Sylvester, Ruth.
ETC: A Review of General Semantics 71.3 (2014): 248-57.
Summarizes differences between oral and literate communication, describes CT as a product of a transitional "manuscript culture," and discusses how WBP lends verisimilitude to the speaking voice of WBT, an example of Chaucer's virtuosity in a "time…
Argues that TC is largely concerned with "certitude and volition as they pertain to human perception and judgment" and as they relate to late medieval philosophical discussions of divine omnipotence and divine self-limitation. Troilus, Pandarus, and…
Hernández Pérez, María Beatriz.
Sonia Villegas and Beatriz Domínguez, eds. Literature, Gender, Space (Huelva: Universidad de Huelva, 2004), pp. 131-42.
Assesses the hospitality of female characters in LGW, showing that the betrayal suffered by these women is not the result of their fickleness but of a failure of the courtly code.
Stadnik, Katarzyna.
In Przemysław Łozowski and Katarzyna Stadnik, eds. Visions and Revisions: Studies in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2016), pp. 179-86.
Uses the Boethian imagery of Fortune and her wheel in For and Truth to clarify "situated cognition," exemplifying how visual images can enable cultural transmission across time.
Discusses prefaces to CT as marketing and self-promotion that linked the authority of editors and a dedicatee, Henry VIII, to the authority of the author.
Pérez-Fernández, Tamara.
Karen Pratt, Bart Besamusca, Matthias Meyer, and Ad Putter, eds. The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript (Göttingen: V&R Academic, 2017), pp. 242-56.
Summarizes and extends recent scholarship on Guildhall scribe Richard Osbarn, and assesses his work, focusing on two TC manuscripts to which he contributed: San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 114, and London, British Library, MS Harley 3943.…
Harriss, Gerald.
Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Harriss studies English social and political history from the Hundred Years' War to the Wars of the Roses as a period of cultural transformation that established the "shape of English society and government" that "it was to retain until the Civil…
Novacich, Sarah Elliott.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Explores how "poetic form, staging logistics, and the status of performance" contribute to our understanding of how medieval thinkers imagined the "ethics and pleasures of the archive." Includes discussion of HF, MLT, MilT, and Rom.
Moore, Miriam Elizabeth.
Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 3163A, 2001.
Women in TC and Fernando de Rojas's "Celestina" seek to establish themselves and their fates through "control of language," but rhetorical control gives way as men eventually become subjects and women objects of physical desire.
Koldeweij, Jos.
Sarah Blick and Rita Tekippe, eds. Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles. 2 vols. (Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2005), volume 1, pp. 493-510.
Koldeweij comments on pilgrim badges and related materials mentioned in CT and illustrated in the Ellesmere manuscript. The commentary introduces a discussion of obscene badges (ca. 1350-ca. 1450) intended to mock pilgrimage.
Burger, Glenn.
Glenn Burger and Steven Kruger, eds. Queering the Middle Ages (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001), pp. 213-35.
Argues that Chaucer set the standard for discourse on heterosexuality and modernity, even though modern study has written over his "queer touch." Exemplifies the gendered instability of Chaucer's text by contrasting the normativizing power of…
Examines shame as a force in identity construction and a constraint on female agency, focusing on Criseyde in TC and Dido in HF, and briefly mentioning LGW. As an historical force, shame also determines narrative possibilities in these poems.
McTaggart, Anne.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
HF, TC, and CT more commonly represent shame (an exterior phenomenon) than guilt (an interior one); in dialogue with late medieval penitential theology, they suggest the narrative invisibility of guilt. HF and TC tackle the plausibility, in pagan…
In Chaucer's poetry, guilt is represented as an "ethical ideal," whereas shame is often "portrayed as the psychological reality" that disrupts attempts to "realize the ideal." Throughout his poetry, but especially in CT, Chaucer articulates "the…
Williams, Deanne.
Literature Compass 8 (2011): 390-403.
Assesses the idea of Renaissance "medievalism," and reviews recent studies of the topic, focusing on Shakespeare and arguing that FranT is a "key source" of Cymbeline, which "resists the traditional borders and boundaries of periodization."
Bauer, Matthias, and Angelika Zirker.
Lukas Rösli and Stefanie Gropper, eds. In Search of the Culprit: Aspects of Medieval Authorship (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021), pp. 217–38.
Explores how in each of two Shakespearean plays "there is a co-authorship with a past author": Gower in "Pericles" and Chaucer in "The Two Noble Kinsmen." Argues that the presentation of Chaucer as a source in the prologue in "Kinsmen" engages…
Olson, Paul A.
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 33 (2020): 89–117.
Examines views of monarchy and Catholic/Protestant conflicts in Shakespeare's "second tetralogy," plays set during and soon after Chaucer's lifetime. Includes discussion of Falstaff as a figure viewed "through the lens of Chaucer’s time"—a figure of…
Staunton, Kay.
Kenneth Friedenreich, Roma Gill, and Constance B. Kuriyama, eds. "A Poet and a Filthy Play-maker": New Essays on Christopher Marlowe. AMS Studies in the Renaissance, no. 14 (New York: AMS, 1988), pp. 23-35.
Staunton describes Shakespeare's allusions to Marlowe in As You Like It. Touchstone's and Rosalind's references to Troilus as a lover engage TC.
Davis-Brown, Kris.
South Central Review 5.2 (1988): 15-34.
Shakespeare's play, though derived from Chaucer, differs from its source in many ways. Shakespeare's Pandarus is a less tender, more hardened figure; his Cressida is psychologically and socially more vulnerable; his Troilus is more openly sexual. …
Einersen, Dorrit.
Angles on the English-Speaking World 5 (2005): 45-55.
Einersen examines genre markers in versions of the story of Troilus and Criseyde (including Chaucer's claims for tragedy in TC) as background to a discussion of Shakespeare's play as a "historical-tragical-comical-satirical problem play."
This collection of critical essays by Cousins includes a discussion of Shakespeare's "Lucrece," part of which is entitled "Versions of the Lucretia Story by Ovid, Livy, Boccaccio, Chaucer and Gower" (pp. 48-58), a survey of the various accounts which…
Contrasts the characterizations of Theseus and Emily in "The Two Noble Kinsmen" and KnT, focusing on how the play challenges the principles of romance by manipulating Chaucerian material and perspective. Revised slightly as "(Mis)Appropriating the…
Coghill, Nevill.
Herbert Davies, and Helen Gardner, eds. Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies: Presented to Percy Wilson in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday (Oxford: Clarendon, 1959), pp. 86-99.
Tallies a number of images, expressions, and "notional similarities" that evince Chaucer's influence on Shakespeare, reviewing previous scholarship, adding several examples, and arguing that the influence is strongest when Shakespeare was about…
