Elmes, Melissa Ridley.
Once and Future Classroom 17.1 (2021): 1-26.
Describes a semester-long assignment for use in an undergraduate Chaucer course, with extensive hand-outs, adaptable to in-class, online, and hybrid formats. The end-product is a "commonplace book" or “medieval miscellany” that combines…
Kouritzin, Sandra G.
Kouritzin, Sandra G., Nathalie A. C. Piquemal, and Renee Norman, eds. Qualitative Research: Challenging the Orthodoxies in Standard Academic Discourse(s) (New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 67-82.
Personal account of the author's efforts to write an unorthodox dissertation, including comments about her thwarted intention of using the CT "as a template" for the dissertation.
Lerer, Seth.
James J. Paxson, Lawrence M. Clopper, and Sylvia Tomasch, eds. The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 59-76.
In the beginning of CT, Chaucer's references and allusions to late-fourteenth-century theater indicate the potentially disruptive nature of dramatic public expression. CT defines the cycle plays as radically other-provincial, civic, and communally…
Lanham, Richard A.
Lanham, Richard A. Literacy and the Survival of Humanism (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1983), pp. 41-57.
The "homo ludens" tradition from Erasmus to Huizinga and the recent development of sociobiology reveal three motives in life and art: play, purpose, and game. Critics focusing on allegory or "idea" see purpose as Chaucer's primary motive, but his…
The attribution of "Testament of Love" and "The Plowman's Tale" to Chaucer seems to have had no unfavourable effect, though the acceptance of his authorship of "The Plowman's Tale" may have fueled the belief that Ret was a monkish forgery.
Forni, Kathleen, ed.
Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute, 2005.
Edits sixteen medieval narrative poems and lyrics "prized and preserved because of their associations with Chaucer." Includes glosses, notes, and textual information, with a cumulative bibliography and brief glossary. The selection includes "The…
Forni, Kathleen.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2001.
Forni traces the complex relationship between Chaucer's canon and the apocrypha, with particular focus on the "Folio" canon, from Thynne's 1532 "Workes" edition to editions of the eighteenth century. The first part examines the formation of the Folio…
Pace, George B.
Studies in Bibliography 18 (1965): 41-48.
Offers "a detailed textual analysis" of Prov, furnishing "a text based on four authorities," and, while not affirming or denying attribution to Chaucer, setting "the record straight, perhaps, on certain matters connected with authenticity."
Lundberg, Marlene Helen Cooreman.
Dissertation Abstracts International 42 (1982): 3993A.
Gower and Chaucer treat the same traditional stories differently: Gower typically narrates them as exempla in "Confessio Amantis," whereas Chaucer, breaking from the fixed pattern of LGW, tells them in CT to explore truth.
Hadbawnik, David.
Upstart: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies (2014): n.p. Web. March 3, 2019.
Argues that Spenser emulates Chaucer in "furthering the project of language formation in English." Attending to Chaucer's model in CT (and to Richard Mulcaster's precepts), Spenser uses interactive speakers who have various dialects and lexicons to…
Heuston, Edward F.
Notes and Queries 209 (1964): 20-21.
Asserts that the source of the echoes from Chaucer in William Wordsworth's "Liberty" is ManT 9.163-74 rather than SqT 5.610-20 even though the Chaucerian passages are analogous.
Commentary on and recording of the extant music mentioned in Chaucer, arranged for harp and voice and embellished with other instruments; also includes other medieval songs. The commentary describes fourteenth-century harps and harping. The recording…
Describes a series of six short assignments (three pages each) designed for a Chaucer class, intended to introduce students to the major methods and tools used by professional scholars. The assignments focus on diction analysis, tale/teller…
Braswell, Mary Flowers.
Chaucer Review 39 (2005): 402-19
Haweis's two books--Chaucer for Children (1877) and Chaucer for Schools (1881)--reveal much about Victorian Chaucerians, their conversations, and their research. A scholarly popularizer, Haweis supported Chaucer's reputation during the formative…
Edwards, A. S. G.
English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700 4 (1993): 268-71.
Argues that the portrait of Chaucer in Rosenbach MS 1083/30 was most likely copied from Harley MS 4866 in the early eighteenth century for John Murray. Both manuscripts are of Hoccleve's "Regement of Princes."
Berger, Rainer,and William Matthews.
PACT: Revue du Groupe Europâeen d'Âetudes pour les Techniques Physiques, Chimiques, et Mathâematiques Appliquâees à l'Archâeologie 49: 99-106, 1995.
Report of radiocarbon dating and dendrochronological analysis of the oak panel of the UCLA Chaucer portrait, indicating a date of about 1400. This makes it likely that the portrait "represents a close likeness of the poet" at the end of his life.
Describes a freshman writing course that focuses on late-medieval social history, structured by means of GP and eight of the tales in CT. Includes a complete syllabus, writing exercise, and supplemental information.
Raymo, Robert R., and Judith Glazer-Raymo, compilers.
Perkins, Shari, and Jared Camins-Esakov, eds.
New York: Ascensius Press, 2015.
Catalogues the Chaucer collection of Raymo and Glazer-Raymo, which includes editions of the complete works of Chaucer, critical and literary histories, recordings of readings, and collections of Chaucer ephemera.
Whitaker, Muriel A.
Chaucer Review 34: 174-89, 1999.
Did Chaucer commission the chest in the London Museum with scenes from PardT? The poet could have supervised its adherence to the literary source and added the hunting fox as a symbol for the Pardoner. He might have chosen the cheaper elm rather than…
Blake, N. F.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 90 (1989): 295-310.
Closer attention to external and internal evidence should make scholars more cautious about accepting as canonical such passages as NPE, BD 31-96, Ret, and the lists of Chaucerian works in MLT and LGWP.
Van Arsdale, Ruth.
American Notes and Queries 13 (1975): 146-48.
George Williams is wrong to claim homosexual implication for Th, in the light of a re-examination of the knight himself, the forest through which he rode, and Chuacer's use of "prike" in the tale. To find sexual connotations in the tale is to read…
Jimura, Akiyuki.
Phoenix 15 (1979): 101-22. Department of English, Hiroshima University.
A discussion of the characterizations of Troilus and Criseyde by investigating the meanings of adjectives attached to each noun illustrating their natures. Troilus, who languishes for love, is represented as a strong, faithful, idealistic knight and…
