Bawcutt, Priscilla.
Review of English Studies 21, no. 84 (1970): 401-21.
Identifies a number of parallels between Chaucer's works and those of Gavin Douglas, focusing on "Eneados" and demonstrating that "Douglas owes far more to Chaucer than has been generally recognized." Not a "servile imitator," Douglas, "like…
Hieatt, Constance B.
Studia Neophilologica 42 (1970): 3-8.
Identifies nine aphoristic statements in NPT and assesses the extent to which they can be considered the "moralite" referred to by the narrator in 7.3440. Considers analogous fables and claims that Chaucer's version demonstrates "a common Chaucerian…
Argues that "it may well be" that Chaucer's use of the verb "take" in Thopas 7.795 is parodic, meaning "inclination or attraction (towards)" rather than "attach oneself (to)" in a "binding relationship"--the latter sense evidently intended in "Sir…
Corsa, Helen Storm.
American Imago 27 (1970): 52-65.
Argues in Freudian terms that dreams in TC disclose psychological aspects of the characters. Criseyde's dream (II, 925-31), added by Chaucer to his source, Boccaccio's "Filostrato," indicates her desire for ravishment and marks her early submission…
Markland, Murray F.
Modern Language Quarterly 31 (1970): 147-59.
Examines the "shifts in point of view, authorial intrusion, changes in subject, and multiple closures" of the final seventeen stanzas of TC, reading their structure closely, and arguing that they produce an "artistic disorder, the purpose of which is…
Robbins, Rossell Hope.
Moderna Språch 64.3 (1970): 231-44.
Comments on the limitations of Lydgate's "Siege of Thebes" and the Prologue to the "Tale of Beryn" as imitations of Chaucer, and discusses at greater length how his fabliaux are superior to "Dame Sirith" and to later English comic tales such as "The…
Ortego, Philip Darraugh.
Bulletin of Bibliography and Magazine Notes 27 (1970): 72-76.
A topical, alphabetical listing of critical studies that pertain to Chaucer's French sources, compiled from previous bibliographies, with brief annotations added. The one-page introduction comments on the status of France and French in Chaucer's age.
Reiss, Edmund.
Medievalia et Humanistica 1 (1970): 161-74.
Includes brief comments (pp. 168-69) on Chaucer's use of the number 29 in GP and ParsP, and, in BD, on the use of 8 (Octovyen) and references to Argus (the "Arab mathematician Al-Kwārizm") and number symbolism.
In giving the tale of Constance the form and narrative structure of a saint's life while omitting conventional motivations or explanations, Chaucer has made the Man of Law an inept narrator and has invested the tale with irony and humor.
Doltas, Dilek.
Hacettepe Bulletin of Social Sciences and Humanities 3 (1971): 157-75.
While depicting love and marriage in the Marriage Group, Chaucer presents the "delights of both the flesh and the soul." The group opens with Mel; WBPT, ClT, and MerT offer extreme but lively views. FranT presents an ideal secular solution, while…
English version of an essay originally published in Russian in "Voprosy Jazykoznanija" 3 (1971): 73-88. Tabulates and assesses metrical features of several Middle English poems, including several by Chaucer, exploring the development of English…
Twenty-line poem in five four-line stanzas, with possible echoes of GP, a reference to Chaucer in the title, and a quotation of GP lines 1.9-10 on the cover. This art edition is limited to 300 copies, designed as a holiday greeting, with a cover…
Oizumi, Akio.
Studies in English Literature (Tokyo) 48 (1971): 95-108.
Analyzes the variety of lexical doublets in Mel, comparing them with parallel collocations in the French source and commenting on stylistic and semantic implications.
Baird, Joseph L.
Chaucer Review 6.2 (1971): 117-19.
Cites examples from Middle English literary texts to support reading "secte" as meaning "petition" or legal suit in ClT 4.1171, referring to the Wife of Bath's argument.
Beidler, Peter G.
Chaucer Review 6.1 (1971): 38-43.
Argues that we do not know whether or not Damian completed the act of copulation in the pear tree of MerT, impregnating May, despite Emerson Brown's claims that he did neither. More important are the facts that January has been cuckolded and that he…
Comments on the meanings and referents of "tretys" in MelP and in Ret, suggesting that the first usage is not particularly doctrinal and that the second refers to ParsT rather than CT as a whole.
Condren, Edward I.
Chaucer Review 5.3 (1971): 195-212.
Challenges traditional dating of BD and identifications of its characters, arguing for 1377 as a date of composition (eight years after the death of Blanche) and reading Octovyen as both Edward III and John of Gaunt, the Black Knight as a younger…
Explores the "interstitial pattern of errors about things literary" in MLPT that characterize the teller as a "not-quite scholar" and highlight a tension between his "rhetorical excess and religious exhibitionism" and his penchant for legalisms,…
Shows that the GP establishes a comic-satirical tone for the CT that is "indirect . . . shifting and multiple." In this light, ParsT "represents a way of seeing the world," but not the only one; the standard posed by the Parson is not an absolute…
Reads the "growth and decline" of friendship between Troilus and Pandarus in TC as an ongoing commentary on the love affair between Troilus and Criseyde; both relationships indicate worldly impermanence.
Grennen, Joseph E.
Chaucer Review 6.2 (1971): 81-93.
Argues that ClT reveals the teller's "professional, speculative turn of mind" in contrast with the Wife of Bath's "rigorous sort of pragmatism," commenting on the Clerk's "academic terminology," his academic "awkwardness," and Walter's trial of…
Hennedy, Hugh L.
Chaucer Review 5.3 (1971): 213-17.
The summoner in FrT is "damned if he does and damned if he doesn't" repent because the old lady's curse (3.1628-29) condemns him if he fails to repent and his own self-curse (3.1610-11) condemns him if he does.
