Evans, Ruth.
Myra Seaman, Eileen A. Joy, and Nicola Masciandaro, eds. Dark Chaucer: An Assortment (Brooklyn, N. Y.: Punctum Books, 2012), pp. 29-41.
Concentrates on Ceyx and Alcyone's encounter in BD as a communication failure that aligns with a series of other failed attempts at communication throughout the poem.
Line 1314 begins a series of topical references to the real as opposed to the poetic world. Allusions to the king and Gaunt establish the terminus a quo before the end of 1371, although most of the poem may predate 1371. Accepting 1371 as the date…
A murder mystery set in medieval London, told by Geoffrey Chaucer recounting events in the first person. Includes various historical persons and provides chapter notes at the end of the narrative.
Lloyd, Michael.
English Miscellany 10 (1959): 11-25
Argues that Arcite is as much a romantic hero of KnT as is Palamon, both as a "Chaucerian idealization of love" and as a representative of humanity's "proper relationship to Fortune." Includes comparison of Arcite with Boccaccio's analogous Arcita in…
Rather than an incoherent outpouring of emotions, Dorigen's Complaint (FranT, 5.1355-456) is a coherent, moral response to the random world Aurelius presents her. Chaucer manipulates "exempla" from Jerome's "Adversus Jovinianum" to compose a…
The Summoner's highly-qualified reference to Sittingbourne does not imply that the pilgrimage has progressed past Rochester. The shift of fragment B2 is not justified.
Garbaty, Thomas J.
Mediaevalia 19 (1996, for 1993): 319-43.
Examines illumintions in manuscripts of Gower's "Confessio Amantis," arguing that they reflect contemporary difficulties in distinguishing between the author and the fictional persona. Includes depictions of Chaucer in miniatures and comparisons…
Kline, Barbara Rae.
Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1991): 533A-34A.
This first in-depth description of MS. Harley 7333 provides textual information, lists editions, and describes relationships to other medieval texts. The contents shed light on scribal editing in CT.
Abraham, Lyndy.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Alphabetical arrangement of alchemical terms and images from "ablution" to "zephyr." The entries define the terms and illustrate the images, citing works in which they appear, including CYPT.
De Weever, Jacqueline Elinor.
DAI 32.08 (1972): 4559A
Provides historical and literary background to names used and mentioned in Chaucer's works, identifying their Arabic, Greek, and/or Latin equivalents, exploring the relations of the names to their contexts in Chaucer's works, and commenting on…
The entry for Chaucer (pp. 168) includes brief biographical information, critical bibliography, a list of editions, and a tally of individual works with dates of first publication. Accompanied by a b&w plate from Thynne's 1532 edition, the first page…
Suggests several revisions to traditional classifications of the typefaces of William Caxton, drawing evidence, in part, from the digital reproductions of British Museum copies of Caxton's two editions of CT.
Mosser, Daniel W.
Birmingham, [Eng.]: Scholarly Digital Editions, 2010.
2d edition, revised, updated, and corrected, with David Hill Radcliffe, 2014, available at <http://www.mossercatalogue.net>; accessed 17 February 2024.
Comprehensive description of the eighty-four manuscript witnesses to CT and four pre-1500 editions, each including contents, tale order, progress of copying, materials, page size, collation, format, hands, illumination, binding, date, language,…
Aita, Shuichi.
Language and Culture (Osaka Prefecture University) 3 (2004): 1-16.
Furnivall's Six-Text Print transcribes ParsT from Selden B.17, except for lines 104-290, which come from Lansdowne 851. The lines from Seldan are given here.
Hauck, Comfort.
[Jay Ruud, ed.] Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota ([Aberdeen, S.D.: Northern State University, 1989), pp. 63-72.
Comments on the anti-Semitism of PrT and suggests that it does not lessen the beauty of the tale.
Wicher, Andrzej.
REALB: The Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature (Tubingen) 7 (1990): 19-60.
Considers Chaucer's tales of marriage in light of patterns of the supernatural marriages in folktales, identifying MLT and SNT as tales that transcend marital opposition through allegory, and viewing ClT, MerT, FranT, and SqT as tales in which the…
Goldstein, R. James.
Mark P. Bruce and Katherine H. Terrell, eds. The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1300-1600 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 161-80
Employs both stylistic and codicological analysis to consider Chaucer's inheritance of the French rhyme royal stanza form and his use of it in TC. Demonstrates how rhyme royal flourished in Scotland, initially in "The Kingis Quair," and later in the…
Allen, Judson Boyce,and Theresa Anne Moritz.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1981.
Medieval literary theory in general, and commentary on Ovid's "Metamorphoses," the tales-in-a-frame book most certainly important to Chaucer, suggest that CT can best be understood when grouped in four kinds: natural, magical, moral, and spiritual. …
Reconstructs the narrative progress of TC in a sequence of some 200 seven-line poems, approximating rhyme royal, keyed by line numbers to Chaucer's work, and arranged in five books; running footers link the verse with the plot. Individual poems give…
Maček, Dora.
Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia 33-36 (1972-1973): 695-708.
Analyzes a sample of periphrastic verbal phrases drawn from GP, describing practices and problems in pursuing computer analysis of Middle English. Focuses on frequency of verbal periphrases, uses of auxiliaries, ordering of elements, and grammatical…
Darjes, Bradley, and Thomas Rendall.
Medieval Studies 47 (1985): 416-31.
Parallels in diction, phrasing, portrayal, and plot suggest that the episode of the Pardoner and the tapster is shaped according to the model of the Chaucerian fabliau.
Links BD with Freudian method, arguing that the poem "foreshadows" psychoanalysis through its depiction of how certain uses of language can heal trauma from painful memories
