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…
Fisher, Matthew.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 45 (2023): 313-61.
Attributes the copying of British Library, MS Cotton Appendix XVI ("Statuta Angliae") and nineteen Chancery documents to Richard Sotheworth, whose will records the earliest known ownership of a CT manuscript. Uses these and related documents to…
"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…
Zarins, Kim.
Elisabeth Dutton, with John Hines and R. F. Yeager, eds. John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation, and Tradition (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010), pp. 239-53.
Zarins assesses Gower's and Chaucer's uses of rime riche ("in which rhyme patterns appear identical but diverge in meaning"), focusing on instances in which the device lends seriousness (or mock seriousness) in characters' dialogue. Appends a partial…
Cigman, Gloria.
Danielle Buschinger and Arlette Sancery, eds. Mélanges de langue, littérature et civilisation offerts à André Crépin à l'occasion de son quatre-vingtième anniversaire (Amiens: Presses du Centre d'Études Médiévales, Université de Picardie-Jules Verne, 2008), pp. 111-17.
Explores ambiguities of wealth and poverty in CT in light of contemporaneous reality.
Jacobs, Nicholas.
A. J. Minnis, Charlotte C. Morse, and Thorlac Turville-Petre, eds. Essays on Ricardian Literature: In Honour of J. A. Burrow (Oxford: Clarenden, 1997), pp. 203-21.
The romances of Chaucer and of the "Gawain" poet are similar in treating the genre as a decaying or decadent form. Chaucer treats the genre and its traditional themes lightly, at times parodically, while the "Gawain" poet seeks to redeem the genre…
Burrow, J. A.
New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1971.
Proposes the label "Ricardian" for the late fourteenth-century period of English literature and "looks at the four chief poets of the time . . . as a group," identifying their common stylistic features, rooted in earlier English tradition of…
The pathetic tales must been seen in connection with the Ricardian emphasis on emotionalism and the commonality of Christ's human nature and man's. The aim of the pathetic voice is not to make any sweeping statement of human experience but to…
Edwards, Robert R.
Carolyn P. Collette, ed. The Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006), pp. 59-82.
Explores the "political erotics" of LGWP, especially the G version, assessing how Cupid's treatment of the narrator and Alceste's intercession reflect political conditions, concepts of tyranny, and notions of loyalty and fidelity.
Green, Richard Firth.
A. J. Minnis, Charlotte C. Morse, and Thorlac Turville-Petre, eds. Essays on Ricardian Literature: In Honour of J. A. Burrow (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), pp. 179-202.
Documents the medieval legal understanding of "trouthe" as an aspect of personal "oathworthiness" rather than of verifiability of facts; argues that this early sense obtains in MLT 2.630 even though it was fast becoming an archaic sense.
Wilhelm, James J.
Fifteenth Century Studies 17 (1990): 457-74.
CT contains risings and fallings, which occur naturally within the text in a variety of genres, tones and modes. They show Chaucer's shift toward Italian-based humanism and away from the Christian tradition. Wilhelm examines KnT, MilT, MLT, ClT,…
Wimsatt, James I.
Modern Language Quarterly 55 (1994): 17-46.
Using the linguistic theories of Charles Pierce, Wimsatt proposes that "the function of rhyme in Chaucer's poetry ... is to help organize the sounds to create a sign independent of a particular verbal sense" (18). Sound in poetry is carried in two…
Oizumi, Akio,and Hiroshi Yonekura.
Danielle Buschinger and Wolfgang Spiewok, eds. Etudes de linguistique et de litterature en l'honneur d'Andre Crepin. Greifswalder Beitrage zum Mittelalter 5, WODAN ser., no. 20. (Greifswald: Reineke, 1993), pp. 281-88.
Identifies characteristic features of the rhymes and rhyme-elements in CT; a prolegomenon to an in-progress "Rhyme Concordance to the Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer."
