Aligns Chaucer's style, themes, and characterization in TC with Renaissance humanism more than with medieval conventions, genres, and rhetoric, arguing that the poem anticipates the "poetry of Shakespeare's century" in its fusing realism, epic, and…
Hertz, John Atlee.
Dissertation Abstracts 19.10 (1959): 2600-01.
Addresses "source relationships of geographical matters" in Chaucer. Chaucer's cosmography and its sources, and other "geographical matters," arguing that Chaucer "makes more frequent use of geography than do most of his contemporaries." Focuses on…
Ussery, Huling Eakin, Jr.
Dissertation Abstracts International 24.06 (1963): 2491.
Studies "historical background" to Chaucer's Monk, Clerk, and Physician, comparing their characterizations with historical personages. Argues that the Monk is "probably either Benedictine or Cistercian," and "primarily realistic" rather than satiric.…
Richardson, Lilla Janette.
Dissertation Abstracts International 24.03 (1963): 1176.
Shows that Chaucer uses "rhetorical figures . . . [to] produce imagery," analyzing the "use of imagery" in FrT, RvT, ShT, MerT, and MilT—in comparison with sources, where available—and focusing on how he uses imagery to create ironic effects…
Pręczkowska, Helena, trans.
Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich – Wydawnictwo, 1963.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that Margaret Schlauch wrote an Introduction and that Witold Chwalewik edited the commentary in this Polish translation of selections from CT.
Offers perspective on affiliations of Elizabeth and Alice Chaucer with Barking Abbey; comments on cats in late-medieval literature (CT, “Piers Plowman,” and more); identifies “Gyb” as a conventional name for a cat; and explores international…
Zawadzki, Jarek, trans.
Maciej Sieńczyk, illus.
Katowice: Biblioteka Śląska, 2021.
Item not seen. Publisher's website indicates that this is the an "edition of the first complete translation [into Polish] of 'The Canterbury Tales'" [rugie wydanie pierwszego kompletnego przekładu "Opowieści kanterberyjskich"].
Trimble, Lester., composer.
No publisher indicated, 1956.
Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates this is a printed reproduction for rehearsal, for four male voices. Evidently a musical setting for KnT 1.2775ff.
Stillwell, Gardiner.
English Studies 37 (1956): 149-57.
Maintains that Chaucer indicates that there is a "single theme" in HF, arguing that "Distrust of worldly felicity . . . is Chaucer's 'o sentence'," and hypothesizing that the poem "was written for a New Year's entertainment." Cites several…
Schlauch, Margaret.
New York: Cooper Square, 1971. Originally published in Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1956.
Surveys the literatures of medieval England, with emphasis on origins, multilingualism, feudalism, developmental transitions, dominant themes, and social, political, and religious contexts. Includes chapters on the contemporaries of Chaucer,…
Pope, John Collins, and Helge Kökeritz, readers.
New Haven, CT: Whitlock's, 1954.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that these readings were released in LP recording and/or cassette tape recurrently by Whitlock's, Educational Audio Visual, and Lexington Records with slightly varied titles. The selections from Chaucer, read…
Describes grammatical and metrical conditions that restrict or encourage pronunciation of final -e at the end of lines in Chaucer's verse. Introduces double-consonant rhymes as a previously unnoticed factor in these concerns, explores their…
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate this printed musical score includes settings for poetry by Chaucer, Myles Pinkney, St. Teresa of Jesus, and Richard Verstegan (Rowlands), with printed lyrics. An online reprint of page 1 shows the Chaucer…
Beichner, Paul E.
Mediaeval Studies 18 (1956): 135-44.
Includes examination of the verbal play on praying and belching in SumT 3.1934, arguing that the pun is effective satire even when manuscripts (including the Ellesmere) substitute "but" for the onomatopoetic "buf." Considers other puns…
Explores "imperfect analogies between Chaucerian poetics and border theory/pedagogy," reporting on classroom experiences and discussing what Chaucer can teach us about "inhabiting borderlands."
Stratford, Jenny.
Jessica A. Lutkin and J. S. Hamilton, eds. Creativity, Contradictions and Commemoration in the Reign of Richard II: Essays in Honour of Nigel Saul (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2022), pp. 75-92, plus appendix.
Summarizes the life and legacy of Isabella of Castile, examining in detail her last will and testament (included in Latin and French). Refutes John Shirley's suggestion in his manuscript afterwords to Mars and to Venus that the poems link the…
Atkinson, Ruth, and Geert van Iersel, trans
Nathanael Busch and Robert Fajen, eds. Allmächtig und Unfassbar: Geld in der Literatur des Mittelalters (Stuttgart: S. Hirzel, 2021), pp. 316-19.
Translates Purse into German verse, with notes; Middle English text included.
