety of examples--comic and/or serious--of boundaries and sutures between languages in the late medieval literature, exploring issues of translation, including biblical translation; perceived contrasts between "supposedly fixed…
Revisits the "authorship question" of "The Two Noble Kinsmen," exploring not what was composed by Shakespeare or by Fletcher, but rather the social tensions between characters found in KnT, the play's source, and those nameless ones of the "Jailer's…
Choi, Jiyeon.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 23.2 (2015): 145-59.
Focuses on the clothing of Alisoun of MilT and the Wife of Bath, with attention to color, stereotyping, and economic conditions. In Korean, with an abstract in English (pp. 158-59).
Johnston, Alexandra F.
English: The Journal of the English Association 64, no. 244 (2015): 5-26.
Explores the meanings and dating of "miracle play" / "miraculum" as descriptors for medieval drama, discussing a range of historical records and offering WBP (3.543-59) and details from MilT as evidence of fourteenth-century dramatic activities in…
Knoetze, Retha.
Scrutiny 2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa 20.2 (2015): 34-53.
Argues that WBPT provides "a serious defence of women," claiming that the Wife's ideas about "about mutuality and domestic partnership" in marriage "coincide with ideas which were developing in Chaucer's society as a result of social and economic…
Son, Byung-Yong.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 23.1 (2015): 61-81.
Argues that Chaucer's alterations of the conventions of romance in KnT indicate the poet's political caution in giving advice to his king, advising him in the figure of Theseus to deal with political trouble by valuing Parliament. In Korean with an…
Yıldız, Nazan.
[Yildiz, Nazan]
Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi (Hacettepe University) 32.2 (2015): 299-312.
Explores the social status of the Prioress as someone caught between "her former and present estates, the nobility and the clergy respectively," exploring her "hybrid identity" at this interface Includes an abstract in Turkish and in English.
Surveys translations and studies of medieval English literature produced in the People's Republic of China, commenting on the important role of Professor Li Fu-ning and describing translations, theses and dissertations, and critical books and essays.…
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."
Capdevielle, Elizabeth Gibbons.
Dissertation Abstracts International A76.01 (2015): n.p.
Studies "the moral meaning of spiritual and political mediation" in late medieval England, focusing on miracles of the Virgin, TC, Julian of Norwich's "A Revelation of Love," and Thomas Hoccleve's "Regiment of Princes," using aspects of Emmanuel…
Haresnape, Geoffrey.
English Academy Review 32.2 (2015): 152-59.
Translates ABC into modern English verse, retaining Chaucer's original meter, stanza form, and rhyme scheme. Includes brief introductory description of the poem and a biographical eulogy for Professor John van der Westhuizen, to whom the translation…
Richmond, Andrew Murray.
Ph.D. Dissertation. The Ohio State University, 2015. Open access at http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1428671857 (accessed February 3, 2023).
Assesses the "textual landscapes and ecological details" in various late-medieval British romances, including discussion of seaside and shipwreck in MLT and in Gower's analogous Tale of Constance "as a simultaneously inviting and threatening space…
Wagner, Erin Kathleen.
Wagner, Erin Kathleen. Linguam Ad Loquendum: Writing a Vernacular Identity in Medieval and Early Modern England. Ph.D. Dissertation. Ohio State University, 2015. Dissertation Abstracts International A81.12(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Abstracts.
Studies uses of and attitudes toward vernacular English in late-medieval and early modern writing, literary and religious, from Wyclif and the Lollards to Tyndale and More. Includes comparison of ManT with Gower's analogous Tale of Phebus and…
Al-Ibia, Salim E.
Studies in Language and Literature (Montreal) 11.1 (2015): 57-61.
Supports the so-called "Bradshaw Shift" that recommends moving fragment VII of CT to a position just after fragment II, arguing that the move better enhances the "thematic relationship among" ShT, and the fabliaux of fragment I, MilT, and RvT.
Knox, Philip.
D.Phil. Dissertation. University of Oxford, 2015. Dissertation Abstracts International C75.01. A redacted version (without illus.) is fully accessible via https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d55e2158-a9ee-4bf2-b8e4-98d7e0c6a598. Abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses International.
Traces "the afterlife of the 'Romance of the Rose' in fourteenth-century England, arguing that the RR "exercised its influence on fourteenth-century English literature in two principal ways": 1) "the development of a self-reflexive focus on how…
Tokunaga, Satoko.
Satoko Tokunaga, ed. Aspects of Publishing History in the East and the West (Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2015), pp. 1-32,
Surveys the presentation of CT in manuscripts and printed books up to the publication of William Thynne's first complete works of Chaucer (1532). Focuses on editorial principles and concepts such as compilatio, authorship, and collation. In Japanese.
Shaeffer, Katherine Heath.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Florida, 2015. Dissertation Abstracts International A79.02(E). Fully accessible via https://ufdc.ufl.edu/ (accessed March 16, 2026).
"[I]nvestigates literary and pictorial manuscripts on the subject pf alchemy in conjunction with the theories surrounding sequential art," i.e., "comics theory," considering selected works, from CYPT to modern graphic novels. Opens with a "close…
