Cook, Megan L.
Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe, and Gareth Griffith, eds. Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019), pp. 150-67.
Examines E. K.'s commentary on Chaucer in Spenser's "The Shepheardes Calender," arguing that by "associating him with a historically antecedent but culturally current poetic paradigm, E. K. represents Chaucer as a writer who proleptically embraces…
Barr, Helen.
Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe, and Gareth Griffith, eds. Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019), pp. 37-59.
Close reading of lines 33-41 (and E. K.'s commentary) of the February eclogue of Spenser's "Shepheardes Calender" exemplifies the "truancy of literary resonance" and discloses resonant intertextual play among the comic variety of HF, the monovocality…
Archer, Harriet.
Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe, and Gareth Griffith, eds. Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019), pp. 224-42.
Comments on the interdependence of innovation and imitation in Chaucer's poetry, and explores how Spenser's depictions of Chaucer and his poetry are part of the early modern concern with this dynamic, particularly evident in Luke Shepherd's reformist…
Anderson, Judith H.
Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe, and Gareth Griffith, eds. Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019), pp. 19-36.
Locates several "clusters" of resonances between TC and Spenser's "Amoretti" and "The Faerie Queene," concentrating on the importance of aurality and memory in recognizing these resonances and distinguishing "resonance" from other metaphors of…
Griffith, Gareth
Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe, and Gareth Griffith, eds. Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019), pp. 137-49.
Focuses on elements of the "popular romance" in the manuscripts of "The Tale of Gamelyn" and "The Tale of "Beryn" and excerpts from Chaucer's works in other manuscripts to show how "the 'Chaucer' presented to early modern readers by the manuscript…
O'Connell, Brendan.
Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe, and Gareth Griffith, eds. Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019), pp. 189-211
Observes that in sixteenth-century editions of CT, ManT follows NPT, and that after c. 1550 the pair is followed by the story of the Pelican and Griffin from the apocryphal "Plowman's Tale," then the references to fables in ParsP, providing a…
Chaghafi, Elisabeth.
Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe, and Gareth Griffith, eds. Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019), pp. 168-88.
Studies the paratextual materials that accompany and supplement the text of Chaucer's works in Speght's editions of 1598 and 1602, showing that these materials present Chaucer to early modern readers as ancient but still worth reading, in part…
Stenner, Rachel, Tamsin Badcoe, and Gareth Griffith, eds.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019.
Twelve essays on Spenser's knowledge of and uses of Chaucer as source or inspiration. The introduction by the editors summarizes earlier critical studies, describes the essays, and asserts that the essays together "characterise the relationships…
Burt, Cameron Bryce.
Open access Ph.D. dissertation (University of Manitoba, 2019). Available at https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/xmlui/handle/1993/33853 (accessed November 14, 2021).
Argues that "the increasing alterity of Middle English texts in the early modern period compelled editorial interventions designed to make the texts accessible as well as to identify, to emphasize, or to establish the texts/ relevance to contemporary…
Boje, Johannes Gerhardus.
Open access Ph.D. dissertation (University of Pretoria, 2019). Available at https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/74353 (accessed December 1, 2021).
Reflects on "the process and outcome of an Afrikaans translation" of CT and includes a complete translation in an appendix, matching Chaucer's verse and prose, completed over the course of sixty years. The study explores translation theory and…
Wislocka Breit, Bozena.
Miguel Ibáñez Rodríguez, ed. Enotradulengua: Vino, lengua y traducción (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2020), pp. 151-68.
Studies the presence of Spanish wine in England through literary references, starting with a brief survey of Chaucer. Contends that Chaucer's familiarity with Spanish wines such as sherry in PardT is attributable both to his father's business and to…
Ruud, Jay.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 24, no. 1 (2017): 141-59.
Argues that John Gardner's "The Life and Times of Chaucer" (1977) is better approached as a "nonfiction novel" than as a "scholarly literary biography" and that its strengths outweigh its weaknesses as a pedagogical text, offering suggestions for how…
Rijser, David.
NRC Handelsbad Book Supplement, February 7, 2020, pp. 4-5.
Traces the known facts about Chaucer's life and career, thereby showing him to be a man of wide-ranging interests, immersed in the opening world of the early European Renaissance. Claims that Chaucer is a cosmopolite, far removed from the narrow,…
Prendergast, Thomas A., and Stephanie Trigg.
Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell, 2020.
Considers the historical roots and evolution of thirty myths or misconceptions about Chaucer's life and his writings. Considers how contemporary academic discourse, biography, and popular medievalism contribute to an understanding of Chaucer's…
McGeough, Jared.
European Romantic Review 30 (2019): 367-82.
Evaluates Godwin's "Life of Chaucer" and its impact on the Victorian reception of Chaucer, exploring how the biography critiques "the politics of thinking national literature historically" and challenges "conventional models of literary biography"…
Michelet, Fabienne, and Martin Pickavé.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford; Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 406-25.
Introduces various philosophical movements and thought prevalent in the fourteenth century, demonstrating the various philosophies available to Chaucer. Discusses Chaucer's use and view of nominalism and his attitudes toward free will and…
Hult, David F.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 252-69.
Frames Rom "in a lineage of narrative fiction going back to the twelfth-century predecessors of the two authors [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun] and attempts to describe their respective innovations." Includes and interprets various texts…
Robertson, Kellie.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 63-80.
Argues that labor is a controlling characteristic of GP, by first introducing background material about the importance of work and the shortage of labor in the fourteenth century. Demonstrates that "Chaucer's narrative technique in the 'General…
Giancarlo, Matthew.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 26-42.
Introduces the kinds of courts with which Chaucer would have been acquainted, organized into sections on house and law and one on game that end with readings of FrT and SNT. Discusses the range of courtly depictions, cataloguing "some of the…
Despres, Denise.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 527-44.
Discusses iconography and pilgrimage, and Chaucer's investments in and depiction of the "power of images" through tales of CT, including GP, PrT, and PardT. Argues that "Chaucer demonstrates that devotional images . . . are inherently polymorphous…
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 547-62.
Discusses space and Chaucer's connections to Britain, suggesting first that FranT is central to "Chaucer's relation to Britain," which "can be discerned in a throwaway
line" from the tale. Surveys the landscape of Chaucer's Britain through readings…
Yeager, Suzanne M.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 197-215.
Argues that Chaucer's critique of "curiositas" as "the prevailing failure and motivation of medieval travel" is "successfully negotiated" by several late medieval travel authors. Concentrates on readings from travel accounts by Simon Simeonis and…
Nisse, Ruth.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 166-83.
Surveys the extant Anglo-Hebrew authors, lost to Chaucer and his readers, which are, "nevertheless, a productive memory for his current readers." Catalogues a range of authors and genres, showing the flowering of the Jewish literary environment in…
Mallette, Karen.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James nSimpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 184-96.
Discusses the framed narratives and their progression throughout the Mediterranean, emphasizing framed tales, especially in Italian, that "present narration as a high-stakes wager that may save a population in peril." By examining this Italian…
Kruger, Steven F.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 147-65.
Questions "to what extent might late medieval Christian intellectual and historical engagements with Judaism be productive for readings of Chaucerian texts not only when Jews are directly represented but also in the absence of such explicit…
