Allen, Valerie, and Ruth Evans, eds.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016.
Twelve essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors explore the material and symbolic status of roads in medieval history and literature. The volume includes a bibliography and index. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search…
Dinshaw, Carolyn.
R. F. Yeager, ed. Chaucer and Gower: Difference, Mutability, Exchange (Victoria B.C.: University of Victoria, 1991), pp. 130-52.
Discussions of the "quarrel" between Chaucer and Gower (anchored in MLP) pose a Chaucer who was free of base, ingratiating attitudes toward his sovereign and who was the source of pure poeticality--language and aesthetics unpolluted by self-interest.…
Bowers, John M.
Elisabeth Dutton, with John Hines and R. F. Yeager, eds. John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation, and Tradition (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010), pp. 276-87.
Bowers describes LGW as "work-in-progress" of the 1390s and dates the G-prologue between 1392 and 1394, offering various comments to help justify these datings and explore their implications: LGWP emulates Gower's Ricardian prologue to "Confessio…
Cook, Alexandra Kollontai.
DAI A67.10 (2007): n.p.
Like many of his predecessors, Chaucer explores risks in dealing with pagan sources, but he renders such risks pleasurable as a means to "destabilize Christian constructs of safety."
Di Rocco, Emilia.
Revista di Letterature Moderne e Comparate 55 : 373-92, 2002.
Contrasts Chaucer's concern for the role of authors in the preservation of historical "fame" with Pope's emphasis on the enduring value of art. Di Rocco shows how Pope's personal interest in fame is tempered by humility like that of Chaucer's…
Cartlidge, Neil.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 39 (2017): 57-97.
Discredits the idea that the Eagle's disquisition on sound in HF is conventional Aristotelianism, mediated by Robert Grosseteste or Walter Burley, arguing that the details of the multiplying ripples and the combination of science and myth were…
Murtaugh, Daniel M.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 74 (1973): 107-12.
Shows that the thematic concerns of FrT are evident in its rhyme words, focusing on the occurrences of "entente" and its rhymes: "rente," "hente," and "repente."
Kendrick, Laura.
Bulletin des Anglicistes Medievistes 43 (1993): 769-80.
Investigates the burlesque effects of the -"aille" rhymes in the envoy to ClT. Like Eustache Deschamps, Chaucer plays with the plaintive effect of the sound, but he inverts the tone through male exhortation of a feminist position and through the…
Henderson, Jeff.
Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 18 (1992): 1-14.
William Blake's criticism of GP can best be appreciated by considering his painting, Sir Jeffrey Chaucer and the Nine and Twenty Pilgrims on Their Journey to Canterbury, and his smaller engraving of the same subject. Blake's images, though…
Heinzelman, Susan Sage.
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Law Books, 2010.
Heinzelman examines the interdependencies of literary and legal discourses and the representations of women in them, seeking to define the development of the novel as a stage in the separation of the two discourses. She reads various French and…
Crozier, Andrew, Roy Fisher, Keith Please, and Kevin Power.
Guildford: Circle Press, 1982.
Twenty lyric poems inspired by descriptions in GP: "Knight," "Dyere," "Cook," "Tapicer," and "Webbe," by Roy Fisher; "The Reeve, " "The Manciple," "The Merchant," 'The Doctor of Physic," by Keith Please; "Some Instructions of the Horses," by Andrew…
Eight essays by various authors, selected from the papers presented at SEM (Studientag zum Englisches Mittelalter) 4 and 5, held in Potsdam in 2002 and 2003, respectively. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Riddles, Knights and…
Crowley, Duane.
Manchaca, Texas: Blue Boar Press, 1986.
Murder mystery in which the medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his fellow squire at law, Hugh le Hunt, seek to protect John of Gaunt and others from the implications of the death of Lady Mary de Clairmont. The fiction incorporates details from…
"The Letter of Dido" is one of several Chaucerian apocrypha in Pynson's volume. Translated from a French version of the "Heroides" of the 1490s, it may owe a debt to one or more of Chaucer's treatments of the Dido story, and its inclusion in an…
Foley, Robert A.
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1989): 2228A.
In "The Boke of Fame," Richard Pynson published Chaucer's HF, PF, and Truth, plus Chaucerian apocrypha and five additional poems. Foley explores Pynson's life, examines manuscripts and editions, investigates authorship, scrutinizes alterations,…
As the first printer to collect Chaucer's works, Pynson has been accused of "inflating" and "contaminating" Chaucer's canon. But the concept of an author's "complete works" did not solidify until the nineteenth century. Pynson used Chaucer's name to…
Sutton, Anne F.,and Livia Visser-Fuchs.
Ricardian 7 (June 1987): 421-32.
Describes an anthology (now Longleat MS 257, fifteenth century) owned by Richard, duke of Gloucester, which contains KnT and ClT, Lydgate's "Siege of Thebes," "Ipomedon," and Old Testament stories--all emphasizing the concepts of order and loyalty.
In 1397, Richard II's rule became more tyrannical, a fact reflected, some chroniclers report, in more elaborate forms of address that were more appropriate for God than for a king.
Goodman, Anthony,and James Gillespie, eds.
Oxford ;
Eleven essays by various authors and an introduction by Goodman. Topics include Richard's reign as presented in chronicles, the nature and quality of his rule, and his relations with the following: his councils, the Church, the higher nobility,…
Saul, Nigel.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997.
A biography that assesses Richard II, the quality of his rule, and the events of his reign. Uses Shakespeare's play as a point of departure and argues that Richard's accomplishments and excesses resulted in large part from the fusion of "exercise of…
Hole's "Remarks on the Arabians Nights' Entertainments" contains speculations about the sources of the pear-tree motif and the magical objects in the two tales. While many of his guesses are without substantiation, he does suggest a pear-tree…
Friedman, John B.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 7 (1985): 137-60.
The Richard Thorpe section of the Pincus Codex may be the lost equatorium, or astronomical kalendar, listed in the library catalogue of the York Austin friars. An inscription to Penelope Thompson and disregard of manuscript duplications suggest that…
