Assesses the "ecocritical insights" of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" via its intertexual relations with the "pilgrimage ecopoetics" of CT, exploring structural similarities in the works and their vernacularity, metatextual references, "linguistic and…
Li, Chi-fang Sophia.
Comparative Drama 55 (2021): 355-79.
Demonstrates that Chaucerian estates satire in CT influenced the development of dramatic "city comedy" at the turn of the seventeenth century. Shows that in his "Ho" plays Dekker adapts Chaucer's London topographies, characterizations, themes, and…
Lankewish, Vincent A.
Victorian Poetry 60 (2022): 35-164; 10 b&w illus.
Introduces the activities and concerns of a Victorian "salon" conducted by John Ruskin and Edward Burne-Jones in which young women could "engage in serious conversations about medieval poetry, about art, and about humanitarianism and virtue." Focuses…
Hanna, Natalie.
Comparative Drama 55 (2021): 380-403.
Shows that in his pamphlet "A Strange Horse-Race," Thomas Dekker quotes FranT "to illustrate hospitality" and the force of "binding oaths"; in his play "The Shoemaker''s Holiday," he "drew on Chaucer's Franklin for material about credit and debt."…
Greene, Darragh.
Comparative Drama 55 (2021): 166-84.
Argues "that Chaucer's treatment of devils, damnation, and hell" in CT "resonates" in "Doctor Faustus," focusing on the yeoman-devil and "the force and binding implications of illocutionary acts" in FrT, as well as on "interesting parallels" between…
Espie, Jeff.
Comparative Drama 55 (2021): 283-306.
Suggests that Shakespeare's title, "The Winter's Tale," adapts a possessive form associated with Chaucerian narratives--the x's tale--" and identifies similarities between the play and ManT. Focuses on the works' attention to linguistic…
Dutton, Richard.
Sophie Chiari and John Mucciolo, eds. Performances at Court in the Age of Shakespeare (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 17-34.
Extracts information about Richard Edwards's now-lost play "Palamon and Arcite," from three extant contemporary accounts of the visit of Queen Elizabeth I to Oxford, where she attended a performance of the play in 1566. The accounts--by Miles…
Historical murder mystery set in 1400, in the months after Henry IV's usurpation of Richard II's throne. "Master" Chaucer and Adam are involved with copying Lollard treatises; Matilda, Chaucer's house-maid, is involved with friar-cum-sleuth Brother…
Buffy, Emily.
Comparative Drama 55 (2021): 138-65.
Addresses performance texts associated with the early Elizabethan Inns of Court ("closet dramas, translations, masques, and orations"), arguing that they reflect four Chaucerian "paradigms of play" ("Chaucerian Self-Fashioning," "Chaucerian…
Brooks, Karen.
New York: William Morrow, 2022 (originally published Sydney: Harlequin, 2021).
Historical novel in which the setting, plot, and first-person protagonist, Eleanor (later Alyson) are based on WBPT, with many characters adapted from history and from CT, including Chaucer. Includes a glossary, list of historical characters,…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Jonathan Fruoco, ed. Polyphony and the Modern (New York Routledge, 2021), pp. 169-91.
Offers a technical linguistic analysis of STR (speech and thought representation) in TC, theorizing a hierarchical "structure of subjectivities" to examine samples from the poem, attending to nuances latent in diction, situation, point of view,…
Strohm, Paul.
Jonathan Fruoco, ed. Polyphony and the Modern (New York Routledge, 2021), pp. 192-205.
Argues that Chaucer's "polyphony and polyvocality" are both "modern" and "progressive"--justification for dismantling the period boundary between medieval and Early Modern literatures. Surveys mixed, condescending praise by Early Modern critics of…
Bertonèche, Caroline. Trans. Jonathan Fruoco.
Jonathan Fruoco, ed. Polyphony and the Modern (New York Routledge, 2021), pp. 206-16.
Argues that the polyphonies of John Keats's poetry (as identified by Helen Vendler) are attributable to his engagements with Chaucer's works and Chaucerian apocrypha, reflecting a particular kind of "Englishness," underpinned by travel and encounters…
Raises questions about what it means to be modern in one own's time and about polyphony (including polyphonic music, polyvocality, and literary dialogism) as an index to modernity, collecting fourteen essays on relevant topics, most of them on…
Keller, William R.
Eva von Contzen and James Simpson, eds. Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022), pp. 135-53.
Examines the role of lists, themes of order and disorder, epistemology and poetics, and tensions between household economy and monetized mercantile accretion (chremastistics) in Douglas's "Palice of Honour" as a response to similar concerns in…
Contzen, Eva von.
Eva von Contzen and James Simpson, eds. Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022), pp. 115-34.
Uses Chaucer's list of poets of Troy in HF 1460ff. as a "vantage point" to demonstrate how epic catalogs in Middle English Troy narratives are "sites of scepticism towards established truths, questioning the Trojan War, the claims of epic, and poetry…
Simpson, James.
Eva von Contzen and James Simpson, eds. Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022), pp. 195-212.
Assesses the syntax and rhetorical/literary functions of the "open-ended list that forms part of a sentence," focusing on those composed during the "cultural revolution" at the beginning of the Reformation in sixteenth-century England, but framed by…
Berensmeyer, Ingo.
Eva von Contzen and James Simpson, eds. Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022), pp. 155-71.
Focuses on the "Chaucerian tree catalogue[s]" in Philip Sidney's "Old Arcadia" and Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene," tracing the device as a "subtype of epic catalogue" in classical tradition and in KnT and PF, exploring its narrative,…
Contzen, Eva von, and James Simpson, eds
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022.
Collects ten essays by various authors that discuss lists and listing as epistemological, rhetorical, and poetic devices, with an introduction by the editors ("Enlistment as Poetic Stratagem"), and a comprehensive index. For four essays that pertain…
Hsy, Jonathan, and Candace Barrington.
David Hadbawnik, ed. Postmodern Poetics and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics (Boston: De Gruyter, 2022), pp. 159-77.
Explores how the "circular and recursive form" of Agbabi's poetic adaptations of CT in her "Telling Tales" (2015) "showcases" the "queer time of medievalism and the queer form of adaptation." Focuses on Agbabi's versions of Mel ("Unfinished…
Hadbawnik, David.
David Hadbawnik, ed. Postmodern Poetics and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics (Boston: De Gruyter, 2022), pp. 179-204.
Describes the "inbetweenedness" of language in Caroline Bergvall's poetic/performative "trilogy--"Meddle English" (2011), "Drift" (2014), and "Alisoun Sings" (2019)--including discussion of her uses of forms of "Chaucer's Middle English, as well as…
Includes eight essays by various authors, an Introduction by the editor, and a comprehensive Index. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Postmodern Poetics and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics under Alternative Title.
Barrington, Candace.
David Hadbawnik, ed. Postmodern Poetics and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics (Boston: De Gruyter, 2022), pp. 61-80.
Assesses Jos Charles's "transpoetics" in "feeld" (2018), showing how the collection of poems capitalizes on the "historical ruptures" and other constitutive features of Middle English, mimicking its "malleability and fluidity." Also suggests that…
Explores how the 2003 BBC adaptation of MLT and Patience Agbabi's "Telling Tales" (2004) "respond to the xenophobic and imperialist ideology of the original," challenging the relationship that MLT "posits between familial and national loyalties,"…
