Kossick, S. G.
Unisa English Studies 9.1 (1971): 11-13.
Describes the two aubades of TC (3.1422-70) as characteristic of the genders of their speakers: The "manliness" of Troilus's aubade "counterpoise[es] the femininity" of Criseyde's. Contrasts the two aubades with W. B. Yeats's "The Parting."
Levitan, Alan.
University of Toronto Quarterly 40 (1971): 236-46.
Shows that Friar John of SumT is an "exemplar" of "reversals of apostolic qualities," essential to the anti-fraternalism of the Tale, rooted in the "Roman de la Rose." The description of the division of the fart that concludes the Tale adds to this…
Leyerle, John.
University of Toronto Quarterly 40 (1971): 247-65
Considers the date and thematic unity of HF, suggesting that the eagle is crucial to perceiving both of them, with the astrological sign of the eagle ("Aquila") indicating the date and the Eagle's discourse on sound central to the poem's concern with…
Suggests that the Dreamer in BD is "on a kind of hunt," knowing all along the cause of the Black Knight's grief but seeking to "draw him out." His hunt joins with the "forest chase," the love quest, and "Fortune's stalking of Blanche," so that…
Utley, Francis Lee.
University Review 37 (1971): 174-98.
Close reading of the opening of Lucretius's "De Rerum Natura," TC 5.1765-1889, and W. B. Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium," emphasizing that, despite differences, all three manipulate rhythm and tone to convey the "warring intensities" of human emotion.
Wood, Chauncey.
English Studies 52 (1971): 116-18.
Considers Chaucer's alterations to the source passage in "Roman de la Rose" for the GP description of the Squire, apparently modified by a sequence of details found in Henry of Lancaster's "Livre de Seyntz Medicines."
Ussery, Huling E.
New Orleans, Louisiana: Tulane University, 1971.
Describes fourteenth-century medical training and practice in England and documents physicians who were contemporary with Chaucer, suggesting that John de Middelton is the "perhaps most probable" candidate for a real-life model of Chaucer's…
Apstein, Barbara.
Ph.D . Dissertation City University of New York, 1971. DAI 32.06 (1971): 3240A. Fully accessible via https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/4754/ (accessed April 12, 2026).
Summarizes traditions antecedent to Chaucer's uses of classical deities, and asserts that Chaucer's own uses rejuvenate the tradition, arguing that he is less conventional than usually assumed. Treats sources and analogues, BD, HF, PF, TC, LGWP, KnT,…
Analyzes the "organization and assumptions" of four medieval rhetorical handbooks, focusing on their "methods of amplification," and assesses the influence of rhetorical tradition on the characterizations in TC, in comparison with those of Boccaccio…
Includes chapters on Benoît, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Henryson, Shakespeare, and Dryden, treating Chaucer's Criseyde as "the most delightful of them all"--a character of "infinite complexity and infinite charm."
Burnley, J. D.
Durham Theses. Durham University. [http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/7918/].
Examines the semantics of approximately fifty words that signify "benevolence and malevolence within courtly contexts in the works of Chaucer," exploring them diachronically and attending to "extralinguistic" factors in order to pursue a "literary…
Item not seen. The WorldCat record states that this is a "Shortened edition of The Horizon book of the Middle Ages, published in 1968 by American Heritage, New York," with a section on Chaucer.
Bronson, Bernice.
[Rowayton, Conn.], [New Plays for Children], 1971.
Item not seen. The WorldCat record states that this drama for children was "Created through improvisation by the Looking Glass Theatre, Providence, R.I."
Crosse, Gordon, composer.
[London?]: Oxford University Press, 1971.
Item not seen. The WorldCat record states that this opera/pantomime was scored by Crosse, with "text (based on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales) by David Cowan." The Guelph Spring Festival Archives indicate a performance in 1993.
Reads PF in light of its sources as an allegory of aristocratic responsibility for maintaining natural law and a just society; KnT as an exploration of lawlessness set against the background of Status's "Thebaid," focusing on the tournament; and the…
Rylands, George, dir.
London: Argo, 1971. [Argo: ZPL 1003-ZPL 1004].
Item not seen. The WorldCat record indicates that this reading of TC in Middle English features Derek Brewer, Richard Marquand, Peter Orr, Prunella Scales, and Gary Watson.
Stevenson, Kay Gilliland.
DAI 32.06 (1971): 3272A.
Argues that HF "shows a firm and symmetrical pattern" in its thematic and stylistic balancing of Book 1 and the house of Fame, on the one hand, and Book 2 and the house of Rumor on the other.
Defines meta-humanistic criticism, offers an extended critique of "basic fallacies" in Chaucer criticism, and assesses KnT, particularly its major characters. Dissertation completed in 1971.
Includes discussion (pp. 206-27) of the ways in which WBPT are antithetical in tone and detail to various treatises that treat virginity as a standard of perfection: "Hali Meidenhad," Innocent III's "De Miseria Humane Conditionis," and Jerome's…
