Kiser, Lisa J.
Papers on Language and Literature 19 (1983): 3-12.
Although early, BD shows the development of the Chaucerian persona as narrator--"the shy, self-concious man who seems to know so little about the truths he records so well."
Raby, Michael.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 39 (2017): 191-224.
Explores the permeable boundary between waking and sleep, sensation and dream, in Dante's "Commedia," TC, and Machaut's "Fontaine amoureuse." each sleep-scene drawing on Ovidian tales of transformation. Comments on Chaucer's adaptation in HF of…
Leitch, Megan G.
Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 2021.
Surveys medical and literary backgrounds and representations of sleep, naps, dreams, nightmares, and sleep-scapes in various Middle English genres and works. Chapter 4, "The Hermeneutics of Sleep in Chaucer's Dream Poems," focuses on dreams,…
Psychological and cultural interpretation of PhyT and ManT murders of women motivated by misogynistic violence and impulse to control women. Both tales displace attention to trivialities: woman and nature (PhyT) and natural lust (ManT).
Jucker, Andreas H.
Irma Taavitsainen, Terttu Nevalainen, Päivi Pahta, and Matti Rissanen, eds. Placing Middle English in Context (Berlin and New York: Gruyter, 2000), pp. 369-89.
Classifies instances of verbal aggression within and across narrative layers in CT in several groups: direct, embedded, mediated, or indirect. Considers the speaker, the addressee, and the target of aggression, exploring twenty-two examples.
Bellamy, Elizabeth Jane.
Alan Shephard and Stephen D. Powell, eds. Fantasies of Troy: Classical Tales and the Social Imaginary in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2004), pp. 215-35.
Bellamy considers Paridell's undermining of Britomart's "nostalgia for the fallen Troy" in Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book 3, and argues that the "slippages" between fame and rumor in HF influenced Spenser's presentation.
Greenwood, Maria.
Colette Stévanovitch and Henry Daniels, eds. L'Affect et le jugement: Mélanges offerts à Michel Morel à l'occasion de son départ à la retraite, 2 vols. (Paris: AMAES, 2005), 1: pp. 33-256.
Surveys recent criticism of ClT, focusing on Griselda as allegory, as "a figure of divinity," and as a flat figure. Concludes that Griselda may simply be read as a real person.
Scattergood, John.
Ruth Morse and Barry Windeatt, eds. Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 122-38.
"The Garlande of Laurell" is Skelton's considered statement about poetry, the nature of poetic tradition, and his own role in it. But "the most substantial earlier treatment of the subject of "The Garlande of Laurell" in English poetry was Chaucer's…
Carlson, David R.
Review of English Studies 66, no. 274 (2015): 240–57.
Discusses how Skelton persistently mocks Henry's awarding knighthood to Garnesche by likening him to the silliest knights of romance. Claims that this portrayal of knighthood is influenced by Chaucer's mockery of knights in Th.
Carter, Ronnie D, and David G. Bailey.
Chaucer Review 34: 236-41, 1999.
Polish academic writing on Chaucer follows a political pattern. Retreating from politically charged topics, students and professors have concentrated on linguistics topics, such as morphology, syntax, semantics, and loanwords. Most "literary"…
De Selincourt, Aubrey.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1956.
The opening chapter offers subjective, impressionistic appreciation of Chaucer’s life, language, poetry, and links among them, proclaiming Chaucer to be "one of the most English of our poets" in his "tolerance, sweetness, and the lambent flame of…
Whitbread, L.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 79 (1978): 41-43.
CT I (A), 5 equals Catullus Car. XLVI 1-3, 7-11. "Pynce at" CT I (A), 326 is not a pun but an idiom. Mars is rightly red, as is the Wife; the number of her husbands evokes John 4:17-18. The Miller's gold thumb refers to the method of his theft,…
Dramatized readings of poetry from Beowulf to 1984. Disc one (episode 3; track 7; 24 min.) includes the previously published "Chaucer, 1340-1400" (SAC 22 [2000], no. 12), an introduction to Chaucer and his works with recitation/dramatization of…
An anthology of selections from English poetry, accompanied by pertinent illustrations and social context, with topics ranging from Chaucer to the "Later Twentieth Century, 1934-84." Chapter one (pp. 1-15) pertains to Chaucer, with brief biographical…
Thomas, Eberle, and Barbara Redmond.
New Orleans: Anchorage Press, 1993.
Adaptation for the stage of WBT, ClT, SumT, MancT, FranT, and PardT, presented as a single play in which there is a tale-telling contest framed by the actions of two thieves (a Miller and a Plowman) who join a group of five pilgrims (Chaucer, the…
Haydock, Nickolas A.
Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2010.
Haydock examines poetic authority in Henryson's "Testament" as it simultaneously affirms and seeks to replace TC, in effect treating Chaucer's poem in Chaucerian fashion. One of Henryson's three major works, "Testament" is part of his effort to…
Chism, Christine.
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017. Relocated 2025 at https://opencanterburytales.lsusites.org/
Treats the breaking of sisterhood (Emelye and Hippolyta) and brotherhood (Palamon and Arcite) in KnT as Chaucer's adaptations of Ciceronian ideals in order to "intensify questions of desire agency and social justice" in the face of worldly…
Borysławski, Rafał.
Marcin Krygier and Liliana Sikorska, eds. To Make His Englissh Sweete upon His Tonge (New York: Peter Lang, 2007), pp. 121-33.
Discusses how sheela-na-gig carvings share appearance and function with loathly lady figures in Middle English literature, including the one found in WBT.
Donovan, Mortimer J.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 57 (1956): 237-46.
Explores Chaucer's association between love-longing and the song-thrush in Th 7.772-74, clarifying the significance of the bird in patristic commentary, bestiaries, and poetic tradition, and suggesting that it may indicate that Thopas's passion for…
Cooper, Helen.
Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 42-55.
Examines similarities between the maidens who yearn for the love of Thopas--despite his chastity (Th 7.742-45)--and lovesick women “who offer themselves” in analogous romances, particularly "Ipomadon" and the romances cited in Th 7.897-900.…
Melton, John L.
Philological Quarterly 35 (1956): 215-17.
Suggests that "charbocle" (carbuncle) in Th 7.871 may refer, not to part of the charge on Thopas' shield, but to his sword, with a jewel on its pommel.
Because the description of Sir Thopas underscores his artificiality and contains references to puppetry, the knight may be viewed as a puppet of Chaucer-Pilgrim, himself a puppet manipulated by Chaucer-Poet. This metaphor clarifies the operation of…
