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Ellis, Roger.   Catherine Batt, ed. Essays on Thomas Hoccleve ([Turnhout, Belgium]: Brepols, 1996), pp. 29-54.
Questions how well Thomas Hoccleve's translation of Christine de Pizan's "Epistre au dieu d'amours" captures the "wit of the original," arguing that the translation was influenced by LGW and by other Chaucerian works and suggesting that Christine's…

Laird, Edgar (S.)   Chaucer Review 44 (2010): 344-50.
By taking into account the increasing degree of willful irrationality attributed to Cupid in Chaucer's PF, KnT, and LGW and in Clanvowe's "Boke of Cupid," it becomes possible to view the writers' "god of Love [as] to some extent a collaborative…

Bennett, J. A. W.   Piero Boitani, ed. Chaucer and the Italian Trecento (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 89-113.
Chaucer rarely adopted inappropriate Danteisms from Boccaccio. Some of the differences between Chaucer's TC and KnT and Boccaccio's "Filostrato" and "Teseida" may be attributed to Chaucer's understanding and appreciation of Dante.

Ellis, Steve.   Chaucer Review 22 (1988): 282-94.
HF is a satire on Dante's procedures of damnation and on his Virgilianism. LGW and TC should not be read ironically but should be seen as continuations of the damnation debate with Dante that began with HF.

Olson, Glending.   Chaucer Review 16 (1982): 222-36.
The fragment containing SNT and CYT is unique in the intrusion of new pilgrims undescribed in GP. Two seemingly unrelated stories are tightly unified: SNT in the "lastynge bisynesse" of Saint Cecilia; CYT in the fraudulent "bisynesse" of the Canon,…

Pearcy, Roy J.   Arts: The Journal of the Sydney University Arts Association 12 (1984): 35-39.
The line "Aux ignorans de la langue pandras" in Deschamps' ballade to Chaucer refers to the Saxon element in English culture, as opposed to the British or Anglo-Norman elements with which Chaucer is associated. Deschamps dissociates a poet he…

Conner, Edwin.   Tennessee Philological Bulletin 23 (1986): 21-22 (abstract).
A subgenre of estates portraits, not touched on by Mann, includes "tarocchi," the richly illuminated playing cards of fourteenth- and fifteenth- century Italy that developed into tarot cards and modern playing cards. The four suits represent the…

Blamires, Alcuin.   Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Blamires elucidates ways in which CT and, to a lesser extent, TC engage moral and ethical discourse and shows this discourse at times to be gendered. Grounded in a range of Christian and classical sources, especially Stoic texts, Chaucer's "spectrum…

Scanlon, Larry.   Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 45-55.
Suggests that modernity's insistence on a repressive break with the past helps to explain the paucity of screen adaptations of Chaucer's works, commenting on similarities between Chaucer's desert in HF and the "desert of the [R]eal" of Jean…

Wimsatt, James I.   Edward Vasta and Zacharias P. Thundy, ed. Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979), pp. 119-31.
From BD at the beginning of his career to Sted at the end, Chaucer made use of Machaut's ballade, "Il m'est avis." He drew on it for the translation of Bo, for MerT, and for For. Its images appear especially in BD and in MerT, its philosophical…

Goldstein, R. James.   Jean E. Jost, ed. Chaucer's Humor: Critical Essays (New York and London: Garland, 1994), pp. 145-62.
Offers a Freudian analysis of the antifeminist and political jokes in NPT. The opening frame concerning the widow and the allusion to the rebellion of 1381 suggest that the "repression of the class interests of the exploited" is "a symptom of the…

Johnston, Andrew James.   Walter Delabar and Jorg Doring, eds. Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) (Berlin: Weidler, 1998), pp. 239-64.
Assesses Brecht's portrayal of Galileo Galilei, comparing it with Chaucer's attitudes to scholastic science and scientific language in SqT and Astr, Lydgate's assessment of Chaucer's scientific writing, Petrarch's view of scholastic philosophy and…

Blake, N. F.   Takami Matsuda, Richard A. Linenthal, and John Scahill, eds. The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya (Cambridge: Brewer; Tokyo: Yushodo, 2004), pp. 87-98.
Considers the inclusion of Gamelyn in early manuscripts of CT and the relative confidence with which scribes placed the tale. Given the possibility that some manuscripts predate Chaucer's death, he may have experimented with including the tale, even…

Homan, Delmar C.   Kansas English 82:4 (1997): 30-40.
Advocates fusion of high art and popular culture in general-education curricula, commenting on the use of principles of group dynamics to analyze CT.

Mehl, Dieter.   Kurt Ranke, ed. Enzyklopadie des Marchens, Vol. 2 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1979), cols. 1256-67
Emphasis on Chaucer's sources and narrative patterns in the light of fairy tales and the oral tradition.

Jost, Jean E.   Steven H. Gale, ed. Encyclopedia of British Humorists: Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese (New York and London: Garland, 1996): vol. 1, pp. 228-43.
Surveys the humor and structural comedy of Chaucer's works, especially CT, examining individual tales and commenting on BD, HF, and PF. Chaucer achieves comic effects through narrative resolution and by manipulating time, place, and circumstances. …

Donaldson, E. Talbot.   Joseph R. Strayer, ed. Volume 3: Cabala-Crimea (NewYork: Scribner, 1983), pp. 279-97.
Describes Chaucer's life and works in chronological sequence, commenting in detail on events and on literary concerns of all of his major works, exploring most extensively characterization in TC and variety of genre in CT. Includes a bibliography.

Brewer, Derek.   Steven R. Serafin and Valerie Grovenor Myer, eds. The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature (New York: Continuum, 2003), pp. 176-78.
Encyclopedia entry that surveys Chaucer's life, language, and works chronologically.

Boyd, David Lorenzo.   Claude J. Summers, ed. The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: A Reader's Companion to the Writers and Their Works, from Antiquity to the Present. Rev. ed. (New York: Routledge, 2002), pp. 147-48.
Boyd summarizes the tension in medieval tradition between the promotion of homosocial bonding and the proscription of sodomy. He characterizes Chaucer's treatment of male homosexuality in CT as typically homophobic.

Lindahl, Carl.   Mary Ellen Brown and Bruce A. Rosenberg, eds. Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 1998), pp. 114-16.
Summary of Chaucer's life and poetic career, emphasizing his familiarity with a "world of noble and festive pageantry" and the "traditional customs" alluded to in his poetry.

Gillespie, Stuart.   Shakespeare's Books: A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources. 2nd ed. (New York: Bloomsbury, 2016), pp. 70-78.
Synopsizes critical opinion about Chaucer's influence on Shakespeare, especially the impact of TC, KnT, and MerT, with attention to other works. Comments on the knowledge and status of Chaucer in Shakespeare's age and includes a bibliography updated…

Lawler, Jennifer [L.]   John Block Friedman and Kristen Mossler Figg, eds., with Scott D. Westram and Gregory G. Guzman. Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, no. 1899 (New York and London: Garland, 2000), pp. 105-06.
Brief description of Chaucer's travels and of pilgrimage as a frame in CT. Like the pilgrimage report of Felix Fabri (1441/2-1502), CT is important as a historical record.

Williams, David.   Robert L. Fastiggi, ed. New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2011, Vol. 1 (Detroit: Gale/Cengage, 2011), pp. 171–75.
Summarizes Chaucer's life and career, and comments on TC and CT (especially the Pardoner and Wife of Bath) as demonstrations of Chaucer's "commitment to the religious view of life," his "humanist sympathy" with living in a fallen world, and his…

[Kiser, Lisa J.]   In Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, and Salvatore Settis, eds. The Classical Tradition (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap, 2010).
Encyclopedia entry that summarizes Chaucer's debt to classical tradition as source material for his plots, imaginings of the classical past, and "voicings" of classical speakers throughout his corpus. Comments on Chaucer's awareness of mediation and…

Gray, Douglas.   H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, eds. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 61 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004): 11: 247-59.
Biography of Chaucer, with brief bibliography. Sub-sections include "Early Life," "Poetry: The Beginnings," "Journeys on the King's Service--Italy," "Chaucer at the Customs House and Aldgate," "Works of the 1370s and early 1380s," "Life in London,…
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