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Explores examples of "friendship, felicity or joy, love, fellowship, and 'compaignye' (company, companionship, community)" in Chaucer's works through a Neoplatonic lens. Focuses on "Chaucer's Boethianism" by offering perspectives on Chaucer's own…

Bourgne studies the links between architecture and Chaucer's transposition ("his new ekphrasis") into literary compositions.

Chaucer's character parodies the saint in a number of persuasively explicit details.

Considers Chaucer's uses of bird imagery in TC, contrasting them at many points with other, more anthropocentric literary birds, and generally commending his bird (and animal) imagery for its rhetorical range and evocation of precise emotion.

Refutes the view that Shakespeare used the Legend of Thisbe or Th in writing his "Midsummer Night's Dream."

The Norfolk origin of the Reeve provides a "ready-made expectation of avarice."

In RvT, Chaucer's "treatment of the Northern dialect" is fairly consistent, but the Reeve's dialect includes "distinctive features characteristic of the Norfolk dialect."

Through its "metafictional dialogue" between the teller and pilgrim narrator; its "inter-illumination" of genres, including anticlerical satire, oath making, and fabliau; and its depiction of a "carnival hell," FrT parodies and thus undermines the…

Following the contention that the name "Pertelote" means "one who confuses someone's lot or fate" (R. A. Pratt, "Three Old French Sources of NPT," Speculum 47 (1972): 655), the author suggests that Pertelote tries to effect a change in Chauntecleer's…

By studying fourteenth-century numismatics and representations of greed, one finds that the Pardoner's extreme avarice is reflected in his knowledge of coins, his identification with horses, and his sterility.

Comments on the comic and aural effects of the allusions to Hasdrubales's wife and to Nero in NPT (7.3362-73), focusing on Pertelote and the other female chickens.

Reads the NPT as a reflection of its narrator's moral sentiment, suggesting that the Nun's Priest is an intellectual, neither a stern moralist nor a modern relativist; he is a man content with "aesthetic contemplation" of the "world's failings."

Reproduction of holographic musical score, with lyrics and performance instructions, copyrighted in 1965 by Henmar Press. Headnote: "Commissioned for the Hopkins Center 'Congregation of the Arts' at Dartmouth College by Mario di Bonaventura, Musical…

Explains that Chauntecleer is motivated by lust when he flies down from the beam after his dream of danger.

Reports two oral accounts of analogues of the Old Man in the PardT--one from the southwest U.S. and one from Guatemala.

Gauges what "old age" may have meant to Chaucer and his contemporaries, especially as it relates to memory and the humours. Then comments on several old men in Chaucer's works: January in MerT, the Old Man of PardT, old men in Mel, and Egeus of TC.

Lenz considers the collision/juxtaposition of dreams and medical knowledge in BD, HF, PF, TC and NPT. Argues that this confluence offers a previously neglected dimension of Chaucer's work.

Lists forty-eight onomatopoeic words used by Chaucer. Examines some of these words' auditory, as well as visual, effects within their literary context. In Japanese.

Argues that all of Chaucer's major works "play with medieval concepts of closure" and that the inconclusiveness of these works self-consciously indicates that readers generate their own meanings.

Argues that R. K. Root's groupings of manuscript variants in TC (alpha, beta, and gamma) evince Chaucer's developments in his characterizations of Pandarus, Troilus, and, especially, Criseyde; the characterizations also help to balance tragedy and…

Contends that the beating in RvT alludes to an incident in the life of St. Oswald the Bishop, arguing that the allusion enhances the Reeve's attack on the Miller and creates a sense of irony, as the Reeve suffers in comparison with his priestly…

Translations into modern English prose of BD, HF, Anel, PF, Bo, TC, LGW, the "Shorter Poems," and Rom.

Examines Chaucer's uses of Ovid, assessing the former's perception of the ancient poet, tracing Ovidian reception in the Middle Ages, and exploring Chaucer's reflection of Ovid's stuggles with life and art.

Certain details of PardT, a story of "brotherhood and betrayal," suggest old stories of Judas Iscariot, the consummate betrayer.

In Brasdefer's "Pamphile et Galatee" appears Houdee, a professional go-between. Possibly Chaucer used Houdee as a basis for his Pandarus in TC, thus providing the earthy undercurrent beneath the Boccaccio source.