Chapman, Coolidge Otis.
Modern Language Notes 68, no. 8 (1953): 521-24.
Suggests that Chaucer "modeled the narrative in the first part of" SqT "upon the narrative in the first part" of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Identifies nine "points of agreement between the two romances"--similarities in "order of events," the…
Bronson, Bertrand H.
Modern Language Notes 68, no. 8 (1953): 515-21.
Suggests that Chaucer's recurrent use of the number twelve in BD carries with it "overtones of fulfillment, completion, finality," serving as a "unifying thread." Adducing "the medieval practice of time-keeping," development of the mechanical…
Brewer, D. S.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1953.
Combines social and intellectual history and appreciative criticism of Chaucer's writing in a "short study of Chaucer's life and works for people with literary tastes," arranged chronologically from Chaucer's youth to death. Describes his…
Braddy, Haldeen.
Modern Language Notes 68, no. 4 (1953): 232-34.
Disagrees with Gardiner Stillwell's argument (1950) that PF cannot be read as a poem on the occasion of the betrothal of Prince Richard of England and Princess Marie of France because it is comic. Reviews Chaucer's other occasional poems (Truth,…
Analyzes differences between MLT and its source in Nicholas Trevet's "Cronicles," with some attention to Chaucer's use of Gower's version in "Confessio Amantis." Shows that Chaucer streamlines quotidian details, adds rhetorical flourishes, and…
Identifies several examples of "semi-legal" or "quasi-legal language" and a "legalistic turn of mind" in the Franklin's association with the Man of Law, his exchanges with Host, and the "explicit use of legal formulae" in FranT. Argues that Chaucer's…
Bale, John Christian.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1953. Dissertation Abstracts International A 81.01 (E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (accessed June 8, 2026).
Includes four chapters: 1) on editions of Chaucer printed in the sixteenth century; 2) allusions to him in that century; 3) his reputation at the time; and 4) sixteenth-century "centers of interest and study" of Chaucer.
Baldwin, Ralph
Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1953. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1971.
Assesses CT as a "realized aesthetic whole" with "a unity and nuclear meaning which develops out of the 'cortex' of pilgrimage." In GP, imagery of springtime and renewal underpin the motif of pilgrimage, with its social and religious implications;…
Alderson, William L.
Philological Quarterly 32 (1953): 418-27.
Surveys and corrects various scholarly additions to Caroline Spurgeon's "Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion" (1925), and includes a bibliography of publications that add to or supplement Spurgeon's work.
Lill, James Vernon.
Dissertation Abstracts 14 (1954): 1214.
Includes comments on how in his adaptations of NPT, WBT, and KnT Dryden "substitutes . . . modish sophistication for colloquial charm and surface embellishment for profound humanity." Generally, Dryden "puts the stamp of his mind and his age on works…
Chiarenza, Frank John.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Yale University, 1956. Dissertation Abstracts International 31.05 (1970): 2337A.
Traces the "forms of amorous lyric complaints" from antiquity to the European mid fourteenth century, and then assesses Chaucer's "use of the 'complaint d'amour' both as independent lyrics" and as "interpolated poems" in longer works, focusing on…
Murphy, James J.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Stanford University, 1957. Dissertation Abstracts International 17.04 (1957): 849-50.
Reexamines evidence of rhetorical learning in fourteenth-century England, finding it to be slim. Studies Chaucer's "education, his use of rhetorical terms and 'figurae', and his possible links with the 'ars poetica,'" and suggests that he may have…
Santoyo, J. C.
Otal, J. L.
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies 9 (1988): 127-48.
Annotated bibliography of Spanish translations (and reprints) of Chaucer’s works and of critical studies on Chaucer in Spanish. Includes remarks on the paucity of such materials. In Spanish.
Traces the textual variants of “lust” and “lusty” in the eighteen earliest witnesses to TC, identifying three kinds variation: “semantic/spelling variants, material variants, and scribal intervention.” Shows that, in tracing the…
Mordel, Karol.
Gryksa, Karolina, Aleksandra Kłos-Skrzypczak, and Jarosław Zawisza, eds. Między katedrą a katedrą: Kościół a nauka, kultura i polityka (Katowice: Księgarnia św. Jacka, 2022), pp. 93-108.
Bordalejo, Barbara.
Robinson, Peter M. W.
Ecdotica 15 (2018): 37-65.
Acknowledges two problems in identifying manuscript families in traditional stemmatics ("coincident agreement" and "contamination") and posits a third: "the phenomenon of multiple manuscripts within a tradition which cannot be assigned to any family…
Luniaansky, R. M.
TSL: Tulane Studies in English 4 (1954): 5-20.
Examines the "treatment" Calchas "receives in four successive versions of the Troilus story: Benoit de Ste. Maure's 'Roman de Troie' (c. 1155), Guido de Columnis' 'Historia Destructionis Troiae' (1287), Boccaccio's 'Il Filostrato' (1336)," and…
L. B. H.
New Zealand Engineering: The Journal of the N. Z. Institution of Engineering 9. no. 1 (1954): 1.
Comments on the responsibilities of any audience at a lecture: attentiveness and discernment. Opens by quoting and dilating upon a translation of GP 1.791--the Host's enjoinder to the Canterbury pilgrims, here given as "Each one of you shall help to…
Magoun, Francis, P., Jr.
Mediaeval Studies 15 (1953): 107-36.
Alphabetical gazetteer of "geographical and ethnic names of the ancient and biblical world as reflected in the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer," along with "names pertaining to . . . the geography of Greek mythology" and the "names of languages" found…
[Los Angeles]: Department of Cinema, University of Southern California, 1954
Item not seen. Summary from WorldCat record: "Presents photographs of the original Ellesmere manuscript, contemporary figurines, and minature [sic] replica backgrounds accompanied by music in the idiom of the fourteenth century, and excerpts from the…
Schlauch, Margaret
Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny 1, nos. 3-4 (1954): 3-19.
In Polish. Title translated into English: "Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare and Chaucer--Metaphorical Language in the Light of Social Change." Shows how socio-economic differences are reflected in Chaucer's and Shakespeare's imgaery and diction.
