Hussey, Maurice, ed.
Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1965.
Presents NPPT and NPE in Middle English (following Robinson's 1957 edition) with end-of-text notes and glossary. The Introduction (pp. 1-44) considers the tale-teller relations of NPPT, the "digressions" (dreams, sermons, and rhetoric) of NPT, and…
Huddlestone, Elizabeth
Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Study guide to the NPPT that includes the Middle English text, with facing-page glosses and commentary that encourages careful reading. The volume includes a summary of CT and an introduction to Chaucer's language, along with discussion of various…
Aware of the insights into author-audience relationship provided for "written" texts by structuralism and poststructuralism, Lawton concentrates on oral aspects in Chaucer. Emphasizing the complexity of tone in interacting voices, Lawton studies…
HF, a turning point in Chaucer's career and in English literary culture, reflects attitudes toward fame and glory from Homer to the Scholastics to writers of the Italian "trecento." The poem deals with issues of fame, poetry, and linguistic theory…
Tragedy, comedy, debate, mask, and theatrical "epic" are found in fifteenth-century drama. Davenport explores factors to explain the scope, style, and variety.
An edition and translation of "Filostrato," "Teseida" (excerpts), and "Filocolo" 4.31-34 (excerpts). Includes introduction, bibliography, notes, index of personal names, and three appendices: "The Fortunes of Troilus"; Benoit de Sainte-Maure,…
The chief French sources and analogues of Chaucer's four dream poems, presented here in translation, are brought together for the first time. Included are Machaut's "Jugement dou Roy de Behaingne," Froissart's "Paradys d'amours," Jean de Conde's…
Underlying many traditional stories is the basic structure of the individual emerging into adulthood and establishing his or her identity by destroying parent-images and finding a beloved equal. A chapter on Chaucer establishes his equivocal and…
The medieval tyrant "topos," with its lexicon and its various transformations, provides the means of studying Chaucer's moral vocabulary. The tyrant figure embodies passion, cruelty, injustice, and the heartlessness. Its antitype is first that of…
Meale, Carol M., and Derek Pearsall, eds.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2014.
Collection of essays honoring A. S. G. Edward's career, as well as his scholarly work on the "transitional period between manuscript and print culture." For two essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Makers and Users of Medieval Books under…
Analyzes legal, hermeneutic, and social ramifications of murder and murderers in the Middle Ages. Includes Tracy's own essay entitled "'Mordre wol out': Murder and Justice in Chaucer," which focuses on Chaucer's treatment of murder in CT,…
Critical essays examine Chaucer's religious writings. Sixteen essays focus on fourteenth-century religious practices, and religious influences on Chaucer's writings, and offer ways of teaching religious themes and issues in Chaucer. For individual…
Kamath, Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs.
Cambridge: Brewer, 2012.
Chapter 2 analyzes CT briefly, and connects Chaucer's allegorical tradition with Thomas Hoccleve, John Lydgate, and earlier pilgrimage allegories of Guillaume de Deguileville. Discussion of Chaucer's "mediation" of Rom.
Chapter 5 focuses on comic uses of brutality in CT, particularly in MilT and KnT. Also addresses how Chaucer refers to torture in MLT, but rejects excessive brutality in PrT.
Offers a "comprehensive selection" of short poems and lyrical interpolations from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries (Part I) and from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (Part II), topically arranged, in normalized spelling, with sidebar…
Boffey, Julia, and Christiania Whitehead, eds.
Cambridge: Brewer, 2018
Includes twenty essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors, examining textual, contextual, aesthetic, and cultural issues that relate to a wide variety of English lyrics from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. For three essays…
Meyer-Lee, Robert John, and Catherine Sanok, eds.
Cambridge: Brewer, 2018.
Includes an introduction by the editors and ten essays by various authors that "aim to rethink the relationship between form and the literary" in a variety of Middle English works. For two essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for The Medieval…
Toswell, M. J., and Anna Czarnowus, eds.
Cambridge: Brewer, 2020.
Collection of essays exploring the origins, development, and "manifestation of medievalism in Canadian literature." For three essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Medievalism in English Canadian Literature under Alternative Title.
Combines feminist critical awareness, reception studies, and codicology to explore the construction of Chaucer as "womanis frend" in fifteenth-century manuscript compilations, studying the intertextualities of English and French works, including…
Describes and assesses the wide array of guides to penitential self-examination in late medieval Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English, viewing them in the contexts of the 1215 Lateran Council, the rise in popular religion, and developing notions…
Nuttall, Jennifer, and David Watt, ed.
Cambridge: Brewer, 2022..
Collects eleven essays about Hoccleve's literary works, with an Introduction by the editors and a comprehensive Index. References to Chaucer's influences on Hoccleve and Hoccleve's attitudes toward Chaucer recur throughout the volume (see the Index).…
