Myklebust, Nicholas.
Ad Putter and Judith A. Jefferson, eds. The Transmission of Medieval Romance: Metres, Manuscripts and Early Prints (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 149-69.
Attributes the lack of critical attention to John Metham's "Amoryus and Cleopes" to its "prosodic eccentricity," demonstrating that it "does not descend from, and does not participate in, the transmission or reception of Chaucer's Anglicized…
Fruoco, Jonathan.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020
Argues that Chaucer's work "contributed to the birth of English polyphonic verse," a claim supported through discussions of Mikhail Bakhtin and the growth of scholasticism, debate, and music. Connects Chaucer's verse, including BD, HF, TC, and CT, to…
Ruszkiewicz, Dominika.
Sylwia J. Wojciechowska and Aeddan Shaw, eds. Colossus: How Shakespeare Still Bestrides the Cultural and Literary World (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Akademii Ignatianum, 2018), pp. 81-94.
Describes differences in the uses of personal testaments in TC (Troilus's) and in the versions of the story by Henryson (Cresseid's) and Shakespeare, focusing on Pandarus’s testament in "Troilus and Cressida" and on how it reflects the influence of…
Compares the representation of Cresseid and Dido in Robert Henryson's "The Testament of Cresseid" and in Gavin Douglas's "Eneados," along with other female figures, mortal and immortal, and reflects on the differences between these Scottish poems and…
A basketball exposé and coming-of-age novel about a basketball player, Elliott Hersch, and his struggles to find a true life and game, guided by Chaucer’s aphorism in FranT, 1479: "Trouthe is the hyeste thyng that man may kepe."
Argues that the two instances of Malory's refutation of his sources in "Morte" are "a form of retraction," and that combined with the work's final explicit they "lie in the literary shadow Ret,” comparing and contrasting Ret with Malory's…
A detective mystery of murder in medieval Yorkshire, with the investigation led by Owen Archer, former Captain of the Guard, assisted by Geoffrey Chaucer, poet, who is on a covert mission for Prince Edward.
Prescott, Donna D.
Troy, N.Y.: Troy Book Makers, 2019.
Item not seen. Identified in WorldCat as a modern reworking of CT set on a twenty-first-century train trip from Chicago to Memphis to visit Graceland, home of Elvis Presley, with characters and tales adapted from Chaucer.
Phelan, Joseph.
SEL: Studies in English Literature 59 (2019): 855-72.
Explains how written correspondence between Arthur Hugh Clough and Francis James Child--recurrently concerned with metrical and linguistic issues--reveals influence of Clough on Child's "Observations on the Language of Chaucer"(1862); Clough's…
Perkins, Nicholas.
Review of English Studies 69, no. 288 (2018): 13–31.
Explores the reception and impact of Thomas Hoccleve in the sixteenth century, including the linking of him with Chaucer and proto-Protestant reform. Includes comments on paratextual materials in Speght's 1598 "Works of Chaucer" that pose the poet…
Pantalone, Vince.
Red Bank, N.J.: Newman Springs, 2018.
Fictional prequel to the CT, set in 1366, when Chaucer and his fellow pilgrims (many from CT) are involved with a kidnapping and murder plot while traveling to Canterbury.
Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates that this is a poem composed of lines drawn from a select group of literary works, including CT and works by Kerouac, Camus, Hemingway, Pound, and more.
Nielsen, Melinda.
Studies in Philology 115 (2018): 25–49.
Clarifies that Boethius was a model for "medieval authors with political ambitions--and missteps--of their own." Imprisoned and accused of treason, Usk aligned himself in his "Testament" with Boethius, although his depiction of his own "seditious…
Offers brief backgrounds to historical novels, medievalism, and crime fiction, and surveys the subgenre of medieval crime fiction, i.e., novels "featuring crime or mystery that is solved by a 'detective' and set during the European Middle Ages."…
MacCrossan, Colm.
Notes and Queries 264 (2019): 393-97.
Assesses the inclusion of information from the GP description of the Knight in Richard Hakluyt's "The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation," where Hakluyt presents Chaucer's fiction "as a genuine historical…
Leahy, Conor.
Review of English Studies 70, no. 295 (2019): 527-49.
Assesses references and allusions to Middle English in poetry written by W. H. Auden between 1922 and 1930, including echoes of GP, MilT, and BD in “The Mill (Hempstead)” and “April in a Town,” and perhaps TC and NPT in “Troy Town.”
Hopkins, David, and Tom Mason.
Notes and Queries 265 (2020): 504-6.
Confirms evidence that Smart was the author of the poem praising Chaucer that appeared in the frontispiece of the February 1756 issue of "The Universal Visiter or
Monthly Memorialist" (UV). Claims that Smart is also responsible for the translation…
Green-Rogers, Martine Kei, and Alex N. Vermillion
Theatre-History Studies 36 (2017): 231–47.
Explains efforts to prepare for and stage a production of Shakespeare and Fletcher's "The Two Noble Kinsmen," using Timothy Slover's modernization of the play. Includes comments on the dynamics of seriatim translation from Chaucer's sources in KnT,…
Grant, Peter.
Thomas M. Kitts and Nick Baxter-Moore, eds. The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor (New York: Routledge, 2019), pp. 49-57.
Traces a tradition of nonsense and humor in English psychedelic rock music, mentioning Chaucer's influence (specifically NPT as a mock epic) and a few allusions to Chaucer in the lyrics of psychedelic songs.
Gillespie, Stuart.
Shakespeare's Books: A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources. 2nd ed. (New York: Bloomsbury, 2016), pp. 70-78.
Synopsizes critical opinion about Chaucer's influence on Shakespeare, especially the impact of TC, KnT, and MerT, with attention to other works. Comments on the knowledge and status of Chaucer in Shakespeare's age and includes a bibliography updated…
Assesses the cock-and-fox fable in Lydgate's "Isopes Fabules" and his "The Churl and the Bird" as public poetry, exploring how underlying concerns with authority and translation link with his "conscious concern with social conditions and with his…
Fuller, David.
Sarah Haggarty, ed. William Blake in Context (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 173-83.
Reads Blake's "varied interactions with Chaucer, Spenser, and Shakespeare" as "an education in possibilities of serious reading." In the case of Chaucer, Blake reads "for archetypes, not distracted . . . by historical contingency or an appearance of…
Reads Spenser's imitation of SqT in "Faerie Queene," Book IV, in light of MLE, which introduces SqT in early editions. The sequence alters the Squire's characterization and helps to frame SqT “as the product of an active, metafictional revision."…
