Obeso, Kimberth D., Mary Joy J. Tumada, Shelley Mai M. Chua, and Niña Jen Ruta-Canayong.
Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Arts and Sciences 6, no. 2 (2019): 58-63.
Briefly describes differences between TC and Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," focusing on genre and style, characterization, and attitudes toward women.
Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates this musical recording includes a track (no. 4; running time 4:01) entitled "Quero Pensar : A Mulher de Bath" [I Want To Think (The Wife Of Bath)], one of sixteen total tracks. Lyrics in Portuguese. Additional…
Bayilmus Ogutcu, Oya.
Journal of International Social Research (Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi) 9 (2016): 49-57.
Provides background to franklins in medieval England and uses Stephen Greenblatt's notion of "self-fashioning" to assess the characterization of the Franklin in GP, in his words to the Squire (Sq-FranL), and in FranT as an "embodiment of the 'new…
Bayilmus Ogutcu, Oya.
Seyda Sivrioglu, and others, eds. Bati Edebiyatinda Mizah / Humor in Western Literature / L'humour Dans la Literature Occidentale / Humor in Der Westlichen Literatur (Istanbul: Kriter, 2016). pp. 381-94.
Describes the comic humor of Chaucer's Purse and Thomas Hoccleve's "Complaint to Lady Money" and "La Response,"
Bayilmus Ogutcu, Oya.
DTCF Dergisi (Ankara University Journal of the Faculty of Languages and History-Geography) 56.2 (2016): 365-388
Uses Victor Turner's idea of "social drama" and medieval notions of the status of food, cooks, and kitchen work to argue that, in GP, the Franklin's cook and the Cook of the Guildsmen effectively reflect and/or reinforce the social aspirations of…
Bayilmus Ogutcu, Oya.
Mediterranean Journal of Humanities 7.2 (2017): 337-46.
Argues that the shift from exaggerated romance to philosophical discourse between Th and Mel, the voicing of these tales by Chaucer as narrator, and the responses of the pilgrims to the two tales, indicate a general shift of "literary aesthetics"…
Yildiz, Nazan.
Seyda Sivrioglu, and others, eds. Bati Edebiyatinda Mizah / Humor in Western Literature / L'humour Dans la Literature Occidentale / Humor in Der Westlichen Literatur (Istanbul: Kriter, 2016), pp. 345-56.
Argues that through "exaggeration of romance and courtly love elements" in TC and the "heavenly laughter" of Troilus at the poem's end, Chaucer "turns the tragic story of Troilus and Criseyde first into a comedy then into a divine comedy."
Lynch, Andrew.
Joanna Bellis and Laura Slater eds. Joanna Bellis and Laura Slater eds. Representing War and Violence 1250-1600 (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2016), pp. 79-94.
Assesses John Lydgate as "the premier learned war poet of the later English Middle Ages," exploring his "Troy Book" and "Seige of Thebes" for the ways they depict the violence of war. Includes recurrent attention to Lydgate's sources, Chaucer's TC,…
Challenges D.W. Robertson's approach to allegory and to the WBP, arguing that the medieval outlook was more flexible than Robertson asserted, more capable of varied attitudes toward present times, the historical past, the eschatological future, and…
Tokunaga, Satoko.
Satoko Tokunaga, ed. Aspects of Publishing History in the East and the West (Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2015), pp. 1-32,
Surveys the presentation of CT in manuscripts and printed books up to the publication of William Thynne's first complete works of Chaucer (1532). Focuses on editorial principles and concepts such as compilatio, authorship, and collation. In Japanese.
Medeiros, Márcia Maria de.
Suellen Cordovil de Silva, and Tiago Marques Luiz, eds. O Humor nas Literaturas de Expressão de Línqua Inglesa (São Paulo: Paco Editorial, 2018), pp. 13-38.
Revised version of "Humor e Ironia em Geoffrey Chaucer: O Conto do Molerio X O Conto do Feitor" (2013)
Medeiros, Vladimir José, and Márcia Maria Medeiros.
Akropolis-Unipar: Journal of Human Sciences 21.2 (2013): 69-77.
Assesses humor and irony in MilT and RvT, with attention to satire and Bakhtinian concerns of social class. In Portuguese, with an abstract in English. Revised by Márcia Maria de Medeiros as "Figurações do Humor em Geoffrey Chaucer—Uma Leitura…
Hartung, Albert E.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Lehigh University, 1957. Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global and at https://preserve.lehigh.edu/lehigh-scholarship/graduate-publications-theses-dissertations/theses-dissertations/study-textual.
Compares "the accepted and variant readings of 'Melibeus' with the corresponding passages in the French source, 'Le Livre de Melibee et Prudence'," assessing variants from fifty-seven manuscriptsof Mel and arguing that there was "an earlier version…
Neville, Mark A., and Max J. Herzberg, eds.
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1956.
Illustrated anthology of English literature and literary criticism from Old English into the twentieth century, with a section entitled "The Time of Chaucer" that includes NPT and PardT, along with "Interesting Sidelights," "The Royal Tree," and "The…
Lindfield, Eric G., and Egon Larsen, eds.
London: Jenkins, 1963.
Comments on the legacy of Chaucer's humor in English literature, and includes a brief introduction to CT and selections from GP (descriptions of Wife Bath, Miller, Summoner, and Pardoner) in modern English translation (by Nevill Coghill), accompanied…
Edits portions of CT (KnT, MilT, WBP, MerT, FranT, PardT, NPT, and PrT), selections from TC, and from lyrics (Truth, MercB) in Middle English, with introduction, notes, and glossary.
Introduces and anthologizes examples of humor in English literature, and critical analyses of it, arranged topically by humorous technique; includes Nevill Coghill's modern translation of the GP descriptions of the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner under…
