Bauer, Matthias, and Angelika Zirker.
Lukas Rösli and Stefanie Gropper, eds. In Search of the Culprit: Aspects of Medieval Authorship (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021), pp. 217–38.
Explores how in each of two Shakespearean plays "there is a co-authorship with a past author": Gower in "Pericles" and Chaucer in "The Two Noble Kinsmen." Argues that the presentation of Chaucer as a source in the prologue in "Kinsmen" engages…
Al-Hariri of Basra.
Cooperson, Michael, trans.
New York: New York University Press, 2020.
Translates al-Harırı's Arabic classic "Maqamat," with sections imitating or emulating the styles of various writers in English (Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, John Lyly, etc.). The "Author's Retraction" is "modeled on" Ret.
Al-Hariri of Basra.
Cooperson, Michael, trans.
New York: New York University Press, 2020.
Translates al-Harırı's Arabic classic "Maqamat," with sections imitating
or emulating the styles of various writers in English (Mark Twain, Virginia
Woolf, John Lyly, etc.). The "Author's Retraction" is "modeled on" Ret.
Considers translation as theory and inspiration in the writings of four English authors, including discussion of Chaucer’s translations of Boethius in Bo and in TC, and John Dryden’s translations of CT. Wahlen’s Ph.D. dissertation,…
Begins with a discussion of "Chaucerian meanings" to investigate medieval textual production and verse translations from French to English, and considers how the "boundaries of the Chaucer canon have been established and defined by the inclusion and…
Focuses on Ovid’s post-exilic poem "Ibis," now nearly forgotten in scholarship but once central to medieval readers. Catalogues the extant manuscripts of Ibis and compares this to the higher number of mentions in manuscript inventories, before…
Lawton, David.
Corinne Ondine Pache, Casey Dué, Susan Lupack, and Robert Lamberton, eds. The Cambridge Guide to Homer (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 580-81.
Surveys Chaucers references to and possible knowledge of Homer, emphasizing mediating sources, especially Boccaccio.
Havely, Nick.
Miriam Wendling, ed. Cardinal Adam Easton (c. 1330–1397) (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020), pp. 119-38.
Demonstrates Adam Easton's "detailed engagement" with Dante's "Monarchia" (especially Book 3) in his "Defensorium ecclesiastice potestatis," and suggests that Easton and Chaucer "might well have known about each other’s work." Includes comments on…
Suggests that Robert Holcot’s commentary on the Book of Wisdom is the immediate source of HF, 991–1017 and 1259–70, and ParsT, 603–7, describing the authors' shared skepticism about the "limits of human knowledge” and discussing specific echoes…
Smith, Jeremy J.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Historical-pragmatic analysis of the formal features of texts in manuscript and in print (e.g., punctuation, spelling, capitalization, script, font, etc.) in relation to the texts’ “socio-cultural” functions—linguistic, aesthetic, ethical, practical,…
Singh, Devani.
Notes and Queries 266.1 (2021): 56-59.
Inscribed in Durham Palace Green Library, Bamburgh Select. 8, a copy of the "c. 1550 Thynne edition of Chaucer’s Workes," this epitaph stands apart from the three Latin texts heretofore known. One of its signatories may be identified as the “Edmund…
Sawyer, Daniel.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Studies medieval reading of verse manuscripts and includes analysis of canonical Middle English verse texts, such as works by Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, and Lydgate, as well as lesser-known fourteenth-century northern religious manuscripts. Argues…
Martin, Joanna M., ed.
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020.
Edits thirty-four poems from Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.6—those found in no other manuscript—with texts, notes, glossary, and bibliography. The introduction includes discussion of language and scribes, and commentary on the poems' place in…
Discusses medieval scribal transmission and commercial book production in relation to the surviving copy of "The Tale of Beryn" and the "Beryn-Scribe." Examines the reception and transmission of the "Prick of Conscience" in late medieval England.…
Farrell, Thomas J.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 120.1 (2021): 93–129.
Contends that data from the Canterbury Tales Project have not been widely used in Chaucer studies, partly on account of misunderstanding the project's purpose and function. That function is to produce evidence through analysis of witness groups, not…
Edwards, A. S. G.
Notes and Queries 266, no. 1 (2021): 25.
Contends that Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 215 may be the manuscript referred to as "7574 Boethius’s Consolat.of Philosophy, translated by Chaucer, 'imperfect,' 2s 6d” in the 1770 sale catalogue of London bookseller Thomas Payne, since it is…
Boffey, Julia.
Elizabeth A. New and Christian Steer, eds. Medieval Londoners: Essays to Mark the Eightieth Birthday of Caroline M. Barron (London: University of London Press, 2019), pp. 55-70.
Includes discussion of the location and implications for readership of Chaucerian materials found among the fascicles of MS HM 140: ClT, Truth, and a selection from Anel.
Singh, Devani.
Digital Philology 9.2 (2020): 177–98; 4 color illus.
Explains the important place in the tradition of Chaucer portraiture of John Speed's engraving made for Thomas Speght's 1598 edition of Chaucer's "Workes". Comments on relations with the manuscript portrait of Chaucer that accompanies Thomas…
Lynch, Kathryn L.
Chaucer Review 56, no. 2 (2021): 95–118.
Examines background of Katherine Lee Bates, author of "America the Beautiful," who was a medievalist before turning to poetry and American literary studies. Brings together her career as an Americanist and poet with her background as a medievalist,…
Kobayashi, Yoshiko.
Martha Driver, Derek Pearsall, and R. F. Yeager, eds. John Gower in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020), pp. 231–46.
Considers why Gower's verse-epistle “In Praise of Peace” was included in William Thynne's 1532 edition of Chaucer’s works and explores possible motives and collaborations in the process of editing the poem and the volume.
Considers the "temporal hybridity" of the Kelmscott Chaucer and the challenge it poses to classification. Neither strictly functional book nor decorative object, the Kelmscott mirrors the Middle Ages' abjectness and highlights medievalism's purchase…
A comprehensive Japanese translation of CT, collaborated upon by twenty-four scholars. Each tale has an introduction, translation, and supporting notes. In Japanese.
Henk, Antony.
SEDERI: Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies 31 (2021): 31–54.
Compares editorial decisions from a linguistic perspective in Thomas Speght's 1602 edition of Chaucer’s works with Andro Hart's Middle Scots 1616 edition of John Barbour's "Brus" to assess the perception of the intelligibility of Middle Scots and its…
Argues that Chaucerian biographers and critics have both been horrified by the rape of Cecily Chaumpaigne and depicted it to reenforce Chaucer’s masculinity. Traces how these critics and authors have fashioned Chaumpaigne into a courtly lady, whose…
