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Adduces KnT, 1362, as one example in suggesting a new sub-meaning for the MED definition of "dry"/"drye."

Reveals how the common, generally lower-class forenames in the "Visio Anglie" portion of Gower's "Vox clamantis" reinforce the "degraded, bestial character" that Gower attributes to the rioters of 1381. Because the names could apply to animals or to…

Introduces elements of the English language that are particularly useful for teaching English, following the ordinary division of the language's development into five stages: Old English, Middle English, early modern English, late modern English, and…

Considers "connections between the thinking subject and affected body in the medieval period," focusing on "heaviness" as a state of health and a condition for communication. Cites instances in Mel and TC as examples of external and internal…

Traces the definition and history of "knarre' in GP, cataloguing evidence for both a Dutch and Old Norse etymology. Offers some considerations for the role of the lexicographer and historian in general by addressing the particular history and meaning…

Focuses on Norton and Gower, but closes with a comparison of Gower's "linking of alchemy and language" with Chaucer's in CYT and suggests that Gower combines Latin and English to "produce poetic truths" while Chaucer emphasizes "combinations of…

Offers multiple examples of ways to play with the scansion of Chaucer's verse as means to engage student interest, nuanced readings, and enjoyment. Examples include scenes of awakening, bird-talk in HF and NPT, and wedding celebration in MLT and WBT,…

Explores the orthography and meter of "seint(e)" in GP, 120, and elsewhere in Chaucer's poetry, claiming that "the line is a metrical non-problem," despite the tradition of reading it as irregular, in need of emendation, or troubling because of the…

Describes Middle English metrical predecessors to "The Tale of Gamelyn" and assesses its regularities and place in the tradition of alliterative long-line verse. Also comments on its status as an example of Chaucerian apocrypha.

Eleven essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors focus on the codicology and metrical forms of Middle English romances; the volume includes an index. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Transmission of Medieval…

Argues that rhyme royal was rarely used in Middle English romances because it "mitigates against some of the aims and purposes" of the genre, creating "a self-consciousness about temporality that presses against the fairy-tale temporality of romance"…

Attributes the lack of critical attention to John Metham's "Amoryus and Cleopes" to its "prosodic eccentricity," demonstrating that it "does not descend from, and does not participate in, the transmission or reception of Chaucer's Anglicized…

Argues that Chaucer's work "contributed to the birth of English polyphonic verse," a claim supported through discussions of Mikhail Bakhtin and the growth of scholasticism, debate, and music. Connects Chaucer's verse, including BD, HF, TC, and CT, to…

Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates that the volume includes a section entitled "The Chaucer Connection."

Describes differences in the uses of personal testaments in TC (Troilus's) and in the versions of the story by Henryson (Cresseid's) and Shakespeare, focusing on Pandarus's testament in "Troilus and Cressida" and on how it reflects the influence of…

Compares the representation of Cresseid and Dido in Robert Henryson's "The Testament of Cresseid" and in Gavin Douglas's "Eneados," along with other female figures, mortal and immortal, and reflects on the differences between these Scottish poems and…

A basketball exposé and coming-of-age novel about a basketball player, Elliott Hersch, and his struggles to find a true life and game, guided by Chaucer's aphorism in FranT, 1479: "Trouthe is the hyeste thyng that man may kepe."

Argues that the two instances of Malory's refutation of his sources in "Morte" are "a form of retraction," and that combined with the work's final explicit they "lie in the literary shadow Ret," comparing and contrasting Ret with Malory's…

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.

Item not seen. Identified in WorldCat as a modern reworking of CT set on a twenty-first-century train trip from Chicago to Memphis to visit Graceland, home of Elvis Presley, with characters and tales adapted from Chaucer.

Explains how written correspondence between Arthur Hugh Clough and Francis James Child--recurrently concerned with metrical and linguistic issues--reveals influence of Clough on Child's "Observations on the Language of Chaucer"(1862); Clough's…

Explores the reception and impact of Thomas Hoccleve in the sixteenth century, including the linking of him with Chaucer and proto-Protestant reform. Includes comments on paratextual materials in Speght's 1598 "Works of Chaucer" that pose the poet…

Fictional prequel to the CT, set in 1366, when Chaucer and his fellow pilgrims (many from CT) are involved with a kidnapping and murder plot while traveling to Canterbury.

Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates that this is a poem composed of lines drawn from a select group of literary works, including CT and works by Kerouac, Camus, Hemingway, Pound, and more.

Clarifies that Boethius was a model for "medieval authors with political ambitions--and missteps--of their own." Imprisoned and accused of treason, Usk aligned himself in his "Testament" with Boethius, although his depiction of his own "seditious…