Waugh, Scott L.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
A descriptive political history of Edward's reign that explores how his personality and style of ruling were crucial to the development of political order and various domestic institutions. Pt. 1 surveys major events of Edward's reign; pts. 2 and 3…
Blake, N. F., ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Chapters by various authors treat phonology and morphology, syntax, dialectology, lexis and semantics, literary language, and onomastics. Includes an introduction by Blake, a bibliography, an index, and a glossary of linguistic terms. The chapter…
Kinney, Clare Regan.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Addresses the features of poetic narrative that are distinct from prose narrative, concentrating on self-consciousness about poetic form, intertextual relations, and authentication. An introduction and separate chapters consider TC, The Faerie…
Roe, John, ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Includes discussion (pp. 35-41) of the influence of Chaucer's account of Lucrece (LGW) on Shakespeare's "The Rape of Lucrece," focusing on Chaucer's "particularly sympathetic defence" of Lucrece, despite his overstating of St. Augustine's compassion…
Huot, Sylvia.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Examines manuscripts of "Roman de la Rose" to discover how medieval readers interpreted it. Explores glosses and other internal commentary as well as illustrations and various versions of the work. Issues explored in depth include the erotic and…
Meale, Carol M, ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Eight essays on women, literacy, and power in medieval Britain, including discussion of Latin, Anglo-Norman, Welsh,and English materials. Topics include romances, literature for recluses, the social conditions of literacy, female access to literacy,…
Spearing, A. C.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Examines a wide range of medieval romances and first-person personification love-narratives for the ways they compel their audiences to assume voyeuristic perspectives. Romances include scenes of secret watching of private love, and in…
Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Identifies classical and medieval uses and understandings of "tragedy." For Aristotle, tragedy was a serious story, although one that might end happily. The notion of "irretrievable misfortune" came to dominate the late-classical use of the term.
Paxson, James J.
Cambridge: Cambridge University PRess, 1994.
Defines and analyzes personification as fundamental to literature and human consciousness. Surveys the history and theory of the device and examines its roles in works by Prudentius, Chaucer, Langland, and Spenser, applying various modern critical…
Scanlon, Larry.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Late-medieval English exempla and exemplum collections have political and ideological significance. Vernacular exempla are "narrative enactment(s) of cultural authority" that appropriate the authority of exemplary sermons and imitate the political…
Winny, James, ed. Rev. ed. Sean Kane and Beverly Winny, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Middle English edition of WBPT and GP description of the Wife of Bath, with end-of-text notes and glossary. The Introduction (pp. 1-32) discusses sources, the relation of WBP to WBT, themes, etc. Includes Chaucer's Gent and a selection from…
Spearing, A. C., ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Rev. ed.
Text of FranT and the GP description of the Franklin (based on Robinson's edition, 1957) with end-of-text notes and glosses. The Introduction (pp. 1-76) describes the sources and analogues of FranT; the Breton lai genre; the tale's major themes of…
Spearing, A. C., ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Edition of KnT, originally published in 1966, based on F. N. Robinson's 2d edition (1957), with a new Introduction (pp. 1-111), "reconsidered" notes, and a corrected glossary, both included at the end of the volume, much as in the 1966 original. The…
Percival, Florence.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Chaucer's LGW testifies to the disparate views of women prevalent in the Middle Ages. A complex medieval notion of Woman informs the structure of the poem: in the prologue, Chaucer praises conventional ideas of female virtue, while in the legends…
Abraham, Lyndy.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Alphabetical arrangement of alchemical terms and images from "ablution" to "zephyr." The entries define the terms and illustrate the images, citing works in which they appear, including CYPT.
Kirkham, David, and Valerie Allen, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Study guide to the PardPT and the GP description of the Pardoner 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…
Ogborn, Jane, and Peter Buckroyd.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
An introduction to satire for classroom use, directed at university students and focusing on English literature from Chaucer to Carol Ann Duffy; concerned with definitions, social contexts, and the transaction between reader and text. The discussion…
Boitani, Piero, and Jill Mann, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Revised version of the 1986 original, now with seventeen essays, five of which are new. Revised pieces are "The Social and Literary Scene in England" (Paul Strohm); "Chaucer's Italian Inheritance" (David Wallace); "Old Books Brought to New Life in…
Dinshaw, Carolyn, and David Wallace, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Seventeen essays by various authors on topics that pertain to women, writing, and social conditions in England and the Continent in the late Middle Ages. None of the essay pertains to Chaucer exclusively, but references to his works recur throughout,…
Allen, Valerie.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Introduction and study guide to Chaucer and his works (especially CT), with emphasis on connections with contemporaneous history and literature. Includes advice on how to approach medieval texts; extracts from the literature with discussion; a …
Nolan, Maura.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Studies how John Lydgate's occasional poetry, including mummings and diguisings, reacts to and helps to shape an emergent notion of "public culture" that differs from that of his predecessor, Chaucer. Lydgate, Nolan argues, translated "the poetic…
Bale, Anthony.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
A study of the "reiteration, instability and changing valence of the Jewish image as inscribed in medieval English books," focusing on four generic narratives: the Jew of Tewkesbury, the Marian miracle of the boy singer, the cult of Robert of Bury…
McMullan, Gordon, and David Matthews, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Twelve essays by individual authors, with an introduction by the editors that discusses modern England's ambivalent fascination with the Middle Ages, including, briefly, Shakespeare and Fletcher's "Two Noble Kinsmen" - an adaptation of Chaucer's KnT.…
Green, D. H.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Studies the literary climate of women readers, real and fictional, who inform Chaucer's world, with commentary on the depiction of women reading in TC.
