Burrow, John.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 13 (1991): 17-37.
Disagrees with modern critical arguments that CkT, SqT, HF, and LGW are intentionally open-ended. Surveys the textual history and continuations of these poems to show that recent opinions probably result from post-Romantic "taste for the…
Pinsky, Robert, and Maggie Dietz, eds.
New York: Norton, 2002.
Includes an excerpt from BD (the Black Knight's lament, lines 475-86), with Maggie Dietz's brief comments about how Middle English words "change in the mouth" (p. 128).
Hodnett, Edward, ed.
New York: Norton, 1957. Rev. ed. 1967.
Anthologizes English poems and excerpts alphabetically by author, including the Envoy to ClT (7.1178-1212), translated by Hodnett into Modern English in rhyme royal stanzas.
Kennedy, Caroline, ed., and Jon J. Muth, illus.
New York: Disney-Hyperion, 2013.
Anthologizes poetry for a juvenile audience, arranged topically. Includes the first eighteen lines of GP in Middle English (pp. 168–69) in a section entitled "Extra Credit."
Boffey, Julia.
Julia Boffey and Christiania Whitehead, eds. Middle English Lyrics: New Readings of Short Poems (Cambridge: Brewer, 2018), pp. 189–200.
Transcribes a version of Lydgate's "Thoroughfare of Woe" from London, British Library, Additional MS 60577 (the "Winchester anthology") and discusses it in light of other versions, commenting on it as "an extended meditation on a proverbial saying"”…
Turville-Petre, Thorlac.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 21: 301-14, 1999.
Chaucer's Truth and Gentilesse (and other English works) were added into the Rushall Psalter (Nottingham University Library, MS Me LM1) when it was owned by John Harpur. The additions reflect Harpur's anxiety about the contingencies of his social…
Twenty-line poem in five four-line stanzas, with possible echoes of GP, a reference to Chaucer in the title, and a quotation of GP lines 1.9-10 on the cover. This art edition is limited to 300 copies, designed as a holiday greeting, with a cover…
Nohara, Yasuhiro.
English Review (Momoyama Gakuin University) 16 (2001): 143-66.
Explores development and uses of plural nouns from Old to Modern English. Modern English plural usage was already established for the most part in Chaucer's Middle English.
Petrosillo, Sara McKay.
Dissertation Abstracts International A78.03 (2016): n.p.
Links the rise of falconry in the Middle Ages to the use of falconers' discourses as lenses for understanding texts. Discusses falconry metaphors in TC.
Warner, Lawrence.
Andrew Cole and Andrew Galloway, eds. The Cambridge Companion to "Piers Plowman" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 198-213.
Contends that Chaucer's portrait of the Plowman in GP and "The Plowman's Tale" contribute to an understanding of how late medieval plowman traditions influenced early modern writings.
Assesses "maternal authority" in literary works from Augustine's "Confessions" to Tony Kushner's "Angels in America," including a chapter entitled "Maternal Abandonment, Maternal Deprivation: Tales of Griselda in Boccaccio, Petrarch, Chaucer, and…
Johnston, Alexandra F.
English: The Journal of the English Association 64, no. 244 (2015): 5-26.
Explores the meanings and dating of "miracle play" / "miraculum" as descriptors for medieval drama, discussing a range of historical records and offering WBP (3.543-59) and details from MilT as evidence of fourteenth-century dramatic activities in…
Huppé, Bernard F.
Aldo S. Bernardo and Saul Levin, eds. The Classics in the Middle Ages: Papers of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, no. 69 (Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1990), 175-87.
Surveys the typology of journeying in Beowulf, Abelard's Calamaties, Chretien's Eric and Lancelot, Roman de la Rose, Dante's Vita nuova, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Troilus's rise through the spheres in TC.
Goyne, Jo.
Bonnie Wheeler, ed. Feminea Medievalia I: Representations of the Feminine in the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Academia Press, 1993), pp. 139-60.
Explores the limitations and parameters of word and will in ClT. Chaucer asserts that words must not encumber the will beyond its limited capacity, even in the service of virtue.
Landman, James H.
New Medieval Literatures 4: 139-70, 2001.
Decried by detractors such as Gower and Langland, legal discourse was a way of bridging the growing gap between legal tradition and contemporary reality. Although it satirizes legal pragmatism, The "Tale of Beryn" reflects appreciation of such…
Windeatt, Barry.
Gerald Morgan, ed. Chaucer in Context: A Golden Age of English Poetry (New York: Peter Lang, 2012), pp. 189-216.
Argues that petition is an integral part of the "narrative process and imaginative texture of Chaucer's poems," and that it greatly affects poetic meaning. Discusses Purse and the F and G versions of LGWP, among other poems.
Yager, Susan.
Once and Future Classroom 16, no. 1 (2020): 1–14.
Offers multiple examples of ways to play with the scansion of Chaucer's verse as means to engage student interest, nuanced readings, and enjoyment. Examples include scenes of awakening, bird-talk in HF and NPT, and wedding celebration in MLT and WBT,…
Considers the "post-Chaucer continuations and additions" to CT, particularly so-called "spurious" links between tales, "Siege of Thebes," "Tale of Beryn," "Canterbury Interlude," "Ploughman's Tale," "Plowman's Tale," "Tale of Gamelyn," and…
Allen, Valerie.
Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds. Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005), pp. 35-52.
Allen explores the showiness and ideology of tournaments in late medieval England, not only for knights but also for archers, focusing on Roger Ascham's "Toxophilus" for information about the latter. Allen comments on Chaucer's GP Yeoman as an absent…
Nolan, Barbara.
R. F. Yeager and Charlotte C. Morse, eds. Speaking Images: Essays in Honor of V. A. Kolve (Asheville, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2001), pp. 255-99; 8 color figs.
"In-etched" reminiscences of the Annunciation strain against the dominant sexuality of MilT, simultaneously suggesting and denying the metonymic and synecdochaic relations between divine and earthly love. Nolan cites analogous examples of…
Brundage, James A.
Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler, eds. Desire and Sexuality in the Premodern West (Toronto; Buffalo, N.Y.; and London: University of Toronto Press, 1996), pp. 23-41.
Cites FrT as evidence that the archdeacon's court and its officers were "bitterly disliked," in turn evidence of the gap between legal norms of sexual behavior and actual practice in medieval Europe.
