Bordalejo uses traditional and electronic methods to explore the various orders of the tales in manuscripts of CT, concluding that the order was affected by accident in some cases but by scribal intervention in others.
Bordalejo, Barbara.
Leicester: Scholarly Digital Editions-Boydell and Brewer, 2003.
Includes full-color facsimiles of the first and second editions of CT: the Royal copy of the first edition and the Grenville copy of the second, i.e., British Library 167.c.26 and C.21.d.
Bordalejo, Bá́rbara.
International Journal of English Studies 5.2 (2005): 133-48
Bordalejo compares variant readings of Caxton's first and second editions of CT, explores affiliations of these variants in the manuscript tradition of the poem, and argues that the readings in the second edition are useful for understanding the…
Bordalejo, Barbara.
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 108.1 (2014): 41-60.
Compares the first and second editions of Caxton's CT. Using digital tools to collate the first and second editions, finds that Caxton not only added and removed lines, but made over 3,000 changes based on a manuscript source that was closer to the…
Bordalejo, Barbara.
Digital Medievalist 14, special issue (2021). 36 pp.
Describes "computer-assisted methods for the analysis of textual variation within large textual traditions," clarifying phylogenetic methods, the goal of maximum parsimony, software decisions and usage, variant management, and the crucial importance…
Bordalejo, Barbara.
Digital Medievalist 14, special issue (2021). 8 pp.
Recounts brief personal history of experience with the Canterbury Tales Project, describes scholarly inattention to the project, and introduces the five essays in this special issue. For the five essays search for Digital Medievalist 14, special…
Borges, Jorge Luis.
Andrew Hurley, trans. Collected Fictions: Jorge Luis Borges (New York: Viking, 1998), pp. 508-15.
Fantasy story about the transmission of Shakespeare's memory from one man to another; includes several references and allusions to Chaucer. The story was first published in Spanish in a limited edition. "La Memoria de Shakespeare" (Buenos Aires:…
Borges, Jorge Luis.
New York: New Directions, 2013.
Based on student transcriptions of Borges' 1966 lectures. Chapters are divided into chronological class sessions; lecture topics begin with the fifth century and conclude with nineteenth-century writers. Describes the history of the English language…
Borlenghi, Patricia, and Giles Greenfield.
London : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 1999.
A collection of animal stories set in a frame-tale of animals on pilgrimage to Assisi. Twelve children's stories from international folk traditions. Text by Borlenghi; illustrations by Greenfield. Commemorates 600th anniversary of Chaucer's death.
The labors of Hercules, employed by Boethius to show how man may determine his own fortune, are misused by the Monk, who sees the "Consolation" only as a source for secular tales.
Discusses church treatises, didactic works, and books of advice to daughters, or of clerical instruction to women, and mirrors for princesses, to reveal medieval images of women: the virgin, the coquette, the wife and mother, the ruler, the worker.
Christine de Pizan uses the Griselda tale to illustrate the virtues of patience and constancy in her "Livre de la Cite des Dames," derived from a French prose version of Philippe de Mezieres, perhaps also consulting the anonymous French prose…
In Mel Chaucer's idiomatic translation from the French of Renaud de Louens skillfully imitates and elaborates the "style clergial," especially in its use of introductory phrases, doublets, subordinate clauses, and trailing sentence structures.
Boro, Joyce.
Mary Ellen Lamb and Valerie Wayne, eds. Staging Early Modern Romance: Prose Fiction, Dramatic Romance, and Shakespeare (New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. 188-202.
Includes comments on Fletcher's sources for his "Women Pleased": WBT and "Grisel y Mirabella" by Juan de Flores.
Borowitz, Albert.
Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2005.
Traces the development of the traditional story of Herostratos, the arsonist of Diana's temple in Ephesus, and comments (pp. 23-24) that, in light of its inconsistencies with the traditional account, Chaucer's reference (HF 1844) to one who set fire…
Borroff, Marie.
Robert R. Edwards and Stephen Spector, eds. The Olde Daunce: Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991), pp. 229-35.
Considers whether the Prioress was capable of "love celestial," examining her invocation to the Virgin Mary and suggesting that the heaviness of Mary's pregnancy is analogous to the Prioress's need to be delivered of her tale. In PrT, "affective…
Borroff, Marie.
Peter S. Baker and Nicholas Howe, ed. Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson (Toronto, Buffalo, and New York: University of Toronto Press, 1998), pp. 223-42.
Defines kinds of rhyme by their varying degrees of "richness," from "simple rhymes" to "triple rhymes" (in which three successive terminal syllables rhyme).
Borroff, Marie.
Traditions and Renewals: Chaucer, The Gawain-Poet, and Beyond (New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 2003), pp. 50-70.
Clearly implied but not stated, May's pregnancy in MerT results from having sex with Damian and helps to punish January's foolishness. In similarly covert ways, the parson of RvT is punished by the pregnancy of Malyne, and all pardoners are…
Borroff, Marie.
New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 2003.
Ten essays by the author, three of them published here for the first time. Topics include CT, "Pearl," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," and Shakespeare's "Hamlet." For two new essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Traditions and Renewals under…
Borroff, Marie.
Traditions and Renewals: Chaucer, The Gawain-Poet, and Beyond (New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 2003), pp. 3-49.
Wycliffite elements of SumT and of the GP description of the Friar are submerged, but Chaucer sympathized with Wycliffite thought and believed that the Summoner's friar was damned. Borroff surveys anti-fraternal tradition, comments on Fals-Semblant…
Revisiting E. Talbot Donaldson's scholarship provokes nostalgia as well as the recognition that, for Donaldson, "poems of the order of Chaucer's arouse feelings as well as thoughts, feelings based on the critic's own experience."
