Raine, Melissa.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 117 (2018): 458-77.
Reinforces connections between the prologue to Lydgate's "Siege of Thebes" and CT. Claims Lydgate responds to Chaucer's caricature of the Monk in defense of monasticism; alludes to the Monk's portrait and the person of the Host in GP; borrows…
Medeiros, Vladimir José, and Márcia Maria Medeiros.
Akropolis-Unipar: Journal of Human Sciences 21.2 (2013): 69-77.
Assesses humor and irony in MilT and RvT, with attention to satire and Bakhtinian concerns of social class. In Portuguese, with an abstract in English. Revised by Márcia Maria de Medeiros as "Figurações do Humor em Geoffrey Chaucer—Uma Leitura…
Nilsen, Don L. F.
Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood, 1997
Chronological description of humor in British literature, with individual discursive bibliographies on literary humor in the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries and on individual writers in these periods. Surveys the criticism of humor in…
Kendrick, Laura.
Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), pp. 135-58.
Commenting on the paucity of studies that directly address humor in Chaucer, Kendrick explores modern theories and medieval attitudes toward humor, especially as related to notions of tolerance. She examines instances in Chaucer, Deschamps, and…
Foster, Edward E.
Chaucer Review 3.2 (1968): 88-94.
Examines several bawdy puns, "incongruous situations," and other humorous ironies in KnT, suggesting that they are unintended by the Knight yet consistent with Chaucer's depiction of him as "a romantic, caught by reality but aspiring to the ideal"…
León Sendra, Antonio R.
Alfinge: Revista de filología 3 (1985): 241-52.
Focuses on Chaucer's humor and irony in the love consummation scene in TC, and how he frames terminology as courtly love, while undermining the concept.
Gloss, Teresa Guerra.
Dissertation Abstracts International 50 (1990): 3221A.
Humor may be classified as visual, antirepressive, and linguistic-stylistic (sophisticated and often ironic). Gloss treats seven authors of four nationalities, including Chaucer.
Bayilmus Ogutcu, Oya.
Seyda Sivrioglu, and others, eds. Bati Edebiyatinda Mizah / Humor in Western Literature / L'humour Dans la Literature Occidentale / Humor in Der Westlichen Literatur (Istanbul: Kriter, 2016). pp. 381-94.
Describes the comic humor of Chaucer's Purse and Thomas Hoccleve's "Complaint to Lady Money" and "La Response,"
Hanna, Ralph, [III].
Medium Ævum 69: 279-91, 2000.
Discusses the "household book" of Humphrey Newton and its relation to "central literary culture." MS Lat. Misc. C.66 includes a section of ParsT (10.601-29), a section of KnT (1.3047-56), and a letter imitating Troilus upon seeing Criseyde.
Richardson, Janette.
English Miscellany 12 (1961): 9-20.
Argues that Chaucer's use of conventional hunter and prey images in FrT "serves an organic function within the aesthetic whole of the work.” Rather than "functioning as mere decoration" it reinforces and deepens "the comic irony both inherent and…
Grady, Frank.
Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 109-24.
Identifies associations between hunting and Fortune in various Middle English romances, exploring the "shared formal and thematic ambitions" of BD and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" as "two members of this hunting-and-Fortune group." Shows how the…
Vaughan, Miceal F.
Lingua Humanitatis (Korea International Association for Humanistic Studies in Language) 2.2 : 85-107, 2002.
Focusing on orthography, rhyme, "near-rhyme," and meaning, Vaughan suggests that "hunting for the hurt" in BD, and not just the hart, gives prominence to the narrator's unresolved emotional and physical pain. The hert(e)/hart/heart word-play in BD is…
Explores historical and literary traditions of the noble hunt,addressing Christian and classical backgrounds, hunting manuals, narrative motifs, a variety of Middle English romances, and the figures of Sir Tristrem and Christ as hunters. Middle…
Kennedy, Kathleen E.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): 133-63.
Argues from "codicological and paleographical evidence" that the copy of TC found in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61, was commissioned by a "high-level clerical, Lancastrian patron." Examines the "ornate textura" ("textualis") script ofth e…
Staley, Lynn.
Thomas Hahn and Alan Lupack, eds. Retelling Tales: Essays in Honor of Russell Peck (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1997), pp. 293-320.
Manuscript environment (in the case of Huntington 140, the copying of ClT alongside several pious poems by Lydgate and circulation with a paraphrase of Job, the "Libelle of Englyshe Polycye," and several edifying narratives), combined with the…
Farrell, Thomas J.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 30 (2008): 39-93.
Analyzes the "range of discourses" in several GP descriptions, particularly those of the Monk, Friar, Parson, Clerk, Sergeant at Law, and Prioress. In various ways, Chaucer combines estates satire, free indirect discourse, the opinions of the…
Builds on Homi K. Bhabha’s definition of hybridity and studies the pilgrims as "the hybrids and/or mimics of medieval borderline society." Contextualizes these hybrid identities within economic and social changes, and concentrates on the Knight in…
Davis, Kathleen.
Kathy Lavezzo, ed. Imagining a Medieval English Nation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004), pp. 161-90.
Parallels between the sex/gender system and establishing medieval English identity indicate that the perceived doubleness of woman echoes that of the nation. PF does not fantasize about a unified nation, but it does produce "England" as a site of…
Claridge, Claudia.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Uses CT as a source of data for a linguistic study of hyperbole, particularly for diachronic case studies in Chapter Six. Charts Chaucer's hyperbolic use of a few, selected words. In Chapter Seven, suggests that Chaucer uses hyperbole in GP to…
Frame-tale science-fiction novel. Among a number of literary allusions, the titles of its several parts recall the CT: "The Priest's Tale," "The Soldier's Tale," "The Poet's Tale," etc.
Harbin, Andrea. R., and Tamara O'Callaghan.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 21.2 (2014): 111-26.
Considers the utilities of "hyperprint" texts for teaching medieval literature, offering an extended example of the first twenty-five lines of MilT, augmented by five "fiducial markers" (QR-coded) that enable a reader/user, without leaving the…
