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Contends that Chaucer made his debut in China in the form of short excerpts of his poetry and "occasional pieces on language and culture" that appeared between 1878 and 1939 in British and American newspapers based in Shanghai.

Describes the first printings of Chaucer's works in China, during the Republican period (1912–1949). All are portions of CT translated into Chinese from modern English adaptations for children, providing for children and adults alike contact with…

Analyzes Edward Burne-Jones's illustrations of Rom in the Kelmscott Chaucer, arguing that they--and especially the final illustration of the poem--epitomize many of Burne-Jones's experiences with and attitudes toward books, book history, and the…

Surveys the history of handpress printing of CT, analyzing 140 editions, with particular attention to paratextual material as indication of Chaucer's reception and the "abundance of mediation."

Describes scholarly inattention to the Middle English texts of KnT, NPT, WBT, and The Flower and the Leaf in John Dryden's "Fables Ancient and Modern" (1700) "slightly edited" from Thomas Speght's 1598 edition. Observes that the texts are "the…

A comprehensive edition of all of Chaucer's works (without Rom or Equat), with bottom-of-page notes, side-bar glosses, headnotes to the individual works and each part of CT, and a glossary. The text is based on manuscript witnesses and on E. Talbot…

Using the Riverside edition, translates LGW, ABC, Pity, Lady, Mars, Ven, Ros, Adam, Purse, Wom Unc, Compl d’Am, and MercB into Japanese, with introductory and supplementary notes. Includes brief timeline and description of Chaucer’s life. In…

Refers to a sidenote in Gabriel Harvey's copy of Speght's 1598 edition of Chaucer that is supposed to shed light on the date of Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Argues that the ambiguities in the various interpretations circulating may be unriddled to produce…

Includes a selection of passages from Chaucer, with word-by-word English translations and an introduction to Chaucer's linguistic and literary context. Intended for use as a manual for Middle and early modern English literature survey courses.

Explores the thematic concern with poetic tradition in the narrator-Africanus exchange of PF and in Spenser's "Mutabilitie Cantos," arguing that Chaucer and Spenser share an "interest in rhetorically linking the earth-bound poet with a community of…

Investigates resonances between the garden settings in FranT and in the June eclogue of Spenser's "Shepheardes Calender," exploring the "spatialised poetics" of Dorigen's and Colin's shared inability to enjoy the pleasures of a classical/Christian…

Argues that the Spenserian stanza "rebuilds Chaucerian rhyme royal" and that it "demands to be read as a form which takes its syntactic impetus more from rhyme royal than elsewhere." Examines aspects of rime riche, "interconnected" rhymes across…

Argues that an "ambivalent enterprise of simultaneous innovation and retrospection . . . structures Spenser's approach to the reform of Ireland" as well as his "engagement with Chaucer in his poetry." Analyzes Spenser's use and explanation of two…

Identifies parallels between Chaucer's and Spenser's depictions of ranges and varieties of love-relationships in PF; TC; CT; and "The Faerie Queene," books III–IV. Introduced via allusion to FranT, Britomart is central to Spenser's collection of…

Examines E. K.'s commentary on Chaucer in Spenser's "The Shepheardes Calender," arguing that by "associating him with a historically antecedent but culturally current poetic paradigm, E. K. represents Chaucer as a writer who proleptically embraces…

Close reading of lines 33-41 (and E. K.'s commentary) of the February eclogue of Spenser's "Shepheardes Calender" exemplifies the "truancy of literary resonance" and discloses resonant intertextual play among the comic variety of HF, the monovocality…

Comments on the interdependence of innovation and imitation in Chaucer's poetry, and explores how Spenser's depictions of Chaucer and his poetry are part of the early modern concern with this dynamic, particularly evident in Luke Shepherd's reformist…

Locates several "clusters" of resonances between TC and Spenser's "Amoretti" and "The Faerie Queene," concentrating on the importance of aurality and memory in recognizing these resonances and distinguishing “resonance” from other metaphors of…

Focuses on elements of the "popular romance" in the manuscripts of "The Tale of Gamelyn" and "The Tale of "Beryn" and excerpts from Chaucer's works in other manuscripts to show how "the 'Chaucer' presented to early modern readers by the manuscript…

Observes that in sixteenth-century editions of CT, ManT follows NPT, and that after c. 1550 the pair is followed by the story of the Pelican and Griffin from the apocryphal "Plowman’s Tale," then the references to fables in ParsP, providing a…

Studies the paratextual materials that accompany and supplement the text of Chaucer's works in Speght's editions of 1598 and 1602, showing that these materials present Chaucer to early modern readers as ancient but still worth reading, in part…

Twelve essays on Spenser's knowledge of and uses of Chaucer as source or inspiration. The introduction by the editors summarizes earlier critical studies, describes the essays, and asserts that the essays together "characterise the relationships…

Argues that "the increasing alterity of Middle English texts in the early modern period compelled editorial interventions designed to make the texts accessible as well as to identify, to emphasize, or to establish the texts/ relevance to contemporary…

Reflects on "the process and outcome of an Afrikaans translation" of CT and includes a complete translation in an appendix, matching Chaucer's verse and prose, completed over the course of sixty years. The study explores translation theory and…

Studies the presence of Spanish wine in England through literary references, starting with a brief survey of Chaucer. Contends that Chaucer's familiarity with Spanish wines such as sherry in PardT is attributable both to his father's business and to…