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Ellesmere was not edited in a modern sense; i.e., it was not revised or corrected for such matters as metrical regularity. Having compared approximately 6,000 lines of Ellesmere with parallel lines in six other manuscripts nearly contemporary with…

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…

Assesses the overt or implied gender of the narrator in ABC, in PrPT, and in SNPT, exploring how each correlates with the depiction of the Virgin Mary in these works. Suggests that these depictions indicate that Chaucer was a "keen observer of the…

Explores Edmund Spenser's adaptation of SqT in Book 4 of his "Faerie Queene," focusing on how he develops a theme of friendship. Spenser claims Chaucer as source, but it seems neither that he "completes" SqT nor focuses on the Cambel/Canacee plot. In…

Argues that a "pre-modern nationalist discourse" inspired Chaucer to "spawn his own 'nationalist discourse,'" and that Chaucer's reception as the "father" of English poetry "mediates thirteenth century post-colonialism and nineteenth-century…

In HF, Chaucer defends poetry, indicating that despite its fictional nature and relativity, poetry is as valid as theology or philosophy.

Provides historical, literary, and religious backgrounds to PrT, intended for classroom teaching of the tale and focusing on ethical values. In Hungarian.

The treatment of Chaucer (often in translation) in cultural studies programs tends to divest his verse of its poetic qualities as, for example, in the tournament in "The Knight and His Tale."

Comments on David Shumway's "The Star System in Literary Studies," citing Manly and Rickert as Chicago "stars."

Reported by MLA International Bibliography; essay not seen.

Assesses the place of PrT in fragment VII, exploring the social and historical background of the "Tale."

Application of Key Word in Context Index. In Japanese, with English summary.

Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this lecture was recorded on February 18, 1965, and includes comments on "flaws" in Chaucer's poems, as well as ones by Milton, Longfellow, Keats, Poe, and more.

Responds to a query by Lisle C. John (Note and Queries 201 [1956]: 97-98), suggesting that "borrow" may mean borwe" (pledge) or "borough" (referring to Canterbury).

Item not seen. In Japanese.

Links between WBP and Wycliffite thought indicate that Chaucer was sympathetic to the movement.

Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this is a translation of CT into Chinese; apparently adapted, suggesting that Philippa's illness is Chaucer's motive for undertaking his pilgrimage.

In Japanese; accessible online at CiNii Articles [http://ci.nii.ac.jp/]. Abstract in Italian included in the back matter of the volume (p. 1), under the title "L'Episodio Dantesco di Conte Ugolion in Chaucer."

Assesses the combination of Christian marital ideals and secular courtly love in BD, arguing that the two are compatible in the poem. In Chinese, with English summary.

In LGW, if the God of Love and Alceste criticize Chaucer, they do so as representatives of a text community based on Augustinian hermeneutics. Chaucer undermines the legitimacy of their view of poetry, inscribing his own presence and intent in the…

In Japanese; accessible online at CiNii Articles [http://ci.nii.ac.jp/]. Abstract in Italian included in the back matter of the volume (pp. 3-4), under the title "L'Incontro del Chaucer e la Letteratura Italiana."

Draws examples from "Beowulf" and CT to demonstrate transition in impersonal constructions in the Middle English period, especially evident in uses of the expletive "it" with an infinitive ("It happed hym to ride").

Examines changes in the word "loci" in KnT, exploring the topography of "to and fro" and "up and doun."

Item not seen; reported in MLA International Bibliography, where it is described as written in Korean with English summary.

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…