Collection of essays addressing various Chaucerian topics, including "textual authority, poetic design, political affiliations and sympathies, and religious convictions." For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer in Context: A…
Rigby, S. H.
Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1996.
Surveys the polarities in critical assessments of CT, focusing on four oppositions: realism vs. stereotypicality, monologic vs. dialogic approaches, allegorical vs. humanist (ironic) approaches, and misogyny vs. feminism. Assesses the opposed…
Evans, Ruth.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 23: 43-69, 2001.
HF provokes reflection on the "historical processes of memorialization." Such concepts as the brass tablet, apostrophe to Thought, inscribed ice block, and House of Rumor are analogous to conceptualizations of personal and cultural memory (history)…
Klitgård, Ebbe.
Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2013.
Provides comprehensive study of reception and translation of Chaucer's works in Denmark from the late eighteenth century to 2012. Study reveals cultural changes and links between Denmark and England, and provides analysis of current Chaucerian…
Miner, Earl.
Howard Anderson, ed. Studies in Criticism and Aesthetics: Essays in Honor of Samuel Holt Monk (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1967), pp. 58-72.
Assesses "Dryden's conception of Chaucer," his poems, and the "purpose guiding" the changes he made while modernizing WBT, KnT, NPT, and the apocryphal "Flower and the Leaf." Also discusses Dryden's "Character of the Good Parson" and "Hind and the…
A study of Middle English, specifically Chaucer's English; lexicography; and obsolete words. Includes bibliography and indexes, as well as an appendix, "Chaucer, 'The Plowman's Tale', and Henry VIII."
Blake, N. F.
William C. Johnson and Loren C. Gruber, eds. "New" Views on Chaucer: Essays in Generative Criticism (Denver: Society for New Language Study, 1973), pp. 1-7.
Argues that in late medieval English poetry (including Chaucer's) tone is "more likely to be found in the disposition" of rhetorical units larger than individual words and phrases. Draws illustrative examples from CT, TC, and "Sir Gawain and the…
Evokes the social and cultural conditions of England during Chaucer's lifetime by describing historical events, political circumstances, court life, domestic conditions for all classes, child-rearing, education and literacy, the influence of…
Rhodes, William..
Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe, and Gareth Griffith, eds. Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete (Manchester; Manchester University Press, 2019), pp. 98-112.
Argues that an "ambivalent enterprise of simultaneous innovation and retrospection . . . structures Spenser's approach to the reform of Ireland" as well as his "engagement with Chaucer in his poetry." Analyzes Spenser's use and explanation of two…
The study of Chaucer in Japanese universities has increased dramatically during the past quarter century. The paper lists relevant professional organizations and research trends.
Golden, Samuel L.
Chaucer Review 4.1 (1969): 49-54.
Demonstrates that Chaucer's works are a significant source of John Minsheu's multilingual dictionary, "Guide into the Tongues" ["Ductor in Linquas"] (1617).
Discusses the reception of Chaucer's poetry by nineteenth-century French critics who focused on CT, read Chaucer as a "European" rather than an English writer, discussed the accessibility of his language, and examined Chaucer's national literary and…
Twenty essays by various authors, plus a forward (pp. 13-25) by Lester that describes the career and lists the publications of Norman Blake. The essays consider Middle English language, literature, editing, and publishing, with eleven essays…
Review of "Legenda femeilor cinstite si alte poeme" (1986). Dan Dutescu, praised as a highly sensitive translator possessing the "quintessence" of the art of translation, has given Romania its first complete Chaucer translation--of LGW.
Kohl, Stephan.
Ulrich Müller and Kathleen Verduin, eds. Papers from the Fifth Annual General Conference on Medievalism 1990 (Göppingen: Kümmerle, 1996), pp. 179-87
Characterizes the treatment of Chaucer in the critical journal Scrutiny as a "deliberate fragmentation" of his works in an effort to convey upon the poet an ahistorical and timeless sense of value and authority.
Walker assesses the three allusions to the Trojan War in NPT and argues that they underlie parallel concerns in Shakespeare's play. Shakespeare emulates Chaucer's skeptical attitude toward the Trojan War.
Speght's edition of Chaucer (1602) included an extensive glossary of "hard words." Later lexicographers, including the editors of the OED, have missed the fact that Jacobean dictionaries of "hard words" borrowed extensively from Speght--entries,…
Taggie, Benjamin F.
Benjamin F. Taggie, Richard W. Clement, and James E. Caraway, eds. Spain and the Mediterranean (Kirksville, Mo.: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1992), pp. 35-44.
Describes political and military events involving Edward, the Black Prince, Pedro of Castile, and his rivals that led up to the military campaign of 1366. Suggests the nature and timing of Chaucer's likely participation in these events, perhaps as an…
Garbaty, Thomas Jay
English Language Notes 5.2 (1967): 81-87.
Argues that Chaucer's role in Spain in 1366 was as a "confidential messenger" of the Black Prince, adducing historical and biographical evidence as well as the attitude expressed about Pedro of Spain in MkT 7.2375ff.
Describes a pedagogical experiment featuring a mock trial of Chaucer--asking students to prosecute and defend Chaucer on the charge of perpetrating medieval antifeminism through his characterization of women in CT and TC.
Wasserman, Julian N., and Robert J. Blanch, eds.
Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986.
A collection of essays from the conference "Chaucer at Albany II" places Chaucer's works in both medieval and modern contexts. Some essays apply contemporary critical theories, e.g., Harold Bloom on the anxiety of influence, while others reinterpret…
