Middleton, Anne.
Studies in Bibliography 51 (1998): 63-116.
Working from the editions by Thynne and Skeat, Middleton seeks to correct the text of Usk's "Testament of Love" (first printed by Thynne as Chaucer's), particularly its misplaced portions in Book 3. Makes several suggestions about the nature of the…
Shawver, Gary W., ed.
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2002.
Critical edition of Usk's Testament, with introduction, commentary, and apparatus, including the source of Book 3--Anselm of Canterbury's treatise on divine foreknowledge and human free will. The introduction and commentary document the author's life…
Thomas, Frederick Bryce.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.03 (1967): 1088A.
Evaluates the quality of Thomas Tyrwhitt as a scholar, examining his life, his early works, his edition of CT, and the ongoing reception of this edition. Concludes that Tyrwhitt was "one of the finest examples of the eighteenth-century…
Taylor, Andrew.
Fran De Bruyn, ed. Eighteenth-Century British Literary Scholars and Criticism. Dictionary of Literary Biography, no. 356 (Detroit, Mich.: Gale, 2010), pp. 334-47.
Biography of Tyrwhitt, with emphasis on his scholarly accomplishments, especially his 1775 edition of CT.
Windeatt, B. A.
Paul Ruggiers, ed. Editing Chaucer: The Great Tradition (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1984), pp. 117-43.
Describes Thomas Tyrwhitt as "the founder of modern Chaucer editing" and assesses the legacy of his 1775 edition of CT (with glossary, 1778), summarizing editorial principles and practices, the multiple witnesses to the text, and Tyrwhitt's several…
Read, Dennis M.
William K. Finley and Joseph Rosenblum, eds. Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of the Canterbury Tales in Pictures (New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll; London: British Library, 2003), pp. 211-31.
Read discusses the conditions of production and marketing of Stothard's Pilgrimage to Canterbury, arguing that the success of the painting and its engravings was due in good part to promotion by Robert Hartley Cromek, an antagonist of William Blake.
Thomas Spencer, a scrivener, purportedly owned a copy of TC in 1394. Presents the historical record regarding Spencer's life, since if this claim is true, it represents the only recorded instance of one of Chaucer's works circulating during his…
Kinney, Clare Regan.
Theresa M. Krier, ed. Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998), pp. 66-84.
Examines the identification of proverbs and sententiae in Speght's 1602 edition of Chaucer's works, focusing on TC. The introduction of maniples (pointing hands) enabled Speght to, in effect, pre-select nuggets of Chaucerian wisdom for a Renaissance…
Describes and critiques a number of the paratextual notes and hard-word glosses that Thomas Speght included in his editions of Chaucer's works, noting many inaccuracies, but also demonstrating Speght's efforts to clarify words and references for his…
Pearsall, Derek.
Paul Ruggiers, ed. Editing Chaucer: The Great Tradition (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1984), pp. 71-92.
Describes the importance of Thomas Speght in the tradition of Chaucerian scholarship. Relying in part on John Stow's research, Speght produced a hurried edition in 1598, and partially influenced by Francis Thynne's recommendations, carefully revised…
Fox, Alistair.
Patricia Bruckmann, ed. Essays Presented to Arthur Edward Banker (Ontario: Oberon Press, 1978), pp. 15-24.
In his defense of poetry as an ideal instrument to develop common sense, or "good mother wyt," in the "Dialogue" of 1529, More frequently alludes to Chaucer as a fountainhead of this admirable faculty.
Offers a pedagogical plan for a lesson in the close reading of several late medieval English lyrics, including comparisons of poems by Thomas Hoccleve with Purse and Chaucer's roundel at the end of PF. Explores issues of "accessibility" to students,…
In referring to St. Margaret of Antioch in this poem, Hoccleve draws out her "implied presence" in the form of the marguerite in the prologue to Chaucer's LGW.
Langdell, Sebastian J.
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018.
Focuses on Hoccleve's engagement "with contemporary religious reform movements and religious debate," arguing that he was interested in the "spiritual health of English society" rather than "earthly fame," and exploring how Hoccleve invented Chaucer…
Mitchell, Jerome.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1968.
Defends the artistic qualities of Thomas Hoccleve as a poet, acknowledging his medieval conventionality, but emphasizing his originality in adapting conventions and source material, the competence of his meter, and the autobiographical elements of…
Assesses why Hoccleve, the first person who attempted to establish Chaucer as the Father of English poetry, failed to "claim his own position as direct lineal heir in this literary genealogy."
Mentions Hoccleve's role in establishing Chaucer as the prototypical English writer in the course of a larger discussion of Hoccleve's negotiation of the relationship between author and reader.
Carlson, David R.
Huntington Library Quarterly 54 (1991): 283-300.
Hoccleve's hopes for preferment depended upon his claim to personal acquaintance with Chaucer and to his "consail and reed." Hoccleve's patrons had known Chaucer by sight and could verify the image of Chaucer that accompanies Hoccleve's poems. …
Thompson, John J.
Helen Cooney, ed. Nation, Court and Culture: New Essays on Fifteenth-Century English Poetry (Dublin and Portland, Ore.: Four Courts Press, 2001), pp. 81-94.
Examines Hoccleve's relations with the London book trade and the Lancastrian court to explain how his verse "managed to leak so successfully" into the Chaucer tradition. Hoccleve's manuscripts reflect his autobiographical self-fashioning and his…
Blyth, Charles R., ed.
Kalamazoo, Mich. : Medieval Institute Publications, 1999.
A teaching edition of the Regiment, based on British Library MS Arundel 38 and, where Arundel is lacking, British Library MS Harley 4866, fully collated with all available witnesses, with spelling adapted from holographs of Hoccleve's writings.
Williams, Kelsey Jackson.
Review of English Studies 65, no. 269 (2014): 252-65
Thomas Gray's article "Metrum" "castigates John Urry's edition of Chaucer for its arbitrary insertion of words and syllables to regularize perceived defects" and discounts "George Puttenham's strictures against so-called Chaucerian 'riding rhyme'…
Li, Chi-fang Sophia.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Warwick, 2008. Abstract accessible at http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1091/; accessed September 20, 2023.
“This study aims to offer a new literary biography of Thomas Dekker (c. 1572-1632) and demonstrates the ways in which he refashions his principal source, Geoffrey Chaucer.” Includes attention to Dekker’s uses of ClT, WBT, and ideas of “game” and…
Describes and analyzes a deed of property conveyance indicative of the complex relations and interactions among Thomas Chaucer, Richard Wyot, William Paston, Sir John Fastolf, John, duke of Bedford, and others. Compares Thomas Chaucer's appended seal…
