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Lanham, Richard A.   Literature and Psychology 16 (1966): 157-65.
Challenges psychoanalytic approaches to ClT and rejects the approaches that read the poem either as a Christian parable of authoritarianism or a rejection of authority as a "disease of monarchy." Argues that Chaucer creates the Tale as an expression…

Lamb, Sidney, ed.   Toronto: Coles, 1966.
School-book edition of GP, with interlinear Middle and Modern English, and sidebar commentary, notes, and illustrative drawings.

Kelly, Francis J.   Explicator 24.9 (1966): item 81.
Explicates the phrase "withouten coppe" (FranT 5.492) as meaning "outside of the cup," conveying that Aurelius drank his penance to the fullest extent.

Joseph, Gerhard.   Chaucer Review 1.1 (1966): 21-32.
Reads the rocks of FranT as a representation of natural evil, only apparently avoided in the plot, and an opportunity for the operations of both "gentilesse" and unearned providential grace.

Hussey, Maurice, ed.   Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966.
Presents MerPT in Middle English (following Robinson's 1957 edition), with notes and glossary at the end of the text. The Introduction (pp. 1-34) comments on the GP description of the Merchant, the relations between MerT and ClT and between MerT and…

Hoffman, Richard L.   English Language Notes 3 (1966): 169-72.
Explains the sexual resonances latent in the reference to Priapus in MerT 4.2034-37, citing tales in Ovid, the commentary tradition, and PF. January's statue of Priapus "constitutes a kind of devotion to the obscene god who was the true patron saint…

Hoffman, Richard L.   [Philadelphia]: [University of Pennsylvania Press,] 1966.
Argues that Ovid inspired the structure, narrative complexities, and thematic focus of CT--its tales-within-a-tale structure, its multiple narrators characterized by their tales, and its concern with two kinds of love, higher and lower--and shows…

Heydon, Peter N.   Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 51 (1966): 529-45.
Argues that Chaucer was influenced by the now-lost Prologue to "Sir Orfeo" of the Auchinleck manuscript, evident in similarities in "concept, diction, and syntax" between the FranP and the extant versions of the "Orfeo" prologue and between the…

Haskell, Ann S.   Chaucer Review 1.2 (1966): 85-87.
Contends that the "Joce"/"croce" rhyme in WBP 3.483-84 is not just a convenient rhyme but a set of sexual puns, dependent upon the association of St. Joce with a staff.

Haller, Robert S.   Chaucer Review 1.2 (1966): 67-84.
Explores the epic elements of KnT and its sources, arguing that in placing love at the thematic center of his poem (replacing traditional political concerns), Chaucer was "attempting to make something entirely new" out of his material. By emphasizing…

Halle, Morris, and Samuel Jay Keyser.   College English 28 (1966): 187-219.
Explores the assumptions about stress that underlie prosodic scansion, and demonstrates that Chaucer's decasyllabic verse is built upon a contrastive rather than an absolute distinction between stressed and unstressed syllables. Considers elision,…

Grennen, Joseph E.   Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 67 (1966): 117-22.
Argues that a possible source for the references to "Sampsoun" in PardT 6.549-61 and for aspects of the account of Samson in MkT 7.2914-94 is "Livre du Chevalier de la Tour-Landry."

Grennen, Joseph E.   Romance Notes 8 (1966): 109-12.
Argues that aspects of the beginning of MerT (including January's ill health, the names Placebo and Justinus, etc.) may have been inspired by details and sentiments found in "Livre du Chevalier de la Tour-Landry."

Grenberg, Bruce L.   Chaucer Review 1.1 (1966): 37-54.
Argues that the concern with the "basic duality between material and spiritual values" in CYPT is based in Boethius's admonitions against pursuing false felicity in his "Consolation of Philosophy," manifested in the Canon's Yeoman's concern with…

Gage, Phyllis C.   Neophilologus 50 (1966): 252-61.
Attends closely to the syntax of three stanzas of PrT, describing their intricacies and "strong effects," by commenting on predication, modification, rhyme, grammar, and related prosodic concerns.

Frank, Robert W., Jr., and Edmund Reiss.   Chaucer Review 1.1 (1966):1-3.
Introduces the goals and intentions of the "Chaucer Review," describing the publishing aims of the newly established journal.

Frank, Robert Worth, Jr.   Chaucer Review 1.2 (1966): 110-33.
Rejects the argument that Chaucer abandoned LGW out of weariness or boredom on the grounds that Chaucer had long been interested in classical love stories, that he took time to revise LGWP, that he employed abbreviation and "occupatio" effectively in…

Duncan, Edgar H.   Tennessee Studies in Literature 11 (1966): 19-33.
Explicates the thematic and characterizing recurrences of hands and hand imagery in WBP, focusing on the eleven variations of the phrase "bear on hand" as they evoke and sustain the Wife's concern with wifely control in marriage, convey a sense of…

Crow, Martin M., and Clair C. Olson, eds.   Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966.
Documentary source book of 493 archival records that pertain to Chaucer's "career as a courtier, diplomat, and civil servant," arranged topically in thirty-one categories from Chaucer's ancestors to his death; includes a "Chronological Table" of the…

Crane, John Kenny.   English Language Notes 4 (1966): 81-85.
Adduces evidence from late-medieval maritime law and practice and from details in the GP description of the Merchant (compared with those of the Friar and the Clerk) to argue that the Merchant "has probably committed every money-crime in the books."

Corsa, Helen.   Literature and Psychology 16 (1966): 184-91.
Argues that Chaucer's characterizations of the three main actors in TC produce an "Oedipal triangle" that helps to explain the power of the feelings in the consummation scene. Considers the changes Chaucer makes to Boccaccio's "Filostrato," focusing…

Byers, John R., Jr.   English Language Notes 4 (1966): 6-9.
Argues that the Host's oath by the "precious corpus Madrian" in CT (MkP 7.1892) refers to St. Hadrian or Adrian, adducing details from the "Golden Legend" and citing the Host's "untrained ear," as well as parallels with Melibee's wife, Prudence, and…

Brewer, D. S.   D. S. Brewer, ed. Chaucer and Chaucerians: Critical Studies in Middle English Literature (University: University of Alabama Press; London: Nelson, 1966), pp. 240-70.
Surveys the reception of Chaucer as a poet, century by century, commenting recurrently on the understanding and appreciation of his rhetoric and meter, humor and moral seriousness, linguistic obscurity, relations with sources, characterization, and…

Pearsall, Derek.   D. S. Brewer, ed. Chaucer and Chaucerians: Critical Studies in Middle English Literature (University: University of Alabama Press; London: Nelson, 1966), pp. 201-39.
Surveys the achievements, excellences, and limitations of English fifteenth-century "secular non-popular poetry," concentrating on works by Thomas Hoccleve, Stephen Hawes, John Skelton, and, especially, John Lydgate, along with other love allegories…

Fox, Denton.
  D. S. Brewer, ed. Chaucer and Chaucerians: Critical Studies in Middle English Literature (University: University of Alabama Press; London: Nelson, 1966), pp. 164-200.
Describes the limitations of the label "Scottish Chaucerians," and assesses Chaucer's influence on the works of Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas, maintaining that they are chronologically "central" to the Middle Scots poetry of the…
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