Otten, Charlotte F.
Leigh A. Arrathoon, ed. Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction (Rochester, Mich.: Solaris Press, 1986), pp. 23-33.
Troilus's disease of erotomania is gluttonously lustful, irredeemably egocentric, and life-denying--an example to be shunned in favor of Christian love.
Fradenburg, Louise O.
Karma Lochrie, Peggy McCracken, and James A. Schultz, eds. Constructing Medieval Sexuality. Medieval Cultures, no. 11 (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesote Press, 1997), pp. 135-57.
Lacanian analysis of LGW that considers the hope of redemption as a function of charity in Aquinas and in Freud's commentary on Daniel Paul Schreber. Though beautiful and concerned with love, LGWP promises but does not fulfill the desire it creates,…
Darby, Catherine.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.
Historical novel about the lives of Philippa de Roet and her sister Katherine, focusing on their relations with Chaucer, John of Gaunt, and the English court circles.
Damrosch, David, gen. ed.
New York: Longman, 2004.
Volume B, entitled "The Medieval Era," includes selections from CT (GP, MilPT, and WBPT; pp. 1239-1306) in the translation by J. U. Nicolson, with brief notes and glosses. The 2d edition (2009) adds David L. Pike as a gen. ed., and includes the same…
Whitley, David.
Gabrielle Cliff Hodges, Mary Jane Drummond, and Morag Styles, eds. Tales, Tellers and Texts (New York: Cassell, 2000), pp. 68-76.
Explores how "contemporary academic criticism" has influenced twentieth-century adaptations of CT for children, commenting on versions by Eleanor Fargeon, Selina Hastings, Ian Serraillier, Geraldine McCaughrean, and Joel Myerson.
Fourteen essays by various authors on topics in English literature of the late fourteenth through early sixteenth centuries. Includes an introduction and a bibliography of Gray's publications. For seven essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Long…
Baragona, Alan.
Susan Yager and Elise E. Morse-Gagné, eds. Interpretation and Performance: Essays for Alan Gaylord (Provo, UT: Chaucer Studio Press, 2013), pp. 117-34.
Students of Chaucer's poetry can easily appreciate its sounds and syntactical patterns, and should examine for themselves issues such as the pronunciation of final -e. Prosodic analysis can also be applied to translated versions of Chaucer. Live…
Adams, Robert, and Thorlac Turville-Petre.
Review of English Studies 65, no. 269 (2014): 219-335.
Within this larger comprehensive study of 'Piers Plowman' in Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 733B (N), the authors note that Chaucer's scribe, Adam Pinkhurst, may have made scribal corrections to the B-text copy M (London, British…
Wainwright, Michael.
Brief Chronicles: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Authorship Studies 5 (2014): 139-70.
Argues that Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida" combines the concern with Boethian logic and necessity found in TC with Ramist thinking, indicating that Edward de Vere, earl of Oxford, was the author of the play. The combination prompts a…
Lynch, Kathryn L.
Richard J. Utz, ed. Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts: A New Research Paradigm (Lewiston, N.Y.; Queenston, Ont.; Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen, 1995), pp. 179-203.
Through the Eagle's arguments and Fame's arbitrary inferences and syllogisms, HF satirizes the logical analysis of language. This discrediting of late-medieval dialectic is a new use of the dream-vision genre, which traditionally celebrates reason…
Morgan, Gerald.
Modern Language Review 104 (2009): 1-25.
Reads ClT as a disquisition on the "moral virtue of obedience" and the "triumph of patience," commenting on Griselda as a personification, Walter as a figure of fortune, and the sergeant as an example of false obedience. Examines each scene and…
Obscenity exists in LGW to extend the "aesthetic credo" of LGWP, where Chaucer establishes himself "as a poet faithful to the contradictions inherent in nature." Delany argues that obscenity produces a more "natural" view of women than that provided…
Sharma, Manish.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022.
Presents a "new way to conjoin Chaucer's sophisticated engagement with philosophical thought and his obvious focus on amatory concerns" in CT, arguing that the narrative "authoritatively abandons authority"--a paradox that recalls logical…
Woods, William F.
Chaucer Review 30 (1995): 150-63.
RvT is a social allegory reflecting economic and social practices. Symkyn upsets the balance of trade by reducing supply, thus increasing demand. Balance is eventually restored.
Davidson, Arnold B.
Annuale Mediaevale 19 (1979): 5-13.
Though aspects of ManT seem hopelessly irreconcilable, the tale itself is a coherent whole, its incongruities intentional. While the Manciple cunningly pretends to be a fool, he is, in a different sense, a far greater fool than he pretends to be. …
D'Attavi, Stefania D'Agata.
Guillemette Bolens and Lukas Erne, eds. Medieval and Early Modern Authorship (Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 2011), pp. 251-64
Analyzes the role of the first-person pronoun, "supponit pro," and narrating voice in TC through the lens of "medieval sign theory." Argues that through translation, authorship is transformed because authorship becomes "a matter of re-elaboration…
Campbell, Bruce.
Edwin Brezette De Windt, ed. The Salt of Common Life: Individuality and Choice in the Medieval Town, Countryside, and Church: Essays Presented to J. Ambrose Raftis. Studies in Medieval Culture, no. 36 (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1995), pp. 271-305.
Extant manorial accounts representing over two hundred different demesnes in Norfolk (from the period 1250-1449) suggest that Oswald the Reeve's dwelling and husbandry were based on a specific landscape and rural economy that would have been…
Beidler, Peter G.
Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2015.
Describes how Chaucer adapted his source, Heile of Beersele, increasing the "theatricality" of plot and details in making MilT, concentrating on the architectural setting (house and window), dramatic details, and additional "scenes." Surveys and…
Cannon, Christopher.
Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006, pp. 31-54.
Cannon observes parallels between the "forms of life Chaucer made in his poems" and "what can be reconstructed from his own life from the public record." Suggests that both the textual lives and Chaucer's biography derive "in part from social…
Vitz, Evelyn Birge.
Thomas J. Heffernan and E. Ann Matter, eds. The Liturgy of the Medieval Church (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute, 2001), pp. 551-618.
Vitz surveys the influences and echoes of liturgical wording and practice in a range of medieval literature--English, French, Italian, narrative, lyrical, parodic, etc. Includes focused treatments of "La Queste del Saint Graal," "The Roman de la…
Revisits Carleton Brown's 1910 suggestion of source relations between the "Alma Redemptoris Mater" in PrT and the "Gaude Maria," offering a liturgical explanation for Chaucer's use of the former.
Dahlberg, Charles.
Hanover, N. H., and London: University Press of New England, 1988.
"Unlikeness" refers to the "coherence and contradictions" in the conviction encouraged by D. W. Robertson that "the characteristic mode of reading and writing in the Middle Ages was quite different from ours and that it assumes an underlying…
