Considers textual issues that pertain to the "Host stanza" at the end of ClT (4.1212a-g) and several passages in MkT and NPT: the "Adam stanza" (7.2007-14), the "Modern Instances" (7.2375-2462), and the short versus long versions of NPP. Discusses…
Horobin, Simon.
Norman Blake and Peter Robinson, eds. The Canterbury Tales Project Occasional Papers, Volume II (London: King's College, Office for Humanities Communications, 1997), pp. 15-21.
Demonstrates the dangers of over-reliance on Hengwrt, Ellesmere, or any limited number of privileged manuscripts in establishing the text of CT, arguing for attention to all available material.
Costomiris, Robert Douglas.
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 4783A.
William Thynne, the first true editor of Chaucer's oeuvre, performed fewer duties for the royal household than has been believed; thus, he had more time for editing. Familiar with the three previous printings and with many manuscripts, he built on…
Machan, Tim William.
Studies in Bibliography 41 (1988): 188-96.
The textual problems of Bo are more complex than they seem. Chaucer used several source texts, including commentaries and French translations; his chief interest was to translate the "'Consolatione' tradition," not just the "Consolatione" itself. …
Niebrzydowski, Sue.
English: The Journal of the English Association 64, no. 244 (2015): 1–4.
A general introduction to the "Chaucer Reconsidered" special issue of the journal that focuses on the many genres in which Chaucer worked, as well as his primary topics.
Barrington, Candace, and Jonathan Hsy.
Literature Compass 15.6 (2018): n.p.
Emphasizes the global diversity of CT—settings, sources, influence, etc.--and asks "what underappreciated meanings in Chaucer's Middle English work open up through translation and adaptation." Summarizes the essays included in this special issue…
Barrington, Candace, Lisa Lampert-Weissig, Katie Little, and Eva von Contzen.
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession 2.1 (2021): 1–9.
Reports on contemporary cultural conditions for teaching medieval narratives about rape, and summarizes the contents of this issue of the journal. Includes brief comments on modern responses to “Cecily Chaumpaigne’s charges against Geoffrey…
Lampert-Weissig, Lisa, Katie Little, Eva von Contzen, and Candace Barrington
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession 1.1 (2020): 1-5.
Describes the launch of a new electronic journal related to the study of Chaucer, "New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession," and summarizes the contents of the inaugural issue.
Sauer, Hans.
Hans Sauer, Gisela Seitschek, and Bernhard Teuber, eds. Höhepunkte des mittelalterlichen Erzählens: Heldenlieder, Romane und Novellen in ihrem kulturellen Kontext (Heidelberg: Winter, 2016), pp. 225-51.
Introduces CT as one of the major accomplishments of English medieval literature, surveying information about Chaucer’s life and works and focusing on the range and variety of CT. Describes GP, Ret, the longer prologues, and each of the tales, and…
Explores the influence of CT on Spenser's "Faerie Queene," especially the Renaissance version of Chaucer's work available to Spenser in Thynne's edition. Includes a list of Spenser's references and allusions to Chaucer.
Chaucer uses "ingenu" irony (Muecke's term) in TC. Pandarus, the most prodigious user of proverbs, demonstrates the illusiveness and unreliability of proverbs. For all his proverbial wisdom, Pandarus, like the narrator, is inept in love. Proverbs…
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…
