Flannery, Mary C.
New College Notes (Oxford) 12 (2019): 1-4; 3 illus.
Addresses "scribal playfulness," rather than error or accuracy, focusing on instances of copyists' engagement with Chaucer's "bawdy humour," particularly the diction, imagery, and details of a ribald expansion of the pear-tree episode of MerT (and…
Fletcher, Clare.
Gregory Hulsman and Caoimhe Whelan, eds. Occupying Space in Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Ireland (New York: Lang, 2016), pp. 3-22.
Revisits the implications of the horse-and rider imagery that underlies the description of the Wife of Bath at GP 1.469, focusing on her riding an "amblere," exploring relations with the thirteenth-century French "Lai du Trot," and suggesting that,…
Everitt, Charles.
D. Phil. Thesis. Oxford University, 1985. Copyright 1986. Fully accessible via http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:69a69618-50df-4f27-8291-98546df046eb (last accessed January 22, 2026)
Studies the "ars dictaminis" in late-medieval England, focusing on its influence and uses in administrative circles, ecclesiastical and secular, with particular attention to the career of Gilbert Stone, an "episcopal chancellor." Includes discussion…
Botelho, José Francisco Hillal Tavares de Junqueira.
D.Litt. dissertation. Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul, 2021.
Using "several translation theories," Botelho analyzes selected passages of his own 2013 translation of CT into Portuguese, describing choices made to mediate linguistic and historical distances between Chaucer's poem and Botelho's target audience.…
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Warren, Robert Penn, ed.
Erskine, Albert, ed.
New York: Dell, 1955.
Anthologizes selections from the poetry of English writers, arranged chronologically from Chaucer to Wilfred Owen, with an Introduction by the editors that justifies the selections. Includes an alphabetical index of titles and first lines. The…
Knowles, Dom David.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955.
Part of a three-volume study, this volume addresses the "history of the religious orders [monastic and mendicant] in England from the Pontificate of Benedict XII to the end of the strife between the houses of York and Lancaster," considering a…
Trudeau, Lawrence J., ed.
Poetry Criticism. Volume 155 (Detroit: Gale, 2014), pp. 187-343.
Describes the place of MilPT in CT, summarizing its plot, major characters, major themes, and critical reception. Includes a selection of seventeen excerpts from previously printed critical studies (1956–2006), and a brief, annotated bibliography…
Trudeau, Lawrence J., ed.
Poetry Criticism. Volume 58 (Detroit: Gale, 2005), pp. 227-373. (Detroit: Gale, 2005), pp. 227-373.
Sketches the biography of Chaucer, and describes the place of WBPT in CT, summarizing its plot, major characters, major themes, and critical reception. Includes a selection of sixteen excerpts from previously printed critical studies (1970–2002),…
Introduces Chaucer and his world, with sections on his life, English history, and culture; the lyrics and short poems; translations and "minor" poems (including TC and the dream visions), and CT, with discussion of manuscripts, the order of the…
Assesses parallels between PrT and the "liturgy of the Feat of the Holy Innocents" (mass, vespers, etc.), a source likely to have been known to Chaucer. Also labels PrT a "devotional" tale, sharing distinctive similarities of imagery and symbolism…
Stroud, Theodore A.
College English 17 (1955): 109-10.
Identifies modern analogues to ShT and Boccaccio's "Decameron" 8.1 in Thomas Menkel's 1946 short story, "Secret Debt," and Menkel's reported source in a "Scotch joke," surmising general transmission of the tale.
