Yeager, R. F.
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 14 (1984): 261-81.
A late-sixteenth-century account of Chaucer's life and works, never before published, "gives fresh insight into the nature and transmission of the poet's reputation in England during the Renaissance."
Robinson, Bonnie J., and Laura J. Getty, eds.
Dahlonega: University of North Georgia Press, 2018.
E-book designed as a classroom anthology, downloadable as a PDF, with Learning Outcomes and introductory backgrounds for each chronological period, and introductions to selected works and authors from "The Dream of the Rood" to Olaudah Equiano. The…
Handyside, I. G., ed.
Houndsmill, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1978.
School edition of MilPT and the description of the Miller in GP. Facing-page (modern prose opposite Chaucer's poem), accompanied by explanatory notes, a glossary, appreciative criticism of the Miller's characterization, commentary on the setting and…
Study guide that includes text and facing-page prose translation of FranT and the GP description of the Franklin, with end-of-text notes and glosses, study questions, and a description of Chaucer's language. Includes a description of Chaucer's life…
Study guide that includes text and facing-page prose translation of KnT and the GP description of the Knight, with end-of-text notes and glosses, study questions, and a description of Chaucer's language. Includes a description of Chaucer's life and…
Study guide that includes text and facing-page prose translation of NPPT, with end-of-text notes and glosses, and commentary on the characters, humor and irony, and on dreams and predestination. Includes comments on Chaucer's biography and verse and…
Study guide that includes text and facing-page prose translation of PardPT and the GP description of the Pardoner, with end-of-text notes and glosses, study questions, and commentary on the Pardoner as a character, the characters in his tale,…
Study guide that includes text and facing-page prose translation of GP, with end-of-text notes and glosses, and brief characterization of each of the pilgrims. Includes a description of Chaucer's life and works and of Middle English grammar,…
School edition of WBPT and the description of the Wife in GP. Facing-page (modern prose opposite Chaucer's poem), accompanied by explanatory notes, a glossary, appreciative criticism of the Wife's characterization, commentary on the structure of…
Examines various codes by which homosocial relationships were allowed to develop without violation of sodomy taboos. Uses as a case study the relationship between Troilus and Pandarus in TC.
O'Brien examines the theme of brotherhood in TC as portrayed through the relationships of Troilus and Pandarus, Troilus and Criseyde, Diomedes and Criseyde, and the narrator and readers. The poem's ending portrays brotherly relationships as no remedy…
Mundo, Frank.
West Conshohocken, PA: Infinity, 2010.
Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates this collection of stories in verse emulates CT as a tale-telling contest, conducted by security guards after riots in Los Angeles.
Friedman, John Block.
Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2010.
Studies the iconography of nonaristocratic, nonclerical dress in late medieval literature and art. Considers aspects of dress as they distinguished peasants and gentry in the Old French pastourelle and its descendant, the bergerie, and follows this…
Lydgate's poetic trial of Brunhilde indicates a conviction that poets have a central role in shaping and transmitting "fama." In sharp contrast, Chaucer depicts fama as a function of "aventure" in HF.
Bernstein, Charles.
Charles Bernstein. Recalculating (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013), pp. 46-48.
Parodies Cole Porter's lyrics in "Brush Up Your Shakespeare," using Chaucerian topics and emphases; purportedly composed for a conference of the New Chaucer Society.
Wright, Sarah Breckenridge.
In James L. Smith, ed. The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits ([Santa Barbara, Calif.]: Punctum, 2017), pp. 93-114.
Combines ecocriticism and mobility studies to address the "medieval bridge as an icon of hybridity: a cultural artifact that commingles human/animal movement, architectural stasis, and the natural world (blood, stone, and water)." Then explores how…
Harwood, Britton J.
Britton J. Harwood and Gillian R. Overing, eds. Class and Gender in Early English Literature: Intersections (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994), pp. 95-111.
An analogy between gender and class applied to HF reveals that Lady Fame assumes a typical paternal role in naming the tidings that exit the House of Rumor. Although Chaucer's source is Ovid, he divides Fame's house along strict class lines--the…
Simpson, James.
New Medieval Literatures 4: 213-42, 2001.
Surveys the reception of Lydgate, especially his "Dance Machabré", and argues that the poet has been victimized by "'ageist' conceptions of cultural change" that seek to reify "the medieval." Lydgate's stature as the most public of English poets…
The Host's retort to the Pardoner at the close of PardT reinforces a connection between the terms and concepts of testicles (false or otherwise) and relics (false or otherwise). A trilingual collection (French, Latin, and English) of terms along with…
Wolpers, Theodor.
Josef Fleckenstein and Karl Stackmann, eds. Uber Bürger, Stadt und Städtische Literatur im Spätmittelalter: Bericht über Kolloquien der Kommission zur Erforschung der Kultur des Spätmittelalters 1975-1977 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1980), pp. 216-88.
Explores how and to what extent Chaucer's experiences in trade and in civil life affected his literary concerns and style, considering his "realism" as it is depicted in passages from GP, ShT, CYT, and MilT.
Crépin, André.
Bulletin des Anglicistes Médiévistes 56: 57-72, 1999.
Chaucer and Malory haunted the imagination of Burne-Jones, who illustrated the Kelmscott edition of Chaucer's Works (1896). Burne-Jones ignored the licentious tales, but he expressed the classical/medieval spirit of TC. He was attracted by the scene…
The Flemish proverbs in CkP and ManT "trigger a whole series of contradictions and reversals of meaning that mirror the complexity of Chaucer's comedy." They also contribute to a pattern in CT in which Flemings are associated with misused language.
Kelly, Edward H.
Papers on Language and Literature 5 (1969): 362-74.
Reads the tone and details of PrT as consistent with the characterization of the Prioress established in GP. A "ful" large woman fixated on immaturity and smallness, the Prioress admires motherhood and empathizes with the innocence of the clergeon,…
