Thirty-eight essays by various authors, arranged in seven subheadings: "Overviews"; "The Production and Reception of Texts"; "Language and Literature"; "Encounters with Other Cultures"; "Special Themes"; "Genres"; "and Readings." Each essay includes…
Thirty-four essays by various authors, with an introduction and an epilogue by the editor, all on topics pertaining to English poetry from its origins through the fifteenth century. Each essay includes suggestions for further reading, and the volume…
Bawcutt, Priscilla, and Janet Hadley Williams, eds.
Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y. : D. S. Brewer, 2006.
Thirteen essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors. Topics include studies of individual poets and poems (Henryson, Dunbar, Douglas, Lyndsay, Richard Holland's "Buke of Howlat," Gilbert Hay's "Buik of King Alexander the…
Salih, Sarah, ed.
Rochester, N.Y.; and Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 2006.
Seven essays by various authors and an introduction by the editor. The book discusses late medieval English saints from a number of perspectives (readership, shrines and festivals, gender, historiography), with recurrent references to Chaucer,…
Lambdin, Laura Cooner, and Robert Thomas Lambdin, eds.
Westport, Conn.; and London : Greenwood, 2002.
Nineteen chapters by various authors, each addressing a literary genre by defining it, discussing representative examples, and surveying appropriate criticism (with selected bibliography). References to Chaucer recur throughout, especially in…
Momma, Haruko, and Michael Matto, eds.
Malden, Mass.; and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
Fifty-nine essays by various authors on topics ranging from the Indo-European roots of English to linguistic theory of the twenty-first century, from "the history of the history of English" to various geographical Englishes, and from English…
Duncan, Thomas G., ed.
Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, N.Y. : D. S. Brewer, 2005.
An introduction and twelve essays by various authors survey critical issues related to Middle English lyrics - courtly, popular, religious, political, etc. Individual essays consider topics such as manuscripts, meter and editing, carols, lyrics in…
Historical fiction set in the time of the Black Death in England involving a tale-telling competition, with similarities to CT and Boccaccio's "Decameron."
Merrill, Darin A.
Dissertation Abstracts International A70.05 (2009): n.p.
Analysis of the two fundamental CT manuscripts indicates "that the organization and theme of the individual tales affected" copy quality; for example, scribes copied moral tales more conscientiously than they copied bawdy ones, and prose tales were…
Shaw, Priscilla D.
Dissertation Abstracts International 42 (1982): 3169A.
Besides Brooke's "Tragicall Historye," TC seems a significant source for Shakespeare's play. Although verbal parallels are scanty, speeches comparable in rhetoric, imagery, and theme appear in greater density than could be mere conventions of…
Khoshbakht, Maryam, Moussa Ahmadian, and Shahrukh Hekmat.
International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 2.1 (2013): 90-97.
Compares CT with Farid al- Din Attar's "The Conference of the Birds," observing similarities in the shared motif of spiritual journey and techniques of narration and characterization. Differences between the religious backgrounds of the two poets,…
Comparison of the philosophical items translated by Alfred and Chaucer from the Latin "Boethius" shows that it can in no way be maintained that all the new loan words used after the Norman Conquest were needed to fill linguistic or cultural gaps in…
Weber, Barbara Jean (Drum).
DAI 31.05 (1970): 2363-64A.
Describes the classical and medieval developments of the story of Dido and focuses on versions by Virgil, Ovid, and Chaucer, the latter in both HF and LGW.
Hao, Tianhu.
Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature 4.4 (2020): 20-33.
Analyzes how Chaucer''s uses of sailing and door/gates imagery in TC resonate with similar imagery in Ovid's "Amores" and "Ars amatoria," reflecting a differing view of history and producing a different tone. In English, with an abstract in English…
Oizumi, Akio, ed. Programmed by Kunihiro Miki.
Hildescheim, Zurich, and New York: Olms-Weidmann, 1991.
Supplies every form of every word in the Chaucer corpus of The Riverside Chaucer, using KWIC format. Presents the headword in the center of the page and provides about two lines of context for the poetry. Variant spellings are listed separately,…
Jimura, Akiyuki, Yoshiyuki Nakao, and Masatsugu Matsuo.
Hiroshima : Hiroshima University Studies, Graduate School of Letters, 2002.
A computer-assisted comparison of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts of GP. Clarifies differences and similarities in spellings, lexis, syntax, and metrics in the two manuscripts.
Jimura, Akiyuki, Yoshiyuki Nakao, and Masatsugu Matsuo, eds.
Tanaka, Okayama : University Education Press, 1995.
Computer-generated, line-by-line comparison of two editions of CT, except for the lines lacking in the Hengwrt manuscript and other lines not included in either of the editions. The comparison indicates where the editions vary in syntax or spelling.…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki and Masatsugu Matsuo.
Tomonori Matsushita, A. V. C. Schmidt, and David Wallace, eds. From Beowulf to Caxton: Studies in Medieval Languages and Literature, Texts and Manuscripts (Bern: Lang, 2011), pp. 151-64.
A report on a project creating a comprehensive textual collation between the text of TC in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge MS 61 (Cp) and Barry Windeatt's 1990 edition of TC. Using Cp as a copy text, Windeatt not only attempted to reconstruct…
Jimura, Akiyuki, Yoshiyuki Nakao, and Masatsugu Matsuo.
Okayama : University Education Press, 2002.
A computer-assisted comparison of editions of BD, HF, and PF. Clarifies spellings, lexis, syntax, and metrics, analyzing versions by Benson, Robinson, Root, Brewer, and Havely.
Jimura, Akiyuki,Yoshiyuki Nakao, and Masatsugu Matsuo,eds.
Okayama : University Education Press, 1999.
A computer-assisted comparison of representative modern editions of TC: Benson's, Robinson's, Root's, and Windeatt's. Clarifies differences and similarities among the editions and provides information on Chaucer's lexis, syntax, and style.
