Hallam, Elizabeth, and Andrew Prescott, eds.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Photographic reproductions of records from British cultural history, arranged chronologically from the departure of the Romans to late-modern multi-culturalism. Reproduces in color (p. 31) three images that pertain to Chaucer: a page from the…
Rumble, Thomas C., ed.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1965.
Presents eight Breton lays in Middle English, each with bottom-of-page glosses, a facsimile manuscript page, a bibliography, and a general Introduction (pp. xiii-xxx) that describes the nature of the genre, its history, and French sources of the…
Kahlert, Shirley Ann.
Dissertation Abstracts International 42 (1981): 1629A.
The Breton lay evolved from Celtic tradition to generic identity with Marie de France to art form in Chaucer's WBT and FranT. Most clearly characterized by the "merveilleux," it has crossed cultural boundaries in such a way as to lose its motives…
Breeze, Andrew.
Review of English Studies, n.s., 45 (1994): 63-69.
Chaucer's harpist, Glascurion (HF 1208), is Gwydion, son of Don. Various sound changes can account for Chaucer's "hearing" of Glascurion, suggesting a lost tale about Gwydion known to Chaucer and his audience.
Item not seen. Young-adult, historical novel about Edward III's ascendancy to power and marriage, presented as a tale told by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of Edward's reign.
Yamamoto, Dorothy.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Explores relationships of the human body to human identity in Middle English literature, focusing on representations of the animal world and of "wild men" as they define the margins (and hence the center) of the human. Includes discussions of…
Fleming, Berry.
Sag Harbor, N.Y.: Permanent Press, 1986.
Modern novel that includes a sailing trip to the Caribbean, during which the travelers (the Doctor's Colleague, the Wife, the Diver, etc.) exchange "tales." Includes reference to Chaucer and an approximate quotation of HF 354-60.
Identifies a series of analogues to the book-burning episode in WBP 3.816 in eastern versions of the "Seven Sages" (or "Books of Sindibad"), identifying similarities and differences between them and Chaucer's account, and suggesting that oral…
Critical edition of BD with introduction, text and notes, and an appendix which includes selections from analogous French works by Machaut and Froissart.
Ludwig, Jenn.
Lawrence Trudeau, ed. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Volume 213 (Farmington, Mich.: Gale, 2013), pp. 1-114.
Reprints twelve essays on BD published between 1934 and 2007. The introduction by Ludwig (pp. 1-4) summarizes the plot and characters of BD, and comments on its plot and sources, major themes, and critical reception. Includes a selected bibliography…
Facing-page translation of BD, based on the Riverside edition and rendered in modern octosyllabic couplets. Includes brief notes, a biographical note about Chaucer, an introduction by the translator, and a foreword by Bernard O'Donoghue.
Burton, T. L., dir.
Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio, 1988.
Recorded at the Fourteenth Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ANZAMRS) Conference, University of Sydney. Readers include Francis de Vries, Mary Dove, Diane Speed, Gary Simes, David May, Andrew Lynch, Tom…
Phillips, Helen, ed.
Scotland: Universities of Durham and Saint Andrews, 1982.
Critical edition of BD with introduction, text and notes, and an appendix which includes selections from analogous French works by Machaut and Froissart.
Wangerin, Walter, Jr.
San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1985.
Fantasy novel, loosely based on NPT, featuring Chauntecleer and Pertelote, along with various barnyard, woodland, and mythic animals. Sequel to Wangerin's "The Book of the Dun Cow" (1978).
Carruthers, Mary (J.)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
In an interdisciplinary study drawing upon "modern hermeneutical theory; art history and codicology; psychology and anthropology; the histories of medicine, education, and of meditation and spirituality," Carruthers posits that "medieval culture was…
Mack, Dana, and David Blankenhorn, eds.
Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2001.
The chapter entitled "Who's the Head of the Family?" includes the modern translation of WBPT by A. Kent Hieatt and Constance Hieatt, somewhat abridged.
Illustrated tourist information pertaining to British writers and their works, arranged by geographical area, including introductions to sites associated with Chaucer: his tomb in Poets' Corner, his window in Southwark Cathedral, the Tabard Inn, and…
Haruta, Setsuko.
Hisao Tsuru, ed. Fiction and Truth: Essays on Fourteenth-Century English Literature (Tokyo: Kirihara Shoten, 2000), pp. 213-21.
Examines the historical situation of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Castile, challenging the traditional interpretation that The Book of the Duchess is an elegy for Blanche.
Chapter 2 focuses on free volition (as formulated by John Duns Scotus), empathy, and fraternal bonding in "Amis and Amiloun" and in SNT. In the latter, Valerian and Tiburce "forgo political loyalties and prioritize their fraternal bond by cultivating…
Rutherford, Charles S.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 78 (1977): 350-58.
Clanvowe uses Chaucerian themes and conventions with deftness. He recognizes irony based on logic, characterizes through rhetoric, and employs all three conventional endings of debate form.
Kaylor, Noel Harold, Jr., ed. and Philip Edward Phillips, eds.
Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., and Philip Edward Phillips, eds. New Directions in Boethian Studies. Studies in Medieval Culture, no. 45 (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007), pp. 223-79.
Transcribes the text of "The Boke of Coumfort of Bois," a Middle English translation of Book 1 of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, found only in MS Auct. F.3.5. Accepts the claim in the Bodleian catalogue that the translation depends upon…
