Owings, Frank N.,Jr.
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 75 (1981): 147-55.
"The Works," edited by Speght (1598), sold in 1848 as part of Charles Lamb's library may be the same volume to which Keats refers in his letter of May 3(!), 1818. The copy at Lily Library of the University of Indiana is likely the one owned by Keats…
Traces Chaucer's reputation in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and examines the impact of his works (including apocrypha) and reputation on the poetry of John Keats--structure and form, characterization, realism in balance with…
Argues that Keats marked the British Library copy of TC, once owned by Charles Cowden Clarke. The markings indicate Keats's concerns with burgeoning love and with Criseyde's character as developed in books 1-3, but they "do not provide definitive…
Way, Karen Grose.
Dissertation Abstracts International 47 (1987) 4082A.
Way studies Chaucer's "trouthe" as meaning both troth and truth, with consequent conflicts arising in his poetry. In TC, "trouthe" is kept by silence even when the "trouthe" is broken. Absolute troth keepers (Griselda, Virginia) suffer. Truth…
Lucas, Angela.
Brian Cosgrove, ed. Literature and the Supernatural: Essays for the Maynooth Bicentenary (Blackrock, Ireland: Columba, 1996), pp. 11-32.
Assesses FranT in light of the conventions of the genre of the Breton lay: prologue, setting, rash promise, magic, impossible task, love triangle, and love. According to Lucas, the distortion of these conventions indicates that the Franklin does not…
Anikst, Aleksandr Abramovich, ed.
Moscow: Gos. izdvo khudozh. litry, 1980.
Selection from CT in Russian poetic translation by Ivan Kashkin and O. B. Rumer, with Introduction and notes by A. Anikst. Miniature book in 9 cm., with nine b&w illustrations of the tales and a fold-out color depiction of the pilgrims in progress.
Translation of CT into Russian verse and prose (by Kashkin and Rumer, orginally published in 1946; again in 1973), with an introduction to Chaucer by Kashkin (1946), end-of-text notes by Kashkin and Popovoi, and color illustrations.
Frisian verse translation of PrPT. A WorldCat record indicates that this was first published in De strikel: Moannebled foar Fryslan (1970), an item not seen.
Solopova, Elizabeth, and Stuart D. Lee.
New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Describes "key themes, texts, terminologies and methods" related to medieval English literature, divided into four sections: (1) Introductory Key Concepts; (2) Old English; (3) Middle English; and (4) Approaches, Theory and Practice. Recurrent…
Interrelated fictional narratives told in poetry and prose by travelers in modern Nigeria; modeled on CT, with an opening General Prologue and tales told by various vocational types, e.g., the Air-hostess, the Journalist, the Female Petrol Attendant,…
Steel, Karl.
Myra Seaman, Eileen A. Joy, and Nicola Masciandaro, eds. Dark Chaucer: An Assortment (Brooklyn, N. Y.: Punctum Books, 2012), pp. 151-60.
Explores Custance, Virginia, and Emelye as women who recognize they are characters in someone else's narratives. Also suggests that Chaucer was similarly constrained by his sources, leaving him too without freedom to be his own self.
Frankis, John.
Donald Scragg and Carole Weinberg, eds. Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century. Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, no. 29. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 74-92.
Frankis compares how Chaucer's MLT and Gower's "Tale of Constance" diminish Trevet's historiographical concern with Anglo-Saxon England. From the time of Bede, Aelle was associated with the Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons, a motif retained by…
Benson, C. David
Philological Quarterly 58 (1979): 16-25.
The letter read by Helen and Deiphobus is an example of "special foreshadowing"; it pertains to King Thoas of Greece (derived by Chaucer from Guido delle Colonne), who later (4.138) will be part of the prisoner exchange that sends Criseyde to the…
Kallay, Zelma.
Parsippany, N.J.: Good Apple, 1997.
Resources for teaching the Middle Ages to school children, arranged as a series of "minibiographies" of five medieval "celebrities." The Chaucer section (pp. 61-74) includes a summary of CT, a brief play based on NPT, and various games and exercises.
Mapstone, Sally.
Helen Cooper and Sally Mapstone, eds. The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), pp. 51-69.
The 'Kingis Quair' is distinct from the "Chaucerian tradition" insofar as the former deals with public issues as well as personal ones. Its presentation of Boethian philosophy contrasts with that in TC and KnT, from which it "self-consciously…
Zimmerman, Harold C.
Neophilologus 98.01 (2014): 129-44
Discusses how Chaucer, while aware of Boccaccio's text, continually downplays Priam's political side in order to emphasize "his interpersonal or familial bond," thus seeking "to interpret events and characters in terms of their most immediate…
Chen, Hsiaojane Anna.
Dissertation Abstracts International A70.06 (2009): n.p.
Considers Astr and CT within a larger analysis of the formation of intra- and extra-familial kinship bonds. Such bonds are rooted in education and common experiences.
Studies the role of Theseus in KnT as a "minister Dei," who governs the people in accordance with the leading medieval principle, "utilitas publica prefertur utilitate privatae."
Rollo, David.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Explores the relationship between textuality and sexuality in various texts, including Martianus Capella's "De nuptiis philologiae et mercurii," Jean de Meun's "Roman de la rose," and PardT, particularly the Pardoner's invitation to the Host to kiss…
Reads the kiss between the Pardoner and the Host at the end of PardT as a challenge to "the repressive binaries of a hermeneutical model based on heterosexual reproduction." The Pardoner inverts dominant ideology, and the kiss brings to readers'…
Bolens, Guillemette.
Nicole Nyffenegger and Katrin Rupp, eds. Fleshly Things and Spiritual Matters: Studies on the Medieval Body in Honour of Margaret Bridges (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011), pp. 51-77.
Explores the extent to which a "literary text may disturb the social drama of gender roles by staging characters deliberately enacting their normative gender roles 'as' enacted gender roles," focusing on Kit in the Prologue to the Tale of Beryn, but…
