Johnson, Ian.
A. J. Minnis, ed. The Medieval Boethius (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1987), pp. 139-68.
In bk. 3, met. 12, of his popular English translation of Boethius, John Walton behaves like a poet-commentator, striving for a contemporary eloquence while drawing on the authority of commentary tradition. In his preface, assuming the role of a…
Johnston, Andrew James.
Lilo Moessner and Christa M. Schmidt, eds. Anglistentag 2004 Aachen (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2005), pp. 19-29.
Highlights political aspects of ClT, interpreting the cruelty Walter inflicts on Griselda as a projection of his inner conflict between a hereditary ruler's "body politic" and his "body natural"--a conflict prompted by the pressure to provide an heir…
Skeat wrote a "Canterbury tale" in Middle English that admonishes the sin of covetousness, is thoroughly grounded in the Middle Ages, and fits into the scheme of CT. It reveals one of the more "relaxed moments" of this great Chaucer scholar, about…
Edwards, A. S. G.
Paul Ruggiers, ed. Editing Chaucer: The Great Tradition (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1984), pp. 171-89.
Summarizes the progress of Skeat's career as an editor of Chaucer, articulating his debts to Richard Morris, F. J. Furnivall, and Henry Bradshaw, and acclaiming his accomplishments as the beginning of the "Modern Age" of Chaucer scholarship.…
Peeters, L.
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur Älteren Germanistik 1 (1972): 51-88.
Describes the meaning and artfulness of Walter Map's version of the "Wade" story in "De Nugis Curialium," exploring a variety of sources and analogues, including comments on Chaucer's reference to Wade in TC 3.624 and to Wade's boat in MerT 4.1424,…
Walter is not just testing his wife but doing the worst he can imagine himself doing as a stage in achieving a better unity among the parts of himself and between his private and public selves.
A personal travelogue of a walking trip from Canterbury to London following the Pilgrims' Way--interspersed with brief summaries of portions of CT and musings on medieval social history and folk wisdom, the United Kingdom and the United States,…
Trigg, Stephanie.
New Medieval Literatures 7 (2005): 9-33.
Distinguishes among "various ways in which medieval English religious sites are mediated for visitors," from cathedrals (including Canterbury) to the Canterbury Tales Visitor Attraction. Assesses the authenticity of visitors' experiences in light of…
Hayton, Heather Richardson.
Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 1393A, 2000.
Analyzes two works each from late-thirteenth-century Florence and late-fourteenth-century England in relation to the "Roman de la rose" as expressions of political factionalism in the vocabulary of desire. Concludes that "a loyal citizen is still a…
Rhodes, William.
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017.
Interprets the Reeve's conflict with the Miller and the sexual politics and violence of RvT in light of late-medieval agrarian economy and Marxist ideas of the inequities of economic exchange. Designed for pedagogical use, includes several questions…
Peeters, L[eopold].
Amsterdammer Beitrage zur Alteren Germanistik 3 (1973): 25-65.
Provides context for the allusion to "Wades boot" in MerT (4.1423), observing in a thirteenth-century Latin homily on humility connections between Wade and Hildebrand, both Germanic heroes, and further associations with the Irish St. Brendan.…
Crocker, Holly A.
Chaucer Review 54.3 (2019): 352-70.
Advocates for a continued emphasis in KnT on the subjectivity of Emelye, whose endurance and forbearance are key to a kind of personhood that is open and connected, rather than the individual subjectivity connected to the masculinist order presented…
Holbrook, Peter.
Modern Philology 107 (2009): 96-125.
Contrasts the dispassionate modernist criticism of T. S. Eliot with the more emotional criticism of F. J. Furnivall, arguing that Furnivall is "passionately committed to libertarian tradition in English poetry, a tradition whose founts he locates in…
Johnston, Andrew James.
Andrew James Johnston. Performing the Middle Ages from "Beowulf" to "Othello." Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies, no. 15. (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2008), pp. 94-123.
Revises the author's earlier study "The Keyhole Politics of Chaucerian Theatricality: Voyeurism in the Knight's Tale" (SAC 27 [2005], no. 183), placing it in the context of a parallel discussion of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
Murphy, Michael.
English Studies 66 (1985): 105-12.
Distinguishes between vow and boast in literary convention, traced down to the burlesques in "The Tournament of Tottenham" and Chaucer's Th. Considers the role of women as "taunters."
Fichte, Joerg O.
Walter Haug and Burghart Wachinger, eds. Fortuna (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer, 1995), pp. 192-215.
Surveys the theme of Fortune's influence in treatments of the story of Troilus and Criseyde from Boccaccio to Dryden, including TC and the versions of Henryson and Shakespeare.
This volume provides select bibliographical listings for a range of English writers, from Joseph Addison to W. B. Yeats, arranged alphabetically by author, covering materials up to 1977. The Chaucer section (pp. 32-37) lists discussions of canon and…
Carruthers, Leo, ed.
Paris: Société des anglicistes de l'enseignement supérieur, 2011.
Eleven articles on medieval women and/or literature for them, especially works that are written by women authors. For one essay that pertains to Chaucer, see Piero Boitani, "Marie de France and the Breton Lay in England," (pp. 211-26).
Oliver, Douglas.
Journal of Phonetics 12.2 (1984): 115-32.
Technical report of a set of acoustic experiments designed to gauge how "voicing duration" interacts with intonation to "give a poetic line much of its 'personality'." One experiment assesses eight readings of a passage from Alexander Pope's "Essay…
Rodríquez Álvarez, Alicia, and Francisco Alanso Almeida, eds.
[Spain]: Netbiblo, 2004.
Eighteen essays by various authors on language, literature, and scientific manuscripts in Old and Middle English. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Voices on the Past under Alternative Title.
Morsberger, Katharine M.
Pacific Coast Philology 28 (1993): 3-19.
Through readings of Dryden's translation of WBT and Pope's translation of WBP, Morsberger details how "translation" serves as an attempt to understand the Other, to redefine language, and to discover other voices.
Kealy, J. Kieran.
A. E. Christa Canitz and Gernot R. Wieland, eds. From Arabye to Engelond: Medieval Studies in Honour of Mahmoud Manzalaoui on His 75th Birthday (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1999), pp. 113-29.
Reads Ret as the "culminating moment in the progressive disillusionment" of the Canterbury fiction for poet and reader alike. SNT, CYT, and ManT together "systematically confront" medieval notions of truth and the ability of humans to know it,…
