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Offers brief backgrounds to historical novels, medievalism, and crime fiction, and surveys the subgenre of medieval crime fiction, i.e., novels "featuring crime or mystery that is solved by a 'detective' and set during the European Middle Ages."…

Assesses the inclusion of information from the GP description of the Knight in Richard Hakluyt's "The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation," where Hakluyt presents Chaucer's fiction "as a genuine historical…

Assesses references and allusions to Middle English in poetry written by W. H. Auden between 1922 and 1930, including echoes of GP, MilT, and BD in "The Mill (Hempstead)" and "April in a Town," and perhaps TC and NPT in "Troy Town."

A version of GP for children, with the pilgrims imagined and illustrated, verbally and visually, as puppies.

Confirms evidence that Smart was the author of the poem praising Chaucer that appeared in the frontispiece of the February 1756 issue of "The Universal Visiter or
Monthly Memorialist" (UV). Claims that Smart is also responsible for the translation…

Explains efforts to prepare for and stage a production of Shakespeare and Fletcher's "The Two Noble Kinsmen," using Timothy Slover's modernization of the play. Includes comments on the dynamics of seriatim translation from Chaucer's sources in KnT,…

Traces a tradition of nonsense and humor in English psychedelic rock music, mentioning Chaucer's influence (specifically NPT as a mock epic) and a few allusions to Chaucer in the lyrics of psychedelic songs.

Synopsizes critical opinion about Chaucer's influence on Shakespeare, especially the impact of TC, KnT, and MerT, with attention to other works. Comments on the knowledge and status of Chaucer in Shakespeare's age and includes a bibliography updated…

Assesses the cock-and-fox fable in Lydgate's "Isopes Fabules" and his "The Churl and the Bird" as public poetry, exploring how underlying concerns with authority and translation link with his "conscious concern with social conditions and with his…

Reads Blake's "varied interactions with Chaucer, Spenser, and Shakespeare" as "an education in possibilities of serious reading." In the case of Chaucer, Blake reads "for archetypes, not distracted . . . by historical contingency or an appearance of…

Reads Spenser's imitation of SqT in "Faerie Queene," Book IV, in light of MLE, which introduces SqT in early editions. The sequence alters the Squire's characterization and helps to frame SqT "as the product of an active, metafictional revision."…

Explores the influence of the English poetic "heritage of ruralism" on the organicist movement of UK farm husbandry between the 1930s and the 1950s, including discussion of how and to what extent "Chaucer was central to John Middleton Murry's…

Tracks the popularity of a passage about shoes from Rom in the nineteenth-century popular press, demonstrating how the passage forges a connection between Victorian and medieval England by using Chaucer as a supporter of Victorian interests and…

The introduction and notes include commentary on Shakespeare's debts to Chaucer in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," focusing on the characterization of Theseus, the "rite of maying"" and elements of the fairy world. Discusses KnT most extensively, but…

Presents a novel modeled on CT that emulates Chaucer's frame-narrative collection of stories, "reinventing" his setting at a modern murder trial, and using a variety of narrative forms to represent the tales of the jury. The accompanying analysis…

Reconstructs Tolkien's efforts to co-edit (with George S. Gordon) a Clarendon student edition to have been titled "Selections from Chaucer's Poetry and Prose"--never finished and long lost. Observes how Tolkien's extant notes and glossary to this…

Includes twenty essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors, examining textual, contextual, aesthetic, and cultural issues that relate to a wide variety of English lyrics from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. For three essays…

Argues that three lyric moments in Book II of TC (Antigone's song, the lay of the nightingale, and the dream of the eagle) "distil the complexity of Criseyde's
inner deliberations," show "how Criseyde's choice to love is inflected by the condition…

Analyzes the form and presentation of John Lydgate''s "Fifteen Joys and Sorrows of Mary," reading it as a bridge between the experiences of poetry and devotion, i.e., for the ways it "relishes the devotional and imaginative possibilities offered by…

Transcribes a version of Lydgate's "Thoroughfare of Woe" from London, British Library, Additional MS 60577 (the "Winchester anthology") and discusses it in light of other versions, commenting on it as "an extended meditation on a proverbial saying""…

Surveys evidence for the influence of Chaucer on Tolkien and adds comments on his impact on Tolkien's ""scenes of common life in the inns and in the figures of the innkeeper and the miller."

Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this sequel is written in modern English verse.

Traces elegiac, tragic, and pseudo-historical traditions in late medieval English narratives of Troy, arguing that they are all "anti-Virgilian, and therefore anti-imperialist" and "also somber, monitory, skeptical and intimately sensitive to the…

Examines "how Middle English writers appropriated different forms and figures of friendship in their discussions, critiques, and activations of friendship," describing modifications of classical, biblical, Boethian, and humanist models, with…

Explores Chaucer's depictions of women in LGW and Christine de Pizan's illustration of women in Cité, demonstrating how "recent work in cognitive science, which studies how humans create categories," shows that "both Chaucer and Christine are…