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Describes a "widespread nationalistic feeling" in late medieval and early modern Scotland, with particular attention to Latin chroniclers, court poets in the reign of James IV, and their similar uses of Scottish myths of origin in resistance to…

Identifies complex intertextual relations among KnT, the story of Amis and Amiloun, Shakespeare and Fletcher's "Two Noble Kinsmen." and archival references to two lost Tudor plays, "Palamon and Arcite" and "Alexander and Lodowick, "exploring…

Argues that allusion to Apollo in TC conveys an ambivalent attitude toward literary authority by affiliating it with sexual violence, an ambivalence that Shakespeare echoes in "Troilus and Cressida." Both writers use Apollo to problematize…

Shows that Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" and the anonymous "Taming of a Shrew" feature skeptical parody of Stoic certainty about distinguishing reality from illusion or dream. As in HF, the "framing fictions" of the plays "make a show" of…

Identifies narrative, linguistic, and thematic similarities between Chaucer's KnT, MilT, and RvT and Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus," and argues that the brutal treatment of Lavinia in Shakespeare's play resonates with the aspects of courtly love…

Explores how resonance with CT in '1 Henry IV, 1.2, "communicates the pre-Reformation otherness of the world" and raises questions about "cultural distance and appropriation" that circulate among the essays collected in this special issue of…

Considers briefly Chaucer's influence on the revival of poetic couplets in early modern English verse, especially as mediated by George Puttenham's "The Arte of English Poesie."

Focuses on depictions of Dido in HF and in Shakespeare's "Titus," arguing that "Shakespeare found in Chaucer's "House of Fame" a medieval vernacular model for . . . [the] Virgilian-Ovidian hybridity" of the character, and showing that the two works…

Includes a brief summary of KnT and posits that the petitioning of Theseus by the Theban women may have inspired the "final act" of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison when she reached "towards the king's horse" at the Epsom Derby of 1913. Also notes…

Reviews Keats's "regular contact" with Chaucer's works and assesses TC as a "largely overlooked intertext" for "The Eve of St. Agnes" that illuminates "the creative tensions of St. Agnes and Keats's habits in reading medieval texts." Focuses on…

Assesses the "ecocritical insights" of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" via its intertexual relations with the "pilgrimage ecopoetics" of CT, exploring structural similarities in the works and their vernacularity, metatextual references, "linguistic and…

Includes discussion of WBT as "inspiration" for Reginald Heber's fragmentary verse-drama "The Masque of Gwendolen" (1830).

Demonstrates that Chaucerian estates satire in CT influenced the development of dramatic "city comedy” at the turn of the seventeenth century. Shows that in his "Ho" plays Dekker adapts Chaucer's London topographies, characterizations, themes, and…

Introduces the activities and concerns of a Victorian "salon" conducted by John Ruskin and Edward Burne-Jones in which young women could "engage in serious conversations about medieval poetry, about art, and about humanitarianism and virtue." Focuses…

Shows that in his pamphlet "A Strange Horse-Race," Thomas Dekker quotes FranT “to illustrate hospitality” and the force of “binding oaths”; in his play "The Shoemaker’'s Holiday," he "drew on Chaucer's Franklin for material about credit and…

Argues "that Chaucer's treatment of devils, damnation, and hell" in CT "resonates" in "Doctor Faustus," focusing on the yeoman-devil and “the force and binding implications of illocutionary acts” in FrT, as well as on “interesting parallels”…

Suggests that Shakespeare's title, "The Winter's Tale," adapts a possessive form associated with Chaucerian narratives—the x’s tale—” and identifies similarities between the play and ManT. Focuses on the works' attention to linguistic…

Extracts information about Richard Edwards's now-lost play "Palamon and Arcite," from three extant contemporary accounts of the visit of Queen Elizabeth I to Oxford, where she attended a performance of the play in 1566. The accounts--by Miles…

Historical murder mystery set in 1400, in the months after Henry IV’s usurpation of Richard II’s throne. “Master” Chaucer and Adam are involved with copying Lollard treatises; Matilda, Chaucer’s house-maid, is involved with friar-cum-sleuth…

Addresses performance texts associated with the early Elizabethan Inns of Court (“closet dramas, translations, masques, and orations”), arguing that they reflect four Chaucerian "paradigms of play" ("Chaucerian Self-Fashioning," "Chaucerian…

Historical novel in which the setting, plot, and first-person protagonist, Eleanor (later Alyson) are based on WBPT, with many characters adapted from history and from CT, including Chaucer. Includes a glossary, list of historical characters,…

Offers a technical linguistic analysis of STR (speech and thought representation) in TC, theorizing a hierarchical "structure of subjectivities" to examine samples from the poem, attending to nuances latent in diction, situation, point of view,…

Argues that Chaucer's "polyphony and polyvocality" are both "modern" and "progressive"--justification for dismantling the period boundary between medieval and Early Modern literatures. Surveys mixed, condescending praise by Early Modern critics of…

Argues that the polyphonies of John Keats's poetry (as identified by Helen Vendler) are attributable to his engagements with Chaucer's works and Chaucerian apocrypha, reflecting a particular kind of "Englishness," underpinned by travel and encounters…

Raises questions about what it means to be modern in one own's time and about polyphony (including polyphonic music, polyvocality, and literary dialogism) as an index to modernity, collecting fourteen essays on relevant topics, most of them on…