Treats medieval tragedy as a combination of the tragedy of fortune and the potential for tragedy of damnation, surveying antecedent traditions and exploring each of the four poems of the title. Reads TC as a poem that fuses both views of tragedy, and…
Battles, Dominique.
New York and London : Routledge, 2004.
Examines the Chaucerian treatment of Theban matter. Unlike Boccaccio's "Teseida," Anel represents Thebes as a viable urban center even after the siege, while KnT disentangles Theban from Trojan history and re-creates Thebes as a pagan site. Both…
Beal, Rebecca Sue.
Dissertation Abstracts International 48 (1988): 2621A.
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Canticle, all ascribed to Solomon by medieval commentators, shed light on both Dante and Chaucer. The latter drew both on Ecclesiastes and on commentary for TC.
J. W. Spargo has not proved the existence of an extraliterary tradition among texts written by Chaucer and Boccaccio. The oral circulation of the tale does not support the hypothesis that Chaucer and Boccaccio had a common source.
Braswell, Mary Flowers.
London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1983.
From thirteenth-century sermons and confessional manuals we see attitudes toward penance and moral behavior reflected in the works of Langland, Gower, the "Pearl" poet, and Chaucer. Chaucer treats CT sinners with unusual humor and irony. Penitential…
Yeager, R. F., and Toshiyuki Takamiya, eds.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Eighteen essays comprise an "'Un'festschrift" that celebrates Terry Jones as a comedian, cinematographer, historian, and Chaucerian. For five contributions that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Python under Alternative Title.
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, and Maidie Hilmo, eds.
Victoria, British Columbia : U of Victoria, 2001.
An introduction and four essays suggest some methods and approaches for the recovery of medieval reader response from manuscript evidence. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Professional Reader at Work under Alternative…
Chaganti, Seeta.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan,2008.
Chaganti explores the "dialectical interaction between inscription and performance" that underlines the "poetics of enshrinement" in medieval visual art, literature, and discourse on representation. Individual chapters address "Saint Erkenwald," the…
Kim, Uirak.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 15 (2007): 289-305.
Kim gauges T. S. Eliot's debt to CT in "The Waste Land," examining Eliot's poem as a pilgrimage that modifies a number of Chaucer's techniques and devices: the opening reverdie, multiple voices and tales, use of sources, focus on marriage, and more.
Spearing, A. C.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Examines a wide range of medieval romances and first-person personification love-narratives for the ways they compel their audiences to assume voyeuristic perspectives. Romances include scenes of secret watching of private love, and in…
Treats pilgrimage as a "unifying device" in CT, exploring the influences of Boethius, Virgil, and Dante and parallels with "Piers Plowman" and Deguilleville's "Pèlerinage de la Vie Humanie." Focuses on the frame of CT, KnT and its theme of exile,…
Ingham, Patricia Clare.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
Focuses on the "preoccupation with newness and novelty in literary, scientific, and religious discourses of the twelfth through sixteenth centuries." Examines the "newfangledness" of the "romance discourse" in SqT and alchemy in CYT.
Surveys the depictions of Medea in medieval literature and its backgrounds, focusing on how, in the Middle Ages, the character reflects issues of dynastic rivalry, legitimacy, and presumptions about the passions of females. Comments on how Chaucer's…
Johnston, Michael, and Michael Van Dussen, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Focuses on aspects of the cultural situations of the medieval book. Examines elements of bibliography, social context, linguistics, archeology, and conservation within a broader view of the theory and praxis of manuscript study. For an essay that…
Meyer-Lee, Robert John, and Catherine Sanok, eds.
Cambridge: Brewer, 2018.
Includes an introduction by the editors and ten essays by various authors that "aim to rethink the relationship between form and the literary" in a variety of Middle English works. For two essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for The Medieval…
Amsler, Mark.
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
Studies "pragmatics as an important aspect of premodern understanding of language and meaning," exploring "pragmatic ideas and metapragmatic awareness" in various kinds of medieval discourse. Details the contexts, functions, and significations of the…
The Middle Ages provided two contrasting traditions in the characterization of Hector, one celebrating his heroism, the other viewing him as possessed of physical flaws and spiritual debilities. In TC, Chaucer combines the two traditions in his…
Huxtable, Michael J.
C. P. Biggam and C. J. Kay, eds. Progress in Colour Studies: Volume I. Language and Culture (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2006), pp. 199-217.
Huxtable surveys medieval philosophical and religious understanding of sight and color as background to commentary on social concerns with color in sumptuary habits and heraldry. In ParsT 10.424-27, colorful clothing indicates a sinful nature.
Saville, Jonathan.
New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1972.
Characterizes the "alba scene" of TC (3.1408-1533) as "in many ways the culminating point in the medieval development of the genre," even though Chaucer places the scene in the context of tragic mutability, a context unique for the genre. Considers a…
Watts explains the pedagogy of teaching the dream vision at the undergraduate level, covering texts that include Macrobius, the "Dream of the Rood," the" Roman de la Rose," Dante, "Pearl," "Piers Plowman," Christine de Pizan's "Book of the City of…
Black, Maggie.
London: British Museum Press, 1992.
An illustrated, indexed cookbook of medieval recipes, drawn from the resources of the British Museum, with one chapter entitled "Chaucer's Company" (pp. 34-50) that includes seven recipes, linked to the CT pilgrims.
Kaylor, Harold Noel Jr.
New York: Garland, 1992. Freely available in e-reprint (New York: Routledge, 2020) at https://www-taylorfrancis-com.libweb.lib.utsa.edu/books/e/9780429057083; accessed November 1, 2021.
An annotated bibliography, listing materials that pertain to the "Consolation of Philosophy" in French, German, Old English and Middle English, with sections on Chaucer's translation and to its influence, with seventy-six and forty-three items…
