While considering how speech in narrative poetry may represent "a distinct category within linguistic discourse," Coley reads ManT as a Chaucerian interaction with William of Ockham's rejection of longstanding Augustinian "hierarchies."
Dor, Juliette.
Danielle Buschinger and Wolfgang Spiewok, eds. Etudes de linguistique et de litterature en l'honneur d'Andre Crepin. Greifswalder Beitrage zum Mittelalter, no. 5. WODAN ser., no. 20 (Greifswald: Reineke, 1993), pp. 123-33.
Surveys nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century French Chaucer criticism, from early appropriations of Chaucer into French literary tradition to recognition of his importance in anticipating the Renaissance.
Bowers, John M.
Chantilly, Va.: The Teaching Company, 2008.
Audio-visual recording of thirty-six lectures by Bowers (on topics ranging from the Bible to Tolkien and postcolonialism), illustrated with occasional still pictures and linguistic examples. One thirty-minute lecture (Lecture 17, "Chaucer--The Father…
Romps through the western literary canon, including commentary on CT and scoring it a 10 in Importance, 6 in Accessibility, and 9 in Fun; TC rates 4, 3, and 4, respectively. Distinguishes CT from the novel tradition, and summarizes, irreverently,…
Hinton, Norman (D.)
Nona C. Flores, ed. Animals in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays (New York: Garland, 1996), pp. 133-46.
Comparison of the protagonist of "William of Palerne" with Chaucer's Troilus makes William seem "a paragon of decision," while Alisaundrine is like Pandarus in bringing lovers together.
Tremaine, Hadley Philip.
Dissertation Abstracts International 26.03 (1965): 2732A.
Edits the early modern Welsh play, "Troelius a Chresyd," with commentary on its relations with TC, Robert Henryson's "Testament," and early modern drama, treating the Welsh drama as a "secular mystery play."
Ainsworth, Jeanette Therese.
Dissertation Abstracts International 40 (1980): 4015A-16A.
The dramatic Welsh work written in Shakespeare's time is a unique and important contribution to the Troilus-Cressida tradition. The author eliminates any elements of plot, theme, or character from his sources (Chaucer's TC and Henryson's "Testament…
Zaerr, Linda Marie.
Evelyn Birge Vitz, Nancy Freeman Regalado, and Marilyn Lawrence, eds. Performing Medieval Narrative (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005), pp. 193-208.
Zaerr explores the concept of "mouvance" (textual variation) as reflected in a performance of "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell," commenting on the process of performance and adaptation and tabulating variants between the manuscript of the…
Pearsall, Derek.
Geoffrey Lester, ed. Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 178-93.
Examines the editorial implications of one metrically unambiguous feature of Chaucer's grammar. Chaucer's final -e has syllabic value when it occurs as the ending of monosyllabic adjectives with unelided weak inflexion followed by nouns with stress…
Wax, Judith.
New Republic 169.10 (September 17, 1973): 24-25.
Sendup of the Watergate political scandal in pseudo-Chaucerian rhymed couplets, based on GP descriptions. Includes comic foonotes. Reprinted in "Time" 102.13 (1972): 20, with a brief introduction.
Lampert-Weissig, Lisa.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 43 (2021): 111-49; 3 b& w illus.
Reads PrT and the thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman "Hugo de
Lincolnia" as "conspiracy theory narratives," showing "how they use language and imagery to generate aesthetic emotions, especially fear and disgust," and revealing connections "both to…
Mitchell, Ken, Thomas Chase, and Michael Trussler, eds.
Regina, Saskatchewan: University of Regina, 1999.
An anthology of forty works of short fiction designed for "first-year university students," with an Introduction that discusses the genre, and an appendix of related literary terms. Each narrative is accompanied by a brief assessment and a…
Addresses how "manipulations of time" affect the narrative structure of KnT, and "recreate instabilities inherent to fourteenth-century chivalric ideas." Views Theseus, Palamon, and Arcite as the "walking dead," since they only "exist in literature…
Kirkpatrick, Robin.
Chaucer and the Italian Trecento (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 201-29.
Focuses on qualities that distinguish CT from the "Decameron:" the self-deprecating Chaucer persona, Chaucer's concern with human individuality, his willingness to admit the limitations of language and art, and his use of irony.
Grindley, Carl.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 18.2 (2011): 79-91.
Offers a series of undergraduate classroom exercises to teach differences in kinds of edited texts and to introduce concepts crucial to editorial practice, using samples from Middle English literature: MerT IV.2069–76 most extensively.
Behrman, Mary.
Studies in the Novel 42 (2010): 453-70.
Identifies and assesses allusions to medieval literature in Ian McEwan's novel "Atonement" (2001), emphasizing Chaucer's works (TC and ClT) and Arthurian literature.
Barr, Jane.
Julia Bolton Holloway, Constance S. Wright, and Joan Bechtold, eds. Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages (New York: Peter Lang, 1990), pp. 122-28.
The Wife of Bath tells us that she acquired forbidden learning through forbidden sex with university students, breaking the barriers of both literacy and celibacy, as reflected in her challenge to Pauline epistles and Jerome's Vulgate.
Stanbury, Sarah.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 13 (1991): 141-58.
Feminist film theory and psychoanalytic theory clarify how acts of looking and the arrangements of personal space establish power relations in TC. Explores how power is gained and lost in Troilus's initial gaze at Criseyde, her view of him from her…
The Narrator's recollection of the Pilgrim's talk and the intonations of his own voice leave their sounds in all subsequent English poetry. These sounds are the result of the brilliant combination of conventional features.
Klinch, Anne L., ed.
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.
Anthologizes 131 poems "that illustrate the range and variety" of Middle English lyrics. Includes none by Chaucer, but refers to his works recurrently to clarify themes and techniques, both in the Introduction and in discussions of individual lyrics…
Masciandaro, Nicola.
Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.
Masciandaro investigates the vocabulary of work (travail, labour, swink, werk, craft) and its cultural significance in late medieval England, exploring depictions of the history of work in Middle English literature (including Gower, a treatise on…
