Includes selections from GP (pp. 16-33) in Middle English with Nevill Coghill's modern translation on facing pages and brief comments and notes (pp. 296-97).
King, Francis, and Bruce Steele, eds.
Melbourne: F. W. Cheshire, 1969.
A textbook edition of selections from CT (GP, MilPT, RvP, PardPT, PrPT, Tho, NPT, WBPT, ManPT, ParP, a selection from ParsT, and Ret) in Middle English, with facing-page glosses and end-of-text notes and commentary. Also includes passages from…
Fisher, Marlene, ed.
Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown, 1969.
A textbook anthology of literary works (some excerpted) that pertain to love and marriage, from the classical period to modern America. Includes MerT in Nevill Coghill's modern translation (pp. 17-44), with a brief descriptive introduction and…
Coghill, Nevill, and Christopher Tolkien, eds.
London: George G. Harrap and Co., 1969.
A textbook edition of MLPT in Middle English, with an introduction and end-of-text notes and glossary; includes the GP description of the Sergeant of Law. The Introduction (pp. 7-57) assesses various "puzzling features" of MLP, its place in Chaucer's…
Brewer, D. S., and L. Elisabeth Brewer, eds.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969.
A textbook edition of selections from TC in Middle English (some 5000 lines), with an introduction and end-of-text commentary and glossary. Much of Book 4 is excluded (its Prologue of is included), and other passages reduced slightly. The…
A doctoral dissertation that explores "simple and direct communication" in CT, focusing on Chaucer's acceptance of human generosity and humility rather than his criticism or satire of human foibles. Individual chapters include discussion of Chaucer's…
Winny, James, ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971.
A textbook edition of MilPT in Middle English, with introduction and end-of-text notes and glossary. The Introduction (pp. 1-25) discusses the place of the Tale in the CT, its rhetoric and diction, sources and analogues, various themes,…
Haskell, Ann Sullivan.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 67 (1968): 430-40.
Identifies the referent of the Host's oath (MkP 7.1892) as the Greek martyr St. Adrian, explaining his history and legends, familiarity to Chaucer's audience, and appropriateness to the context of the Host's complaint that his wife Goodelief had not…
Harrington, David V.
Annuale Mediaevale 9 (1968): 85-97.
Resists readings of the CYT that regard the narrator as stupid or unwitting in his self-revelation, contending instead that he is a "newly reformed alchemist" who is, generally, "rational, down-to-earth, and persuasive in his description and…
Harrington, David V.
Chaucer Review 3.1 (1968): 50-59.
Rejects attempts to read PardT as an example of psychological realism and reads it instead as a "rapidly progressing discourse" that results from "special use of rhetorical devices for the impression of speed." The Tale conveys to its audience a…
A biography of Chaucer, illustrated with numerous b&w photographs of objects from late-medieval life. Includes discussion of Chaucer's major poetry, linking his works with events and attitudes of his age, and exploring how Chaucer responded to such…
Grossvogel, David L.
Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1968.
Explores the "complex dialectic between the author and his reader" as the defining feature of the novel as a literary form, offering case studies in a range of works, medieval to modern. Includes a discussion of TC (pp. 44-73) which focuses on…
Grennen, Joseph E.
American Notes and Queries 6 (1968): 83-85.
Identifies the sexual and medical implications of several details in the GP description of the Monk, including his association with venery and food, his baldness, and his being fat "in good point" (1.200).
Gardner, John
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 67 (1968): 594-611.
Surveys theories of why Chaucer altered LGWP from the F-version to the G-version, and seeks to explain "every single change" he made in creating anew a complete, "organic" poem. The revised version better accords with the poet's treatment of love in…
Garbáty, Thomas Jay.
Romances Notes 9 (1968): 325-30.
Assesses the gate in PF, exploring "remarkable parallels which the inscriptions on the gate and the further description of the garden" in PF "have to certain sections of the Fifth Dialogue" of Andreas Cappellanus's "Art of Courtly Love."
Foster, Edward E.
Chaucer Review 3.2 (1968): 88-94.
Examines several bawdy puns, "incongruous situations," and other humorous ironies in KnT, suggesting that they are unintended by the Knight yet consistent with Chaucer's depiction of him as "a romantic, caught by reality but aspiring to the ideal"…
Identifies five structural units in the narrative of the KnT and reads them as a unified, seriatim manifestation of a world that is "tyrannized by mutability," resistant to individual and corporate efforts to find or impose order, and sensible only…
Coleman, Joyce, dir. and prod.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Department of English, 2006.
Presents a two-part re-enactment of TC 2.78-119 in Middle English, with modern English sub-titles and production notes. Part I dramatizes the scene; Part II "recreates how medieval audiences would have experienced Chaucer's poem." Available on…
Carson, Mother Angela, O.S.U.
American Notes and Queries 6.09 (1968): 135-36.
Explains Criseyde's comment about Troilus in TC 3.88 in light of the Feast of Fools, suggesting that it means she considers him neither a fool nor "too bold or irreverent."
Biggins, Dennis.
Studies in Philology 65 (1968): 44-50.
Argues that the name Simond/Symkyn in RvT "involves a pun on the Latin word 'simia,' meaning 'ape'," exploring Symkyn's multiple associations with apes, along with those of Robin the Miller.
Beidler, Peter G.
English Record 18 (1968): 54-60.
Argues that the subject matter, irony, depiction of love, and touches of humor in KnT are "in no way inappropriate" to the characterization of the Knight evident elsewhere in CT
Durham, Lonnie J.
Chaucer Review 3.1 (1968): 1-11.
Explores the imagery of nature and death in TC, arguing that Criseyde is "representative of a principle of life" and "best understood in terms of her cyclical or seasonal progression through the poem." Pandarus is associated with mutability, and…
Surveys late medieval "attitudes toward alchemy" in order to establish their influence on CYPT. Although Chaucer's depiction is generally orthodox in its condemnation of alchemy, it derives language and details from treatises that promote the study,…
