Anthologizes short stories, tales and fables for juvenile readers, including a version of PardT (pp. 430-34) adapted by Jennifer Westwood, titled "Three Young Men and Death," originally published in 1967, here accompanied by a color illustration of…
Collects twelve stories that explore "the notions of fate, destiny, and coincidence," including a prose adaptation of the PardT, "A Meeting with Death: Adapted from 'The Pardoner's Tale' from 'The Canterbury Tales'" (pp. 79-90), which modifies the…
King, Lauren Rebecca.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of California, Los Angeles, 2021
Dissertation Abstracts International A83.06(E).
Argues that Pizan and Chaucer "used their writing to open up educational opportunities" for their readers, seeking "to facilitate practices of engaged reading" for an expanding vernacular audience, with Chaucer modeling "problematic reading…
Fruoco, Jonathan.
In Virginia Allen-Terry Sherman, Eléonore Cartellier-Veuillen, James Dalrymple, and Jonathan Fruoco, eds. (Re)writing and Remembering: Memory as Artefact and Artifice (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2016), pp. 3-12.
Traces the "motif of visible speech" in HF, identifying its source in Dante's "Divine Comedy," and exploring its relations with questions of literary transmission, especially in depictions of the story of Dido, the eagle's speech, and the House of…
Godorecci, Barbara J.
RLA: Romance Languages Annual 8 (1996):192-96.
Assesses the modifications of Boccaccio's tale of Griselda (Decameron 10.10) in the translations of Petrarch and Chaucer, focusing on the uses and nuances of the verb "provare" (to prove) and its associations with "probus" (good). In ClT, Chaucer's…
Yeager, R. F., ed.
Asheville, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 1998.
Fifteen essays by various authors, each essay originally presented at the annual meeting of the John Gower Society between 1992 and 1997. Revised for publication, the essays explore issues of Gower's poetics and methods, his political concerns, and…
Stuhr, Tracy Jill.
Dissertation Abstracts International 77.03 (E) (2015): n.p.
Examines "how the non-human (the natural, not the other-worldly) world and its creatures were voiced in several late medieval English texts," including NPT and ManT.
Dobbs, Elizabeth A.
Chaucer Review 40 (2006): 289-310.
Aurelius's comparison of himself to the nymph Echo early in FranT enables glimpses of Narcissus in Dorigen and emphasizes the importance of speech and interpretation in the Tale: in particular, Aurelius's Echo-like interpretations of Dorigen's…
Chewning, Susannah.
Cindy L. Vitto and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. New Perspectives on Criseyde (Fairview, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2004), pp. 165-80.
To alleviate disappointment at Criseyde's lack of agency, readers should appreciate her not as a "real" woman but as an embodiment of the medieval masculine imagination. Criseyde follows the pattern of many of Chaucer's female characters: caught in a…
Aers, David.
Cristina Maria Cervone and D. Vance Smith, eds. Readings in Medieval Textuality: Essays in Honour of A. C. Spearing (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2016), pp. 85-96.
Reexamines own earlier writings about Troilus's metaphysical "philosophizing response" and journey in TC, in response to a critique from Spearing from March 25, 1989.
Chaucer's MkT and "Le Chevalier de la charrette" illustrate variations on the character Ugolino from Dante's "Inferno." Chaucer manipulates Dante's story to emphasize the Monk's exemplum: the fall of a a great man beset by adverse fortune.
Choi, Jiyeon.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 23.2 (2015): 145-59.
Focuses on the clothing of Alisoun of MilT and the Wife of Bath, with attention to color, stereotyping, and economic conditions. In Korean, with an abstract in English (pp. 158-59).
Ji-yeon, Choi.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 23.2 (2015): 145-59.
Focuses on fabliau and the clothing of Chaucer's women in MilT, WBT, and RvT, and claims that "women's desire and independent will are materialized by means of [the] Wife of Bath's clothing."
Chaucer used allegory to create a teleological statement of ideal behavior as an apologia for the most repressive aspects of ruling-class dominance and male chauvinism of the world in which he lived, and which he depicted on the literal level of ClT.
Keller, Wolfram R.
Diskursivierungen von Neuem 7 (2018): 1-23.
Argues that Chaucer’s "literary re-novation" of the Trojan source material, enacted in TC and theorized in HF, "is a matter of the purification and hybridization of foregoing traditions," terms derived from Bruno Latour. Explores the relations…
Smilie, Ethan K., and Kipton D. Smilie.
Interdisciplinary Humanities 31.3 (2014): 32-52.
Surveys Marxist scholarship concerning "class clowns" in American school rooms, classroom management of them, and their vocational potential. Then discusses Nicholas of MilT and John and Aleyn of RvT as students "who ‘work the system' for the sake…
Ensley, Mimi.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Notre Dame, 2019. Dissertation Abstracts International A81.09(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (last accessed March 31, 2025).
Includes recurrent comments on early modern reception of Chaucer and his status as a laureate poet, with focused attention on the spurious attribution to Chaucer of the romance "Kynge Rycharde cuer du lyon" found in an annotation to the work in the…
Kaylor, Noel Harold Jr.
Noel Harold Kaylor Jr. and Richard Scott Nokes, eds. Global Perspectives on Medieval English Literature, Language, and Culture (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute, 2007), pp. 133-53.
Kaylor contrasts themes and techniques of Dante's "Commedia" and Chaucer's TC (and CT), suggesting that a shift in "frame-of-reference" occurred between the times of the two poets. Dante is concerned with universal, absolute, and transcendent…
Takimoto, Jiro.
Baika Review 12 (1979): 1-24. English and American Literature Society, Baika Women's College.
Kittredge's dialectical interpretation of the Marriage Group in CT is re-examined in terms of the different views presented by W. W. Lawrence, D. R. Howard, J. L. Hodge, and C. C. Olson. The conclusion is that there seems little to be revised in…
Kennedy, Ruth.
Warwick Gould and Thomas F. Staley, eds. Writing the Lives of Writers (Houndsmill, Basingstoke, and London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press; in association with the Centre for English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 1998), pp. 54-67.
Like other biographies, those of Chaucer have been constructed in light of the biographers' assumptions and images. Surveys biographies and biographical comments on Chaucer and suggests that modern commentary neglects the transcendent in his works.
Robinson, Olivia.
English: The Journal of the English Association 64, no. 244 (2015): 27-41.
Argues that Rom should be recontexualized, viewing the work not as a Chaucerian fragment, which perpetuates a fragmentary approach to the work, but as part of a tradition of translation. Analysis of decorated initials and borders in Hunter 409…
Ida, Hideho.
A Collection of Treatises on Languages and Literature 39 (2022): 1-16.
Classifies the nouns in NPT using the categories presented by an English lexicon. Considers the proportion of Latin-based nouns and Old English-based nouns in each category. In Japanese.
Suggests that Chaucer's LGW is part of a "counter-tradition" (also including Shakespeare, Milton, and Lucy Hutchinson) that develops against the epic's "images of sexual violence against marginalized females," and that this counter-tradition provides…
Edwards, Robert R.
Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 1989.
Analyzes the intricate relationship among literary theory, poetry, and music, with examples from Chaucer and others--specifically, the "strategies of poetic composition" and the "location of invention within the text"--to produce "a literary reading…
A New Historicist assessment of Middle English mirrors for princes: Chaucer's Mel and works by Trevisa, Hoccleve, Lydgate and Burgh, Hays, Ashby, and Gower. These texts construct an ideal king and normative social values and-set against the reign and…
