Narver, Annie Lee.
Dissertation Abstracts International A81.02 (2019): n.p.
Includes discussion of TC, arguing that the "ironies and games" in the poem "show how closely amorous pursuits may tread to modern conceptions of rape" and depict courtship as a "zero sum game in which each winning move is a loss."
Levelt, Sjoerd.
Notes and Queries 265 (2020): 14-16.
Examines sources that Boxhorn drew upon for quoting GP and for (mis)identifying its author to show that, contrary to what scholars have believed, this seventeenth-century Dutch professor of history and rhetoric "was acquainted with neither Chaucer…
Identifies parallels between CT and Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale," found particularly in the fictional "Historical Notes" that follow the main text of the novel. Notes the echo of Chaucer in Atwood's title and a single reference to Chaucer…
Wilson, Janet.
Sandra J. McEntire, ed. Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Garland Medieval Casebooks (New York: Garland, 1992), pp. 223-37.
Treats Margery Kempe and the Wife of Bath as carnivalesque female figures, although each is "mediated and hence vindicated by a masculine consciousness"--Margery's scribe and Chaucer. Both narrators are characterized by "grotesque realism,"…
Takamiya, Toshiyuki.
Reports of the Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies (Tokyo) 15 (1983): 199-212.
Margery has much in common with Alisoun: middle-class status, outspokenness, avid interest in or obsession with sex, devotion to Christianity, and passion for pilgrimages.
Johnson, Lynn Staley.
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 22 (1992): 159-84.
Like Chaucer, Margery Kempe constructs a narrative context for the self she creates. Kempe uses autobiographical details to shape "Margery" into a representative type and to analyze communal values and practices. Kempe employs Chaucer's strategy of…
Guardia Massó, Pedro.
Mercedes Brea, ed. Marginales e marginados en la Época Medieval. Cuardernos del CEMYR, no. 4 ([La Laguna, Canary Islands]: Universidad de La Laguna, Centro de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas, 1996), pp. 107-24.
Guardia Massó examines ecclesiastical and sexual suppression in Lollardy, "Piers Plowman," and CT (especially in WBP).
Olson, Mary C.
William K. Finley and Joseph Rosenblum, eds. Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of the Canterbury Tales in Pictures (SAC 27 [2005], no. 105), pp. 1-35.
Olson describes the visual features of the Ellesmere manuscript and assesses its illustrations as schematic, metonymic, and stereotypic-representations of character types rather than realizations of fictional individuals. The juxtaposition of Th and…
Using numerous small allusions to TC, Spenser situates himself within the English literary canon through a strategy of association with an "uncouthe, unkiste" Chaucer.
Wurtele, Douglas J.
Proceedings of the Third Annual Symposium of Ottawa-Carleton Medieval-Renaissance Club 1 (1976): 56-74.
The "sponsa" of the "Song of Songs" is traditionally interpreted as Mary, and thus through January's aubade (4.2138-48) May becomes an ironic echo of the Virgin. The deep ironies of this association reflect the more straightforward presentations of…
Although Chaucer does not divert from the pattern of Troilus's tragic fall from the top of the wheel of fortune, he employs ironic twists and ambiguities that diffuse the rigidity of the tale. The transitions in TC subvert attention from rigid…
Finke, Laurie, and Martin Shichtman.
Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 251-65.
Explores the "ghostly presence" of WBPT in the first three episodes of the television show "Mad Men," updating and remediating the "parody of Western misogynist tropes" in WBP, refashioning from WBT the question of what women want, and reframing…
Dubs, Kathleen E.
Tibor Fabiny, ed. "What, Then, Is Time?": Responses in English and American Literature. Pázmány Papers in English and American Studies, no. 1 (Piliscsaba, Hungary: Pázmány Péter Catholic University, 2001), pp. 71-81.
Dubs considers medieval notions of simultaneity; describes Boethius's concept of eternity; explores Chaucer's uses of the zodiac in CT (FranT, MLT, GP, NPT) and Astr; and considers spring as the natural and spiritual season of renewal connected with…
Bradbrook, M. C.
Aspects of Dramatic Form in the English and the Irish Renaissance: The Collected Papers of Muriel Bradbrook (Sussex: Harvester Press, 1983): 3:156-79.
Traces parallels between Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander' and TC 3.
In a section exploring "epic masculinity" in the age of Marlowe, suggests that Chaucer's depiction of Aeneas in LGW and HF anticipates humanist "rethinking" about the hero, that Chaucer "greatly influenced" Marlowe's depiction of him in "Dido, Queen…
Dramatic adaptation for the stage of portions of GP, WBPT, MilPT, and RvPT, in a single plot, with Author's Notes and stage directions. The play was "first produced by Theatre Antigonish, Antigonish, Nova Scotia in March 1982."
Goodman, Jennifer R.
James Muldoon, ed. Varieties of Religious Conversion in the Middle Ages (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997), pp. 115-28.
Examines MLT as one of several historical and literary accounts of princesses who marry husbands of a different religion and either convert themselves or persuade their husbands to convert. In addition to Constance, Goodman considers accounts of…
Glasser, Marc D.
Tennessee Studies in Literature 23 (1978): 1-14.
Contrary to Donald Howard, who found in SNT the church's "highest ideal" of marriage and Chaucer's final answer to the Marriage Group, the tale actually denies the basis of true wedlock as subordinating the wife's personal concern for her husband to…
Seah, Victoria L.
Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1978): 4151A.
PF, "Temple of Glas," and "Kingis Quair" deal not with courtly love but with marriage. The idea underlying all three works is that one should be free to marry whom one loves.
The lack of a defined perspective from which to judge exposes a profound ambivalence in the Merchant, an ambivalence that manifests itself in a series of confusing and disconcerting shifts in narrative viewpoint, suggesting a narrator who is quite…
Stapley, Ian Bernard.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 1154A.
Aware that their husbands (as chosen by their families or communities) will determine the nature of their lives, women have sought to choose their own husbands, a daring assumption of sovereignty in a patriarchal society. The Wife of Bath,…
