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Fourteen essays by various authors, with an introduction and a "Personal Tribute" by the editor, offering accounts and analyses of Gower's works, influence, and reception. For three essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Studies in the Age of Gower…

Considers how Bohemian culture in the late fourteenth century influenced English medieval writers including Chaucer, Gower, and the Gawain- poet.Focuses on Anne of Bohemia, who married Richard II, and claims she "may have been in Chaucer's mind as a…

Collects ten essays by various authors and an introduction by Perry, together showing that, in his "Fortunes Stabilnes," Charles d'Orléans was "one of the great formal innovators of English poetry," examining the genres he engaged, his metrical…

Reconstructs the "biography of Arthur" from major legends, chronicles, and romances.

Seven essays by various hands. For the individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Essays on Troilus and Criseyde under Alternative Title.

Thirteen essays by diverse hands discuss what Pearsall describes as the largest manuscript "the student of vernacular literature will ever be likely to have to deal with"--"a comprehensive programme of religious reading and instruction" (x). Five of…

Chronologically surveys CT manuscripts, highlighting the importance of Hengwrt and the "wide difference in the number of independent textual traditions for different parts" of the work. Rejects the notion of a single Chaucerian copy text, crediting…

Setting out to establish what medieval readers thought about romances and what they labeled romances, Furrow concentrates on a wide range of romances from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. Her discussion of romance and truth includes analysis…

Discusses Marian identification in PrT, in particular Marian miracles, as well as connections to the Virgin Mary in SNT, Th, and WBPT. Emphasizes development of Middle English Marian miracle texts, and Mary's "symbolic connection to Jews." Claims…

Essays by various hands on fourteenth-century poetry, secular drama, songs, and lyrics. For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Literature in Fourteenth-Century England under Alternative Title.

A collection of thirty-two eighteenth-century modernizations of CT by at least seventeen authors, known and anonymous. Valuable in an exploration of reception aesthetics and reader-response theory.

Promotional materials indicate that this essay analyzes a cryptic mystery of the encomium on marriage in MerT (1267ff.), considers previous critical studies, and discloses a new interpretation.

Essays from the 1985 Conference at the University of York.

Part of a nine-volume compilation of Henriquez Ureña's writings, describing CT and Boccaccio's Decameron; reissued as an e-book in 2011.

Audio recording of hip-hop performance of adaptations of GP (cast as a bus trip), KnT, MilPT, PardPT, WBPT, and Ret (with additional tracks: "Rhyme Renaissance Prologue," "Rhyme Renaissance," and "Dead Poets"). Affiliated website at .

John Speir's claim that both poets use similes to promote "distinct visualization" in the service of allegory and realism is borne out by "The Divine Comedy" but not CT. Dante's similes produce visual accent, serving as ancillary devices within a…

Tabulates and analyzes Chaucer's use of function words before nouns and pronouns, showing that his usage "resembles in the main that of modern English," although in at least one respect more similar to "modern vulgar English than modern standard…

Assesses brief passages from Langland and Chaucer as indications of late-fourteenth-century proto-pragmatism--or reliance on experience and rhetorical argument as epistemological modes. The variegated opinions, unstable exempla, and inconclusive…

Through the virtue of hope and a sense of penance, Troilus's courtly love and death in TC parallel divine love and salvation, showing the influences of Dante's "Commedia" and Boethius's "De consolatio philosophiae."

Although the outlook of BD is fundamentally different from Machaut's "Dit de la fonteinne amoureuse," the later influenced far more profoundly than has been noted the structure and motifs of BD.

Chaucer considers history as a process of translation. For Chaucer to English the Troy legend is to read his culture into that tragic history.

Commentary on the Wife of Bath as a vital character who reflects Chaucer's distate for antifeminist categorization of women as saints or whores.

Reviews Chaucer's experience with law and legal proceedings, and argues that in his poetry he "questions the fourteenth-century English legal system" and critiques its tendencies to favor the powerful. Focuses on "virtuous women undone or ignored by…

Introduction to CT that surveys major concerns of the work, including narrative technique, character development, comedy, setting, major themes, reader involvement, and sources and analogues.

Published originally: London: Seely, 1885.