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In the fifteenth century, an anonymous "Chaucerian" translated the French romance "Partonope of Blois" into English. Chaucer's influence on the translator is seen in many close verbal echoes of Chaucer and in resemblances to Chaucer's technique and…

Comments on the limited impact of Chaucer's prose on later tradition, and explores the stylistic dexterity of his verse in light of contemporary linguistic features: his use of open and close vowels in rhyme and the impact of rhyme on his diction;…

Considers evidence in CT and TC that Chaucer was influenced by Thomas Bradwardine, often mediated by John Wyclif, and that he shares outlooks with John of Gaunt, John Gower, and Ralph Strode.

Explores the reception of Chaucer by William Morris (the Kelmscott Chaucer) and Virginia Woolf ("The Pastons and Chaucer"), arguing that the responses of both individuals are deeply autobiographical and indications of how "modernity privatizes the…

Explains why Eustace Deschamps considered Chaucer to be the "grant translateur" of French into English by detailing the general and specific ways in which Chaucer imitated and emulated three of his French predecessors. As the "archetype" of the love…

Given its resonance with references to duties of friendship that preface many astrolabe treatises, Chaucer's reference to his young son Lewis as his "frend" may accede to the wishes of adult friends who also wished for "a companionable guide to…

Masi investigates depictions of women in Chaucer's works compared to depictions in works of other authors, including Christine de Pizan, Aquinas, and Boethius. He links Chaucer's LGW and Pizan, suggesting that Eustace Deschamps may have been a…

Pugh describes a course plan that focuses on genre expectations and reversals, concentrating on romance in KnT and on the fabliaux of CT.

Chaucer views gentility as a matter of virtue rather than of birth or economics, reflecting contemporary shifts in aristocratic lifestyles. Italian influences and decreasing military service made it necessary for the aristocracy to redefine…

Several studies have suggested Chaucer's indebtedness to works by Giraldus Cambrensis. Comparison of passages from the "Topographia Hibernie" and HF support the claim that Chaucer used this particular Latin source.

Chaucer and Gower both saw life as a soul's endless journey. Both were concerned with the antipodal aspects of man's life. But Gower observed human conduct in light of moral and philosophical standards, while Chaucer never passed judgments.

The seven essays assess Gower and Chaucer as joint recipients of an antique heritage, as readers of (and borrowers from) each other's works, and as writers whose work reveals much about late-medieval attitudes toward language and about the constantly…

Explores how Chaucer addresses the sacred authority of hagiography, posing it in tension with the poet's own authority in LGWP, and examining authority and authorization in the "pseudo-hagiographies" of CT (MLT, ClT, and PhyT) where Chaucer…

Despite recurrent uncertainty, the location of "Bobbe-up-and-doun" mentioned in ManP is surely the same place as Harbledown.

Tallies parallels between James's "The American" and Chaucer's TC, including aspects of characterization (James "splits" Chaucer's major characters), plot, and diction.

Treats Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid" as a sequel to TC, examining how its attitude and tone differ from Chaucer's work, largely as a result of differing styles, techniques, opinions, and points of view. Henryson's style and tone are harsher, and…

Ridley views certain aspects of hermeneutic study of Chaucer, in company with certain modes of classical rhetoric, to "help us better to understand both 'how' the poet crafted his poetry and 'why' as a medieval writer he did so."

In Japanese.

Chaucer's audience influenced his familiar material and subjects to convey his points. Their ability to evaluate and judge must have figured in his manipulation of truth and seeming in the stories. We must use their intended presence in responding…

Revisits the "authorship question" of "The Two Noble Kinsmen," exploring not what was composed by Shakespeare or by Fletcher, but rather the social tensions between characters found in KnT, the play's source, and those nameless ones of the "Jailer's…

Study guide to MilPT, designed for adolescents, with Middle English text and facing translation in modern verse and a variety of background materials: GP descriptions of Miller, Wife, of Bath, and Pardoner; an introduction to Chaucer's life and…

An anthology of previously published materials, including selections from Boccaccio (on the Black Death) and Froissart (on the Peasants' Revolt), essays on cultural backgrounds to the fourteenth century (imagination, technology, science, courtly…

Reprints the 8th edition (1950) of Coulton’s 1908 critical biography of Chaucer, with a new bibliography by Craik (pp. 277-79).

Chaucer shares literary conventions with the writers of his age. Both he and Gower use framed stories, Chaucer exploiting to the fullest both frame and story. Langland and Chaucer share the use of symbols, but Chaucer's are more expansive. Chaucer…

Chaucer was influenced by his English contemporaries, particularly John Gower, William Langland, Thomas Chester, and the Gawain poet; yet he chose to seek new literary directions. Chaucer was on a pilgrimage of self-discovery and a quest for…