Anastasas, Florence H., trans.
Hicksville, N. Y.: Exposition Press, 1976.
Part I (pp. 3-84) is a modern verse translation of LGWP (F version) and LGW in rhyming iambic pentameter couplets; Part II includes an additional eleven poems written by Anastasas to complement Chaucer's work, with additional "legends" dedicated to…
Quinn, William A.
Carolyn P. Collette, ed. The Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006), pp. 1-32.
Quinn describes the "performance" features of each of the manuscripts and printed editions of LGW, exploring ideas of oral composition, performance theory, and performativity. Addresses how each witness to the text of LGW shapes the "protocols of…
Collette, Carolyn P., ed.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006.
Eight essays by various authors, with an index and an introduction by the editor, who argues that Alceste's mediation is central to LGW, a poem about the "public dimension of ideal female behavior." The poem is best understood in the context of late…
A murder mystery that incorporates details from Chaucer's life, featuring investigations of two murders, the involvement of Philippa and John of Gaunt, and Chaucer's interests in poetry and astrology.
Burton, T. L., dir.
Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio, 1999.
Includes LGWP (F text) and the legends of Cleopatra (580-676), Dido (924-1367), Hypsipyle and Medea (1368-1679), and Phyllis (2394-2561). Read by Andrew Lynch.
McMillan, Ann, trans.
Houston: Rice University Press, 1987.
Literal Modern English translation with introduction (pp. 3-62) treating the catalogue tradition, classical heroines, Jerome, Boccaccio, Christine de Pisan, LGW, LGWP, and the victims.
Analyzes LGW as "a narrative treatise on the 'affect of invention,'" linking the processes of emergence that precede the mind's conscious recognition of emotion with the inventional processes which culminate in poetic art. LGWP introduces a method…
Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards.
Piero Boitani and Jill Mann, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer, 2d ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003), pp. 112-26.
Boffey and Edwards confront several scholarly and critical issues that pertain to LGW: date, occasion, sources and models, patronage, and the relation of the F and G versions of LGWP. The authors emphasize the variety in the legends themselves and…
Frank, Robert Worth, Jr.
Chaucer Review 1.2 (1966): 110-33.
Rejects the argument that Chaucer abandoned LGW out of weariness or boredom on the grounds that Chaucer had long been interested in classical love stories, that he took time to revise LGWP, that he employed abbreviation and "occupatio" effectively in…
Chaucer and Henryson use the bestiaries in different ways. Chaucer only hints at the allegorical potential of his animals in CT and PF, although he does capitalize on familiar allegorizations in his similes and symbols. More directly, Henryson…
The essays in ChauR 41.3 explore Donaldson's accomplishments in "his guises as editor, philologist, and New Critic" and the continued relevance of that work in the early twenty-first century.
McMullen, A. Joseph, and Erica Weaver, eds.
Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018.
Twelve essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors consider the range and depth of impact of Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" on Old and Middle English literature and thought. The introduction summarizes the legacy of the…
Surveys the figure of Apollo in classical and medieval traditions, focusing on the figure in Chaucer's works as an embodiment of the poet's understandings of poetic authority. Chaucer "mythologized a new idea of authorship in English," escaping…
Comic novel set in a modern university, replete with literary references and allusions, including several to Chaucer, e.g., a quotation from GP 1.308 in its dedication, PardT 6.895-903 as an epigram, and a parody of Ret at the end of the book.
Benson, Larry D., ed.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974.
Twenty-five essays by various authors, plus an appreciation of the teaching of Bartlett Jere Whiting, a list of his publications, and a poetic analogue to "Thomas of Erceldoune." For nine essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Learned and the…
Brackets, linking rhymed lines, together with the position of tail rhyme and bob phrases, show how scribes in these authoratitative manuscripts perceived this drasty rhyme. Includes photos of folio from Ellesmere manuscript.
Engelhardt, George J.
Mediaeval Studies 36 (1974): 278-330.
Argues that in his characterizations of the non-ecclesiastical pilgrims of CT Chaucer emulated the devices and techniques of medieval ethology, based in the "contemptus mundi" tradition, and variously prescriptive and descriptive. Comments on GP as a…
Landman, James H.
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 28 (1998): 389-425.
Both CYPT and the "Book of Margery Kempe" raise questions about community and selfhood. In each, an individual criticizes his or her community to the members of a different, markedly less local community. The two texts suggest the precariousness of…
The unresolved contradicitons, sudden shifts, and visible seams in MLT indicate the Man of Law's limitations not just as storyteller but also "as a man of law." The limits of the common law of his patriarchial society give him his identity and…
Jonassen, Frederick B.
John Marshall Law Review 43 (2009-10): 51-108.
Describes aspects of Chaucer's life that indicate that he had training in law or familiarity with it, and explores the legal language and details of GP, arguing that the Host's "responsibility for the pilgrims reflects the law of innkeeper's…
Medcalf, Stephen, ed.
New York: Holmes and Meier, 1981.
Essays include "On Reading Books from a Half-Alien Culture," "The Ideal, the Real, and the Quest for Perfection," "Inner and Outer," "Art and Architecture in the Late Middle Ages," "The Age of the Household: Politics, Society, and the Arts c.…
Collette, Carolyn P., and Harold Garrett-Goodyear, eds.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Anthology of documents pertaining to English literature from 1350-1500. Introduction details historical, social, and political movements of late Middle Ages. Includes annotations, timeline, and chronological listing of major medieval literary works.
Identifies thematic concerns in Mel that it shares with other narratives in CT (WBPT, ShT, Clerk's Envoy, MerT, and NPT), exploring how pedantry, suspect counsel, the struggle for "maisterie," and antifeminism convey humor in Mel, especially in…
