Bergquist, Carolyn Jane.
Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 2898A
As in the worlds of Sidney's "Arcadia" and Milton's "Paradise Lost," the fictive world of TC is grounded in a key ethical concept. According to Bergquist, "Kynde or nature is the making and undoing of both Criseyde and the fiction that contains her."
Brawer, Robert A.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
Chapter two, "Selling on a Grand Scale, Playing to an Image-Conscious Society" (pp. 35-59), includes discussion of the Merchant as a "self-made man" who relies on his image of success. Assesses the GP description and compares the character to Horatio…
Yeager, Suzanne M.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 197-215.
Argues that Chaucer’s critique of "curiositas" as "the prevailing failure and motivation of medieval travel" is "successfully negotiated" by several late medieval travel authors. Concentrates on readings from travel accounts by Simon Simeonis and…
Taylor, Jamie K.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2013.
Focuses on devotional and legal "witnessing practices" of the late Middle Ages. Chapter 2, "The Face of a Saint and the Seal of a King," reveals how the Man of Law presents "episodes of false witness" in MLT.
Contrasts Custance of MLT with her source in Trevet's "Cronicles," exploring the depictions of the sea in the two poems as well, arguing that women and water are tamed by "providential control" in Chaucer, especially when seen in light of Alatiel of…
Galloway, Andrew.
Andrew J. Power, ed. The Birth and Death of the Author: A Multi-Authored History of Authorship in Print (New York: Routledge, 2020), pp. 32–53; 2 illus.
Explores nuances in the tradition of attributing paternal authority to Chaucer as a poet, focusing on Thoreau, Hoccleve, and Lydgate, and disclosing differing ways in which they represent his authority and appropriate it to assert their own…
Putter, Ad.
Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, ed. A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry (Brewer, 2013), pp. 143-55.
Clarifies why "The Flower and the Leaf,” “The Assembly of Ladies,” “La Belle Dame sans Mercy” and “The Isle of Ladies” are described as “Chaucerian,” noting their attribution to Chaucer in manuscripts and early printed editions,…
Compares the contents of Cambridge University Library MS Additional 4122 with similar contemporary compilations, encouraging further study of such devotional collections. The presence of Chaucer's SNT in such anthologies may indicate his shaping…
Davenport, Tony.
Helen Cooney, ed. Nation, Court and Culture: New Essays on Fifteenth-Century English Poetry (Dublin and Portland, Ore.: Four Courts Press, 2001), pp. 129-51.
Examines two mid-fifteenth-century complaints that reflect public distrust of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, arguing that these complaints are more Lydgatian than Chaucerian, since Chaucer's own complaints had little influence at the time. An appendix…
Tragedy, comedy, debate, mask, and theatrical "epic" are found in fifteenth-century drama. Davenport explores factors to explain the scope, style, and variety.
Boffey, Julia, ed.
New York and Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Texts, notes, and introductions to Lydgate's "Temple of Glass"; James I of Scotland's "The Kingis Quair"; Charles of Orleans's "Love's Renewal"; "The Assembly of Ladies"; and Skelton's "The Bouge of Court". The general introduction and the…
Edwards, A. S. G.
A. S. G. Edwards, Vincent Gillespie, and Ralph Hanna, eds. The English Medieval Book: Studies in Memory of Jeremy Griffiths (London: British Library, 2000), 101-12.
Evidence from late-medieval English verse collections indicates that the conception of an individual author's corpus was slow developing, not crystalizing until the 1532 printing of Chaucer's Works. Earlier manuscript collections of Chaucer (and…
Pepys MS 2006 contains a unique grouping of Mel, ParsT, Truth, and Scog. Written by two scribes, it displays the names of John Kyriell (gentry) and William Fettyplace (London mercer). The two social classes of Kyriell and Fettyplace indicate either a…
Cable, Thomas.
Yoko Iyeiri and Margaret Connolly, eds. And Gladly Wolde He Lerne and Gladly Teche: Essays on Medieval English Presented to Professor Matsuji Tajima on His Sixtieth Birthday (Tokyo: Kaibunsha, 2002), pp. 109-25.
Cable laments deterioration in the understanding of Chaucer's meter. He argues that too little attention has been paid to the loss of final -e in the fifteenth century, leading to misreading the poetry of Lydgate, Hoccleve, Barclay, and Hawes.
Yeager, Robert F., ed.
Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1984.
Essays on reviews of scholarship, language and paleography, and literary criticism. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays under Alternative Title.
Thomas, Arvind.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer SAC 42 (2020): 27-72.
Identifies parallels between the legal maxims of RvPT and the commentaries of medieval canon and civil law, including ones by Giovanni da Legnano (cited in ClT, 34) and a pair of canonists named (in Latin) Aleyn and John. Focuses on laws that pertain…
Medeiros, Márcia Maria de.
Suellen Cordovil de Silva, and Tiago Marques Luiz, eds. O Humor nas Literaturas de Expressão de Línqua Inglesa (São Paulo: Paco Editorial, 2018), pp. 13-38.
Revised version of "Humor e Ironia em Geoffrey Chaucer: O Conto do Molerio X O Conto do Feitor" (2013)
LaGuardia, Eric.
François Jost, ed. Actes du IVe Congrès de l'Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée, Fribourg 1964 (The Hague: Mouton, 1966), II: 844-54.
Distinguishes between medieval and Renaissance versions of poetic "figural imitation." In the former, identified by Erich Auerbach, the "poetic image participates in two modes of reality at the same time: historical and absolute": in the latter, it…
Boyd, Jessie Mary Heather.
Dissertation Abstracts International 40 (1980): 4585A.
For Chaucer, a poem was an imaginative focus for the representation of a larger pattern of experience. The patterns created by the opposing figures of speech in his poetry (the concrete and empirical/the archetypal) reflect a complex sense of…
Cooper, Lisa H.
In Thomas A. Prendergast and Jessica Rosenfeld, eds. Chaucer and the Subversion of Form (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 99-124.
Claims that Astr shares with Chaucer's "literary" works a deep conceptual investment in form and is more than a technical manual. Astr layers textual, celestial, and technological forms (book, cosmos, and astrolabe) in a dynamic relationship with…
Minnis, A. J.
Phillip Lindley and Thomas Frangenberg, eds. Secular Sculpture: 1300-1550 (Stamford: Shaun Tyas), 2000, pp. 124-43.
Minnis considers possible sources or inspirations for Chaucer's techniques of describing the architecture and statuary in the Temple of Venus of HF, surveying previous scholarship. Despite the possible influence of actual art and architecture or the…
Examines the ambiguous character of Criseyde in TC 4. Chaucer gives her a point of view only to call her morality into question and he provides a sense of history that he never allows her fully to understand. TC is a "feminist work that fails to…
Robinson, Michele.
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1989): 1797A.
Inheriting the tradition that women were either saintly or satanic, Chaucer grasped the opposition between rhetorical and mimetic treatment, as shown especially in LGW and ManT. Robinson applies medieval and modern feminist theories.
