Vila de la Cruz, Maria Purificacion.
Teresa Fanego Lema, ed. Papers from the IVth International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature (Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1993), pp. 319-23.
Tallies instances of Chaucer's attention to childhood education in CT.
Beck, Richard J.
English Studies 44 (1963): 241-53.
Argues that in his "mature work" and in "the service of greater realism," Chaucer used rhetoric "dramatically rather than ornamentally." Then gauges the degree of appropriateness of tales to tellers in light of the percentage of rhetoric in a given…
The thirty-one portraits in the Kelmscott Chaucer show Burne-Jones's development as a painter and his identification with Chaucer as an artist. Burne-Jones represents Chaucer as a tall and slender man, similar to his own self-portraits. The emotions…
Ormrod, W. M.
Journal of British Studies 26 (1987): 398-422.
Edward III achieved his dynastic ambitions through military activity, careful marriages, and apportionment of lands and titles among his children. By 1377, his plans lay in ruins,and Richard II's abrasiveness destroyed Plantagenet harmony.
Reisner, M. E.
Eighteenth-Century Studies 12 (1979): 481-503.
Blake's portraits of the Pardoner and Summoner in "Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims" bear strong resemblances to contemporary satirical portraits of William Pitt the Younger and Charles James Fox, respectively. The descriptions of the two pilgrims in…
Elliott, Winter S.
Kathleen A. Bishop,ed. "The Canterbury Tales" Revisited--21st Century Interpretations (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008), pp. 110-26.
The Prioress aligns herself with the widow in her Tale and with the Virgin Mary. Although the clergeon is like Christ in his challenge to Jewish tradition, PrT is concerned with female power as well as with cultural prejudice.
Danby, John F.
Critical Quarterly 2 (1960): 28-32.
Comments on stylistic and tonal aspects of GP 1.1-18, focusing on their harmonious energy and "generalized vocabulary." Also comments Chaucer's sympathetic irony elsewhere in GP.
A collection of thirty-two eighteenth-century modernizations of CT by at least seventeen authors, known and anonymous. Valuable in an exploration of reception aesthetics and reader-response theory.
Cowen, Janet M.
Notes and Queries 226 (1981): 392-93.
British Libreary NMS Additional 12524 was owned successively by Samuel Smith, Ralph Thoresby, and Horace Walpole. British Library MS Additional 9832, owned by Morell Thurston and them by Joseph Haselwood, was used by Urry for his edition. Both…
Schenkel, Elmar.
Keplers Dämon: Begegnungen zwischen Literatur, Traum und Wissenschaft (Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 2016), pp. 290-300.
Exemplifies the recurrent concern with alchemy in western culture and literature, including description of Chaucer's depiction of it in CYPT, along with his reputation for scientific knowledge.
Part 2 (pp. 225-379) prints the entire GP, based on the text of Manly and Rickert (1940), with phonetic transcription of lines 1-78; introductory commentary on its meter, stress patterns, syllabification, and rhyme techniques; and a comprehensive…
An introductory textbook grammar of Middle English, particularly Chaucer's dialect, with a brief history of the English language and descriptions of the parts of speech, morphology, pronunciation, etc. Includes an edition of the GP, edited from the…
Keller, Wolfgang.
Zeitsprünge: Forschungen zur frühen Neuzeit 21, nos. 3-4 (2017): 339-59; abstract in English, pp. 413-14.
Clarifies the late medieval shift from household economics to usurious commerce, and argues that HF, John Lydgate's "Temple of Glass," and Gavin Douglas's "Palice of Honour" depict the "dissolution" of traditional households entailed in this shift.…
Johnston, Andrew James.
R. Howard Bloch, Alison Calhoun, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Joachim Kupper, and Jeanette Patterson, eds. Rethinking the New Medievalism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), pp. 181-97.
Explores how in KnT ekphrasis (here the "verbal depiction of fictional images rather than of real ones") serves "a specific politics of representation" in which "the verbal and the visual" and "the classical and the medieval" are locked in…
Cerezo Moreno, Marta.
Ángeles de la Concha, ed. El sustrato cultural de la violencia de género: Literatura, arte, cine, y videojuegos (Madrid: Síntesis, 2010), pp. 19-44.
Analyzes how art--canonical literature, in particular--helps to construct, consolidate, and transmit patriarchal ideologies that support violence and female subjection. Assesses KnT as an example of how a masculine gaze affects female identity.…
Explores interrelations among youth, old age, virginity, and chastity in PhyT and WBPT as they "reveal the links between eroticism and control over bodies." Includes an abstract in English.
This anthology of international short fiction in Spanish translation is intended for classroom use, with a pedagogical introduction (pp. 9-105) and study questions (pp. 485-524). It includes PardT (pp. 123-31), without PardP, as well as tales by Don…
Gomez, Francesc J.
Magnificat: Cultura i literature medievals 2 (2015): 159–96.
Taking as a starting-point the study of a chapter from the "Tractat de les penes particulars d'infern" by Joan Pasqual (c. 1436), traces the dissemination (and the "stemma narrationum") of two narrative motifs: the fake alchemist and the king…
Bishop, Kathleen [A.]
Nancy M. Reale and Ruth E. Sternglantz, eds. Satura: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honour of Robert R. Raymo (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2001), pp. 227-37.
Identifies a number of points of comparison between Juan Ruiz's "El Libro" and CT: wide range of genres, ecclesiastical satire, comparable characters (e.g., the Prioress and Doña Garoa; the Wife of Bath and Trotaconventos), narrators'…
