Maps out the way in which anger and community are depicted in different versions of Philomela's rape, displaying the power that is represented in this anger and community, before linking this history of female anger to contemporary artists, such as…
Montgomery, Marion.
Boston University Studies in English 3 (1957): 177-78.
Suggests that "for the nones" in LGWP (F 292-96 and G 194-98), rather than meaning "for the occasion," refers to the canonical hour of Nones, i.e., for the ritual of the "celebration of Nones."
Greene, Richard Leighton.
Notes and Queries 210 (1965): 446-48.
Argues for a "plain and straightforward" (i.e., non-ironical) reading of a portion of Canacee's falcon's complaint in SqT, disagreeing with a previous discussion of the passage by Robert S. Haller.
Adduces details from the Old French "Floire et Blancheflor, Version 1" as evidence that Chaucer's "catalogue of magical accomplishments" in FranT 5.1139-51 was commonplace, i.e., part of a well-known tradition, deployed by the Franklin to outdo the…
Bellis, Joanna.
Isabel Davis and Catherine Nall, eds. Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015), pp. 143-63.
Describes a change in Chaucer's "linguistic fame" from fifteenth-century praise of his rhetoric and aureate diction to sixteenth-century admiration of his plain speaking: a shift that reflects the early modern "Inkhorn Controversy" and efforts to…
North, Richard.
Piero Boitani and Emilia Di Rocco, eds. Boccaccio and the European Literary Tradition (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2014), pp. 123-38.
Compares Chaucer's Pandarus with Boccaccio's Pandaro, arguing that "that Pandarus so loves Troilus that he consummates his passion vicariously on Criseyde, telling lies which kill the affair before the lady leaves Troy." The "cues" for this…
Treats Pandarus as a figure or personification of lust in TC, counterpointing courtly love as manifested in Troilus. Examines Pandarus's rhetoric, along with Troilus's and Criseyde's interpretations of it, arguing that Chaucer's use of allegory is…
Isaacs, Neil D.
Notes and Queries 206 (1961): 328-29.
Explains complications in defining "furlong wey" when it refers to time rather than distance, and examines Chaucer's several uses of the term to argue that it means "a short time, sometimes very short, sometimes only fairly short.
Explores multiple meanings of "game"--as transgression, violent activity, pleasure, source of food--in "Gamelyn " (which takes the place of CkT in several texts of CT). Identifies idea of boundaries (legal and social) and punning on the name of…
Simpson, James.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 126-43.
Focuses on Chaucer's rhetoric and presents a chapter targeted at students, with an "aim to persuade the student of the richness and literary fertility of Chaucer's rhetorical culture." Offers background of contemporary scholarship on Chaucer and…
Mann, Lindsay A.
Studies in Philology 63 (1966): 10-29.
Explores the "aristocratic, moral, and Christian" understandings of "gentilesse," listing the entailed ideals of truth, benevolence, mildness, etc. as expressed in ParsT, Gent, and in French courtly tradition. Argues that a complex understanding of…
Gaylord, Alan T.
Studies in Philology 61 (1964): 19-34.
Analyzes the lexical and thematic nuances of "gentilesse" in TC, exploring how subtle changes in meaning and usage help to characterize Troilus and the other main characters. tracing the "evaporation of the ideal of 'gentilesse'" as "moral vertu,"…
Uses two of the "modes of existence" theorized by Bruno Latour--technological and fictional--to examine medieval manuscripts, arguing that the "affordances and ecologies" of codices as technology encouraged the "proliferation" of fictional beings in…
Corrie, Marilyn.
Studies in Philology 110.4 (2013): 690-713.
Discusses determinism in a variety of late medieval works, Malory's "Darthur" most extensively. Includes discussion of TC for its depiction of "God's ability to overpower anything that had been ordained by some predetermining force," part of the…
Steadman, John M.
Archiv für das Studium der Neuren Sprachen und Literaturen 197 (1961): 16-18.
Offers evidence that "goddes boteler" was a "conventional epithet for Ganymede" and that the "most probable source" for Chaucer's of the phrase in HF and for his use of "stellifye" in the same context is Petrus Berchorius's moralization of Ovid.
Explains that the medieval notion of "curiositas" (illicit pursuit of knowledge) entails concupiscence of the eyes, concupiscence of the flesh, and worldly pride, showing that these vices are a theme that links MilT and RvT, particularly evident in a…
Pastoor, Jennifer.
Dissertation Abstracts International A78.05 (2016): n.p.
Considers the use of women and their bodies as metaphorical vehicles for the consideration of Christian life, with particular attention to MLT and SNT.
Knight, Stephen.
Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 153-71.
Identifies and quotes from a range of generally unnoticed references and allusions to Chaucer and his works drawn from the "mass media" of the nineteenth-century English-speaking world, primarily newspapers. Arranged chronologically in discursive…
Downes, Stephanie.
Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 74-90.
Studies the “narratological representation of the non-normative exemplarity of facial pallor" in Chaucer's poetry, exploring associations of facial paleness with facial expressions and emotional reactions, contrasting paleness with blushing, and…
Eckert, Kenneth.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 22.2 (2014): 131-46.
Connects the "Tale of Gamelyn" to Chaucer with respect to concerns of class, legal, and cultural issues, and focuses on the theme of vulnerability as an important conceit of the poem.
Meecham-Jones, Simon.
Stephanie Downes, Andrew Lynch, and Katrina O'Loughlin, eds. Emotions and War: Medieval to Romantic Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 77–97.
Considers the concept of "manhod" (3.428) in TC in relation to critical discussions of Troilus's masculinity, reading Troilus's emotions in light of late medieval literary and social conventions and arguing that Chaucer's experiment in emotion is…
Brenzel, Patrick.
Open access Ph.D. dissertation (Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, 2018). Available at https://hss-opus.ub.ruhr-.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/year/2020/docId/7373 (accessed November 23, 2022).
Clarifies the ambiguities of nobility and "gentilesse" in Chaucer's era, and examines the presentation of them in CT, particularly in WBT, ClT, NPT, and FranT, arguing that the Franklin's views align with Chaucer's own, i.e., both view virtues…
Perkins, Nicholas.
Review of English Studies 69, no. 288 (2018): 13–31.
Explores the reception and impact of Thomas Hoccleve in the sixteenth century, including the linking of him with Chaucer and proto-Protestant reform. Includes comments on paratextual materials in Speght's 1598 "Works of Chaucer" that pose the poet…
Simmonds, James D.
Notes and Queries 207 (1962): 446.
Remarks on "several points of resemblance" between Nicholas in MilT and the Clerk in GP, suggesting that they may be attributable to the Miller's negative view of the Clerk.
Cook, Megan L.
Studies in Philology 113 (2016): 32-54.
Analyzes the absence of Ret from editions of CT published between 1532 and 1721, along with the publication of Adam in 1561, arguing that the combination affected views on textual accuracy and authorial control in Chaucer reception.
