Emmerson, Richard K.
Martin Stevens and Daniel Woodward, eds. The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library; Tokyo: Yushodo, 1995), pp. 143-70.
The twenty-three portraits in the Ellesmere manuscript are not closely related to Chaucer's text. Only eight of the portraits show "striking features" described in GP, and even these eight show details not derived from the text.
Hahn, Thomas,and Richard W. Kaeuper.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 5 (1983): 67-101.
FrT reflects hostility, especially among the lower classes, against widespread corruption and double standards among archdeacons and summoners, as surviving documents of the period amply and graphically suggest.
Ballestra, Gianfranca, and Leslie-Anne Crowley, eds.
Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 2000.
Proceedings from a seminar on Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's short story, "The Wife of Bath," in which a modern character (a Jane Austen fan) travels to Bath and meets a woman, Alice, whose life recalls Chaucer's character in several ways. The story is…
Borowitz, Albert.
Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2005.
Traces the development of the traditional story of Herostratos, the arsonist of Diana's temple in Ephesus, and comments (pp. 23-24) that, in light of its inconsistencies with the traditional account, Chaucer's reference (HF 1844) to one who set fire…
Chaganti, Seeta.
Robert John Meyer-Lee and Catherine Sanok, eds. The Medieval Literary: Beyond Form (Cambridge: Brewer, 2018), pp. 185-211.
Contemplates relations among time, seriality, causality, movement, and dancing, exploring the experiences of moving through Robert Smithson's monumental contemporary sculpture "Spiral Jetty" and watching a film of the experience as analogues to the…
Dauby, Hélène.
Danielle Buschinger and Arlette Sancery, eds. Mélanges de langue, littérature et civilisation offerts à André Crépin à l'occasion de son quatre-vingtième anniversaire (Amiens: Presses du Centre d'Études Médiévales, Université de Picardie-Jules Verne, 2008), pp. 142-44.
Assesses invocations and formulas used to address divinities, characters,and sources in TC.
Wittig, Joseph S.
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 117-32.
Reads Chaucer's allusion to Tereus, Procne, and Philomela in TC as an "ethical and moral" gloss on his own poem, generating tensions between the refined love of Troilus and Criseyde and the raw passions in Ovid. Also comments on source relations…
Duffell, Martin J.
Language and Literature 22.1 (2013): 19-31.
Argues that, "while Tennyson thought he was composing quantitative hendecasyllables, he was in fact producing accentual verse of a type that English poets had been studiously avoiding for 500 years." Traces the development of Chaucer's iambic…
Demetriou, Tania.
Review of English Studies 71, no. 298 (2020): 19-43.
Refers to a sidenote in Gabriel Harvey's copy of Speght's 1598 edition of Chaucer that is supposed to shed light on the date of Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Argues that the ambiguities in the various interpretations circulating may be unriddled to produce…
Strakhov, Elizaveta.
Medium Aevum 85.2 (2016): 236-58.
Contends that Deschamps's "Ballade to Chaucer" alludes to a poetic debate between Philippe de Vitry and Jean de le Mote, to Ovidian exile, and to a poet's oeuvre as a garden. Claims that Deschamps's emphasis on translation and use of French and…
Patterson, Lee.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Reprints seven of Patterson's essays, with a new introduction, "Historicism and Postmodernity" (pp. 1-18), that explains why he pursues the "micronarratives" of New Historicism rather than those of psychoanalytic criticism. Patterson affirms the…
Higgs, Elton D.
Susan Powell and Jeremy J. Smith, eds. New Perspectives on Middle English Texts: A Festschrift for R. A. Waldron (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000), pp. 151-67.
Explores the themes of debt and indebtedness in CT, showing how they are established in GP and how throughout the work attempts "to manipulate obligations to one's own advantage" result in "superficial or ambivalent success." Material advantage often…
Explores use of temporality ("the experience of living in time") in CT and Gower's "Confessio Amantis," suggesting that CT is present-centered and considers the relationship of past to present, while Gower "focuses on the present as it becomes the…
Barron, Caroline.
In Linda Clark and Elizabeth Danbury, eds. "A Verray Parfit Praktisour": Essays Presented to Carole Rawcliffe (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2017), pp. 141-51.
Questions why there was "no great belfry housing a public clock in medieval London," arguing that something similar was raised in the 1350s at the parish church of St. Pancras in Soper Lane. Includes one reference to Chaucer: the cock crow rather…
Lambert, Mark.
Piero Boitani and Jill Mann, eds. The Cambridge Chaucer Companion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 59-73.
The "texture" of TC--its nuances and suggestive detail--both enriches and "interferes with" the meaning conveyed by theme and structure. Thus, by the end of TC readers may both admire and dislike the "trouthe" of the hero and heroine. Overtly, TC…
Hanning, Robert W.
James M. Dean and Christian Zacher, eds. The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992), pp.108-25.
"Pryvetee" assumes a spectrum of meanings and a range of functions in the overall scheme of CT. Hanning examines a few of these functions, suggesting that at the center of the poem and Chaucer's art is a mysterious, antithetical, yet symbiotic…
Kooper, Erik.
Maarten De Pourcq and Sophie Levie, eds. European Literary History (New York: Routledge, 2018), pp. 128-38.
Introduces Chaucer's life and works, emphasizing CT and its innovations of social tension and variety as reflections of changes in English society during Chaucer's lifetime. Also comments on the fragmentary nature of CT, compares the work with…
Turner, Marion.
Times Literary Supplement November 19, 2021, pp. 14-15.
Reviews a production of Zadie Smith’s stage play "The Wife of Willesden" (Kiln Theatre), along with the edition of the play (London: Penguin, 2021), describing its relations with WBPT and mentioning other recent adaptations.
Rosenthal, Joel T.
University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003.
Provides close historical analysis of three groups of archives: proofs of age from the reigns of Richard II and Henry IV, depositions from the Scrope-Grosvenor controversy, and Margaret Paston's letters. Discussion of the depositions includes…
Lehmann, Elmar, and Bernd Lenz, eds.
Amsterdam and Philadelphia: B. B. Gruner, 1992.
A festschrift with nineteen essays focusing on telling stories, a theme that plays an important role in the work of Ulrich Broich. The subjects range from England to Japan, from Chaucer to Joyce, from genre to gender. For two essays that pertain to…
Rupp, Jan.
REAL: The Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 36 (2020): 219-37.
Describes uses of "iconic extant narratives" in twenty-first-century refugee writing, using CT as a "key and core example," and focusing on how it adds "to the ethical potential" of three volumes of "Refugee Tales" (2016, 2018, and 2019) edited by…
The individual tales in CT contain multiple voices and the same narrative strategies as the frame itself--i.e., the central narrative interrupted by intervening narratives "read as both a narrating act and a narracted event that compels the…
