Boffey, Julia.
Publications of the Bibliographical Society of America, 85 (1991):11-26.
A study of the "traditions of lyric publication on which Tottel built" his 1557 collection, Tottel's Miscellany. Discusses early English printers' "Chaucerian anthologies"--Caxton's quarto volumes among them--that combine Chaucer's lyrics and longer…
Maguire, Laurie.
Rory Loughnane and Andrew J. Power, eds. Early Shakespeare 1588–1594 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 121-46.
Explores relations between Franklin--the tale-telling character of "Arden of Faversham"--and Chaucer’s Franklin as narrator of FranT, concentrating on scenes in the play attributed to Shakespeare, and focusing on the "subject matter and literary…
A close reading of selected tales and passages of CT, concentrating on the interpenetration of sexual nuances and theological resonances as a source of unity. Reads the tales "palimsestically," i.e., as a series of intratextual allusions and images…
Lindahl, Carl.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
Examines Chaucer's use of contemporary oral material and traditions of play in CT, especially by the churls. In part 1, Lindahl examines the "shapes of play and society": community of players, role of the pilgrim, shape of performance, and…
Graham, Jorie, ed.
Hopewell, N. J.: Ecco Press, 1996.
An eclectic anthology of poetry in English that includes (pp. 6-9) a selection from NPT (7.3331-446) in rhymed pentameter couplets, lightly modernized and including stresses for meter.
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, and Linda T. Elkins-Tanton.
New York: Bloomsbury, 2017.
An edited epistolary exchange between medievalist Cohen and physical scientist Elkins-Tanton, exploring humanist and scientific perspectives on epistemology, point of view, temporality, beauty, and human comprehension of the earth and the cosmos.…
Carson, M. Angela.
Chaucer Review 1.3 (1967): 157-60.
Contrasts the "tone, circumstance and result" of the Ceyx and Alcyone story and the grief of the Black Knight in BD, suggesting that the contrasts in the heart/herte hunt emphasize the consolation of Chaucer's poem.
Havely, Nick.
Miriam Wendling, ed. Cardinal Adam Easton (c. 1330–1397) (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020), pp. 119-38.
Demonstrates Adam Easton's "detailed engagement" with Dante's "Monarchia" (especially Book 3) in his "Defensorium ecclesiastice potestatis," and suggests that Easton and Chaucer "might well have known about each other’s work." Includes comments on…
Miyajima, Sumiko.
Research Activities (Faculty of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Denki University) 21: 39-51, 1999.
Assesses Griselda of ClT in light of the folkloric tradition of the "Chichevache," said to have eaten ideal wives in medieval Europe. Includes visual representations of the legendary beast and describes the relations of ClT to its sources.
Baule, Cynthia Anne.
Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 2293A, 2000.
In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the English laity became increasingly literate, in part because readers consumed religious literature to increase their devotion and to achieve personal relationship with God. PrT and SNT, among other…
Schwartz, Lewis M.
Twentieth Century Literature 15.3 (1969): 155-65.
Argues that the Wife of Bath is a distant source (not necessarily intentional) for the characterization of Molly Bloom in James Joyce's "Ulysses." Both characters are sensual, hedonistic, heterodox, touched by despair, shrewish, and unfaithful--part…
An, Sonjae (Brother Anthony).
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 12 (2004): 393-418.
Shows how allusions to Dante in TC combine with Boethian elements to offer an ironic commentary on Troilus's notion of happiness. Also comments on allusions to Statius.
Through extensive use of "multiple dialogue introducers," Chaucer creates a "mimetic representation of speech" in Mel and thus invites a listening audience to be part of the fictional conversation and, beyond that, to emulate it by taking time to…
Farrell, Thomas J.
Textual Cultures 9.2 (2015): 27-45.
Cautions editors against eclectic emendation, assessing George Kane's method and observing how its rigor is undercut by subjectivity, particularly notions of authorial "genius." Uses WBP 3.838 (the Summoner jeering at the Friar) as a case study to…
Depicting nature as an "active force," Chaucer encourages the reader to explore nature's "effects on social institutions and human drives." In so doing, he balances "a dis-enchanted skepticism about nature's benevolence" with "a canny understanding"…
Douglass, Rebecca M.
Studies in Medievalism 10: 136-63, 1998.
Ecocriticism is "a discipline that examines (criticizes) the relationship of texts to literal and figurative environments." Douglass's test case is an examination of how metaphors of nature are used in KnT and MilT to set off the person of Emilye,…
Describes how Chaucer reaches beyond the phallocentrism and "human parochialism" of his time by giving voice to the feminine and the animal in PF, even though the poem ends with a return to masculinist, human-centered subjectivity.
Kordecki, Lesley.
New York: Palgrave Mcmillan, 2011.
Assuming a consistent narrative voice across the Chaucer canon, this study treats Chaucer's use of animal, specifically, avian, discourse as a means of exploring subjectivity. The author emphasizes the role of non-humans and women in "challenging…
Schwebel, Lana.
Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 1828A, 2001.
In fourteenth-century England, the sale of indulgences was supported by orthodoxy and attacked by Wycliffites. Poetic fictions transcend this simple opposition, as seen in the artful deviousness of PardT and the revitalized idealism of "Piers…
Siewers, Alfred K.
Stephanie LeMenager, Teresa Shewry, and Ken Hiltner, eds. Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century (New York: Routledge, 2011), pp. 105-20.
Views "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," Malory's "Morte Darthur," and CT through the lens of ecopoetics, contending that they all rely upon the interdependence of author, text, and audience; employ metonyms rather more than metaphors; play with…
Critical review of two applied textual theories, exposing their weaknesses in light of recent theory and revealing their ongoing utility. Includes discussion of Laura Hibbard Loomis's arguments that Th indicates Chaucer's firsthand knowledge of the…
Solopova, Elizabeth.
W. Speed Hill, ed. New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, II: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 1992-1996. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, no. 188 (Tempe, Ariz.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, with the Renaissance English Text Society, 1998), pp. 121-32.
A description of questions raised in the process of producing the first installment of the computer-assisted "Canterbury Tales" Project (SAC 20 [1998], no. 11), and a justification of the project. The first installment made possible Solopova's…
