Chance, Jane.
Jane Chance. Tolkien, Self and Other: "This Queer Creature" (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 133-76.
Considers the roles of apartheid and linguistic queerness in the class-based characterizations of various hobbits in Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," suggesting that Tolkien's scholarly study of Chaucer's literary dialects and his glossary for the…
Brady, Lindy, and Andrew Rabin.
Notes and Queries 263 (2018): 174-77.
Demonstrates that in his remarks on distilling mercury, the Canon's Yeoman draws from Arnald Villanova's "De secretis" rather than from the "Rosarium," as the Yeoman claims (CYT 8.1028-29). Claims that Chaucer's misidentification plausibly springs…
Coats, Kaitlin.
Sigma Tau Delta Review 11 (2014): 90-99.
Considers the ambivalent role of magic in FranT, arguing that vacillation "between belief and skepticism, truth and illusion, nature and sorcery" help Chaucer to create "a divide between perception and reality" and undermine the "purported moral…
Langdon, Alison.
Enarratio: Journal of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 17 (2010): 61-76.
Assesses ClT in comparison with its sources to argue that Chaucer's version critiques Griselda's complete submission of her will to Walter's, disclosing its ethical invalidity as lacking right reason.
Provides lexical and grammatical evidence to argue that the verbal form “last” in ClT 4.266 “more than likely” means “extend in space,” a “loan-sense from the French” influenced by development of the similar meaning of “dure.”
Griffiths, Jane.
Philip Knox, Jonathan Morton, and Daniel Reeve, eds. Medieval Thought Experiments: Poetry, Hypothesis, and Experience in the European Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), pp. 121-39.
Interprets HF as 'an experiment in the exercise of poetic memory and poetic composition" that "suggests that memory's anarchic associations cannot fully be controlled," in part because of differences between "the memory of things and the memory of…
Considine, John.
Notes and Queries 256 (2011): 490-91.
Shows that "rake" in the proverbial simile "thin as a rake/rail" (first attested in English in the GP description of the Clerk's horse, I.288) means a fodder crib.
Candeloro, Antonio.
1616: Anuario de la Sociedad Espanola de Literatura General y Comparada 5 (2015): 163-87.
Analyzes Chaucer and Shakespeare in Javier Marıas's novel, "Ası empieza lo malo." Chaucer's concepts of "fame" and "rumor," as described in HF, are central to Marias's depiction of contemporary men and their incapacity to face rumor and establish…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Yuichiro Azuma, Kotaro Kawasaki, and Koichi Kano, eds. Chaucer and English and American Literature: Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Masatoshi Kawasaki (Tokyo: Kinseido, 2015), pp. 358-79.
Examines the implications of "siege" in TC from cognitive viewpoints. Argues that the siege of Troy as a prototype of "siege" is repeated in metaphorically diversified forms such as Pandarus's enclosure of Troilus and Criseyde, and that this "siege"…
Sáez-Hidalgo, Ana, and R. F. Yeager
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 121 (2022): 480-512.
Posits that Philip Perry, an eighteenth-century priest and early practitioner of medievalism, was a pioneer in using original sources, among them Chaucer. Perry's unpublished notebooks contain detailed information on many medieval writers and their…
Takana, Hidekuni.
Bulletin of Seikei University 46 (2011): 13–22.
Compares WBT with its Middle English analogues and comments on the relations between WBPT and ShT. http://repository.seikei.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/10928/86/1/bungaku-46_13-22.pdf (accessed January 12, 2016). In Japanese.
Duncan, Edgar H.
Tennessee Studies in Literature 11 (1966): 19-33.
Explicates the thematic and characterizing recurrences of hands and hand imagery in WBP, focusing on the eleven variations of the phrase "bear on hand" as they evoke and sustain the Wife's concern with wifely control in marriage, convey a sense of…
Examines the apocalyptic genre of English short-verse prophecies, which were attributed to authorities such as Merlin, Bede, and Chaucer, who existed safely in the past but often also on the margins of political and religious orthodoxy. Popular from…
Miller, Timothy S.
Studies in Medievalism 28 (2019): 148-75.
Surveys "(neo)medievalism in contemporary board-game culture," including discussion of two games inspired by CT: the "roll-and-move" "Hazard: From the Canterbury Tales" and "The Road to Canterbury."
Suggests that "popular superstition" of "ill-luck" underlies the Host's reference to "fynde an hare" in Th-MelL 7.696, supported by his use of "elvyssh" at 7.703.
DeLuca, Dominique.
Albrecht Classen, ed. Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: The Material and Spiritual Conditions of the Culture of Death (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016), pp. 239-61.
Refers to the death-bearing rioters in PardT as an example of the theme, found in medieval art, of "death as living within" the body.
Crawforth, Hannah.
Gordon McMullan, Lena Cowen Orlin, and Virginia Mason Vaughn, eds. Women Making Shakespeare: Text, Reception, Performance (New York: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2014), pp. 25-34.
Explores aspects of the diction of "The Two Noble Kinsmen," focusing on nuances derived from the glossaries in Thomas Speght's editions of Chaucer's Works, with particular attention to KnT, the source of "Kinsmen," and to issues of gender identity.
Rogers, Cynthia A.
Chaucer Review 51.2 (2016): 187-208.
Argues that Pity is both a "clever critique" of the French lyric genre of complaint and "loving homage" to it, assessing aspects of exaggeration, repetition, structure, conventional theme and diction, wordplay, etc. as evidence that the poem evokes…
Edwards, Suzanne M.
Chaucer Review 54.3 (2019): 230-52.
Centers on Gloria Naylor’s novel "Bailey’s Café," and examines how feminist approaches have informed scholarship of Chaucer's work, often to battle the misogyny of his works, that nevertheless can upload the heteronormative and patriarchal…
Hines, John.
Jan-Peer Hartmann and Andrew James Johnston, eds. Material Remains: Reading the Past in Medieval and Early Modern British Literature (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2021), pp. 240-57.
Considers possibilities of assessing material archeology in medieval literature and offers a case study concerning HF, observing connections between the brass-tablet account of Aeneas in the poem (lines 140ff.) and monumental brasses, hypothesizing…
Argues that the two instances of Malory's refutation of his sources in "Morte" are "a form of retraction," and that combined with the work's final explicit they "lie in the literary shadow Ret,” comparing and contrasting Ret with Malory's…
Gordon, Stephen.
Supernatural Encounters: Demons and the Restless Dead in Medieval England c. 1050–1450 (New York: Routledge, 2019), pp. 161-83.
Surveys the "literary context" of FrT and shows that in his discussion of demons (1447–1522) Chaucer uses Vincent of Beauvais, Thomas Aquinas, and "the broad cultural sediments of local revenant belief." Also suggests that the possibility that the…
Describes the first printings of Chaucer's works in China, during the Republican period (1912–1949). All are portions of CT translated into Chinese from modern English adaptations for children, providing for children and adults alike contact with…
Offers evidence from medieval naturalists and bestiaries to clarify that the she-ape simile in ParsT 10.424 means that the "proud dandy . . . is ridiculously like a wretched ape sticking up its bare bottom when the moon is full."
