Sherbo, Arthur.
Studies in Bibliography 35 (1982): 154-55.
Antiquary Samuel Pegge, writing in "Gentlemen's Magazine" of June, 1758, quotes LGW MS in his possession. The text is close to that in British Library Additional MS 9832, but Pegge's was probably a different, now lost, MS.
Kanno, Masahiko, Gregory K. Jember, and Yoshiyuki Nakao, eds.
Tokyo : Eihosha, 1998.
Sixteen essays on topics ranging from Old English semantics to Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, commemorating the 65th birthday of Akira Wada. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Love of Words: English Philological…
Natali, Giulia.
Piero Boitani, ed. The European Tragedy of Troilus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), pp. 49-73.
Unlike earlier versions of the Troilus story, Boccaccio's "Filostrato" minimizes war and focuses on love. Yet, if Troilus is less epic and more verbally effusive than his predecessors, he still is not tragic. Boccaccio identifies with Troiolo early…
Asahata, Syozo.
Hisayuki Sasamoto et al., eds. Hearts to the English-American Language and Literature: Essays Presented to Emeritus Professor Sutezo Hirose in Honour of His 88th Birthday (Osaka: Osaka Kyoiku Tosho, 1999), pp. 239-53 (in Japanese).
Surveys the reception of Astr in Japan and describes the former Marquess of Bute MS 13 (A.19) purchased from H. P. Kraus, New York, at an unspecified date.
Reale, Nancy M.
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 93-107.
Reads the Merchant's sketch in GP as a depiction of a duplicitous man and assesses January in MerT as a reflection of the Merchant's commercial outlook, which, in turn, reflects Chaucer's experience with the mercantile world of London.
Gonzalez Fernandez-Corugedo, Santiago.
Luis A. Lazaro Lafuente, Jose Simon, and Ricardo J. Sola Buil,eds. Medieval Studies: Proceedings of the IIIrd International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (Madrid: Universidad de Alcala de Henares, 1996), pp. 151-75.
Comparative analysis of PrT and its Spanish analogue reveals how the author of each uses different rhetoric to achieve different aims, although the two share a tendency to direct personal appeal.
Davis, John.
Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science 34 (2019): 27-68; 11 color illus.
Describes in detail an astrolabe--Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum/Zeughaus, Innsbruck, inv. no. 2957, U215--and relates it to other fourteenth-and fifteenth-century English astrolabes labeled "Chaucerian" because their "strapwork" is similar to…
Uses the Middle English translation of Lanfranc of Milan's "Chirurgia magna" ("The Science of Cirurgie") to help explore the compromise between authority and experience in TC, where Pandarus injects the language of experience into his uses of medical…
Cordery, Leona.
Gudrun M. Grabher and Sonja Bahn-Coblans, eds. The Self at Risk in English Literatures and Other Landscapes: Honoring Brigitte Scheer-Schazler on the Occasion of Her 60th Birthday (Innsbruck: Institut fur Sprachwissenschaft, 1999), pp. 177-85.
Spiritual stalwartness makes heroines of the protagonists in MLT, 'Emaré,' and the 'King of Tars'; the active quality of their faith makes them agents in the conversion of others.
Includes discussion of the setting of "Eger and Grime" in the "Land of Beame," i.e., Bohemia, and provides background for understanding the popularity and influence of Anne of Bohemia and Bohemian fashion at the English court after her arrival in…
Bishop, Morris, ed.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1970.
An anthology of Latin, Continental, and English medieval narratives in modern translation, including RvT (pp. 305-09) in a section called "Merry Tales and Salty Fictions."
Andretta, Helen R[uth].
Pro Ecclesia 37.1 (2006): 12-13; 37.2 (2006): 13-14.
Personal account of observing similarities in the works of Chaucer and O'Connor, particularly their shared Thomistic philosophy. Includes comments on Chaucer's Truth as it relates to O'Connor's notion of humanity's "true country."
Benson, C. David.
Susanna Freer Fein, David Raybin, and Peter C. Braeger, eds. Rebels and Rivals: The Contestive Spirit in The Canterbury Tales. Studies in Medieval Culture, no. 29 (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1991), pp. 213-21.
In 1987, an NEH-supported institute titled "Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Medieval Contexts and Modern Responses" addressed concerns that Chaucer's poetry was disappearing from the "standard undergraduate curriculum" and discussed ways to "revivify"…
Daniel, Neil.
Betsy Feagan Colquitt, ed. Studies in Medieval Renaissance American Literature: A Festschrift [Honoring Troy C. Crenshaw, Lorraine Sherley, Ruth Speer Angell] (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1971), pp. 19-32.
Describes and analyzes the versification of "The Tale of Gamelyn," arguing that its "prosodic system . . . falls somewhere between" those of Chaucer and of "Piers Plowman."
Wilson, Edward, ed., completed with an introduction by Daniel Wakelin.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edits the Middle English verse translation (906 lines) of the Prologue and Book I of Francis Petrarch's Latin prose dialogue "Secretum de contemptu mundi," with a comprehensive introduction, explanatory notes, and glossary. The introduction and notes…
Davidson, Clifford.
Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1981.
An edition of the Wycliffite "Treatise of Miraclis Pleying" with apparatus. This hostile tract is the most significant dramatic criticism in Middle English.
Chaudhuri, Sukanta, ed.
New York: Bloomsbury, 2017.
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…
Pearcy Roy J.
Notes and Queries 214 (1969): 333-35.
Argues that the "fabliau of the 'Sot chevalier' by Gautier le Leu" is a source for the branding scene of MilT and for the summary of action at the end of the Tale.
Oram, William A.
David A. Richardson, and A Kent Hieatt, eds. Spenser at Kalamazoo: Proceedings from a Special Session at the Thirteenth Conference on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, 5-6 May 1978 (Cleveland: Cleveland State University, 1978), pp. 238-53.
Comparative analysis evinces how Spenser adapts Chaucer's BD in creating his "Daphnaida." The impact changes, however, as Chaucer's "Man in Black presents Gaunt with an idealized version of himself," while Spenser's poem presents his friend, Arthur…
Loomis, Roger Sherman.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1965.
Reproduces b&w photographs of medieval manuscript pages and details, maps, sites, and objects, using them to illustrate Chaucer's life, works, and social contexts, and intended to enable readers to imagine what Chaucer's audience "saw with the mind's…
Masui, Michio.
Studies in English Literature, English Number (1967): 113-26.
Explores the semantic operation of words drawn from the language of courtly love, following J. R. Frith's theory of linguistic context and collocation, and discussing examples from TC.
Asaka, Yoshiko.
Yoshiyuki Nakao and Yoko Iyeiri, eds. Chaucer's Language: Cognitive Perspectives (Suita: Osaka, 2013), pp. 125-48.
Interprets the ideological content of "Mum and the Sothsegger" metaphorically by viewing it as advice on king's rule and social hierarchy. Refers to thematically relevant passages from CT and TC.
