Rothwell, W[illiam].
English Studies 82: 539-59, 2001.
Anglo-Norman should be considered "a coherent, if constantly changing, entity from 1066 to the middle of the fifteenth century" (559), with widely different forms that influenced English in the fifteenth-century, when scribes were working both in…
Surveys the sustained influence of Italian culture in England from Chaucer through Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Gascoigne, Marston, Fletcher, and Shakespeare. Summarizes the development of Italian city-states and explores topics such as Italian influence…
Ullyot, Michael.
Ian Frederick Moulton, ed. Reading and Literacy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), pp. 45-62.
Assesses how two seventeenth-century modernizations reflect the reception of their Middle English originals. Jonathan Sidnam's modernization of the first three books of TC (ca. 1630) offers respectful tribute to Chaucer and seeks to preserve his…
Karpova, Olga.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011.
Identifies and describes reference works that pertain to individual English authors, published (in print or online) from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century--concordances, glossaries, name-dictionaries, indices to quotations and…
Defines and classifies various kinds of comedy according to their natures, subject matters, and social functions; then surveys this variety in the English literary tradition from the Middle Ages to 1970. Describes Chaucer's comedy (pp. 67-75) as…
Scattergood, V. J., and J. W. Sherborne, eds.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983.
Ten essays on court culture in Chaucer's England. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for English Court Culture in the Later Middle Ages under Alternative Title.
Coleman, Janet.
Chaucer and the Italian Trecento (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 33-63.
English culture was shaped by widespread literacy, English nationalism and political unity, a common language and traditions, schools, study of Latin, biblical commentary, knowledge of the classics, the humanistic movement, travel, and foreign…
Surveys the history and development of English drama from the Renaissance to the modern period, emphasizing "the nature and effects" of plays and performance. Includes a chapter entitled "The Dream Vision from Chaucer to Shakespeare" (pp. 61-79),…
Boffey, Julia.
Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox, eds. Literary Aspects of Courtly Culture: Selected Papers from the Seventh Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994), pp. 113-21.
Examines the provenance and contents of several fifteenth-century manuscripts, arguing that such compilations reflect interest in Chaucer's dream poems, acquaintance with a range of English and French texts, and a "lively awareness of current…
Hiltunen, Risto, Marita Gustafsson, Keith Battarbee, and Liisa Dahl, eds.
Turku: Turun Yliopisto, 1993.
Twenty-three essays on literary and linguistic topics, emphasizing linguistic or structuralist approaches to literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for English Far and Wide under Alternative Title.
Curran, S. Terrie.
Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland, 2002.
A linguistic history of Old and Middle English that uses several Chaucerian examples to explain changes in morphology and phonology. Chapter 12 discusses Chaucer's contributions to English, to poetry, and to prosody. The apparatus indexes the…
Item not accessed; reported by WorldCat, which describes this video as concerned with the impact of French on the English language and identifies four units that pertain to Chaucer: "Geoffrey Chaucer: Father of English Literature" (3:10); "Geoffrey…
Fisiak, Jacek, and Akio Oizumi, eds.
Berlin and New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1998.
Twenty-five essays by various authors and a select, annotated bibliography of Japanese studies of English historical linguistics from 1950-95. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan…
Fernandez, Francisco; Miguel Fuster; and Juan Jose Calvo, eds.
Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1994.
Twenty-nine papers read during the Seventh International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Valencia, Spain, 21-26 September 1992. The papers range from general interest to phonology and writing, morphology and syntax, lexicology and semantics,…
Bergs, Alexander, and Laurel J. Brinton, eds.
Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2012.
An encyclopedic handbook with contributions by various authors, with topics ranging from historical periods to modern media studies. Includes an introductory essay by Jeremy J. Smith entitled "Middle English" (pp. 32-47) and a section on various…
McCully, C. B,and J. J. Anderson,eds.
Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Thirteen essays (plus an introduction) from the 1991 G. L. Brook Symposium on Old and Middle English Metrics. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for English Historical Metrics under Alternative Title.
Dahood, Roger.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 31 (2009): 125-40.
Dahood attributes several features of the plot of PrT to "non-Marian, historical English narratives of Jews crucifying English Christian boys" and explores how and when these features became attached to narratives of a chorister murdered by Jews. The…
Woolf, Rosemary
Beryl Rowland, ed. Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1974), pp. 384-91.
Describes English analogues and the Latin original to Chaucer's lost translation, "Origenes upon the Maudelyne" (LGWP-F 428), hypothesizing that Chaucr translated his work upon the request of a lady and speculating why he may have done so.
Machan, Tim William.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Machan studies the "social meanings, functions, and status of the English language in the late-medieval period," i.e., its "sociolinguistic contextualization." He explores Henry III's letters of 1258; the relationships between language, dialects, and…
Johnson, Eleanor.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 114, no. 4 (2015): 504-25.
Argues that the Man of Law depicts himself as a traditionalist in law. Through his presentation in GP, his conversation with the Host, and his Tale, the Man of Law separates himself from negative views of lawyers in the wake of the 1381 Rising. In…
Hart, Roger.
London: Wayland; New York: George Putnam's Sons, 1973.
Illustrated social history of late-medieval England, with literary examples drawn from CT and contemporaneous literature, with visual reproductions from various manuscripts, including the Ellesmere manuscript and printed facsimiles. Arranged…
