Biggs, Frederick M.
Notes and Queries 254 (2009): 340-41.
Among the four fabliaux in London, British Library Harley MS 2253, "La gageure," featuring the "misdirected kiss" motif, is an analogue of MilT, while "Le chevalier e la corbeille" is a possible source, providing not only a container that forces "the…
Smith, Sueanna.
Sigma Tau Delta Review 8 (2011): 16-30.
Argues that MilT and RvT "revise the image of masculine chivalry constructed in" KnT, the first offering a model of "physical 'cherl' masculinity," the second "an image of masculinity that prizes internal desire over physical bravado." Through their…
Marino, John B.
Essays in Medieval Studies 13: 121-29, 1996.
Explores the imagery of oxen, stalls, and yoking in Boethian and Christian traditions, arguing that they underlie Chaucer's allegorical uses of the imagery in Truth, ClT, NPT, and the CT at large.
Evans, Lawrence Gove.
Modern Language Notes 74 (1959): 584-87.
Explicates the "striking instance of Chaucer's use of word-play and Scriptural allusion" in TC 4.1585 to "enrich his presentation of the lovers' predicament" and emphasize differences between earthly and divine happiness.
The bibliography includes books, articles, dissertations, reviews, reprints, and background studies. Annotations identify general, introductory, or background studies and those designed for undergraduates.
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y., and Hildegard Schnuttgen
Hamden, Conn.: Shoe String Press, 1988, for 1987.
Definitive coverage of twelve years of Chaucer scholarship, including books, articles, dissertations, and reviews--numbered, cross-referenced, and indexed by author and subject. A continuation, with added features, of previous standard…
Ortego, Philip Darraugh.
Bulletin of Bibliography and Magazine Notes 27 (1970): 72-76.
A topical, alphabetical listing of critical studies that pertain to Chaucer's French sources, compiled from previous bibliographies, with brief annotations added. The one-page introduction comments on the status of France and French in Chaucer's age.
A selective bibliography of Chaucer studies, covering linguistic approaches through 1993, arranged topically under ten headings: Bibliographies (30 items); Manuscripts, Facsimiles, and Editions (26); Textual Criticism (53); English Linguistic…
Thomas, Alfred.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007.
Studies artistic, religious, and political exchanges between England and Bohemia in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, including Anne of Bohemia's influence in England, Wyclif's influence in Bohemia, Shakespeare's formulation of Bohemia, and…
Flannery, Mary C.
Review of English Studies 62, no. 255 (2011): 337-57.
Addresses the "handling of gendered shame" in Chaucer's works, arguing that shamefastness (modesty) is a "point of tension between medieval concepts of manliness and feminine honour." Paradoxically, shame is a feature of female honor, while ideals of…
McAlpine, Monica Ellen.
DAI 33.12 (1973): 6877-78A.
Reads TC as a critique of the "old tragic idea" of fall through fortune, emphasizing the poem's concern with human choice derived from Boethius's "Consolation," and observing a "Boethian comedy" in Troilus and a "Boethian tragedy" in Criseyde. TC…
DeSpain, Jessica.
Journal of the William Morris Society 15.4 (2004): 74-90
In his Kelmscott Chaucer, Morris presents Chaucer as a proponent of anti-capitalist socialism, consistent with Morris's own arts and crafts movement. The essay comments on the heteroglot voices of the Canterbury pilgrims and the Kelmscott…
Burrow, J. A., and Thorlac Turville-Petre, eds.
Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1992. 2d ed. 1996. 3rd ed. 2005.
An introduction to Middle English language, designed as a textbook with discussions of history, phonology, lexis, grammar, syntax, and meter. Includes a reader of fourteen (non-Chaucerian) texts, with brief notes and glossary.
Proposes that the first line of HF derives directly from Tibullus (III.iv.95) and hypothesizes that Chaucer may have had access to a manuscript of Tibullus's work (Codex Ambrosianus) held by Coluccio Salutati in 1373.
Maintains that the referent for "my lord" at the end of NPT (7.3445) is Thomas Bradwardine, and identifies parallels between the ending and Bradwardine's "De causa Dei."
Comments on various aspects of KnT and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (sources, dates, verse forms, etc.), discussing most extensively their uses of rhetorical devices. Finds KnT to be inferior because in it "form dictates to matter" and because…
Historical novel set in London,1383, featuring John Gower as a first-person narrator, recounting events involved in the murder of a prostitute and a book prophesying an attempt on the life of Richard II. Gower's "slippery friend," Geoffrey Chaucer,…
Askins, William R.
Laura L. Howes, ed. Place, Space, and Landscape in Medieval Narrative (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007), pp. 27-41.
Askins treats Mars and Ven as two halves of a single poem, reading them together as the "first epithalamium" in English, a celebration of the marriage that took place in spring 1386 between Elizabeth of Lancaster (daughter of Gaunt) and John Holland.…
Mehl, Dieter.
Bernardo Santano Moreno, Adrian R. Birtwhistle, and Luis Gustavo Girón Echevarria, eds. Papers from the VIIth International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (Caceres: Universidad de Extremadura, 1995), pp. 187-205.
Comments on changes in the "canon" of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English literature, including the rise in importance of LGW.
