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Baldry, Cherith.   Mike Ashley, ed. Royal Whodunnits (New York: Carroll and Graf, 1999), pp. 187-202.
Story of murderous intrigue at the court of Richard involving Robert de Vere, Anne of Bohemia, John of Gaunt, and others, featuring Chaucer as sleuth.

Gaylord, Alan T., dir.   Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio, 1990.
Recorded at Dartmouth College; read by Alan T. Gaylord.

Hennedy, Hugh L.   Chaucer Review 5.3 (1971): 213-17.
The summoner in FrT is "damned if he does and damned if he doesn't" repent because the old lady's curse (3.1628-29) condemns him if he fails to repent and his own self-curse (3.1610-11) condemns him if he does.

Jeffrey, David Lyle.   Journal of English and Germanic Philology 70 (1971): 600-06.
Explains Chaucer's use of "rente" to describe the Friar in GP 1.256, clarifying that it means service to God due to his vocation (not monetary rent) and contributes to Chaucer's satire of the Friar. Compares Chaucer's other uses of the term.

Saltzman, Benjamin A.   Chaucer Review 52.4 (2017): 363-95.
Looks at how both erasure and the anxiety that erasure produces in material culture are revealed in FrT and SumT.

Mauck, Deanna.   [Jay Ruud, ed.] Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota ([Aberdeen, S.D.: Northern State University, 1989), pp. 94-103.
Locates in SumT several violations of William of Saint-Amour's claims about false friars.

Szittya, Penn R.   Studies in Philology 71 (1974): 19-46.
Identifies allusions in SumT to biblical passages that were used by fraternal orders and criticized in antifraternal commentary. The allusions, which engage a "theological controversy well known in Chaucer's time," satirize friars' hypocritical…

Allen, Judson Boyce.   Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 1971.
Describes modes of literary analysis and understanding characteristic of the late Middle Ages, derived from the work of "classicizing writers" such as Robert Holcot, John Lathbury, Thomas Ringstead, John Ridewell, John Bromyard, Thomas Waleys, and…

Delany, Sheila.   Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Mediaevalitas: Reading the Middle Ages (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996), pp. 63-79.
In his "Legend of Holy Women," Osbern Bokenham "offers something formally similar but ideologically opposite" to LGW. Bokenham parodies Chaucer's work, thus reasserting the hagiographical genre that Chaucer undercut, and indirectly critiques…

Ridley, Florence H.   James M. Dean and Christian Zacher, eds. The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992), pp. 160-72.
Surveys critical commentary and presents an account of the Friar and FrT. The Friar wants to be deemed a compassionate clergyman, concerned only with correction of sin and perhaps a bit of amusement. But as he moves from his vehement opening tirade…

Geltner, G.   Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 156-69.
Views Chaucer as a "social satirist and master of ambiguity" for his portrayal of the Friar within the anti-fraternal literary tradition.

Nishide, Kimiyuki,and Takashi Kawabata.   Studies in Medieval Language and Literature (Tokyo) 2 (1987): 59-75.
An attempt to measure objectively the stylistic similarities and/or dissimilarities among the frequencies of "shall," "will," "should," and "would" per thousand words in CT. A cluster analysis of these frequencies generally supports Muscatine's…

Calin, William.   Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.
Surveys medieval English responses to and assimilation of Anglo-Norman and continental French literature, with separate sections on (1) Anglo-Norman romance and hagiography; (2) major continental French narratives and authors, including "Huon of…

Wimsatt, James I.   Yearbook of English Studies 15 (1985): 18-32.
TC has fifty-six developed lyric passages. The frequent ballade-like sequences of stanzas in these passages and the rhyme-royal form adapted from the ballade, together with Chaucer's uses of Machaut's "Remede de Fortune," show that TC has an…

Braddy, Haldeen.   Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 143-59.
The French strain in Chaucer's poetry (though obviously strongest in his earlier career) pervades his "ouvre." So far as is known, however, Chaucer himself never worte an original line in that tongue.

Williams, Deanne.   Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Traces the "representations of, and responses to" France and Frenchness in BD and Chaucer's Prioress, the Corpus Christi plays, Caxton's publishing career, the poetry of Stephen Hawes and John Skelton, and Shakespeare's history plays. English…

Morgan, Gerald.   John Scattergood, ed. Literature and Learning in Medieval and Renaissance England: Essays Presented to Fitzroy Pyle (Blackrock, Country Dublin, Ireland: Irish Academic Press, 1984), pp. 59-102.
Defines the freedom of the lovers in TC as a freedom involving the will--the sensitive soul being passive or dark and the rational soul being active or light. The misery of Troilus and Criseyde is not unjust but results form their wrong choices.

Travis, Peter W.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 151-65.
Discusses FranT and its inclusion of the "sursanure", the superficially healed wound that nevertheless continues to fester. Suggests that this "sursanure" is "an exemplary Jamesonian symptom, the complex layerings of which invite readers to prise…

Kanno, Masahiko.   Michio Kawai, ed. Language and Style in English Literature: Essays in Honour of Michio Masui. The English Association of Hiroshima (Tokyo: Eihosha, 1991), pp. 306-21.
After examining the original, rhetorical, and, and contextual meanings of "gentil" and its related words, Kanno discusses how Aurelius, who is at first destitute of generosity, is transformed into a gentle squire.

White, Gertrude M.   PMLA 89.3 (1974): 454-62.
Contrasts the "opposing principles of conduct" that underlie the main characters in FranT and MerT, arguing that the "values" expressed there are "dramatized and explored" throughout CT. Moreover, the view of "gentilesse" expressed in FranT sums up…

Colmer, Dorothy.   Essays in Criticism 20 (1970): 375-80.
Argues that the Franklin as narrator presents the characters in FranT as both "living people and as standard types from courtly romance," not worrying excessively about consistency of characterization and revealing more wisdom than we expect from…

Morgan, Gerald, ed.   New York: Holmes & Meier; London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980.
An edition of FranPT, the description of the Franklin from the GP, and the endlink from the SqT, with notes and glosses. In his Introduction (pp. 1-47), Morgan comments on the "challenges" of reading Chaucer's poetry, the "modulation" of his poetic…

Serraillier, Ian.   New York: F. Warne; London: Kaye & Ward, 1972.
Version of FranT adapted for juvenile audience, illustrated by Philip Gough.

Piehler, Paul.   Hudson, Québec: Golden Clarion Literary Services, 1986.
Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of FranT in Middle English and that this was re-issued on CD in 2010.

Kearney, Anthony.   Essays in Criticism 21 (1971): 109-11.
Responds to Dorothy Colmer's critique (Essays in Criticism 20 [1970]) of Kearney's earlier discussion of FranT (Essays in Criticism 19 [1969], taking issue with Colmer's notion that "quadruple irony" redounds upon the reader.
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