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Tallies 1,060 entries that identify references to, allusions to, and echoes of Chaucer and his works in books published from 1641 through 1700, with an appendix of 131 references and allusions from 1475 through 1640, all in addition to or expansions…

Collects twenty essays about thematic terms and concepts in Chaucer's works, arranged in groups of four, each group including an additional response essay. Opens with a foreword by Christopher Cannon, followed by an explanatory introduction by the…

A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2020, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, other works, and reception and reputation. Augmented by the bibliographies on "Middle English" in this volume of YWES.

Discursive bibliography, divided into fourteen subsections: Early Middle English; Theory; Manuscript and Technical Studies; Religious Writing; Secular Prose; Secular Verse; "Piers Plowman"; Gower; Old Scots; Drama; "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight";…

Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 326 items, plus a listing of reviews for 47 books. Includes an…

Provides context for the references to a cope in the GP description of the Friar (1.259-63) and to Elijah and Elisha in SumT 3.2117-7, connecting both with Richard Maidstone's polemical responses to John Ashwardby's attacks on mendicant friars.

Links the use of "ferthyng" and the lisping of the Friar in GP 1.255 and 1.264 with the friar of SumT and his use of "ferthyng" (3.1967), suggesting that if that latter had a lisp like the former, his pronunciation may have inspired the "crude…

Locates three references to Chaucer in Stow's 1570 "Summarye," not found in the 1565 edition and not included in Caroline Spurgeon compendium of Chaucer's allusions. Points out that death dates given for Chaucer vary in two of the reference (1400 and…

Anthologizes (with commentary) a wide variety of ribald texts and excerpts from the "Ancients" to the "Moderns," including among "Renaissance" works MilT, RvT, and WBP in Theodore Morrison's translations.

Focuses on TC as an example of Chaucer's outlook during his "Italian period," charting his borrowings and "digressions" from Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato." the influence of Boethius, and courtly love. Describes the attitudes toward Fortune of the major…

Compares Mars with the "Ovide moralisé" and examines its adaptations of the "aubade, the complaint, the Valentine-tradition (Gower and Graunson), and the conventions of courtly love"--as inflected by Chaucer's own concerns and "personality," and…

Clarifies the implications of the Prioress keeping dogs as pets and feeding them meat (GP 1.146ff.), explaining that such behavior bends or breaks at least four "Benedictine strictures"—ones that restrict pet owning (especially dogs) and eating…

Offers support for the notion that the whelp episode in BD (387-96)—likely derived from Machaut's "Dit dou Lyon"—serves as a "symbol of fidelity," adducing instances of Renaissance "canine symbolism" and the appearance of dogs "on medieval…

Compares and contrasts examples of diction in Dryden's translations of CT to explain why Dryden did not translate the low-style fabliaux and to show that Dryden's translations of Chaucer's humorous passages evince metaphysical wit rather than the…

Reconstructs the layout and functions of the rooms and gardens of the households in TC, drawing on details in the poem and evidence from fourteenth-century English architecture, with connections to correlative structures and scenes elsewhere in…

Offers a "third suggestion" to the discussions of what "seventhe spere" refers to in TC 5.1809, suggesting that Chaucer altered Boccaccio's eighth sphere (also a variant in TC manuscripts) and, counting inwards from the sphere of the fixed stars,…

Argues that complex acrostic anagrams in PF reveal that it was written on the occasion of negotiations for a marriage between Lionel of Clarence and Violanta Visconti; identifies French analogues to this intricate practice, and helping to date…

Seeks to illuminate "the kind of order that Chaucer was in the process of imposing" on the CT, focusing on the "definite beginning" and "definite end" rather than the "great middle." Treats GP, where Chaucer sets his topic ("variety of the created…

Charts the charactonyms of Lydgate's "Seige of Thebes" with those used in two analogues, possibly sources--the "Roman de Edipus" and the "Ystoire de Thèbes--comparing them with names and spellings used by Chaucer. When Lydgate departs from Chaucer's…

Identifies lines 1-4 of the "Speculum Stultorum" of Nigel de Longchamps as a source for the bird cacophony in PF 309-15, observing that Chaucer's "personal familiarity" with the "Speculum" is evident in the reference to "Daun Burnel the Asse" at NPT…

Provides lexical and grammatical evidence to argue that the verbal form “last” in ClT 4.266 “more than likely” means “extend in space,” a “loan-sense from the French” influenced by development of the similar meaning of “dure.”

Suggests that the "main source" of TC "may have been" Beauvau's "Le Roman de Troyle et de Criseida," a French prose translation of Boccaccio's "Filostrato." Compares 300+ brief quotations (in all three languages), commenting on verbal and structural…

Observes similarities in imagery, diction, and impact of portions of ParsT (Chaucer's interpolation in “lachesse” as a subset of Sloth) and PhyT (digression on governesses), exploring possible sources (especially St. Augustine), possible…

Argues that the astronomical conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in TC 3.624-25 does not allude to a specific event in 1385 (by which the central book of the poem has been dated) but to a more "general tradition" of foreboding, thematically appropriate…

Explains the exegetical tradition of associating Noah with astrological prediction of the Flood and suggests that in MilT "Hende Nicolas has built his entire scheme" to dupe John "around the astrological tradition of the Flood," thereby lending comic…