Kobayashi, Ayako.
Tokyo Kasei Daigaku Kenkyu Kiyo 36: 161-71, 1996.
Tabulates scribal variants recorded in Barry Windeatt's edition of TC, particularly changes in vocabulary. Characterizes such changes as the result of carelessness and misunderstanding; the scribes did not attempt to improve the poem.
Svartvik, Jan, and Randolph Quirk.
English Studies 51 (1970): 393-411.
Studies the grammar and usage of non-finite clauses in five samples from Chaucer's works (GP, Mel, PF, Bo, and TC), each approximately 500 lines long. Focuses on the "conditioning" factors of grammatical function, source material, and elements that…
Rand Schmidt, Kari Anne.
Jacqueline Hamesse and Antonio Zampolli, eds. Computers in Literary and Linguistic Computing: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference/L'Ordinateur et les recherches litteraires et linguistiques: Actes de la XIe Conference internationale, Universite Catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve), 2-6 avril 1984 (Paris: Champion-Slatkine, 1985), pp. 333-43.
Deals with the question of authorship and the style of Equat. Discusses Geir Kjetsaa.
Wimsatt, James I.
Leo Carruthers, ed. Heroes and Heroines in Medieval English Literature: A Festschrift Presented to Andre Crepin on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1994), pp. 137-48.
In the prose "Tristan" and Malory's "Morte d'Arthur," no single knight embodies all attributes of the courtly ideal. Similarly, Chaucer's complete depiction of the idealized knight is created through the description of GP Knight in combination with…
Boitani, Piero.
Piero Boitani. The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1989), pp. 20-55.
The Monk's "de casibus" tragedy poses a problem for the modern reader with an idea of tragedy that involves fallibility, sin, and error. Chaucer himself holds a more complex idea of tragedy than does the Monk. Chaucer's version differs from Dante's…
Clogan, Paul M.
Medievalia et Humanistica 7 (1976): 147-52
Of the six additional new manuscripts of Boccaccio's "Filostrato," three contain verse commentaries on the ending of Boccaccio's poem. The two texts of the verse commentaries, edited here for the first time, may shed new light on the ending of…
Rude, Donald W.
American Notes and Queries 23 (1985): 4-5.
Two references in John Jones's sixteenth-century "The Arte and Science of Preserving Bodie and Soule in Healthe, Wisedome, and Catholike Religion" praise Chaucer's English language and ParsT.
Hopkins, David, and Tom Mason.
Notes and Queries 265 (2020): 504-6.
Confirms evidence that Smart was the author of the poem praising Chaucer that appeared in the frontispiece of the February 1756 issue of "The Universal Visiter or
Monthly Memorialist" (UV). Claims that Smart is also responsible for the translation…
Presson, Robert K.
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 7 (1967): 239-56.
Inculdes comments on the "somnium animale" in classical and medieval literature, particularly Chaucer's dream poetry. Explores the possibility that the dream in PF influenced Mercutio's dream of Mab in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."
Federico, Sylvia.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 35 (2013): 137-77.
Treats TC and Thomas Walsingham's "Ditis ditatus" as the two major Troy narratives of late fourteenth-century England, considering the influences of Dictys and Dares (along with Boccaccio) on the two works, and focusing on their depictions of various…
Describes the lives and works of Robert Henryson and William Dunbar, with recurrent attention to their borrowings from Chaucer and their similarities to and differences from the earlier poet. Includes a select bibliography (pp. 45-48).
Caie, Graham D.
Studies in Medieval Language and Literature 28 (2013): 1-16.
Explores how the presentation of texts, as well as the reader's response to them, might be influenced by new textual forms, focusing on the manuscript (MS Glasgow University Library, Hunter 197), printed (William Thynne's edition), and electronic…
Bowers, John M.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 26: 113-46, 2004
Bowers describes the habits and activities of the two scribes, assessing what such factors can tell us about the scribes' careers and early fifteenth-century book production. Scribe D reflects "commercial opportunism" in producing works by prestige…
Sallust's association of avarice with effeminacy in "The War with Catiline" and Aulus Gellius's subsequent reiteration of the link in his "Attic Nights" are two possible sources for the combination of avarice with effeminacy in Chaucer's Pardoner.
Elliott, Charles, and R. George Thomas.
Anglo-Welsh Review 14 (1964): 9-17.
In two parts: 1) Elliott admires the unity and aesthetic qualities of PardT and addresses PardP as Chaucer's successful means to insert commentary on Church corruption; 2) Thomas argues that the Pardoner's effrontery and the moral failings of the…
Hartung, Albert E.
English Language Notes 4.3 (1967): 175-80.
Reads "hostes man" in SumT 3.1755 as referring to the "servant of the innkeeper at whose inn the two friars are staying," and adduces paleographical evidence for retaining unemended "swan" as a suggestive detail in SumT 3.1930.
Lumiansky, R. M.
Mieczyslaw Brahmer, Stanislaw Helsztynski, and Julian Krzyzanowski, eds. Studies in Language and Literature in Honour of Margaret Schlauch (Warsaw: PWN—Polish Scientific Publishers, 1966), pp. 227-32.
Justifies the placement of PhyT after FranT on the grounds of the contrasting "personal traits" of the two tellers, and argues that NPT is a personal rejoinder to MkT. Both arguments attend to details of diet and nutrition.
Suggests that when referring to St. Peter's sister in MilT 1.3486 and to Thomas's combination of wrath and frigidity in SumT 3.1825-31 Chaucer was influenced by Robert Grosseteste.
In BD and HF, Chaucer uses the "symplegades" or "clashing rocks" motif, which is related to the "Cliff of Death" theme in Germanic literature, as identified by Donald K. Fry.
Farina, Peter M.
USF Quarterly 10.3-4 (1972): 23-26.
Suggests that the Monk's "celle" of GP 1.172 is a storeroom rather than a subordinate monastery, and hypothesizes that the storm that occasions Troilus's clandestine visit to Criseyde in TC is based upon the legend of St, Benedict and his sister…
Challenges previous arguments that the name "Malyne" is appropriate to the character in RvT because it means "dish cloth," arguing instead that "Malyne," "Aleyn," and their roles in RvT can better be understood in light of the denotations and…
Baugh, Albert C.
Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America 37 (1961): 539-43.
Offers evidence that "embosed" in BD 352-53 means that the deer "had well concealed itself in a thicket and was not easy to find" and that the meaning of "double worstede" (Friar's cloak; GP 1.262) is worsted fabric of "considerable width."
