Hatton, Thomas J.
Papers on Language and Literature 3, supplement (1967): 31-39.
Argues that Chauntecleer's character in NPT "reflects not only the victims in the Monk's tragedies but the Monk himself," focusing on "echoes and parallels" between NPT and MkT, their concern with fortune, and the Nun's Priest's warning to the Monk.
Fulton, Helen.
Ruth Evans, Helen Fulton, and David Matthews, eds. Medieval Cultural Studies: Essays in Honour of Stephen Knight (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006), pp. 138-51.
Processions and spectacles were attempts to contain rivalries between and within the official and unofficial hierarchies of late medieval London (city and crown, wards, crafts, and trades). Recurrently depicting a stable city, Chaucer also depicts…
Bolens, Guillemette, and Paul Beekman Taylor.
Chaucer Review 35: 281-93, 2001.
The "remedia" for the Black Knight's loss is achieved in two parts: the "reshaping" of the Black Knight's imaginative metaphor (chess representing the art of love) and the sounding of the castle bell, which awakens the poet and "ends both hunt and…
Bartel, Neva A.
Ball State Teachers College Forum 6.3 (1965): 45-50.
Comments on amplification as a factor in the "powerful dramatic force" of TC and explores, book by book, the poem's themes of "sight and blindness, the words 'bind' and 'bridle'," references to "sea and ships as opposed to references to fishing," and…
Baron, F. Xavier.
Journal of Psychohistory 7.1 (1979): 77-103.
Because Chaucer's "children's tales" deal with "extreme violence which the children suffer as innocent victims," these narratives "tend toward despair." Yet, they provoke compassion and thereby suggest that compassion is the proper response to…
Brewer, Derek
Review of English Literature 5.3 (1964): 52-60.
Argues that children in Chaucer's works are generally depicted with "tender pity," discussing narratives in which children have relatively prominent roles: MLT, MkT, ClT, PhyT, and PrT.
Kline, Daniel T.
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017.
Posits a "Children's Cluster" of tales in CT (including all of fragments 6 and 7) wherein a "child has a central place" in each tale. Then argues that Virginia's voice and the tensions and "digressions" in PhyT encourage an ethical interpretation of…
Lerer,Seth.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Studies the currents and cross-currents of pedagogy, moral didacticism, and entertainment in children's literature, exploring how trends in reading and interpretation recur as the subject matter of the stories and help to define their historical…
Examines the depictions of Alexander, Caesar, and Peter of Cyprus in MkT in relation to their sources, arguing that the Monk attempts to impose inappropriate chivalric values on historical events; the Knight's interruption underscores the Monk's…
Woods, William F.
Philological Quarterly 66 (1987): 287-301.
The central tension in KnT involves the relationship between love and arms. The dialectic pits Theseus against Saturn; on all levels, the story moves from division to harmony, strife to union, and war to marriage through a series of compromises…
Guthrie, Steven R.
Chaucer Review 34: 150-73, 1999.
The key to the character of Pandarus lies in French domestic romances, especially their concern with privacy. Both TC and "La Chastelaine" portray lovers as vulnerable human beings who have the right to freedom from invasive forces. Pandarus's…
Explores the medieval concept of "mounted knighthood" in "conception and practice," considering how it resonates with "postmodern models of the cyborg, distributed consciousness and the inherently prosthetic self." Assesses "chivalry's intersections…
Peck, Russell A.
In Craig M. Nakashian and Daniel P. Franke, eds. Prowess, Piety, and Public Order in Medieval Society: Studies in Honor of Richard W. Kaeuper (Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2017), pp. 344-67.
Analyzes imagery of worthiness in TC and CT, compared with John Gower's "Mirour de l'omme," "Piers Plowman," and Geffroi de Charny's "Book of Chivalry." Focuses on patience, penance, pilgrimage, and the "timing for one's acts," exploring uses of…
Wetherbee, Winthrop.
Ivy A. Corfis and Michael Wolfe, eds. The Medieval City under Siege (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1995), pp. 207-23.
Surveys how chivalry is promoted or assumed in various medieval romances and argues that it is critiqued in TC, KnT, and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
Ridyard, Susan J., ed.
Sewanee, Tenn. : University of the South, 1999.
Eleven papers by various authors on the literature and history of knighthood, with topics ranging from ascetic knighthood to knighthood as a trope. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chivalry, Knighthood, and War in the Middle Ages…
Kobayashi, Yoshiko.
Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 3144A, 1997.
Like Gower in "Confessio Amantis," Chaucer in TC adapts two strategies from Benot de Sainte-Maure's "Roman de Troie" to criticize chivalry: indicating how chivalry oppresses women and revealing the incompatibility of knightly conduct and good…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki, Akiyuki Jimura, and Noriyuki Kawano.
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 59 (2015): 1–34.
Compares frequencies of different negative forms as well as syntactic, lexical, and semantic negative patterns in the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts and two critical editions by Blake and Benson, respectively. Tabulates the result as statistical…
Cooper Helen.
Guillemette Bolens and Lukas Erne, eds. Medieval and Early Modern Authorship (Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 2011), pp. 29-50.
Addresses the "literal paternity" of Chaucer as the "father of English poetry" for fifteenth- and sixteenth-century writers, including Shakespeare and Jonson. Discusses how Chaucer established himself as a "poet within the classical poetic line." …
Reiff, Raychel Haugrud.
Essays in Medieval Studies 26 (2010): 69-84.
Reiff examines uses of second-person singular pronouns "thou" and "you" to indicate relationships among characters in KnT, particularly idealized chivalric relationships, Theseus's changing attitude toward the knights, the unfaltering brotherhood…
Fulton, Helen.
Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 91-120.
Presents examples from the "classical genres of chorography and topography" in analysis of ClT. Argues that Chaucer's “untypical use of chorography . . . draws attention to Italy's international trade routes" and reinforces the economic transactional…
