Considers John Metham's "sonnet," which presents the first sonnet-like form in English. While disputing that Metham’s poem should be viewed as the first sonnet in English, its similarities and interpretations help to advance considerations about…
Lubinski, Jason D.
Open access Ph.D. dissertation (University of Oklahoma, 2019). Available at https://shareok.org/handle/11244/319600 (accessed February 8, 2023).
Analyzes "how medieval society understood the way gender characteristics were composed and balanced in a person by applying classical theories on biology, the humors, physiognomy, and astrology to medieval literary characters." Includes examination…
Watt, Diane.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 42 (2020): 337-50.
Argues that evidence of female readership drawn from the Paston letters indicates familiarity with works by Chaucer and by Lydgate, as well as popular spiritual writings, devotional works, hagiographies, and chivalric treatises. Emphasizes the…
Parker, Joanne, and Corinna Wagner, eds.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xx
Includes thirty-nine essays by various authors on a wide range of topics relating to medievalisms in Victorian culture, generally British and American, with attention to the historical development of interest in medieval languages, literature, arts,…
Utz, Richard.
Joanne Parker and Corinna Wagner, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 189-201.
Traces the "growing fascination" with Chaucer, his language, and his works in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, linking it with the cultural imagining of Chaucer "as a predecessor to" Victorian "preferred aesthetics, ideologies, and…
Toswell, M. J., and Anna Czarnowus, eds.
Cambridge: Brewer, 2020.
Collection of essays exploring the origins, development, and "manifestation of medievalism in Canadian literature." For three essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Medievalism in English Canadian Literature under Alternative Title.
Toswell, M. J.
M. J. Toswell and Anna Czarnowus, eds. Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood (Cambridge: Brewer, 2020], no. 93), pp. 113-28.
Shows that in his writing and public persona, Earle Birney "engages in a conscious and self-conscious effort to make himself a public poet for Canada, using Chaucer's role as the father of English poetry as a model" and echoing Chaucer’s stylistic…
Ruszkiewicz, Dominika.
M. J. Toswell and Anna Czarnowus, eds. Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood (Cambridge: Brewer, 2020.), pp. 129-42
Comments on several "manifestation[s] of the medieval" in the writings of Margaret Atwood, focusing on her "response to the patriarchal standards and conventions of the courtly tradition." Identifies connections with Chaucer's motif of "enditynge,"…
Rushton, Cory James.
M. J. Toswell and Anna Czarnowus, eds. Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood (Cambridge: Brewer, 2020), pp. 143-54.
Maintains that Pearson's novel for juvenile readers "A Perfect, Gentle Knight" (2007) "earns the quotation that provides its title" from GP, 73, identifying echoes of the father–son relationship of Chaucer’s Knight and Squire, even though the…
Rupp, Jan.
Anglisik: International Journal of English Studies 31.2 (2020): 35–51.
Comments on the role of refugee literature in the "shifting contexts of [literary] canonisation" and then explores "the role of Chaucer in 21st-century refugee writing," focusing on aspects of CT (especially MLT) that resonate in Patience Agbabi’s…
Rupp, Jan.
REAL: The Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 36 (2020): 219-37.
Describes uses of "iconic extant narratives" in twenty-first-century refugee writing, using CT as a "key and core example," and focusing on how it adds "to the ethical potential" of three volumes of "Refugee Tales" (2016, 2018, and 2019) edited by…
Ramachandran, Ayesha.
Modern Language Notes 135 (2020): 1094-1107.
Explores references and allusions to Chaucer (SqT and KnT), Ariosto, and Boiardo in Spenser's "densely self-reflective meta-critical mediation" on national and international poetic influences in Book IV of his "Faerie Queene." Focuses on the…
Perry, R. D., and Mary-Jo Arn, eds.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020. .
Collects ten essays by various authors and an introduction by Perry, together showing that, in his "Fortunes Stabilnes," Charles d’Orléans was "one of the great formal innovators of English poetry," examining the genres he engaged, his metrical…
Olson, Paul A.
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 33 (2020): 89–117.
Examines views of monarchy and Catholic/Protestant conflicts in Shakespeare's "second tetralogy," plays set during and soon after Chaucer's lifetime. Includes discussion of Falstaff as a figure viewed "through the lens of Chaucer’s time"—a figure…
Item noit seen. The second of the two verse dramas included here, "De Raptu Meo," is an adaptation of a portion of O’Connor’s "Chaucer’s Triumph" (2007), depicting Chaucer as he is accused of raping Cecily Chaumpaigne.
Fictional account of twenty-one Australian tourists telling self-disclosing stories, modeled on CT, with many echoes, e.g., character-names such as Tony Knight, Giles Sumner, Barbara Bath, etc.
Legg, Jeni.
Dissertation Abstracts International A82.03(E) (2020): n.p.
Assesses aspects of translation theory and presents a translation of Shin Jae Hyo's version of the "p’ansori Shimcheongga," “rendered in the form of an estranging dialogue with Geoffrey Chaucer . . . in order to interrupt the mechanical forms…
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…
Edwards, Robert R.
Tamara Atkin and Jaclyn Rajsic, eds. Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain: Essays in Honour of Professor Julia Boffey (Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2019), pp. 167–81.
Considers Chaucer's uses of Theban material drawn from the tradition of Statius and Boccaccio, exploring how he adapted his sources and how, in turn, his works were adapted by others. Surveys the "exemplary power" of Thebes in Chaucer’s works, and…
Cressler, Loren.
Modern Language Quarterly 81.3 (2020): 319-47.
Assesses Theseus of LGW as a "superlative of falseness," arguing that the figure, more so than the Theseus of KnT or its classical precedents, influenced Marlowe and Nash'’s "Dido, Queen of Carthage" and, subsequently, Shakespeare's "A Midsummer…
Bauer, Matthias, and Angelika Zirker.
Lukas Rösli and Stefanie Gropper, eds. In Search of the Culprit: Aspects of Medieval Authorship (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021), pp. 217–38.
Explores how in each of two Shakespearean plays "there is a co-authorship with a past author": Gower in "Pericles" and Chaucer in "The Two Noble Kinsmen." Argues that the presentation of Chaucer as a source in the prologue in "Kinsmen" engages…
Al-Hariri of Basra.
Cooperson, Michael, trans.
New York: New York University Press, 2020.
Translates al-Harırı's Arabic classic "Maqamat," with sections imitating or emulating the styles of various writers in English (Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, John Lyly, etc.). The "Author's Retraction" is "modeled on" Ret.
Al-Hariri of Basra.
Cooperson, Michael, trans.
New York: New York University Press, 2020.
Translates al-Harırı's Arabic classic "Maqamat," with sections imitating
or emulating the styles of various writers in English (Mark Twain, Virginia
Woolf, John Lyly, etc.). The "Author's Retraction" is "modeled on" Ret.
Considers translation as theory and inspiration in the writings of four English authors, including discussion of Chaucer’s translations of Boethius in Bo and in TC, and John Dryden’s translations of CT. Wahlen’s Ph.D. dissertation,…
