Aligns Chaucer's juxtaposition of owls and apes in NPT 7.3092 with the "moral obliquity" of the two animals in medieval art and sculpture, identifying origins in patristic commentary.
Dase, Kyle, and Nicole Atkings.
Digital Medievalist 14, special issue (2021). 29 pp.
Describes the use of the online text-editing platform Textual Communities in ongoing developments of the Canterbury Tales Project, clarifying advantages and limitations of using such a platform, and offering advice for future changes to the project…
Dutton, Richard.
Sophie Chiari and John Mucciolo, eds. Performances at Court in the Age of Shakespeare (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 17-34.
Extracts information about Richard Edwards's now-lost play "Palamon and Arcite," from three extant contemporary accounts of the visit of Queen Elizabeth I to Oxford, where she attended a performance of the play in 1566. The accounts--by Miles…
Garbaty, Thomas Jay.
Chaucer Review 2.2 (1967): 108-134.
Translates "Pamphilus" into modern English prose (lineated as verse) and describes its influence on late medieval literature, including discussion of Chaucer's references to it in Mel and FranT and its role as a secondary source of the first three…
Olszewska, E. S.
Notes and Queries 211 (1966): 209.
Identifies four medieval instances (three from Mel) of collocation of forms of "passen" and "gon" that predate the OED's two quotations for "past and gone," from 1598 and 1897.
Harper, Elizabeth.
Jane Beal and Mark Bradshaw Busbee, eds. Approaches to Teaching the Middle English "Pearl" (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2018), pp. 148-55.
Clarifies how students' experiences with grief or loss can be useful in overcoming modern resistance to reading "Pearl," and suggests comparative study of the poem with other texts in Middle English, including BD. Offers discussion questions for…
Davis, Rebecca.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Presents Chaucer's and Langland's representations of the natural world, reading "Langland's treatment of nature alongside Chaucer's as an expression of a continuous though diverse tradition of humanism." Chapter 1 focuses on nature in PF.
Connects LGW with the "Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry" and the "Menagier de Paris." Suggests that the domestic sphere of "Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry" and the "Menagier de Paris" offers a place for productive, satisfying love; however,…
Marshall, Simone Celine.
Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840 23 (2020): 218-36; 7 illus.; 3 appendices.
Analyzes the text of BD found in the 1807 collected edition "The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer," showing "that it is fair to consider the work a new edition," based on John Urry's 1721 edition of BD and loosely following Thomas Tyrwhitt's…
Mahler, Andreas.
Andrew James Johnston, Russell West- Pavlov, and Elisabeth Kempf, eds. Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare: "Troilus and Criseyde" and "Troilus and Cressida" (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. 32-45.
Maintains that Chaucer in TC and Shakespeare in "Troilus and Cressida" present love as detached from history or topicality, depicting it through irresolvable plural discourses--Platonic, Petrarchan, courtly love-sickness, and more--and thereby…
Defines "pronominatio" and traces its background in medieval rhetorical handbooks; then surveys instances in the works of Chaucer, Gower, and Skelton, analyzing individual uses that convey either praise or censure given to characters by associating…
Weiskott, Eric.
Notes and Queries 266 (2021): 253-55.
Argues that Prov, although attributed to Chaucer in medieval manuscripts and in the Riverside Chaucer, contains verse forms not found elsewhere in Chaucer's oeuvre.
Galway, Margaret.
Notes and Queries 202 (1957): 371-74
Reconsiders the toponym "Pullesdon" as a location in archival records that pertain to Chaucer, Philippa, and their patrons Lionel and Elizabeth, exploring possibilities for the location and implications concerning Philippa and Elizabeth.
Rust, Martha.
Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Visual Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 195-217.
Interprets red-ink underlining of lovers' and birds' names in the text of PF in Bodley 638 and Fairfax 16 as a "visual appeal to memory" that activates pedagogical frameworks of language acquisition from medieval grammar school curricula. Viewing…
Stanbury, Sarah.
Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Visual Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 39-58.
Considers the counting-house in ShT in light of the late medieval concern with "architectural privacy" and "new formations of sociability" in the bourgeois household. Contextualizes gendered space in ShT in relation to mercantile labor, developments…
Asks "[w]hat kind of stories could let . . . refugees be admitted to the category 'Australian,' in a more inclusive version of [the] actual and potential inhabitants" of the nation? Explores how and to what extent CT might be a useful model for…
Argues that "two medieval methods of memorializing" are in tension in KnT: "celebration" of chivalric loss, and Boethian remembrance. Theseus's admonitions to remember Arcite "leave little room" for "healthy" mourning and reveal the limits of…
Although the Reeve claims a moral high ground by telling a story that deals out justice to its dishonest miller, this revenge does not accord with the moral virtue of justice nor with the amoral fabliau genre, undermining the Reeve's sanctimony and…
Collins, Timothy.
This Rough Magic (December 2012): n.p.
Explores the functions and implications of the black rocks in FranT both as a symbol of universal evil and as a narrative device, arguing that the rocks have particularly rich and pervasive significations, anticipating the postmodern device of a…
Nakley, Susan.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 114.1 (2015): 61-87
Establishes how WBT's treatment of sovereignty and of civic and domestic institutions "redefine[s] English nobility as a national form of identity" that crosses class and gender boundaries. Further argues that Chaucer's anachronistic use of Dante in…
Kaul, Mythili.
English Studies 103, no. 4 (2022): 555-73.
Observes several points of similarity and difference between the marital relations depicted in WBPT and FranT on the one hand and in "The Taming of the Shrew" and "The Merry Wives of Windsor" on the other.
Grennen, Joseph E.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 67 (1966): 117-22.
Argues that a possible source for the references to "Sampsoun" in PardT 6.549-61 and for aspects of the account of Samson in MkT 7.2914-94 is "Livre du Chevalier de la Tour-Landry."
