Butterfield, Ardis.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 16 (1994): 3-27.
Reads BD and Machaut's "Jugement dou Roy de Navarre" as "counter pastorals"--works that both disturb the superficial idealization of pastoral poetry and replicate the social tension latent in the form, a social tension that also reflects contemporary…
Rex, Richard.
Studies in Short Fiction 23 (1986): 1-8.
The Prioress's childishness places her among the "children of a hundred year" who live in folly and are cursed by God. Her tale is a pastiche, its ironies reflecting the teller's false humility and lack of charity even as she extols charity as a…
Dell contends that Brian Helgeland's film A Knight's Tale offers an alternative to capitalistic perpetual accomplishment, the model of desire that critics associate with the film. This alternative is courtly love, a paradigm drawn from the Lancelot…
Meier, Hans H.
Caroline Macafee and Iseabail Macleod, eds. The Nuttis Schell: Essays on Scots Language Presented to A. J. Aitken (Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Press, 1987), pp. 116-23.
Describes several literary representations of Older Scots language; includes RvT because Older Scots and Northern English "are not generally considered as distinct" in the late medieval period. Commends Chaucer for his comprehensive "imitation of…
Scott, Kathleen L.
Carol M. Meale and Derek Pearsall, eds. Makers and Users of Medieval Books: Essays in Honour of A. S. G. Edwards (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2014), pp. 150-77.
Examines records of medieval book ownership by focusing on inscriptions in manuscripts and early printed books, wills, and other inventories of collections from fifteenth-century merchants and craftsmen. Features two listings of merchants with book…
Nolan, Maura Bridget.
Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (1999): 123A.
The poetry of the age demonstrates the construction and manipulation of history, while popular culture reflects the changing relations of ruler and laws. Thus "Wynnere and Wasture" treats the 1352 Statute of Treasons. Chaucer's MLT,a poetic revision…
Stock, Lorraine Kochanske.
Carmina Philosophiae 2 (1994): 1-37.
Explores the late medieval traditions of the Wild Man and idealized primitivism, arguing that they are useful in understanding and interpreting Chaucer's additions to the Boethian materials in Form Age.
Garrido Anes, Edurne.
Alicia Rodríquez Álvarez, and Francisco Alanso Almeida, eds. Voices on the Past: Studies in Old and Middle English Language and Literature ([Spain]: Netbiblo, 2004), pp. 185-91.
Considers Troilus' lovesickness as a physical disorder and a cause of distorted perception in TC and Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida." His condition is due to the "often ambiguous correspondence" of "passions, signs, thoughts and facts."
Schmidt, A. V. C.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Collection of published and previously unpublished studies of Chaucer and other writers, including the "Pearl"-poet, Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, Jones, and Auden. Part 1, "Medieval: Chaucer and the Gawain-Poet," includes essays on Bo, Form Age, KnT, and…
Kruger, Steven F.
Chaucer Review 23 (1989): 219-35.
LGWP promises something that the poem itself does not deliver--stories of faithful women and faithless men. LGW is about how stories break out of prescribed patterns, how characters defy stereotypes, and how emotions and impulses escape the forms…
Murray, Kylie.
Mark P. Bruce and Katherine H. Terrell, eds. The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1300-1600 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 121-39.
Considers the Scottish reception of TC and PF by close study of the annotations in Bodleian Library, MS Arch. Selden B.24. Sketches a network of Scottish aristocratic readers of Chaucer's work and argues that political and ethical concerns were their…
Blandeau studies Pasolini's cinematic trilogy of medieval tales: The Decameron, CT, and One Thousand and One Nights, focusing on the first two. Argues that Pasolini "puts two semiotic systems in translation with each other, not so much to transmit…
Includes an account of the making and reception of Pier Paolo Pasolini's films "The Decameron" (1971) and "Canterbury Tales" (1972). In the latter, Pasolini plays Chaucer and includes seven "Tales": Merchant's,Franklin's, Cook's, Miller's "Wife of…
Lynch, Kathryn L.
Robert R. Edwards, ed. Art and Context in Late Medieval English Narrative: Essays in Honor of Robert Worth Frank, Jr. (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994), pp. 107-25.
From the dream visions through CT, Chaucer never abandoned his fascination with walls and "enclosed fictions." On the one hand, walls function metaphorically, representing such forces as the rise and fall of civilization. On the other, they create…
Blatt, Heather.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018.
Draws on modern media studies to clarify practices of "participatory reading" in late medieval England, exploring how vernacular authors, texts, and manuscripts elicit and/or limit the agency of their readers who engage with texts in making meaning,…
Argues that Rudyard Kipling's story "The Wish House" was influenced by WBP. Key words in Chaucer's text ("daunger," "chep") and connotations of the word "ash" (part of the surname of Kipling's leading character, Ashcroft) reveal that Chaucer's work…
Yvernault, Martine.
Colette Stévanovitch and Henry Daniels, eds. L'Affect et le jugement: Mélanges offerts à Michel Morel à l'occasion de son départ à la retraite, 2 vols. (Paris: AMAES, 2005), 2: pp. 563-71.
Yvernault explores various levels of the love discourse in PF in relation to the roles played by reflection and silence.
Prior, Sandra Pierson.
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 16 (1986): 57-73.
Not mere humorous touches, Chaucer's complex parodies of the mystery plays of Noah and Herod cover "biblical figures and events, the contemporary religious drama,...and exegesis, which lay behind the widespread use of typology." MilT explodes in…
Calderwood, James L.
English Studies 45 (1964): 302-09.
Argues that in PardPT the Pardoner "is parodying himself—deliberately magnifying his character and conduct in order to portray himself as a monster of evil" exaggerating so that the other pilgrims will interpret him comically, as a "charming…
Surveys parody and parodic devices in Middle English literature, arguing that, though there is much that is coarse in this literature, there is little actual parody outside of liturgical texts. Th is Chaucer's only true parody, although elsewhere…
Bashuna, I. G. [И. Г. Башuна].
M. L. Remneva, ed. Aktual'nye Problemy Iazykoznaniia i Literaturovedeniia (Moscow: Moskovskii Ggosudarsvennyi Universitet imeni M.V. Lomonosova, 1994), pp. 138-46.
Dane, Joseph A.
Norman and London : University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.
Proposing to assess "how our language of parody...acts to manipulate the literature it is intended to describe," Dane explores the relation of genre to politics. Part 4, "The Classification of Medieval Parody," contains a chapter, "The…
Macdonald, Dwight, ed.
New York: Random House, 1960; London: Faber and Faber, 1961.
A chronological and thematic anthology of literary parodies that opens with Pr-ThL, Th, and a section of Th-MelL in Middle English as examples of parody of romance, followed by an "Imitation of Chaucer" by Alexander Pope and "A Clerk Ther Was of…
