Reilly, Robert.
University of Portland Review 20.3 [for 21.1] (1969): 23-36.
Considers love in TC in light of medieval understandings of "caritas" and "cupiditas," identifying several specifically Christian details in the poem, and assessing tensions between its Christianity and the "religion" of courtly love. Argues that the…
Fisher, Marlene, ed.
Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown, 1969.
A textbook anthology of literary works (some excerpted) that pertain to love and marriage, from the classical period to modern America. Includes MerT in Nevill Coghill's modern translation (pp. 17-44), with a brief descriptive introduction and…
Challenges Morris Halle and Samuel J. Keyser's theory of Chaucer's iambic pentameter (particularly their application of the notion of "stress-maximum"), and poses a theoretical distinction between "norms" and "rules" in discussing prosodic practice,…
Bolton, W. F., ed.
London: Barrie & Jenkins; Sphere, 1970.
Comprises eight chapters by various authors surveying English literature from the Old English period through Middle English prose. The chapter pertaining to Chaucer includes four sections: 1) a brief account of Chaucer's life (pp. 159-62), by W. F.…
Broughton, Bradford B.
Bradford B. Broughton, ed. Twenty-Seven to One: A Potpourri of Humanistic Material Presented to Dr. Donald Gale Stillman on the Occasion of His Retirement from Clarkson College of Technology ([Potsdam, N. Y.], 1970), pp. 71-84.
Assesses various historical documents that pertain to the marital life and legacy of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster, arguing that the evidence indicates John was dedicated to Blanche, even after her death.
Chamberlain, David
Chaucer Review 5.1 (1970): 32-56.
Argues that Chaucer "weaves through the structure and themes of [PF] all four medieval species of music, and numerous subspecies, in a way that emphasizes the failing of the eagles" and "that the [planetary] spheres are . . . the cause of almost all…
Chamberlain, David
Modern Philology 68 (1970): 188-91.
Suggests that Chauntecleer is Chaucer's satiric target when he refers to Boethius in NPT 7.3294; the rooster apparently is not familiar with Boethian music theory found in both "De Musica" and the "Consolation of Philosophy."
Cherniss, Michael D.
Chaucer Review 5.1 (1970): 9-21.
Contrasts the form of Anel with that of Mars and compares its form and themes with those of Chaucer's dream visions and its characterizations with those in KnT. Also hypothesizes what Chaucer may have intended to do further in Anel with the source…
Covella, Sister Francis Dolores.
Chaucer Review 4.4 (1970): 267-83.
Gauges the "literary probability" that the Envoy to ClT (and the preceding stanza), 4.1170-1212, was intended by Chaucer to be voiced by the Clerk, suggesting that either the Host or the Wife of Bath may be considered the speaker, adducing manuscript…
Di Pasquale, Pasquale, Jr.
Philological Quarterly 49 (1970): 152-63.
Contends that both Troilus and Criseyde submit to Fortune in TC by pursuing a form of worldly "sikernesse" (security), reflecting their lack of the awareness advised by Philosophy in Boethius's "Consolation." Only after leaving the world does Troilus…
Duncan, Charles F. Jr.
Chaucer Review 5.2 (1970): 161-64.
Considers the Franklin's interruption of the Squire in Part 4 of CT to be a "brilliant dramatic vignette" that develops the characterizations of the Squire, Franklin, and Host.
Gafford, Charlotte K.
Howard Creed, ed. Essays in Honor of Richebourg Galliard McWilliams (Birmingham, Ala.: Birmingham Southern College, 1970), pp. 9-12.
Suggests that Haze Motes of Flannery O'Connor's "Wise Blood" is "not unlike Chaucer's Pardoner" and the Old Man of PardT, who is "perhaps the Pardoner's alter-ego'."
Surveys and summarizes critical assessments of Chaucer's Pardoner and PardPT from ca. 1940-1970, observing trends and emphases. Then offers a reading of the Pardoner as an extravagant "put-on" who deliberately creates an outrageous personality for…
Explores in CT the dynamic between with expansive spaces and narrow ones, especially as they correlate with views of the world that are variously serious or playful. Considers the intertextuality of KnT and the fabliaux of Part 1 of CT as a paradigm…
Knoepflmacher, U. C.
Chaucer Review 4.3 (1970): 180-83.
Suggests that two allusions to Matthew's gospel in the GP description of the Prioress contribute to the "ironic stance" of the description, despite the narrator's "calculated evasiveness."
Koretsky, Allen C.
Chaucer Review 4.4 (1970): 242-66.
Describes the presence of apostrophe ("exclamatio") in TC and assesses its various effects: amplification, heightening of style, advancement of plot, and characterization--especially of Troilus, Criseyde, and the narrator, but also of Pandarus,…
Von Kreisler, Nicholai.
Modern Philology 68 (1970): 62-64.
Explores Chaucer's intensification of emotion through his uses of variations on loving "with good wille, body, hert, and all," echoes of a biblical injunction.
Argues that critical efforts to provide a harmonious interpretation of PF are misdirected because the poem is designed to represent the cacophony of this world rather than heavenly concord.
McClintock, Michael W.
Chaucer Review 5.2 (1970): 112-36.
Contrasts ShT with its fabliau analogues, arguing that Chaucer creatively adapts the genre by adding complicated characterization to the stark comic plot and by developing a serious thematic concern with the commercialization of sex and marriage,…
