Owen, Charles A., Jr., Caroline D.Eckhardt, and Katharine Slater Gittes.
PMLA 98 (1983): 902-04.
An exchange of letters in the PMLA Forum section that comment on openendedness and closure in CT and the influence of Arabic literary models on Chaucer.
Critiques Morton W. Bloomfield's "The Man of Law's Tale: A Tragedy of Victimization and a Christian Comedy," commenting on the artistic quality of MLT and the Man of Law as narrator.
Jordan, Robert M., James I Wimsatt, and Mary Carruthers.
PMLA 94 (1979): 950-53.
An exchange of letters in the PMLA Forum section that comment on the characterization of the Wife of Bath and the role of sources (especially Jerome) and historical contexts in understanding the character.
Goodman, Barbara A.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 20.1 (2103): 85-98.
Considers how to attract students to medieval courses in minority-serving institutions, particularly general education courses. Includes description of a course that juxtaposes CT with Ibn Battuta's "The Rihla."
Bowden, Betsy.
Translation & Literature 3:30-46, 1994.
Examines select passages of moderizations of ShT by John Markland, Henry Travers, Andrew Jackson, and William Lipscomb for how their diction, imagery, and emphases encourage us to approach the Tale as "implied performance." All four interpret and…
Item not seen. A WorldCat record indicates that the four essays, addressed to high school students, consider CT under the following titles: "Chaucer, Society and the General Prologue," "Chaucer and Medieval Thought," "Chaucer and Medieval Tradition,"…
Trimble, Jeremy, composer.
In Joanna White, Kennen White, Tracy Watson, et al., Poet as Muse: Music for Flute, Clarinet, and Voice (Baton Rouge, La.: Centaur, 2017). CRC3568.
A musical performance of Tremble's "Four Fragments from 'The Canterbury Tales'" (GP, 1–42; GP descriptions of Knight and Squire; and WBP, 1–34), performed by Joanna Cowan White, Kennen White, Tracy Watson, Elissa Johnston, Mary Jo Cox, and Takeshi…
Trimble, Lester, composer.
New York: C. F. Perkins, 1967.
Four-part musical score for selections (in Middle English) from GP, 1-42, the GP descriptions of the Knight and the Squire, and WBP 3.1-34. The introductory materials include comments on expression, tone, and pronunciation, with Trimble's remark that…
Trimble, Lester, comp.
Lester Trimble, American Harpsichord Music of the 20th Century (Albany, N.Y.: Albany, 2001), CD-ROM, tracks 14-17.
Audio recording, performed by Nancy Armstrong (soprano), Mark Kroll (harpsichord), Bruce Creditor (clarinet), and Alan Weiss (Flute). The lyrics adapt selections from GP (opening, Knight, and Squire) and WBP.
Frantzen, Allen J.,with the assistance of Alta Cools Halama.ed.,
N.p. : Illinois Medieval Association, 1993.
Ten essays on topics related to medieval notions of afterlife, including several on Langland, Hoccleve, Gower, and Chaucer. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Four Last Things under Alternative Title.
Item not seen; WorldCat records indicate that this four-part score includes the text of "Now Welcome Summer" (a translation of PF 680-92), set to music, along with other scored seasonal texts by Keats (autumn), Shakespeare (winter), and Thomas Nashe…
Kearney, Milo, and Ken Hogan.
Milo Kearney. The Historical Roots of Medieval Literature: Battle and Ballad (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1992), pp. 439-91.
Surveys CT and contemporary works for their reflections of social turmoil. CT reflects Chaucer's views of social order as properly based on class structure and the ultimate goal of salvation.
Strohm, Paul.
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Genres, Themes, and Images in English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century (Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1988): pp. 90-104.
Chaucer's "multiplicity of competing voices" has encouraged modern critics to focus on his "openness." Strohm examines reader reception of Chaucer in contemporaries and followers: Clanvowe, Scogan, Lydgate, and Henryson. Clanvowe, like Chaucer,…
Ussery, Huling E.
Tulane Studies in English 23 (1970): 1-15.
Assumes Chaucer's Clerk to be "an eminent Oxford logician," and surveys possible real-life models, suggesting that several individuals are plausible and that others "could well have influenced the characterization."
Six essays on literary, social, and historical contexts. The two final essays analyze Chaucer's use of Boccaccio's "Teseida" to explore Chaucer's methods and poetic-philosophical development.
Hughes, Gavin.
Gerald Morgan, ed. Chaucer in Context: A Golden Age of English Poetry (New York: Peter Lang, 2012), pp. 83-108.
Looks at CT and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" from a "military historical and archeological perspective." Focuses on the Knight in GP and KnT, and on warfare scenes in Th and Sir Gawain.
Chamberlin, Julie K.
Dissertation Abstract International A80.11 (2019): n.p
Argues "that medieval writers of beast literature probed the limitations and possibilities of defining legal personhood, thus exposing the boundary between humans and nonhuman animals to be not merely blurry, but permeable." Includes discussion of…
Brown, Emerson,Jr.
David G. Allen and Robert A. White, eds. Traditions and Innovations: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1990), pp. 50-58.
CT, like the intellectual disputes of the fourteenth century, is characterized by extremes. Applying David Knowles's discussion of the period to fragment VII of CT, Brown notes that ShT, PrT, Th, Mel, and MkT show the "tendency to extremism…
Minnis, Alastair.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 37 (2015): 3–27.
Traces evidence of anatomical votive offerings, particularly genital renderings, in Roman practice, Reformation commentary, and modern accounts, presenting them as background to reading the Host's commentary on the Pardoner's cullions (PardT,…
Bahr, Arthur.
Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2013.
In a chapter entitled "Constructing Compilations of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'," considers CT through the lens of Walter Benjamin's historical materialism. Teases out three narrative threads by means of "compilational construction." The…
Williams, Tara.
Literature Compass 4.4 (2007): 1003-16
Argues that a "turn to the Middle Ages" can reinvigorate feminist criticism, encouraging exploration of the "origins of gendered language," e.g., womanhood, femininity, and wifehood. Williams surveys the tradition of feminist approaches to medieval…
Explores the relationship between fragments I and II and the "Marriage Group," reading the tales in I and II and III through V as "an ongoing discourse between Chaucer and the ultimate narrator and reader." Argues that Kittredge's concept of the…
