Dame Alice embodies the "bossy woman" who wishes to be mastered in bed, demands freedom outside it, but only finds her ideal in fantasy. Her fourth husband failed to master her in bed; the fifth refused her freedom outside it; only the knight in WBT…
Burton, T. L.
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 75-80.
A playful send-up of literary criticism, especially efforts to psychoanalyze characters. Explains features of WBT in terms of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and vice versa.
Burton, T. L.
Essays in Criticism 31 (1981): 282-98.
Argues that internal evidence (meter, repetitiveness, exaggeration, etc.) is sufficient to establish that "The Fair Maid of Ribblesdale" is a parody, comparing examples drawn from the poem to similar ones in Chaucer's MercB, MilT, and, especially,…
Burton, T. L., and John F. Plummer, eds.
Provo, Utah : Chaucer Studio Press, 2005.
Eighteen essays by various authors; a professional biography of Emerson Brown, Jr.; and a list of his academic publications. For individuial essays, search for Seyd in Forme and Reverence under Alternative Title.
Burton, T. L., and Rosemary Greentree, eds. with annotations by David Biggs, Rosemary Greentree, Hugh McGivern, David Matthews, Greg Murrie, and Dallas Simpson.
Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 1997
The complete annotated bibliography of scholarly and critical treatments of "The Miller's Tale,""The Reeve's Tale,"and "The The Cook's Tale" from 1900 through 1992, subdivided into the following categories: editions, translations, and modernizations…
Burton, T. L., dir.
Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio, 1988.
Recorded at the Fourteenth Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ANZAMRS) Conference, University of Sydney. Readers include Francis de Vries, Mary Dove, Diane Speed, Gary Simes, David May, Andrew Lynch, Tom…
Burton, T. L., dir.
Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio, 1990.
Recorded at the Seventh International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, University of Kent. Readers include A. C. Spearing; Mary-Ann Stouck; Tom Burton; William Cooper, Jr.; Harvey De Roo; Paul R. Thomas; and Emerson Brown, Jr. Re-edited and…
Burton, T. L., dir.
Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio, 1990.
Recorded at Campion College, University of Regina (side one), and at the Seventh International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, University of Kent (side two). Re-edited and digitally mastered as a CD-ROM by Troy Sales and Paul Thomas in 2004.
Burton, T. L., dir.
Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio, 1996.
Recorded at radio station KRCW, Santa Monica College, during the Tenth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society. Re-edited and digitally mastered as a CD-ROM by Troy Sales and Paul Thomas in 2006.
Burton, T. L., dir.
Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio, 1999.
Includes LGWP (F text) and the legends of Cleopatra (580-676), Dido (924-1367), Hypsipyle and Medea (1368-1679), and Phyllis (2394-2561). Read by Andrew Lynch.
Busby, Keith, and Erik Kooper, eds.
Amsterdam : John Benjamins, 1990.
Forty-five selected papers on courtly literature. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for Courtly Literature: Culture and Context under Alternative Title.
Offers a "partial explanation" for the paucity of fabliaux in Middle English: lack of concern with courtly sentiment in Middle English romance fails to "provide conditions conducive" to "parody and ironization of romance" that is fundamental to the…