Hughes, Jacob Alden.
Dissertation Abstracts International A75.11 (2015): n.p.
Identifies characters throughout Shakespeare's canon who "process and engage Chaucer's ideas on theater, authorship and performance," and demonstrate "how Chaucer's poetry is relevant to drama and theatricality."
Moisan, Thomas (E.)
Chaucerian Shakespeare (Ann Arbor: Michigan Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 1983), pp. 131-49.
Both in "Romeo and Juliet" and in PardT "the rhetoric through which death appears to be sought...is the means by which its reality and meaning are evaded."
Elizabethan and Jacobean writers found Chaucer a major poet. The poems most frequently used--TC, KnT, and ClT--show that they regarded Chaucer as a romantic not a comic writer. He is used for a brief reference or quotation, a subsidiary source, or…
Box, Terry.
College Language Association Journal 37 (1993): 42-54.
Chaucer's MilT and Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' are analogues because each satirizes the conventions of courtly love. Absolon, John, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek are "genuine fools" because they can be so easily duped, while Orsino and Viola "manifest…
Gussenhoven, Sr. Francis, RSHM.
Chaucerian Shakespeare (Ann Arbor: Michigan Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 1983), pp. 69-79.
Both Petruchio and the Wife of Bath see their spouses as "shrewish." Like Chaucer, Shakespeare employs images of taming and teaching, clothes, hats, and kisses to "reinforce the theme of mastery in marriage."
Mulryne, J. R.
M[arie]-T[hérèse] Jones-Davies, ed. Le Roman de Chivalerie au Temps de la Renaissance (Paris: Jean Touzot Libraire-Editeur, 1987), pp. 75-106.
Reads Shakespeare and Fletcher's "Two Noble Kinsmen" as written in commemoration of the chivalric ideals and sudden death of Henry, Prince of Wales, and composed "under the creative discipline" of KnT. For the playwrights, Chaucer's poem provided…
Thompson, Ann.
Jerzy Limon, Malgorzata Grzegorzewska, and Jacek Fabiszak, eds. Shakesplorations: Essays in Honour of Professor Marta Gibinska (Gdansk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdanskiego, in cooperation with the Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre and the Theatrum Gedanense Foundation, 2012), pp. 24-37.
Surveys attention to Chaucer's influence upon Shakespeare, enumerating the references to Chaucer in all recent Arden Shakespeare editions and in various editions of "Troilus and Cressida" and of "The Two Noble Kinsmen." Shows that the attention is…
Hurst, Mary L.
Selected Papers from the West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association 8 : 1-8, 1983.
Hurst argues that Shakespeare's Cressida is an "embryonic feminist"; Cressida compares favorably with Chaucer's Criseyde, who was elsewhere demeaned in subsequent accounts.
Argues that Shakespeare and "his fellow dramatists . . . consciously revived . . . non-dramatic forms of medieval culture . . . in order to challenge the new constraints placed on public dissent by Tudor and Stuart absolutism" and affirm "the power…
Richmond, Velma Bourgeois.
London and NewYork : Continuum, 2000.
Explores affinities between Roman Catholic doctrine and outlook and Shakespeare's works, especially his romances and other plays that use the "romance mode." Recurrent references to Chaucer reflect his influence on Shakespeare in plot, mode, and…
Records various early modern reactions to Chaucer, particularly his language and style, and explores similarities between Shakespeare and Chaucer, focusing on their stylistic range, and their attitudes toward social class, education, and human…
Lamb, Jonathan P.
In Shakespeare in the Marketplace of Words (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 175-208.
Argues that the glossary and other "editorial apparatus" of Speght's 1598 edition of Chaucer's "Workes" "yokes" Chaucer's language and lexicon "with his position as an English author," and that in his use of Speght's TC as source for "Troilus and…
Brwn, Sarah Annes.
Review of English Studies 66, no. 275 (2015): 465–79.
Argues that Underdowne's "Theseus and Ariadne" (1566) draws on a number of earlier versions of the myth, including Ovid's "Heroides" and Chaucer's LGW.
Barasch, Frances K.
English Literary Renaissance 34.2 (2004): 157-75.
Barasch traces puppetry from Socrates to the Renaissance, arguing that Elizabethan puppet theatre conveyed popular learning. Chaucer's descriptions of the pilgrim Geoffrey as a "popet" (7.701-2) and of Alison as a "popelote" (MilT 1.3254) may reflect…
Cooper, Helen.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Explores the continuities of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, emphasizing the inventiveness of the Middle Ages and the rootedness of the Renaissance in medieval traditions, focusing on drama and on Shakespeare in particular. Recurrent references to…
Driver, Martha W., and Sid Ray, eds.
Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009.
Thirteen essays, plus several introductory commentaries, gauge Shakespeare's uses of medieval materials and how those materials are reflected in modern stage and film adaptations. Shakespeare's "medievalism" shapes modern notions of the Middle Ages.…
Analyzes the influence of medieval culture and Chaucer on Shakespeare. Reveals how Shakespeare relied on Chaucer's language and verse forms for "The Two Noble Kinsmen."
Teramura, Misha.
Dissertation Abstracts International A78.12 (2016): n.p.
Considers Shakespeare's intersections with Chaucerian works (e.g., KnT and TC) with regard to the idea of plays gaining regard as literary works in and of themselves.
Plunkett, Michael.
Dissertation Abstracts International A80.03 (2018): n.p.
Suggests that in "Cymbeline," "The Tempest," and "The Taming of the Shrew," Shakespeare sets his work in conversation with the dream visions BD and HF, thereby allowing Shakespeare to claim a place in the Chaucerian line of English canon and to…
Mann, Jill.
Piero Boitani, ed. The European Tragedy of Troilus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), pp. 219-42. First published in Cambridge Quarterly 18 (1989): 109-28.
Chaucer's dialogue, poetic "stage directions," and expansion of the wooing scene make his TC more "Shakespearean," or dramatic, than Shakespeare's treatment of the story. Chaucer's heroine is brilliantly drawn to show her inner movement from true…
Argues that Shakespeare's adaptations relied not only on understanding and knowing Chaucerian texts, but on his "memory of Chaucer " and Chaucerian ideas and practices, particularly his mingling of "sources and authorities" in TC.
Parallels between Mary and Constance exist not only in details but also in narrative strategy, since both women are subject to the complexities and contradictions of the exemplary mode. In addition, Constance is presented through metaphors of death,…
Reed, Teresa P.
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003.
Examines allusions to the Virgin Mary in connection to five literary characters: Chaucer's Constance and Wife of Bath, the medical woman of the English "Trotula," Saint Margaret of Antioch, and the "Pearl" maiden. Chapter 1 focuses on parallels…
