Trimble, Lester, comp.
Lester Trimble, American Harpsichord Music of the 20th Century (Albany, N.Y.: Albany, 2001), CD-ROM, tracks 14-17.
Audio recording, performed by Nancy Armstrong (soprano), Mark Kroll (harpsichord), Bruce Creditor (clarinet), and Alan Weiss (Flute). The lyrics adapt selections from GP (opening, Knight, and Squire) and WBP.
Trimble, Lester, composer.
New York: C. F. Perkins, 1967.
Four-part musical score for selections (in Middle English) from GP, 1-42, the GP descriptions of the Knight and the Squire, and WBP 3.1-34. The introductory materials include comments on expression, tone, and pronunciation, with Trimble's remark that…
Trimble, Jeremy, composer.
In Joanna White, Kennen White, Tracy Watson, et al., Poet as Muse: Music for Flute, Clarinet, and Voice (Baton Rouge, La.: Centaur, 2017). CRC3568.
A musical performance of Tremble's "Four Fragments from 'The Canterbury Tales'" (GP, 1–42; GP descriptions of Knight and Squire; and WBP, 1–34), performed by Joanna Cowan White, Kennen White, Tracy Watson, Elissa Johnston, Mary Jo Cox, and…
Item not seen. A WorldCat record indicates that the four essays, addressed to high school students, consider CT under the following titles: "Chaucer, Society and the General Prologue," "Chaucer and Medieval Thought," "Chaucer and Medieval Tradition,"…
Bowden, Betsy.
Translation & Literature 3:30-46, 1994.
Examines select passages of moderizations of ShT by John Markland, Henry Travers, Andrew Jackson, and William Lipscomb for how their diction, imagery, and emphases encourage us to approach the Tale as "implied performance." All four interpret and…
Goodman, Barbara A.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 20.1 (2103): 85-98.
Considers how to attract students to medieval courses in minority-serving institutions, particularly general education courses. Includes description of a course that juxtaposes CT with Ibn Battuta's "The Rihla."
Jordan, Robert M., James I Wimsatt, and Mary Carruthers.
PMLA 94 (1979): 950-53.
An exchange of letters in the PMLA Forum section that comment on the characterization of the Wife of Bath and the role of sources (especially Jerome) and historical contexts in understanding the character.
Critiques Morton W. Bloomfield's "The Man of Law's Tale: A Tragedy of Victimization and a Christian Comedy," commenting on the artistic quality of MLT and the Man of Law as narrator.
Owen, Charles A., Jr., Caroline D.Eckhardt, and Katharine Slater Gittes.
PMLA 98 (1983): 902-04.
An exchange of letters in the PMLA Forum section that comment on openendedness and closure in CT and the influence of Arabic literary models on Chaucer.
Owen, Charles A., Jr., and James Dean.
PMLA 101 (1986): 251-53.
Exchange of letters in the Forum section of PMLA, disagreeing about the validity of the Ellesmere order of the CT and about the speaker of Chaucer's Ret.
Forum letter in which Braxton, disagreeing with Pamela Michaela Paasche, claims that closure is evident in Chaucer's works when his male point of view is recognized, and presents MerT as a "case in point."
Smith, Nathaniel B., and Evan Carton.
PMLA 94 (1979): 948-50.
An exchange of letters in the PMLA Forum section letters that comment on the meaning of "authority" in the Middle Ages, particularly Chaucer's uses of the notion.
Kretzschmar, William A., and Rodney Delasanta.
PMLA 93 (1978): 1007-08.
An exchange of letters in the PMLA Forum section, discussing the tone and details of Delasanta's essay, "Penance and Poetry in 'The Canterbury Tales," published earlier in 1978 in PMLA.
Since Chaucer does not describe the Pardoner's kiss, it could be either mouth-to-mouth or cheek-to-cheek; in either case, a public kiss signifies a sort of equality. A reply to Ann Barbeau Gardiner PMLA 108 (1993): 333-34.
Questions John H. Fisher's "Language Policy for Lancastrain England" (PMLA 107) on method of establishing Chaucerian texts. See Fisher's "Forum Reply."
Burlin, Robert B., and H. Marshall Leicester, Jr.
PMLA 95 (1980): 880-82.
An exchange of letters in the PMLA Forum section that comment on textuality, narrative "absence," narrative "presence," and their usefulness in discussing "voice" in GP.
The Pardoner's self-revelation "heightens the challenge" of deceiving the pilgrims at the end of the sermon and does not preclude it. Chaucer uses the Host's response to the Pardoner's invitation to point to the pilgrims' spiritual weakness--even if…
Storm does not distinguish between his own and Chaucer's attitudes toward the Pardoner's homosexuality. Storm's essay appeared in PMLA 97 (1982): 810-18.
The Pardoner's invitation is not an attempt to divert the pilgrims from their journey, and the Host's response is designed to restore the fellowship of the pilgrims, not to improve their spiritual well-being. Storm's essay appeared in PMLA 97…
The Pardoner's invitation is not a physical threat to the pilgrimage but a further sign of his propensity to profit from others and to compensate for his "sexual difference." Storm's essay appeared in PMLA 97 (1982): 810-18.
