Fyler, John M.
William S. Anderson, ed. Ovid: The Classical Heritage (New York: Garland, 1995), pp. 143-65.
Describes Ovid's response to Virgil, and gauges Ovid's influence on Chaucer, focusing on the latter's acquaintance with "Ars Amatoria," "Remedia Amoris," and "Amores," and on the "self-conscious, obtrusive narrator." Like Ovid, and unlike Virgil,…
Hoffman, Richard L.
English Language Notes 2.4 (1965): 252-57.
Identifies Ovid as the ultimate source of Chaucer's references to the friendship of Theseus and Piritheus in KnT, perhaps mediated by the "Roman de la Rose 8148-54 or moralizations of Ovid's works.
Hoffman, Richard L.
American Notes and Queries 3.7 (1965): 101.
Identifies Ovid's "Amores" 3.4.41-42 as a possible source for the "incompatibility of beauty and marital fidelity" that underlies the choice offered by the loathly lady to the knight in WBT 3.1219-27.
Hoffman, Richard L.
[Philadelphia]: [University of Pennsylvania Press,] 1966.
Argues that Ovid inspired the structure, narrative complexities, and thematic focus of CT—its tales-within-a-tale structure, its multiple narrators characterized by their tales, and its concern with two kinds of love, higher and lower—and shows…
Hoffman, Richard L.
Notes and Queries 210 (1965): 406-9.
Suggests that although Chaucer generally follows Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" in his account of the labors of Hercules, one discrepancy may have been influenced by a scholists' gloss to Ovid's "Ibis" 401-2.
Hoffman, Richard L.
Notes and Queries 211 (1966): 48-50.
Compares the Wife of Bath's version of the Midas exemplum with Ovid's original in "Metamorphoses," suggesting that the divergences exemplify the Wife's penchant for misquoting and/or misunderstanding authorities and align with her deafness, a…
Galloway, Andrew.
In John F. Miller and Carole E. Newlands, eds. A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid (Chichester: Wiley, 2014), pp. 187-201.
Surveys texts by and about Ovid that Chaucer and Gower "might have used," arguing that the influence of Ovid was pervasive, complex, and crucial to the "careers and poetic self-fashioning" of both medieval poets, a model of poetic authority for them.…
Fumo, Jamie C.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 219-37.
Traces connections between Ovid and Chaucer and asserts that "Chaucer emerges not simply as a conveyor of or apprentice to Ovid, but as a 'collaborator' in an Ovidian poetic, one who necessarily and wilfully transforms Ovid's 'book' into his own." In…
Hoffman, Richard L.
Notes and Queries 210 (1965): 213-16.
Argues that Chaucer's allusions to Argus in WBP, MerT, and TC derive ultimately from Ovid's "Ars Amatoria" and "Amores" and capitalize on the "conventional moral significations" of the moralized commentary tradition, lending resonances to the…
Desmond, Marilynn.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006.
Desmond studies the discourse of erotic violence in medieval literature and iconography, surveying depictions of the "mounted Aristotle" and focusing on the adaptations of material from Ovid's "Ars Amatoria" found in the letters of Héoïse and…
Andretta, Helen R[uth].
Edward Wesley, ed. Christianity & Literature (Brooklyn, N.Y.: St. Francis, 2003), pp. 16-27.
Essay not located; reported in the MLA International Bibliography, with the following note: "Proceedings of the Northeast Region Conference: Voices Far and Near: Myth, Legend, Folktale, Fantasy, Held Friday, October 25 and Saturday, October 26,…
Hoffman, Richard L.
English Language Notes 3 (1966): 169-72.
Explains the sexual resonances latent in the reference to Priapus in MerT 4.2034-37, citing tales in Ovid, the commentary tradition, and PF. January's statue of Priapus "constitutes a kind of devotion to the obscene god who was the true patron saint…
Milowicki, Edward, and Rawdon Wilson.
Neohelicon 22 (1995): 9-47.
Ovid's "Metamorphoses" is crucial to the development of characterization in western European literature. Ovid complicates the conventional "divided consciousness" of earlier characterizations through relativism, rationalization, rhetoric…
Hardaway, Reid.
Dissertation Abstracts International A79.03 (2017): n.p.
Addresses Chaucer's works as part of a larger examination of the influence of Ovid's "Metamorphoses," particularly his employment of ekphrasis--the use of poetry to
portray other types of art.
Bidard, Josselin.
Danielle Buschinger, ed. Médiévales, 11-12: L'antiquité dans la littérature et les beaux-arts (Amiens: Presses du Centre d'Études Médiévales, Université de Picardie-Jules Verne, 2010), pp. 302-8.
Focuses on Chaucer's uses of Ovid, specifically his use of the legend of Pyramus and Thisbe in LGW.
McKinley, Kathryn Lillian.
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 1155A.
Though Ovid's influence on Jean de Meun and Chaucer has long been recognized as far as mythology and irony are concerned,Ovid's "neoteric" narrative techniques also provided models for the two writers; cf. Chaucer's BD, TC, and WBT.
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn.
Europe: A Literary History, 1348-1418 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 20168), 1:208-26.
Describes late medieval literary production in the city of Oxford, characterizing it as a "crossroads for intellectual work of all kinds," summarizing its library holdings, and surveying affiliated literature. Comments on Oxfordian influences on…
Windeatt compares several of Chaucer's works and their sources to show that through variations in narrative pace and increased attention to pinpointing time, Chaucer makes something quite new. Considers PF, MLT, TC, KnT, and several of the tales in…
White explores the role of literature in "peace studies," traces pacifist theory through the ages, and surveys pacifism in English literature from the Middle Ages to modern prose, poetry, and film. The chapter on the Middle Ages comments on Old…
Noguchi, Shunichi.
Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 95-102.
KnT suggests the transitory nature of human life and offers as consolation the prospect of a heroic and noble death in the figure of Arcite.
Frankis, John.
Mary Salu, ed. Essays on Troilus and Criseyde (Cambridge: Brewer, 1979), pp. 57-72.
The pagan references in TC perform two obvious functions: they provide local color and they help to delineate character (as in Pandarus' scorn of Troilus--who has just uttered a prayer to several pagan deities--calling him a "mouses hert," III,…
Marenbon, John.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Examines the influence of paganism on Christian writers from the fifth century to the eighteenth century. Includes a chapter on entitled "Langland and Chaucer: The Continuity of the Problem of Paganism" (pp. 214–34).
Schildgen, Brenda Deen.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2001.
Applying Habermas's notion of discourse ethics, Schildgen focuses on stories in CT that are "set outside a Christian-dominated world." Individual chapters include discussions of KnT and SqT, MLT, WBT and FranT, PrT and MkT, and SNT. Chaucer's…
