Gelber, Hester Goodenough.
Dallas D. Denery II, Kantik Ghosh, and Nicolette Zeeman, eds. Uncertain Knowledge: Scepticism, Relativism, and Doubt in the Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), pp. 285-304.
Argues that Holcot and Chaucer "depict a world in which farce and deception are possible." Discusses how Chaucer's ironic humor and "Chaucerian misdirection" fuel the ambiguity in ClT and NPT.
Hartman, Michael Oscar.
Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1994): 559A-60A.
Although Old English poetry always depicts Satan as supernaturally powerful (while doctrinally powerless), late-Middle English works show him as comic, the boaster who must fail--as in the mystery cycles followed by the morality plays. In Chaucer's…
Walker, Greg.
Roberta Mullini, introd. Tudor Theatre: For Laughs? Puzzling Laughter in Plays of the Tudor Age/Tudor Théâtre: Pour Rire? Rires et Problèmes dans le Théâtre des Tudor (Bern: Peter Lang, 2002), pp. 1-20.
According to Walker, the three males in MilT anticipate familiar types of masculine "fool" in English dramatic tradition: John as cuckolded senex amans, Nicholas as the punished "Priapic fool," and Absolon as the "squeamish, infantalised male."…
Wetherbee, Winthrop.
R. F. Yeager, ed. Chaucer and Gower: Difference, Mutability, Exchange (Victoria B.C.: University of Victoria, 1991), pp. 7-35.
There are significant differences between Chaucer's and Gower's appropriations of the Roman de la Rose and its Latin antecedents. Gower's priestly Genius is an authority figure in the tradition of Boethius's Consolation. Chaucer's rejection of…
Baechle, Sarah E.
Dissertation Abstracts International A77.04 (2015): n.p.
Considers marginal glossing in manuscripts of TC and CT as examples of actual reader experience of those texts, with an eye toward recognizing different interpretations and hermeneutic approaches from relatively contemporary readers.
The annotations from Virgil and Seneca in a copy (not previously discussed) of Stow's edition of TC act much like footnotes in modern editions to identify such things as analogues. They also demonstrate that classical tag-lines had become common by…
A complete list of the Latin and French loan words in GP, including proper nouns. Chaucer is indebted to earlier borrowings, especially to those in the "Ancrene Riwle." The number of Chaucer's own borrowings is indicated. A high ratio of the…
Furrow, Melissa M.
M. Teresa Tavormina and R. F. Yeager, eds. The Endless Knot: Essays on Old and Middle English in Honor of Marie Borroff (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1995), pp. 29-41.
By exploring the uses of Latin quotations in the works of Langland and Chaucer, Furrow indicates late-Middle English readers' facility with Latin.
Gastle, Brian, and Erick Kelemen, eds.
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.
Comprises ten essays by various authors, with summaries by the editors in an introduction, a bibliography, and subject index. For six essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture under Alternative…
Matthews, William, ed.
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts; London: Peter Owen, 1963.
Anthologizes some sixty modernized examples and excerpts from late-medieval English prose writing, arranged by topic, form, or genre (e.g., Historians, Mystics, Religious Controversialists, etc.), with a brief introduction to each section. Includes a…
Gray, Douglas.
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Gray surveys "literature written in English from the death of Chaucer to the earlier sixteenth century," with numerous references to Chaucer's legacy and influence during the period. Introductory chapters on intellectual and cultural history are…
2 vols. Volume 1: Texts and Illustrations. Volume 2: Catalogue and Indexes. Descriptions of 140 late-medieval manuscripts, selected for their representative value and focusing on their styles and programs of illustration. The introduction (1:…
Summers assesses the commonalities and differences among Usk's "The Testament of Love," "The King's Quair" of James I of Scotland, Charles d'Orléans' "English Book of Love," the "Testimony" of William Thorpe, the "Trial" of Richard Wyche, and…
Arens, Werner.
Uwe Boker, Manfred Markus, and Ranier Schowerling, eds. The Living Middle Ages: Studies in Mediaeval English Literature and Its Tradition (Stuttgart: Belser, 1989), pp. 167-81.
Examines a few specimens of "public poetry' (of the type Anne Middleton identified in FranT and MLT), poetry to serve "the common good," dating 1265-1462.
Steinmetz, David C.
Chaucer Review 12 (1977): 38-54.
Griselda's career, when seen in light of the nominalist doctrine of justification known in fourteenth-century Oxford, parallels the pilgrimage of the faithful toward the Heavenly Jerusalem.
Evans, Trena Marie.
Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 1008A, 2002.
Late-medieval lay meditation extended the subject matter (previously the life of Christ) and the boundaries considered suitable for vernacular material. Evans treats Chaucer's TC, John Metham, Thomas Hoccleve, Nicholas Love, and anonymous works.
Riddy, Felicity.
Michael O'Neill, ed. The Cambridge History of English Poetry (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 96-114.
Riddy describes the literary accomplishments of Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas as they together "created Older Scots as a literary language." Includes recurrent references to Chaucer and Chaucerianism in the works of these poets.
Payne, Robert O.
Lois Ebin, ed. Vernacular Poetics in the Middle Ages (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University Press, Medieval Institute Publications, 1984), pp. 249-61.
Among poets who "present images of themselves both as poets and as readers" was Chaucer, though the idea-language model was not fully appropriate, as in HF.
