Reads Dryden's version of WBT (from his "Fables") and his comments on the tale as reflections of his sensitivity to Chaucer's wit, humor, "genial irony," "gentle sarcasm," and especially his clever juxtapositions--the "imaginative setting of one…
Compares and contrasts John Dryden's description of Zimri in "Absalom and Achitophel" with Chaucer's description of the Pardoner in GP, emphasizing the "fine tension" between "precision and . . . universality" in the latter, and remarking on how…
Dauby, Hélène.
Adrian Papahagi, ed. Métamorphoses (Paris: Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 2003), pp. 183-95.
Dauby examines the transformations from living characters to artifacts and vice versa, the interplay between life and art. A comparative study of "Sir Degrevant," Lancelot, the Tristan legend, and poems by Chaucer leads to a typology of the…
Gingell, Susan, and Tara Chambers.
English Studies in Canada 40.04 (2014): 79-106.
Analyzes "womanist dubbing" of male-authored texts, including WBP, that represents Afrasporic women's sexuality. Breeze's "sexually frank" poems, "The Wife of Bath Speaks in Brixton Market," and "Slam Poems," are set in the Caribbean, but share…
Assesses Spenser's Duessa in light of WBT and its Middle English analogues, exploring how Spenser turned the Irish sovereignty motif against the Irish.
Dalton, John Paul.
Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 121A, 1999.
In his love visions, Chaucer initially claims to be stupefied by love and love poetry. Dalton analyzes this topos-deriving from many sources, including Boethius, the Roman de la Rose, and poems of Machaut-in BD, HF, PF, and TC.
Bawcutt, Priscilla.
Caroline Macafee and Iseabail Macleod, eds. The Nuttis Schell: Essays on the Scots Language Presented to A. J. Aitken. (Aberdeen, Scotland: Aberdeen University, 1987), pp. 54-61.
Lexicographical study of Dunbar with occasional reference to Chaucer.
Bawcutt, Priscilla J.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Surveys what is known of the life and context of William Dunbar, and discusses his canon and language, focusing on Dunbar's range of genres and his idea of himself as a poet or "makar." Comments frequently on Dunbar's debt to Chaucer (and others),…
D'Agata D'Ottavi, Stefania.
Marco Fazzini, ed. Alba Literaria: A History of Scottish Literature (Venice: Amos Edizioni, 2005), pp. 45-63.
Chaucer's four dream poems, especially PF and LGWP (both the F and G versions) are sources of Dunbar's "Golden Targe," although Dunbar's imagery owes much to CT, Anel, and Rom. Dunbar seeks innovation within tradition, and the praise he bestows on…
King, Pamela M.
Studies in Scottish Literature 19 (1984): 115-31. Available at https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol19/iss1/10. Reprinted in Pamela M. King and Alexandra Johnston, eds. Readings Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 89-101.
Related to court pageantry, "The Golden Targe" is important politically. Imagery suggests courtly origins and borrowings from Chaucer and the masque.
Bawcutt, Priscilla.
Notes and Queries 209 (1964): 332-33.
Observes that William Dunbar ridicules sexual impotence by means of the image of a dog ineffectively lifting its leg and maintains that the image and its implications derive from the "striking (and probably original)" use in ParsT 10.858,
Quinn, William A.
Essays in Criticism 61.3 (2011): 215-31.
Studies fame, death, and related motifs in William Dunbar's "Lament for the Makars" ("Timor Mortis"), including comments on his echoes of and references to Chaucer.
Reiss, Edmund.
Jean-Jacques Blanchot and Claude Graf, eds. Actes du 2e Colloque de langue et de litterature ecossaises (moyen age et renaissance) (Universite de Strasbourg, 1978), pp. 326-38.
Dunbar's so-called autobiographical references are comparable to Chaucer's references to himself in his poetry. Also Dunbar's references employ conventions that may be found in Chaucer.
Markus, Manfred.
Dieter Kastovsky and Arthur Mettinger, eds. Language Contact in the History of English (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2001), pp. 217-31.
Markus examines several features of Chaucer's spelling--digraphs, vowel doubling, "ee" versus "e"--drawing data from ParsT and arguing that inconsistencies in vowel-doubling are related to vowel length's "having lost its former phonemic identity."…
Describes the advantages of close reading of Chaucer's lyrics and shorter poems, examining ABC and Ros in detail for their riches of prosody, tone, structure, and meaning, with attention to narrative voice.
Crane, Susan.
Robert Boenig and Kathleen Davis, eds. Manuscript, Narrative, Lexicon: Essays on Literary and Cultural Transmission in Honor of Whitney F. Bolton (Lewisburg, Penn: Bucknell University Press; and London: Associated University Presses, 2000), pp. 17-44.
Argues that scribe John Duxworth, rather than his patron Jean d'Angoulême, was the guiding intelligence behind the execution of the Paris manuscript of CT (Ps) and that his revisions and errors are consistent with the habits of other scribes who…
Hostetler, Margaret Mary.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 3011A.
Applies spatial metaphors from contemporary feminist scholarship to medieval texts of various genres, including "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," Chretien's "Yvain," TC, the "Life of Christina de Markyate," the "Ancrene Wisse," and the "Book of…
Houlik-Ritchey, Emily.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 41 (2019): 107-39.
Proposes a "theoretical conjunction" between "an ecological love for the non-identical and ethical theories of love for the neighbor," exploring in light of neighbor theory Dorigen's relationships in FranT with Arveragus, with Aurelius, and with the…
Explores the ways in which Chaucer anticipates features of Renaissance literature, focusing on realism and ideas of humanity in TC and CT, but also commenting on satire in PF and parody in Thop. In Lithuanian, with summaries in Russian and English.
NeCastro, Gerard.
Machias, Maine: University of Maine at Machias, 2007.
Electronic texts of Chaucer's works in plain text and html, with a concordance and glossary, translations, and links to images, a chronology, and various web resources.
Rajendran, Shyama.
Richard H. Godden and Asa Simon Mittman, eds. Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World ([London]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 127-43.
Intersectional analysis discloses that MLT, John Gower's Tale of Constance, and "The King of Tars" cast out "non-Christian bodies from the possibilities of reproductive futurism" and "offer visions of Christian imperialist futures enacted and made…
The white eagle of Criseyde's dream of TC 2.925-931 is a "superimposition of the eagle of Purgatorio IX and the doves of Inferno V"; it links the love affair of TC with that of Dante's ruined Paolo and Francesca. The mating of doves and eagles in…
Rowland, Beryl.
Perspectives on Earle Birney (Downsview, Ontario: ECW Press, 1981), pp. 73-84.
Tallies Birney's contributions to Chaucer scholarship, particularly his studies that pertain to irony and close reading, and assesses their importance in the tradition of twentieth-century Chaucer criticism.
