Tsuchiya, Tadayuki.
Studies in Liberal Arts and Sciences (Tokyo University of Science) 34: 43-62, 2001.
Revised version of the portion from Win to Zephyrus in the author's privately printed Concordance and Glossary to the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales (1975).
Hill, Ordelle G.,and Gardiner Stillwell.
Philological Quarterly 73 (1994): 317-28.
In PF 316-18, Chaucer alludes to Alain de Lille's discussion of love, the main points of which are Nature's law of love and humans' unnatural violation of it (with implicit references to the homosexuality of Richard's great-grandfather Edward II). …
Kummerer, K. R.
Journal of the British Astronomical Society 11.4: 203-13, 2001.
Discusses seven "celestial assertions" in CT and the reference to April 18 to show that Chaucer "accurately describes the celestial conditions he observed" in southeast England. Astronomical evidence indicates that the CT pilgrimage ends on April 18,…
A detective mystery of murder in medieval Yorkshire, with the investigation led by Owen Archer, former Captain of the Guard, assisted by Geoffrey Chaucer, poet, who is on a covert mission for Prince Edward.
Kanno, Masahiko.
Masahiko Kanno and others, eds. Medieval Heritage: Essays in Honour of Tadahiro Ikegami. (Tokyo: Yushodo, 1997): pp. 241-54.
Whereas Boccaccio uses the straightforward word "tradimento" of Criseyde, Chaucer uses the roundabout phrase "hire hertes variaunce." In TC, "in gret penaunce" means both that "Criseyde was in great misery" and "Criseyde was in hell for her sins."
apRoberts, Robert P.
J. Bakker et al., eds.; J. C. van Meurs, foreword. Essays on English and American Literature and a Sheaf of Poems (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987), pp. 11-25.
Neither linguistic nor contextual evidence justifies the stance that Criseyde and Pandarus have sexual intercourse. Incest is incompatible both with the Italian source and with other elements in the poem itself.
Hieatt, Constance B.
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 199-209.
Comments on each of the three appearances of the Cook in CT--the GP sketch, CkP, and ManP--providing historical and cultural background for Chaucer's "proprietor of a cookshop," including several recipes.
Examines semantic and syntactic features of infinitive clauses used as nominals in GP and NPT. Makes several diachronic observations: in this stage of the development of English, to was becoming the standard infinitive marker, although there were…
Ewald, William B.,III.
English Language Notes 15 (1978): 267-68.
Robinson glosses Justinus' words "er ye have youre right of hooly chirche" (MerT, 1662) as "before your wedding is really solemnized." This should read "before your funeral is really solemnized."
Green, Richard Firth.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Explores patterns in the meanings and applications of two fundamental concepts in late-medieval English tradition: truth (trouthe), which shifted from "integrity" to "conforming to fact"; and treason, which shifted from "personal betrayal" to a…
Edits "The Isle of Ladies," with accompanying notes, glossary, and commentary, the latter including discussion of the text, language, date, authorship, literary context, style, and meter of the poem. The poem was first printed by Thomas Speght in…
Farvolden, Pamela Laura.
Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1995): 1965A.
The inadequacies of the two previous editions of Lydgate's "Fabula" call for this full treatment, based on all manuscripts and annotated with references to related works, including KnT.
Edits the Constance portion of Trevet's "Cronicles," with discussion of Trevet's life and works, manuscripts of his work, a table of variants,and related materials. Includes (pp. 181-217) discussion of Chaucer's use of this source in MLT.
Chapter four (pp. 89-127) treats together Chaucer, Gower, and "Piers Plowman," presenting Chaucer in his time but arguing that, as an artist, he transcends it. Introduces Chaucer's life and offers summary comments on each of his major works,…
Daiches, David.
New York: Ronald; London: Secker & Warburg 1960.
Describes Chaucer as the "brilliant culmination of Middle English literature," commending his "metrical craftsmanship" in English, his "European consciousness," and his "relaxed, quizzical attitude that let him contemplate the varieties of human…
Horvath, Richard P.
English Language Notes 24:1 (1986): 8-12.
The Host's comment to the Monk about his tale, "For therinne is no desport ne game," has a significant variant that should be recorded in editions: "Youre tales don us no desport ne game," attested to in several manuscripts, including Hengwrt.
Van, Thomas Anthony
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.02 (1967): 697A.
Summarizes portions of Boccaccio's "Teseida" and assesses parallel portions of KnT in light of these summaries, emphasizing Chaucer's "reworking" of his source in characterizing Palamon, Arcite, and Theseus through "symbolic imagery."
Baker, Donald C.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 60 (1961): 59-64.
Focuses on Chaucer's selection and arrangement of exempla drawn from Jerome's "Adversus Jovinianum" to argue that Dorigen's complaint (4.1367-456) is a "carefully shaped and molded passage of rhetoric designed to illuminate the character of Dorigen,…
Finnegan, Robert Emmett.
Studies in Philology 106 (2009): 285-98.
Focuses on the city of Thebes, the Athenian grove, and Theseus's First Mover speech in KnT to define and explore implications of the "elastic ontology" of KnT. Unlike the city in Boccaccio's "Teseida," in KnT Thebes is mysteriously whole after having…
Keenan, Hugh T.
American Notes and Queries 16 (1978): 66-67.
The 29 pilgrims may allude to Becket's feast day, December 29. The etymology of "Thomas" in Mirk's "Festial" as "alle mon" corresponds to the representative range of pilgrims and sounds like the Knight's description. Readers might add this…
Chaucer's changes to the Ovidian version of Hypermnestra in LGW--exchanging the names of Danaus and Aegyptus and then reducing the number of daughters from fifty to one--were not an "error." Chaucer both indicates that men are not "stably positioned…
