Scheps, Walter.
Tennessee Studies in Literature 11 (1966): 35-43.
Describes and paraphrases Thop, focusing on its style, vocabulary, genre, and adaptation of conventions to show that a tension between "the heroic and the bourgeois" underpins much of the bathos of the Tale and its parodic impact.
Eddy, Elizabeth Roth.
Review of English Studies 22 (1971): 401-09.
Gauges the nature and extent of the influence of Tho on William Dunbar's parodic romance, "Sir Thomas Norny," commenting on various devices of literary and social satire.
Ryan, Francis X., SJ.
SEL: Studies in English Literature 35 (1995): 1-17.
Explores More's likely knowledge of Chaucer by examining the former's references and allusions to Chaucer, his quotations of the earlier poet, and their uses of similar proverbs.
Studies the national and regional prominence of the Gloucestershire magnate Sir Thomas Berkeley (1352-1417) in relation to his literary patronage, especially of John Trevisa and of John Walton's verse translation (partly based on Chaucer's Bo) of…
Edwards, A. S. G.
Chaucer Review 46 (2011): 237-47.
A case study of the difficulty of identifying particular manuscripts in inventories, wills, catalogues, book lists, etc., surveying the Middle English manuscripts once owned by seventeenth-century collector Sir James Ware, focusing on the items that…
Burton, T. L.
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 75-80.
A playful send-up of literary criticism, especially efforts to psychoanalyze characters. Explains features of WBT in terms of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and vice versa.
Sutton, Dana F., ed.
University of Birmingham: Philological Museum, 1999.
http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/troilus/.
Edits the complete text of Kynaston’s Latin translation of TC, based on the printed version of Books 1 and 2 (1635) and the manuscript version of the remaining three books in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Additional C 287. Includes an Introduction…
Ishizaka, Ko.
Michio Kawai, ed. Language and Style in English Literature: Essays in Honour of Michio Masui. The English Association of Hiroshima (Tokyo: Eihosha, 1991), pp. 277-88.
Assesses how words of specific actions--such as "sing," "dance," and "play"--operate lexically and how they can help produce a courtly atmosphere by expressing the joy of love.
Zieman, Katherine.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,2008.
Explores how liturgical training and practice, particularly the interrelated devotional activities of singing and reading, affected literacy in late medieval England. Lay devotional ritual became separated from clerical practice, and definitions of…
Dryden's praise of Chaucer in his preface to "Fables Ancient and Modern" is part of the critical orthodoxy of Chaucer's reception, but Dryden's reading/translation of NPT in the "Fables" has largely been ignored. The latter's alteration of the…
Oliver, Kathleen M.
Chaucer Review 31 (1997): 357-64.
The "greyn" placed on the little child's tongue by the Virgin in PrT represents the Eucharistic Host, also known as "singing bread." "Greyn" means "particle," such as that broken from the wafer. The viaticum possessed properties of restoration and…
Musical score for a normalized-spelling version of the closing song (rondel) of PF (ll. 680-92). Performance notes suggest harp effects and ways to involve audience participation. Commissioned by the Buck Hill-Skytop Music Festival.
Braswell, Mary Flowers.
Medievalia et Humanistica 14 (1986): 81-101.
In the contexts of medieval misogyny and penitential manuals, Braswell examines Chaucer's treatment of the sins of women in ParsT. The Parson denounces excess in dress among lords more severely than among ladies.
The blacksmith is an ambiguous figure. Medieval blacksmiths often worked at night because the temperature was cooler, but ordinances forbade them to do so. Furthermore, although the medieval blacksmith was a symbol of the devil, he was also a symbol…
Eaton, R. D.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 104 (2005): 495-513.
In the GP description of the Prioress, the term conscience, used to describe her mental operations, implies not sensibility or emotion but rather prescription or governance. The Prioress's display is not emotive but mimetic, and her performance…
Surveys the presence and significance of the anus and excrement in medieval culture, particularly the religious thought and literature of the age. Includes brief comments on Chaucer's references to dung, farting, and rear-ends in MilT, MerT, SumP,…
