Pecan, David.
Journal of Narrative and Language Studies 10 (2022): 281-92.
Assesses the social and economic dynamics of CkT and the GP descriptions of the Cook and the guildsmen, arguing that the tale "indicts both the laterally mobile prodigal apprentice and the decadent hypocrisy" of his master "through the linked…
Ding, Jian-Ning.
Foreign Literature Studies [WenGuo Xue Yan Jiu] 29 (2007): 111-17.
Argues that Griselda's "restraint" is a subversive strategy and explores the implications of this subversion for understanding the Clerk as narrator and Chaucer as poet.
Moss, Rachel E.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): 293–95.
Personal response to two essays concerning medieval female consent in light of a rape in London in 2021; both essays are included in this volume of "Studies in the Age of Chaucer."
Carey, John, ed.
New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2021.
Collects selections from western poets, from Homer forward, including WBP, 587–608, translated by Carey, with a brief introduction that characterizes the Wife as having a "good claim to be the first feminist in literature."
Fletcher, Chris, and others.
London: British Library, 2003.
An anthology of reproductions of selections from English literary manuscripts and books held at the British Library, including portraits of Chaucer ("one of the earliest English writers to have been accurately represented in portraits") from…
Leggett, Glenn, and Henry-York Steiner, eds.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967.
Includes a brief introduction to Chaucer and his works, with a selection from GP and PrT, NPT, and PardT (without their prologues), accompanied by marginal glosses and bottom-of-the-page notes.
Karolides, Nicholas J., Margaret Bald, and Dawn B. Sova.
New York: Facts on File, 2011.
Originally published in 2005. Treats CT (pp. 474-77) in a section called "Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds," describing the pilgrimage and the social variety of the pilgrims, claiming that "Risqué language and sexual innuendo pervade most of…
Rupp, Jan.
Anglisik: International Journal of English Studies 31.2 (2020): 35–51.
Comments on the role of refugee literature in the "shifting contexts of [literary] canonisation" and then explores "the role of Chaucer in 21st-century refugee writing," focusing on aspects of CT (especially MLT) that resonate in Patience Agbabi’s…
Prendergast, Thomas A., and Stephanie Trigg.
Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell, 2020.
Considers the historical roots and evolution of thirty myths or misconceptions about Chaucer's life and his writings. Considers how contemporary academic discourse, biography, and popular medievalism contribute to an understanding of Chaucer's…
Page, Geoff.
Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2006.
This anthology includes the description of the Clerk from the GP, with a commentary that explains details unfamiliar to modern readers and analyzes features of structure and prosody.
Pace, George B.,and Linda E. Voigts.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 1 (1979): 143-50.
The University of Missouri-Columbia fragment ("Fragmenta Manuscripta" 150) of Chaucer's Bo is not in book form. This fragment is one of the few Chaucer manuscripts in North America, and the only one representing Bo.
Fitzgerald places Tolkien's essay on RvT (1934) in its intellectual and professional context. She explores the role of Chaucer in Tolkien's scholarship and creative works, including the allusions to Chaucer's works that appear in Tolkien's satiric…
Laskaya, Anne.
Noreen Giffney, Michelle M. Sauer, and Diane Watt, eds. The Lesbian Premodern (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 35-47.
Considers the validity and applicability of the critical concepts of "reading lesbian" and "reading queer," briefly suggesting the implications of imagining lesbian and queer audiences for readings of MerT.
Sirles, Michael Timothy.
Dissertation Abstracts International A80.05 (2018): n.p.
Contends that William Baldwin's "Mirror for Magistrates" (1559) was previously seen as linking the medieval literature of Chaucer and Boccaccio with the early moderns.
Atkinson, Laurie.
Jennifer Nuttall and David Watt, ed. Thomas Hoccleve: New Approaches (Cambridge: Brewer, 2022.), pp. 85-102.
Shows how the "framed first-person narrative with which [Hoccleve's] "Regiment" begins is a reconfiguration rather than a straightforward rejection of Chaucer's dream poetry." While both authors use dream-vision conventions to engage previous authors…
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.
