The "temporal disorder" and "internationalism" of MLT--combined with its examination of competing familial and institutional loyalty--depict sovereignty as a redemptive governmental form capable of healing the ills of late medieval England, including…
Cavalcanti, Leticia Niederauer Tavares.
Dissertation Abstracts International 23.07 (1963): 2522-23.
Summarizes the "antagonistic and contradictory views on women" held by the medieval Church, and explores Chaucer's views of women by examining his uses of the motifs of sovereignty and obedience in marriage from BD through CT, focusing on three…
Peck. Russell A.
Chaucer Review 1.4 (1967): 253-71.
Suggests that FranT is an exposé of "bourgeois sentimentality," and argues that its "central theme" is the "difficulty of perceiving truth in a world of illusions." Self-deceived, the Franklin mistakes his own desires for reality. He projects a…
Bollard, J. K.
Leeds Studies in English 17 (1986): 41-59.
WBT, Gower's "Tale of Florent," the "Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell," and "The Marriage of Gawain" (from the Percy Folio) are sufficiently different from the Irish tales of the transformed hag to raise doubts about the transmission of this…
Strohm, Paul.
Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Denny-Brown, eds. Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 57-70.
Strohm assesses historical implications of the concern with civic and personal cleansing in Lydgate's "Troy Book" and comments on Chaucer's imagery of cleansing in GP, his concern with civic orderliness in KnT, and his personal experiences with…
Cary, Meredith.
Papers on Language and Literature 5 (1969): 375-88.
Compares WBT with its analogues to show that Chaucer's alterations of the plot "redefine such central concepts as 'honor' and 'sovereignty' in feminine terms," consistent with the gender of its teller. By emphasizing moral precept instead of…
Whitaker, Muriel, ed.
New York and London: Garland, 1995.
Nine essays by various authors, addressing topics such as Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, the "Ancren Riwle," the Paston daughters, Malory's Guenivere, and several works by Chaucer.
Machan, Tim William, ed., with the assistance of A. J. Minnis.
Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2005.
The book presents hypothetical source texts for Bo, seeking to reconstruct as closely as possible what was accessible to Chaucer when he translated Boethius into Middle English. Provides an edition of Boethius's Latin original and, on facing pages,…
Burnley, J. D.
Joseph B. Trahern, Jr., ed. Standardizing English: Essays in the History of Language Change, in Honor of John Hurt Fisher (Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 1989), pp. 23-41.
In sociolinguistic terms, Burnley examines orthography among literary scribes of Chaucer's day to find that spelling was far from standardized.
Castro, Enrico.
Parole rubate/Purloined Letters 18 (2018): 139-61. Open access journal, at http://www.parole rubate.unipr.it/issues.php (accessed January 24, 2022).
Identifies and comments on various parallels between lines 36 and 74 of the "Invocacio ad Mariam" in SNP and St. Bernard's praise of Mary in Dante's "Paradiso," XXXIII, treating portions of it as "free translation," although perhaps influenced by…
Correale, Robert M., and Mary Hamel, eds.
Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y. : D. S. Brewer, 2005.
An anthology of the sources and analogues for selections from CT. Each section comments on source-and-analogue relations, edits the materials in a form close to what Chaucer might have known, and provides facing-page translations of non-English…
Correale, Robert M., and Mary Hamel, eds.
Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N. Y. : D. S. Brewer, 2002.
An anthology of the sources and analogues to selections from CT. Each section comments on source-and-analogue relations, edits the materials in a form close to what Chaucer might have known, and provides facing-page translations of non-English…
Cooper, Helen.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 19 (1997): 183-210.
An advance first chapter of a proposed revision of Bryan and Dempster's 'Sources and Analogues' (1941), in process under the editorship of Robert Correale and Mary Hamel. Cooper evaluates the relation of CT to other medieval storytelling…
Edwards, Robert R.
Modern Philology 94 (1996): 141-62.
Although the influence of Boccaccio's "Filocolo" on TC is uncertain, examination of various manuscripts of "Filocolo" suggests that Chaucer uses the love questions of "Filocolo" 4 as a source of FranT. Moreover, translating the culture of Book 4…
Farrell, Thomas J.
Chaucer Review 37: 346-64, 2003.
Farrell argues that clear differentiation among types of analogues may enable us to analyze Chaucer's works with more subtlety. A "source" is a work we are certain Chaucer knew; a "hard analogue" is a work that was available to him; a "soft source"…
Millichap, Joseph R.
University of Dayton Review 10.3 (1974): 3-6.
Contrasts ShT with analogous tales (Boccaccio's "Decameron" 8.1; Sercambi's "Novelle" 19) to demonstrate how the "pervasive irony" of the tale reveals moral censure of the characters and their actions.
Yager, Susan.
Susan Yager and Elise E. Morse-Gagné, eds. Interpretation and Performance: Essays for Alan Gaylord (Provo, UT: Chaucer Studio Press, 2013), pp. 65-78.
Addresses Chaucer's Host as both character and rhetorical device. The Host's speech is characterized, in GP, by pauses, asides, and delayed rhyme, creating Lydgate (or "broken-backed") lines and a prosaic tone. The Host's speech also displays his…
Surveys literary representations of sounds in various landscapes found in late medieval literature, including mention of the tournament in KnT and description of the tale-telling, singing, and music-making among the Canterbury pilgrims.
Pierce, Ingrid.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Purdue University, 2018. Dissertation Abstracts International A79.10. Abstract accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global and at https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI10809958/; accessed August 19, 2025.
Item not seen. From the abstract: "My dissertation argues that numerous fourteenth-century texts connect listening with ethics in a phenomenon I call "auditory poetics." I analyze human agency surrounding the creation and reception of sound in…
WBT is a tale of transformations best understood by applying to it Jung's concept of anima. The knight's quest is really a search for understanding of his inner self, the feminine psyche. The transformation of the hag at the end mirrors his own…
Enske, Fred van, trans.
Maastricht: Boekenplan, 2010.
Item not seen; reported in WorldCat, with the note: "Engelse gedichten van Chaucer tot de Beatles met vertaling" [English poetry from Chaucer to the Beatles with translation]. In Dutch and English.
Performance of music composed by Logan Skelton, including "Chaucer Songs," a "set of six songs with a textless interlude" set to poems by Chaucer (from MercB, from Bal Compl, BD 1223-44, Purse, from Lady, and PF 680-92). Sung by Philip Frohnmayer;…
Gray, Douglas.
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Literature in Fourteenth-Century England (Tubingen: Gunter Narr; Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1983), pp. 83-98.
Characterizes the nature and conventions of Middle English lyrics, looking briefly at representative examples. Includes discussion of Chaucer as both a representative lyricist and one who breaks boundaries in his short poems.
Treats prosimetrum as "a unique medieval genre that mixes not only prose and verse but also narrative and lyric," and studies its implications for theorizations of the lyric mode, particularly the opposition between the Romantic notion of lyrics as…
