Seal, Samantha Katz.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Examines the role of paternal authority and the figure of the father and their use and depiction in CT. Interrogates the construction of "Father Chaucer" to show how widespread this motif of paternal authority is in discussions of Chaucer and his…
Bishop, Laura M.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 106 (2007): 336-63.
Bishop assesses how the apparatus ("peritext") in Speght's edition of Chaucer's Works evokes Chaucer as a living presence and situates his poetry in the midst of Tudor politics. Although Speght derives much of his peritext from Thynne and Stow, his…
Details the strategy of "obeisant self-authorization " by which Lydgate places himself in Chaucer's debt, simultaneously embracing the older poet's influence and "overthrowing" his "paternal presence." He does this by controlling the Host-figure and…
Schweitzer, Edward C.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 3 (1981): 13-45.
Precise astrological material and medical details pertaining to the disease "amor hereos" support the theory that Saturn and the fury that startles Arcite's horse dramatize the consequences of human choice rather than fatalism. Chaucer uses…
Al-Saleh, Asaad.
Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 45.1 (2012): 35-47.
Describes the idea of the "servant-become-warrior" in the Japanese "Tale of Heike" and in KnT, commenting on the etymological roots of "samurai" and "knight" and exploring how concepts of determinism, service, and Foucauldian disciplinary power…
Denny-Brown analyzes sartorial changes accompanying the figure of Fortune from the twelfth century through the late medieval period, considering (along with works by other authors) Chaucer's For, Bo, Form Age, Wom Unc, BD, and MerT. Chaucer's uses of…
Argues that January's foolish fantasy is MerT "is a version" of the Merchant's own, tracing the teller's "increasingly ambivalent attitude" toward his character "from detachment to attack." In January, the Merchant "tries to destroy his former self,"…
Considers the body of the "Other" in various medieval romances. Chapter 1, "Ethnic Difference and Body Marvelous: the Case of Chaucer's 'Squire's Tale' and Sir Ferumbras," focuses on how SqT highlights Canace's ethnicity as a space for fantasy.…
Lee, Brian S.
Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 14 (2004): 23-38
Discusses three topics - Ford Madox Brown's painting of Chaucer reading from MLT to a decadent court at a time of dynastic crisis, the current Middle Eastern situation, and the story of Noah's Flood - in relation to Chaucer's portrayal of Custance's…
Uses HF--along with Langland's "Piers Plowman," "St. Erkenwald," and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"--as evidence in a discussion of the medieval understanding of the memorialization process, suggesting that fame "becomes emblematic" of the…
Galloway, Andrew.
Isabel Davis and Catherine Nall, eds. Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015), pp. 103-26.
Argues that fifteenth-century verbal and visual depictions of Chaucer as an "aged penitent" (in Gascoigne, Hoccleve, Gower, Scogan, and the Bedford Hours) reflect the Derridean (and Augustinian) gaps that are evident in Ret and elsewhere in Chaucer's…
Kendrick, Laura.
Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 135-48.
Examines Froissart's and Christine de Pisan's treatments of fame and the role of the poet in bestowing it. Questioning this tradition in HF, "Chaucer's art is to mask his own opinions and to reveal his readers' to themselves."
Finke, Laurie A.
Chaucerian Shakespeare (Ann Arbor: Michigan Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 1983), pp. 7-24.
Falstaff and the Wife of Bath "use remarkably similar grammatical and syntactical strategies to manipulate language," to create "smokescreens" that cover their "nakedness," and "to try to reshape the world in their own image."
King, Joyce.
Notes and Queries 263 (2018): 533-35.
Argues that Chaucer's "daun Russel the fox" in NPT 7. 3334 belongs to a centuries-long cohort of foxes whose tastes and tendencies Shakespeare applies to his wily Falstaff.
Although WBP and WBT seem more disparate than similar, they are not. The pairing of the two allows Alison to make a statement about how to love well and how to be happy.
Osberg, Richard H.
Studies in Medievalism 19 (2010): 204-26.
Defining Neomedievalism(s)
Examines the role of two "false memories" of Chaucer's life in the formation of nineteenth-century attitudes toward the poet and his reputation. The spurious incidents--Chaucer's exile and imprisonment and his "retirement" to a park at…
Explores issues of exemplarity and applicability in examples of Middle English literature--"Book of the Knight of the Tower," Gower's "Confessio Amantis," Lydgate's "Fall of Princes," Henryson's "Testment of Cresseid," and CT and TC. Chaucerian…
Smith, Kirk L.
Literature and Medicine 27 (2008): 61-81.
PhyT expresses its narrator's concern with "fiduciary" ethics and asserts the principle that "responsible professionals abjure exploitation." Such concerns are part of the late medieval professionalization of medical practice, so the Tale is…
Haydock, Nickolas.
Atenea (University of Puerto Rico) 26 (2006): 107-29.
Haydock reads Caxton's spurious ending and epilogue to HF in the 1483 Book of Fame as a "canny as well as sympathetic reaction to the poem's ubiquitous concern with the transmission of literature."
Patton, Celeste A.
Philological Quarterly 71 (1992): 399-417.
The Manciple evinces linguistic fraud through his digression on language, his shaping of the crow fable, and his impersonation of his mother's voice arguing against speech (a mispresentation of Jean de Meun's discourse of Reason and a foil to the…
Shirley, Peggy Faye.
Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1977): 1417A-18A.
When King Alfred translated Boethius' "Consolation," he changed some of the materials so that it could be understood by his people whereas Chaucer tried to translate as accurately as his Middle English would allow. The two translations are as…
Bradley, D. R.
Philological Quarterly 39 (1960): 122-25.
Adduces details and emphases in Virgil's "Aeneid" to suggest that Chaucer used it directly in composing his Dido legend in LGW, though perhaps in combination with parallel sources.
Mann, Jill.
Charlotte Brewer and Barry Windeatt, eds. Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Middle English Literature: The Influence of Derek Brewer (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2013), pp. 88-110.
Provides a landscape of medieval courtly love, particularly within the French tradition, and evaluates how Chaucer explores intricacies of love in TC.
Minnis, Alastair.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Studies the Pardoner's and Wife of Bath's "deviancy" in light of late medieval theological and academic discourses, particularly the commentaries and summas of the scholastics, Lollard treatises ,and reactions to Lollard writings and trials. Neither…
An illustrated guide to raptors in English literature (fourteenth century to seventeenth century), which explains their symbolic value in terms of historical training and hunting practices and rituals. Recurrent references to Chaucer's works,…
