Trigg, Stephanie.
Glenn D. Burger and Holly A. Crocker, eds. Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 25-46.
Highlights the connections between uses of the phrase “weeping like a beaten child” in both Chaucer and Malory, simultaneously exploring the semantic range of weeping elsewhere. These examinations offer further important lessons about the history of…
Sugito, Hisashi.
Research Bulletin: Liberal Arts (Nihon University College of Economics) 84 (2017): 73-81.
Points out that Chaucer develops the idea of interpretation through his works (especially CT), and demonstrates how Lydgate's "The Siege of Thebes," drawing on Chaucer, revolves around the ideas of truth and interpretation.
Sokolov, Danila.
Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2018.
Chapter 2, "Chaucerian Melancholy in Renaissance England," explores how in "Astrophel and Stella" Sir Philip Sidney "reactivates: the melancholic and ambivalent "poetics of selfhood" of BD, as mediated in the "Petrarchan and anti-Petrarchan poetry"…
Examines how the Jailer's Daughter of Shakespeare and Fletcher's play, a character not found in KnT, reflects a complex form of influence derived not only from KnT, but from MilT and RvT as well. Considers water imagery and liquidity, and "madness,…
Schlett, James.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015.
Recounts the history and events of the nineteenth-century American Philosophers' Camp. The chapter entitled "The Worthy Crew Chaucer Never Had" includes discussion of Ralph Waldo Emerson's notebook commentaries on similarities between the group of…
Rouse, Margitta.
Andrew James Johnston, Margitta Rouse, and Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, eds. Transforming Topoi: The Exigencies and Impositions of Tradition (Göttingen: V&R, 2018), pp. 59-88.
Argues that Shakespeare's exploration of the "nature of literary adaptation-as-innovation" in "The Rape of Lucrece"--conducted by means of “competing versions of the Troy story"--engages with the "Chaucerian poetics" of HF and TC, particularly…
Includes ten short stories, plus a Prologue and an Epilogue, all overtly modeled in topic and tone on CT and Boccaccio’s "Decameron," both works referred to in the Prologue and alluded to in titles such as “The Reeve’s Sister’s Tale.”
Robinson, James.
Neil Roberts, Mark Wormald, and Terry Gifford, eds. Ted Hughes, Nature and Culture (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 143–59.
Assesses the lifelong development of Ted Hughes's attitudes toward Chaucer in published and archival materials, including comments on Hughes's view of Chaucer as the "perfect model of a public poet" and as a "presiding presence" in his relationship…
Robinson, James.
Terry Gifford, ed. Ted Hughes in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 209-18.
Describes aspects of Hughes's "imaginative encounter with the Middle Ages," particularly his reading of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," Chaucer’s works, and those of Dante, exploring how these works influenced his poetry and thoughts on…
Reid, Lindsay Ann.
Renaissance Quarterly 72.2 (2019): 537-81.
Analyzes Ovid’s "Metamorphoses" in Renaissance poetry, with some attention to how Chaucer, in LGW, and Gower, in "Confessio Amantis," may have influenced sixteenth-century Tudor England’s Ovidian poetry.
Reid, Lindsay Ann.
Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2018.
Argues that Shakespeare's uses of Ovid in his plays and poems was largely mediated by medieval works, specifically ones by Chaucer and John Gower. Shows that the dream frame of BD influenced "The Taming of the Shrew" and "Cymbeline," that Chaucer’s…
Identifies a series of "parallels in plot and language" between Charles Dickens's "The Cricket on the Hearth" and MerT, arguing for Chaucer’s influence on "Cricket," on the Strong subplot of "David Copperfield," and on Dickens’s "Chaucerian aesthetic…
Mann, Rachel.
Michael Schmidt, ed. New Poetries VII: An Anthology (Manchester: Carcanet, 2018), p. 98
Contemplative lyric poem (eighteen lines in threes) that refers to four of Chaucer’s pilgrims (Knight, Miller, Reeve, and Pardoner) and includes six brief quotations from CT.
Langdell, Sebastian J.
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018.
Focuses on Hoccleve's engagement "with contemporary religious reform movements and religious debate," arguing that he was interested in the "spiritual health of English society" rather than "earthly fame," and exploring how Hoccleve invented Chaucer…
Anthologizes in four volumes oral accounts by asylum seekers and immigrants detained in Britain and elsewhere, recorded by various poets and novelists, and modelled on the CT, with an opening Prologue in each volume, followed by narratives with…
Farvolden, Pamela, ed.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2016.
Edits Lydgate's two poems for classroom study, and includes as an appendix the Latin source of his "Guy of Warwyk." The introduction to the "Fabula" addresses Lydgate's debts to Chaucer in this poem: particularly how its view of friendship was…
Edwards, Suzanne M.
Chaucer Review 54.3 (2019): 230-52.
Centers on Gloria Naylor’s novel "Bailey’s Café," and examines how feminist approaches have informed scholarship of Chaucer's work, often to battle the misogyny of his works, that nevertheless can upload the heteronormative and patriarchal values to…
Hickey, Helen M., Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018.
Fourteen essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors, all inspired by or in response to the critical studies of Stephanie Trigg. The introduction describes the "affective" criticism underlying Trigg’s "Congenial Souls," "Shame and…
Prendergast, Thomas A.
Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 125-37.
Considers possible motives for the "Beryn" scribe to include the "Prologue" and the "Tale of Beryn" in one of the CT mansucripts that he copied, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, MS 455 (Nl), arguing that he was responding to the "agency of the text,"…
Robertson, Elizabeth.
Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 25-41.
Assesses Troilus's and Criseyde's first looks at one another in TC as examples of physiological sense perception, rather than as mental or emotional processes or stages. Resists feminist and patristic readings of these gazes, and reads them in light…
Grady, Frank.
Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 109-24.
Identifies associations between hunting and Fortune in various Middle English romances, exploring the "shared formal and thematic ambitions" of BD and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" as "two members of this hunting-and-Fortune group." Shows how the…
Cooper, Helen.
Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 42-55.
Examines similarities between the maidens who yearn for the love of Thopas--despite his chastity (Th 7.742-45)--and lovesick women “who offer themselves” in analogous romances, particularly "Ipomadon" and the romances cited in Th 7.897-900. Suggests…
Strohm, Paul.
Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 14-23
Contemplates the notion that "identification" with a given author is a "frequent, if unacknowledged, component of literary appreciation." Theorizes the notion in Freudian terms and those of reader-response criticism, exploring the processes and…
