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Harrington, David V.   Discourse: A Review of the Liberal Arts 8 (1965): 80-89.
Argues that the satire in NPT is "better interpreted as general satire of Chaucer's age" than attributed to the character of the Nun's Priest. So-called "dramatic" readings of the tale falter because, for example, its "gentle satire of courtliness is…

Grennen, Joseph E.   Classica et Mediaevalia 26 (1965): 306-33.
Shows that "clichés of thought and expression" abound in medieval alchemical treatises, and explains how Chaucer's uses of these "topoi" or commonplaces "contribute to the meaning" of CYPT. Tabulates commonplaces of alchemical behavior, preparation,…

Donaldson, E. Talbot   Ventures: Magazine of the Yale Graduate School 5 (1965): 16-23. Reprinted in "Speaking of Chaucer," pp. 154-63.
Challenges the idea that adultery in inherent to courtly love and attributes the notion to critics' failure to recognize the humor of Andrea Capellanus. Cites various examples of courtly love in medieval literature, and includes comments on Absolon…

Bateson, F. W.   New York: Anchor, 1965.
Briskly surveys English literature and studies of it from the Middle English period to 1960, providing introductions to individual historical periods and lists of editions and criticism for individual authors and topics. Chaucer figures largely in…

Bartel, Neva A.   Ball State Teachers College Forum 6.3 (1965): 45-50.
Comments on amplification as a factor in the "powerful dramatic force" of TC and explores, book by book, the poem's themes of "sight and blindness, the words 'bind' and 'bridle'," references to "sea and ships as opposed to references to fishing," and…

Siddiqui, M. Naimudden.   Osmania Journal of English Studies [4], Shakespeare Memorial Number (1964): 105-14.
Argues that in "Troilus and Cressida" Shakespeare "does not seem to have used" TC "as his main or direct source," adducing differences in theme, plot, and characterization.

Marken, Ronald.   Discourse: A Review of the Liberal Arts 7 (1964): 381-87.
Treats Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid" as a sequel to TC, examining how its attitude and tone differ from Chaucer's work, largely as a result of differing styles, techniques, opinions, and points of view. Henryson's style and tone are harsher, and…

Brown, Peter.   Peter Brown, ed. A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture c. 1350--c.1500 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), pp. 307-21
Explores relations between the late-medieval debate on religious images and imagery in literature, including detailed assessment of the portrait of Chaucer that is included in manuscripts of Thomas Hoccleve's "Regiment of Princes." Assesses the…

Mitchell, J. Allan   Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
Studies the ontogeny (rather than ontology) of medieval western humanness, focusing on gestation, birth, childhood, and the social and cultural coming-into-being of the child. Links various aspects of "posthumanist, ecological, and materialist…

North, Richard.   In Michael D. J, Bintley, Martin Locker, Victoria Symon, and Mary Wellesley, eds. Stasis in the Medieval West? Questioning Change and Continuity (Cham: Springer, 2017), pp. 205-30.
Compares Arveragus's sending of Dorigen to her tryst with Aurelius with the analogous scene in Bocaccio's "Filocolo" and argues that in FranT the husband is concerned with public honor, a reflection of the Franklin's own outlook that Arveragus is a…

Loomis, Roger Sherman.   London: Hutchinson University Library, 1963.
New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1964.
Comments on several thematic concerns as they occur in Chaucer's works as well as in Arthurian tradition (pity, renunciation of the world, etc.) and summarizes scholarship pertaining to the Auchinleck MS as a source for Th; also discusses WBT as a…

Duzee, Mabel.   New York: Burt Franklin, 1963.
Includes discussion of the setting of "Eger and Grime" in the "Land of Beame," i.e., Bohemia, and provides background for understanding the popularity and influence of Anne of Bohemia and Bohemian fashion at the English court after her arrival in…

White, Beatrice.   Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 64 (1963): 356-72.
Surveys uses of primary and secondary interjections (i.e., exclamations and oaths) in Anglo-Saxon through modern English, exploring how the "inventive ability is more marked in some centuries than in others." Comments on oaths based in religion (God,…

Greaves, Margaret.   London: Methuen, 1964.
Studies the uses, meanings, and nuances of the concept of magnanimity in the English Middle Ages and Renaissance, including discussion of Chaucer, who, although "he makes no full-scale attempt to portray the magnanimous man in his wholeness,"…

Ackerman, Robert A.   New York: Random House, 1966,
Introduces "Social and Religious Backgrounds" to Old English and to Middle English literatures in separate chapters, along with one chapter each on developments in the medieval English language, "Popular Christian Doctrine" of the era, and the…

Brown, Ashley, ed.
Kimmey, John L., ed.   Columbus, Ohio: Merrill, 1968.
A classroom anthology of twelve examples of the literary mode of comedy, including MerT in Nevill Coghill's modern poetic translation. The volume describes the mode of comedy, offers brief biographies of the writers included, and lists discussion…

Brown, Ashley, ed.
Kimmey, John L., ed.   Columbus, Ohio: Merrill, 1968.
A classroom anthology of sixteen examples of the literary mode of romance, including FranT in Nevill Coghill's modern poetic translation. The volume describes the mode of romance, offers brief biographies of the writers included, and lists discussion…

Danziger, Marlies K., ed,
Johnson, Wendell Stacy, ed.   New York: Random House, 1968.
An introduction to poetry for classroom use, with an anthology that includes MercB, Ros, Truth, and Purse, with notes and glosses, based on the edition of F. N. Robinson.

Freedman, Morris, ed.
Davis, Paul B. ed.   New York: Scribner, 1968.
An introduction to the study of literature for classroom use, arranged by literary mode and focused thematically on social, religious, and literary controversies. Includes a section titled "Medieval and Modern Chaucer" (pp. 457-81) that raises…

Greenfield, Stanley B., ed.
Weatherhead, A. Kingsley, ed.   New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1968.
An anthology of English poetry, arranged chronologically, with a brief introduction on "The Experience of a Poem" and a glossary of poetic terminology. The selections from Old and Middle English poetry are generally given in modern verse translation,…

Lawlor, John.   London: Hutchinson University Library, 1968.
Treats Chaucer's major narrative poems as "oral script(s)" presented to a "small and courtly audience," offering sustained readings that reflect the poems' tensions between authority and experience (or "pref") and address concerns of poetic freedom…

Reed, Gwendolyn, ed.
Margules, Gabriele, illus.   New York: Atheneum, 1968.
Includes a modernized poetic translation of ManT 9.163-80, under the title "Take Any Bird," accompanied by a pen drawing of a caged bird.

Tenn, William, ed.
Westlake, Donald, ed.   New York: Macmillan, 1968.
Includes a modern prose translation of PardT in an anthology of twenty-two short stories of crime fiction by authors not usually associated with the genre.

Doob, Penelope B. R.   New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1974.
This study of madness in Middle English literature generally mentions Chaucer only in passing, but includes a brief discussion of a "pedestrian and highly traditional account of Nebuchadnezzer" in MkT. Clearly based on the Book of Daniel, the account…

Robbins, Rossell Hope.   Moderna Språch 64.3 (1970): 231-44.
Comments on the limitations of Lydgate's "Siege of Thebes" and the Prologue to the "Tale of Beryn" as imitations of Chaucer, and discusses at greater length how his fabliaux are superior to "Dame Sirith" and to later English comic tales such as "The…
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