Iwakuni, Tomoko.
Hideshi Ohno, Kazuho Mizuno, and Osamu Imabayashi, eds. The Pleasure of English Language and Literature: A Festschrift for Akiyuki Jimura (Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2018), pp. 79-93.
Closely compares the opening portion of Rom with its French source and points out that Chaucer's translations of verb tenses are faithful to the original French text. Suggests Chaucer may have attempted to express a combination of the preterit and…
Detailed lexical and literary comments, based on passages of identical or very similar wording in medieval religious writings, on the following passages in ParsT: 79-81 (the "way" of penance), 113-16 (the tree of penance), 157 ("groyn"), 319…
Gray, Douglas.
Beryl Rowland, ed. Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1974), pp. 56-71.
Comments on charms in TC, ParsT, and MilT as an introduction to a general survey of medieval charms and the need to study them more extensively, especially those in medical manuscripts.
Gray, Douglas.
Helen Phillips, ed. Langland, the Mystics, and the English Religious Tradition: Essays in Honour of S. S. Hussey. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990, pp. 185-202.
Surveys medieval treatment of cats in science, witchcraft, bestiaries, proverbs, fables, and literature. Notes Chaucer's occasional references to cats in MilT, WBP, and SumT.
Assesses the need for experimentation in current educational endeavors, considered in light of the provocative "failure" of the "Strawberry Creek College" (officially, the "Collegiate Seminar Program") of University of California, Berkeley, and the…
Delany, Sheila.
Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts 15 (1987): 27-35.
By omitting details about the Wife's experiences of work and travel, Chaucer deliberately reduces her complexity. His failure to express her social or psychological reality results from his own experience and desires mediated by gender, social…
Textbook edition of NPPT in modern translation, lineated as verse, with brief introduction to Chaucer's life and language, and critical commentary keyed to sections of the narrative. The commentary includes summaries of the narrative sections, brief…
Ross, Thomas W.
English Language Notes 13 (1976): 256-58.
Nicholas' seduction of Alisoun is an impudent parody of the Annunciation, of which he sings in the "Angelus ad virginem." Absolon is clad "ful smal," i.e., in a tight-fitting garment, as a sign of his lechery and vanity.
A short list of caveats for users of the 1977 photographic facsimile of the Findern manuscript, together with transcriptions of marginalia previously unprinted. Note 1 includes an extensive bibliography of scholarship on the manuscript.
Cains, Anthony G.
Huntington Library Quarterly 58 (1996): 127-57.
Discusses the disbinding, preservation, and rebinding of Huntington Library MS El 26C9. Provides new information regarding earlier bindings, inks, pigments, the relationship of text and decoration, repairs, etc.
Classifies approximately 220 mythological characters that appear in Chaucer's works: supernatural creatures, human beings, and other classical references. Describes and analyzes the presence of Ascalafo, Canace, and Midas in Chaucer, focusing…
Greenfield, Jane.
Yale University Library Gazette 72.1-2: 68-72, 1997.
Describes a Yale University copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer (1896) printed on vellum and elaborately bound (apparently by Douglas Bennett Cockerell) in pigskin stamped with designs by William Morris. Includes 2 figures.
Simpson, James.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 37 (2015): 31-54.
Explores aspects of anagogical reading practices and their relations with social prediction and prophecy. Reformation readers perceived predestinarian and prophetic themes in spurious Chaucerian texts, although Chaucer himself seems to distrust…
Symons, Dana.
Kathleen A. Bishop, ed. Standing in the Shadow of the Master? Chaucerian Influences and Interpretations (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010), pp. 123-59.
Also named "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale," "Boke of Cupide" was once considered one of Chaucer's great poems until it fell into obscurity when it was removed from the canon. The essay considers stylistic similarities to Chaucer's dream visions, the…
