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…
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…
Machan, Tim William.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 18 (1996): 143-66.
Contrasts the printing history of Gower's "Confessio Amantis" with that of CT, describing how Berthelette's 1532 printing the "Confessio"--the only edition between Caxton and the nineteenth century--contributed to the critical privileging of Chaucer…
Price, Merrall Llewelyn.
Valerie B. Johnson and Kara L. McShane, eds. Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture: Essays on Marginality, Difference, and Reading Practices in Honor of Thomas Hahn (Boston: De Gruyter; Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 2022), pp. 99-118.
Explores how the Pardoner resonates with Thomas Becket's miraculous healing of a castrated man, Eilward, depicted in stained glass in Canterbury Cathedral. Considers issues of wholeness, healing, sanctity, and their antitheses reflected in details of…
Excerpted from Chaucer's LGW and thus lacking a narrative frame, the Legend of Thisbe in the Findern manuscript leaves room for the assumption that the manuscript's female readers saw Thisbe "as simply a victim." The excerpt's codicological context,…
Herzog, Michael
Ashland, Oregon: Will Dreamly Arts, 2019.
Also available as ebook and audio book. Alternative title: This Passing World: The Journal of Geoffrey Chaucer.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this is an historical novel, set in 1398, when in response to an upcoming duel between Henry Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray, Chaucer decides to keep a journal of events.
Twelve studies on historical linguistics, Anglo-Saxon studies, and Middle English literature. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for This Noble Craft under Alternative Title.
Neville, Mark A., and Max J. Herzberg, eds.
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1956.
Illustrated anthology of English literature and literary criticism from Old English into the twentieth century, with a section entitled "The Time of Chaucer" that includes NPT and PardT, along with "Interesting Sidelights," "The Royal Tree," and "The…
Johnson, Ian.
Carmina Philosophiae 3 (1994): 1-21, 1994.
Compares Troilus's speech on free will and predestination (TC 4) with John Walton's poetic exposition of the source passage in Boethius 5, prose 3. Aware of TC, Walton "competes" with Chaucer and better succeeds in clearly rendering the nuances of…
In light of medieval commentary on sound, the fart at the end of SumT allows a wide range of "physical, political, social, clerical, and intellectual" reverberations, particularly ones associated with the Peasants' Uprising of 1381. Travis also…
Chaucer's use of the Ovidian source of ManT, insisting on the tale of the crow--and not the connecting tale of the raven--allows him to argue for the "potentially treacherous nature of language" and to lead smoothly into Ret. The influence of Ovid is…
Saunders, Corrine.
Hilary Powell and Corinne Saunders, eds. Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. 91-116.
Exemplifies ways in which medieval "romance writing takes up the notion that physiological processes and exterior influences can interweave to produce powerful psychological experiences," showing how the "creative possibilities of interweaving the…
Tops, A. J.,Betty Devriendt and Steven Geukens,eds.
Leuven : Peeters, 1999.
Thirty-five essays by various authors on English and comparative linguistics, arranged in four groups: geographic and diachronic variation, "Synchronic Description and Theory, "Grammars from the Past," and "Language Contrast and Teaching." For two…
Rogers, William, and Paul Dower.
Robert G. Benson and Susan J. Ridyard, eds. New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry (Rochester, N.Y., and Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003), pp. 119-38.
Rogers and Dower review considerations of money and its circulation in ShT, questioning whether Chaucer praises or blames money or whether the topic was as mixed for him as it is today.
Harrison, Thomas P
Austin: University of Texas, 1956.
Describes birds mentioned by four English poets, one chapter apiece. An opening chapter surveys classical backgrounds for zoological and interpretive ornithology, along with the uses of birds in medieval encyclopedias. The Chaucer chapter addresses…
Neuse, Richard.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 22: 415-23, 2000.
The tragedies of MkT resist any overarching "metahistorical paradigm" and thus reflect Jean-Francois Lyotard's definition of postmodernism. The Monk is a "serious-minded humanist with a bent toward postmodernism."
Sanders, Barry.
Barbara Lounsberry and others, eds. The Tales We Tell: Perspectives on the Short Story (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998), pp. 55-62.
Considers the relations among jokes and short stories, focusing on MilT as a "well-made" short story and regarding the Reeve's response as evidence of the social balance accomplished through jokes and fiction.
Nicholson, R. H.
Chaucer Review 22 (1988): 192-213.
The public ceremonies--the triumph, trial by battle, and the state funeral--underlining the Knight's conversion of romance into figurative narrative suggest that the public personality of Theseus, the ruler, is the dominant personality in KnT.
Examines various possible sources for Shakespeare's play, including KnT, arguing that such sources must be considered in light of the audience's perception.
