Holahan, Michael
Richardson, David A., ed. Spenser and the Middle Ages: Proceedings from a Special Session at the Eleventh Conference on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan 2-5 May 1976 (Cleveland: Cleveland State University, 1976), pp. 230-36.
Reads Spenser's address to Chaucer in "The Faerie Queene," Book 4, as a declaration of independence as well as an acknowledgement of influence and dependency, arguing that Spenser "locates himself beyond the Middle Ages by invoking medievalisms"…
Bowden, Muriel.
New York: Macmillan; London: Collier-Macmillan, 1967.
Reprints the original version of 1948, with a very brief second preface (half page) and appended additional material and bibliography (pp. 317-28). Throughout the reprinted text, the additional material is signaled by means of daggers included in the…
A community of tradespeople-artisans in small shops on Paternoster Row near Saint Paul's Cathedral was engaged in book production during Chaucer's last decade and the early fifteenth century. The editor, text writer, and artists of Ellesmere may be…
Argues that in "The Ancestor's Tale: Richard Dawkins "uses Chaucer's poetics to address interpretative problems with evolution," particularly the "anthropocentric" notion that "humanity is the 'result' of evolution." Dawkins's uses of the frame…
DeMaria, Robert, Jr., Heesok Chang, and Samantha Zacher, eds.
Chichester: Wiley, 2014.
lxix, 458 pp.
Includes twenty-six essays by individual authors that survey a range of issues in understanding the concept of "British literature" in the medieval period, considering history, politics, modes of production, literary forms, reception, religion,…
Twenty-nine essays on the literary, social, political, and geographical contexts within which Chaucer produced his work, as well as his response to contemporary ideologies. Each essay includes a survey of existing scholarship in a given area,…
Readings in social and cultural history for classroom purposes, arranged in eight sections: politics and ideology, social structures, daily life, religious life and prayer, knighthood and war, reading and education, sciences and medicine, and…
Intended as a "do-it-yourself course" for first-time readers of CT, the Companion is organized in a series of separate chapters devoted to GP and to most tales, although the Links, CkT and SqT, Thop, Mel, MkT, and ParsT are consigned to appendices.
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…
Zhou, Yue.
A Comparative Study of Scansion in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Canterbury Tales. ERA: The Bulletin of the English Research Association of Hiroshima 34 (2017): 1-16.
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…
