Youngman, William Auther.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Cornell University, 2014. Open access at https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/36190 (accessed February 3, 2023).
Offers "senex style" as the a label for an particular network of themes of aging, related rhetorical commonplaces, and narrative poses in a range of late-medieval and early modern works, focusing on those where an "I-persona that extols the wisdom,…
Edwards, Robert R.
Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), pp. 226-46.
Both Boccaccio in Decameron and Chaucer in FranT rewrite the story of Menedon from Filocolo, and both investigate whether social worth is dependent on lineage or character. While Boccaccio emphasizes the new urban nontraditional man, Chaucer attempts…
Cole, Andrew.
Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 2704A, 2001.
Although many assume that Chaucer and Langland felt compelled to revise their works to avoid anti-Wycliffite censorship, such censorship was restricted to clerical writing. Chaucer drew on Wycliffite translation techniques to improve his skill, as…
Filios compares the folktale of Griselda with four medieval versions, exploring their adaptations. Boccaccio's tale is eroticized, with the teller Dioneo disagreeing with the conventional happy ending that reinforces dangerous power relations;…
Coghen, Monika.
Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 12.3 (2017): 175-85.
Describes the transmission of WBT, through John Dryden's modernized English version in "Fables: Ancient and Modern" and Voltaire's French in "Ce qui plait aux dames" to Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz's Polish "Co sie damom podoba" in "Pisma rózne wierszem…
Two CT manuscripts reveal simplifications of Chaucerian narrative as part of the fifteenth-century reader response valuing sententiousness and formal coherence. Huntington Library MS 140 includes ClT without its framing references, followed…
Prendergast, Thomas A.,and Barbara Kline,eds.
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 1999.
Eleven essays by various authors and an introduction (by Prendergast) on the relations between Chaucer's "original" texts and later adaptations of these texts. The book explores the cultural conditions that produced the adaptations, as well as the…
Brooks, Michelle.
Studies in Philology 119 (2022): 209-32.
Examines Astr as a work on literature that uses the astrolabe to overcome geographical separation between father and son. A narrative of family reunion then writes the son out of the text, while apophasis keeps the son at its center. Also notes how…
Mieszkowski, Gretchen.
Tison Pugh and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008), pp. 43-57.
Mieszkowski surveys masculine lovers in medieval romance, showing that fainting and passive love "acquired feminine gender" only after the fourteenth century. Modern discussions of TC that treat Troilus as "feminized" both mistake his role as an…
Describes the political and aesthetic motives that underlie the four volumes of David Herd and Anna Pincus's "Refugee Tales" (2016–21), exploring their modeling on the variety, unity, and thematic concerns of Chaucer's panoramic short fiction in…
Barlow, Gania.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Columbia University, 2014. Dissertation Abstracts International A75.11 (E). Fully available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and via https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/
Explores how Marie de France, the 'Orfeo' poet, Thomas Chestre, Chaucer, and John Lydgate "tell stories about the possibilities and problems of vernacular retelling . . . [and] imagine and enact a type of authorship--and a type of authority--based in…
Battles, Dominique.
Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2001): 162A, 2001.
Traces the Theban legend from Statius through a twelfth-century Old French version, school texts, florilegia, commentary, Boccaccio, Chaucer (Anel, KnT), and Lydgate. Also assesses relationships with ancient and medieval history. Lydgate's version…
Smith, Peter J., and Greg Walker.
Cahiers Élisabéthains 69 (2006): 53-57.
Smith and Walker review the dramatic performance of CT (all but CYT), describing the staging and tracing the emotional swings of the adaptation. Includes one black-and-white and four color photographs of the production.
Zeitoun, Franck.
Wendy Harding and A. Mathieu, eds. Le futur dans le Moyen Âge anglais (Paris: Publications de l'Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 1999), 2: pp. 361-74.
Assesses the excursus on predestination and free will in NPT, arguing that these theological concepts underlie the Tale from beginning to end, especially Chauntecleer's questioning of the nature of his dream.
Carruthers, Leo, ed.
Paris: Publications de l'Association de Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 1998.
Eight essays by various authors examining medieval dreams and prophecies in literature and society. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer search for Reves et propheties au Moyen Age under Alternative Title.
Dor, Juliette.
H. Maes-Jelinek et al., eds. Multiple Worlds, Multiple Words: Essays in Honour of Irene Simon (Liege: University of Liege, English Department, 1987), pp. 69-77.
Both the female world of the opening lines and the portrait of perfect lovers possessing all the qualities required by the courtly code were unnatural. Ultimately, Chauctecler rejects the "courtly code and mask" that governed his previous behavior…
Prendergast, Thomas A.
Isabel Davis and Catherine Nall, eds. Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015), pp. 185-99.
Looks at the "transition of the invented textual presence of Chaucer in the late Middle Ages to the invented personal presence of the poet in the early modern period." Comments on several spurious links between tales in the Lansdowne 851 manuscript…
Ruether-Wu, Marybeth.
Dissertation Abstracts International A79.02 (2017): n.p.
Discusses Chaucer and Langland in this study of outlawry, suggesting that the sovereign ban may be interpreted as a Galenic purgation of imbalance in the body politic.
Crawford discusses the unfinished CkT in relation to the Tale of Gamelyn; their thematic associations; connections to the Peasants' Revolt of 1381; who added the Tale of Gamelyn to CT; and why it was inserted right after CkT.
Gust, Geoffrey W.
Chaucer Review 41 (2007): 311-23.
Despite his tendency to view Chaucer's narrative persona in CT autobiographically, E. Talbot Donaldson's exploration of this persona paved the way "for the proliferation of studies that have taken account of Chaucer's narrators," studies in which…
Beidler, Peter G.
Chaucer Review 56.3 (2021): 296-308.
References a previous article from thirty-five years ago that discussed various translations of important passages from Chaucer and appraised them. As a companion piece, considers ten verse translations of the opening lines of CT. Concludes with an…
Fonzo, Kimberly.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022.
Examines how Langland, Gower, and Chaucer--who approached Ricardian prophetic discourse in different ways--were later co-opted as prophets of various events and outlooks: Langland foretelling the English Reformation, Gower predicting the deposition…
