Hettinger, Eugen, and John Cumming, eds.
London: Search Press, 1973.
Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a selection of excerpts, including a passage by Chaucer (unidentified), translated by Cumming; the volume is illustrated by Klaus Meyer-Gasters.
Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is an interview of Huxley with John Chandos, recorded July 7, 1961, and includes discussion of Chaucer and psychology. First published in 1964.
Koriyama, Naoshi.
No publication information available, [1973].
Item not seen; the WorldCat record indicates that this is an offprint, pp. 65-109, of an unidentified publication. See also Bill Wolak's interview with Koriyama in the online journal "Prime Number: A Journal of Distinctive Poetry and Prose," issue 7,…
Benson, C. David.
American Benedictine Review 24 (1973): 299-312.
Demonstrates that John Lydgate's modifications of his sources in his "Troy Book" result in a "convincing picture of the ancient world," although Lydgate did not achieve the superior historical texture that Chaucer produced in KnT.
Includes discussion of Chaucer's works (pp. 35-45), commenting on the idealized settings found in BD, PF, and LGWP in comparison with their sources; also comments on the lack of such settings in TC and CT.
Hamilton, Donna B.
Shakespeare Quarterly 24 (1973): 245-51.
Assesses Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" in the same tradition as Chaucer's account of Cleopatra in LGW, a tradition in which the protagonists along with "other famous lovers of antiquity" are "exemplars of truth and faithfulness."
Giot, P.-R.
Bulletin de la Societe Archeologique du Finistere 90 (1973): 117-19.
Addresses the toponymical references to Penmark and Kayrrud in FranT (5.801 and 807), locating them specifically in Brittany, commenting on the local rockiness and military value, and noting an association with the story of Tristan and Iseult.
Adelman, Janet.
Dewey R. Faulkner, ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Pardoner's Tale: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973), pp. 96-106.
Critical appreciation of PardT as "brilliantly constructed, simultaneously a parody of the very truths it purports to be about and a joke in which we are never quite sure of the butt"; pays particular attention to its "ragged structure" and how it…
Barney, Stephen A.
Dewey R. Faulkner, ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Pardoner's Tale: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973), pp. 83-95.
Commends the "harmony" of PardT and "its capacities to elicit responses," discussing it as a tale that is "eloquent," intelligent, significantly expressive, unified, and instructive." Includes contrasts with PhyT.
Scott, A. F.
London: Elm Tree; New York: Taplinger,1974.
An annotated glossary of personal names, arranged alphabetically within sections. CT is treated separately from BD, HF, LGW, PF and TC. Each of these sections is followed by a list of animal and personal names, with the line references for their…
Brewer, Derek.
London: Oxford University Press, 1974.
Chaucer's remarks in the Prologue to LGW provide a guide to his poetic. The basic poles of reference are the inner point of the narrative itself and the outer details of the tradition in which it is realized, but Chaucer also introduces the…
Chaucer insists through the Merchant that we keep in mind the treachery as well as the virtue of the Old Testament heroines Rebecca, Judith, Abigail, and Esther. We are forced to maintain a multileveled viewpoint on them, on their function in the…
Di Gangi, John J.
American Notes and Queries 13 (1974): 50-51.
Hende Nicholas of MilT and Frere N. Lenne, a source of "Astr," both refer to the Oxford astronomer and mathematician Nicholas of Lynne. This is borne out by chronological, local, and occupational similarities among the three.
By examining Chaucer's handling of his material and the verbal texture of MilT, we can determine the nature of the prior acquaintance of the Reeve and the Miller. The tale "is almost certainly based on a real episode...Robyn the Miller is Old John's…
Storms, G.
Handelingen van het drieendertigste Nederlands Filologencongress: Gehouden te Nijmegen op woensdag 17, donderlag 18, en vrijdag 19 april 1974. (Amsterdam: Holland University Press, 1974) pp. 1-12.
Intended for an upper-class public, MilT has high literary value owing to its structure, motivation, style, and place in CT (especially the contrast with the preceding KnT), consistency with the Miller's personality, and also characterization,…
Considers medieval depictions of old age as part of the tradition of "contemptus mundi," focusing on female old age. Treats Chaucer's Wife of Bath as the most individual and entertaining of the comic randy old women of medieval narrative, here…
Benson and Andersson's discussion in "The Literary Context of Chaucer's Fabliaux" (1971) fails to account for the complexity of folktale derivation. A tale may have two sets of analogues, one set related through surface structure (detail, character,…
