Edwards, A. S. G.
Ian Gadd and Alexandra Gillespie, eds. John Stow (1525-1605) and the Making of the English Past: Studies in Early Modern Culture and the History of the Book (London: British Library), pp. 109-18.
Considers the texts Stow used in his career. His 1561 edition of Chaucer is marked less by its engagement with Chaucer than by the inclusion of Lydgate's "Siege of Thebes." The evidence of Stow's annotations suggests interest in Lydgate but a…
Pearsall, Derek.
Ian Gadd and Alexandra Gillespie, eds. John Stow (1525-1605) and the Making of the English Past: Studies in Early Modern Culture and the History of the Book (London: British Library, 2004), pp. 119-25.
Despite his expertise, Stow was not associated directly with Speght's 1598 edition. Speght "was able to ornament the edition with the names of his eminent friends," while Stow, lacking class, continued behind the scenes, providing "barrowloads of…
Steiner, Wendy.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Considers John Trevisa's translations of "compendious" encyclopedic texts as examples of a prose literary form that is an influential part of a late medieval literary history, an "alternative" to the better-known tradition of Trevisa's poetic…
Alderson, William L.
Paul Ruggiers, ed. Editing Chaucer: The Great Tradition (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1984), pp. 93-115.
Summarizes the practices and impact of John Urry's 1721 edition of Chaucer's works, describing its conservative canon and its text that, though based on multiple witnesses, was radically emended in order to achieve metrical regularity. Published…
Traces the medieval tradition of translating or adapting Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" into vernacular languages, especially French, and argues that Walton's verse translation of 1410 is an "improvement upon his model, Chaucer's prose" Bo,…
Demonstrates that Chaucer "occupies a more prominent place" in Samuel Johnson's "Dictionary" than has been acknowledged. Corrects some misconceptions of previous scholars and adds new data about attention to Chaucer in the "Dictionary"--quotations of…
The mayor of London reviews the history of London from the Celts to the present, organizing each developmental period around an historical person. The chapter on the later Middle Ages features Chaucer's connection to London, including his dwelling in…
Examining how post-Chaucerian writers and critics even to the present day have added and responded to CT, Higl argues that their works are analogous to the pilgrims' fictive contest. The dissertation assesses the evidence of reception in select CT…
Bertolet, Craig E.
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017. Relocated 2025 at https://opencanterburytales.lsusites.org/
Comments on the possibly harmful and/or fraudulent aspects of "japes" in CkPT, offering information about the food trade in medieval London and considering the Cook's "mormel" (GP 1.386) to be a sign of his vulnerability. Designed for pedagogical…
Wells, Paul.
Journal of Screenwriting 7 (2016): 65-81.
Uses the concepts and terminology of animation studies (e.g., "metamorphosis, condensation, anthropomorphism, choreography, fabrication, performance, sound, etc.") to gauge how and to what extent Jonathan Myerson in his "The Canterbury Tales" (1998)…
Cook, Megan L.
Manuscript Studies 1.2 (2017): 165-88.
Describes Joseph Holland's "thoroughgoing renovation" of the Chaucer manuscript he owned in the sixteenth century (now Cambridge University Library, MS Gg 4.27), detailing how he imitated the corpus and presentation found in Thomas Speght's 1598…
Apocryphal traditions surrounding the Annunciation and Joseph's doubts impart complex depths to the scene in the pear tree and its aftermath, including Joseph's (January's) weak sight and his comforting of Mary (the womb patting).
Brown, Peter.
Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen, eds. Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry. King's College London Medieval Studies, no. 5 (London: King's College Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 1991), pp. 143-74.
Examines the details and style of Beryn, arguing that it was written to complete CT and that it capitalizes on several of its narrative and stylistic features. Suggests that Beryn was composed by a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, perhaps in…
Joyce was re-reading CT while revising Ulysses. Chaucerian influence extends beyond allusion to parallels of linguistic conception, encyclopedic reference, and form. The works share elements of tone, a sense of place among the great works of…
The source of PhyT 30-120 and 238-50 is the thirteenth-century "Communiloquium" of John of Wales, not (as argued by Martha S. Waller in 1976) a fourteenth-century commentary by Castrojeriz.
Gariano, Carmelo.
Sacramento : Department of Foreign Languages, California State University, 1984.
Comparative analysis of the themes, techniques, and intertextual relationships of Ruiz's "Libro de buen amor," Boccaccio's "Decameron," and CT. Topics include world view, love and passion, nascent humanism, satire and irony, and narrative structures.…
Olivares Merino, Eugenio M.
Neophilologus 88: 145-61, 2004
Surveys scholarship pertaining to Chaucer's contact with Spain and suggests several routes of transmission for the influence of Juan Ruiz's "Libro de buen amor" on TC and PardT. Chaucer was probably aware of Ruiz (and other Spanish literature)…
Owen, Trevor Allen.
Dissertation Abstracts International 27.11 (1967): 3847A.
Surveys medieval and Renaissance accounts and allusions to Julius Caesar as background to analysis of Shakespeare's depiction of him in "Julius Caesar," including commentary on Chaucer's several references to Caesar and analysis of the Caesar section…
Owen, Trevor Allen.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Minnesota, 1966. Dissertation Abstracts International 27 (1967): 3847A. Full text available at ProQuest Theses and Dissertations Global.
Surveys medieval and early modern literary references to Julius Caesar, including description and assessment of Chaucer's allusions and references to Caesar in Astr, KnT, MLT, and, at greatest length, MkT, commenting on sources and analogues,…
Wolfe, Matthew C.
Charlotte Spivack and Christine Herold, eds. Archetypal Readings of Medieval Literature (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2002), pp. 181-202.
The Jungian notion of synchronicity--the significant coincidence of psychological and physical states--helps one understand medieval notions of astrology, mysticism, and the supernatural. Wolfe comments on the meeting of Palamon and Arcite in KnT,…
Gill, Richard.
Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 2 (1981): 18-32.
Ambiguous old men in English poetry, including the one in PardT, can be illuminated by the psychological archetype of the "wise old man" that Jung describes in "The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairy Tales."
