Doyle, A. I., and George B. Pace.
PMLA 83 (1968): 22-34.
Provides a full description of the Coventry manuscript (City Record Office, Coventry) that includes six of Chaucer's Short Poems (ABC, Buk, Gent, Purse, Sted, Truth), along with works by Hoccleve, Lydgate, Mandeville, and others). Edits the text of…
Revised edition of A Companion to Chaucer (2000) with thirty-six new and revised chapters: Candace Barrington and Jonathan Hsy, "Afterlives"; Andrew Galloway, "Auctorite"; Jane Griffiths, "Biography; Linda Ehrsam Voight, "Bodies"; Alfred Thomas,…
Batkie, Stephanie L., Matthew W. Irvin, and Lynn Shutters, eds.
Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2021.
Collects twenty essays about thematic terms and concepts in Chaucer's works, arranged in groups of four, each group including an additional response essay. Opens with a foreword by Christopher Cannon, followed by an explanatory introduction by the…
Blake, Norman F., ed
Okayama : University Education Press, 1994.
A comprehensive concordance to CT based on Blake's text from the Hengwrt manuscript. Includes an alphabetical and frequency word list; describes spellings, words, syntax, and metrics.
Weiskott, Eric.
Notes and Queries 265 (2020): 12-13
Discusses previous scholarship on line 1315 of BD, and suggests that emending the line to "Gan [hym] homwarde for to ryde" brings it into conformance with the rest of this "briskly tetrametric poem."
Mosser, Daniel (W.)
Norman Blake and Peter Robinson, eds. The 'Canterbury Tales' Project Occasional Papers, Volume I (Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication Publications, 1993), pp. 75-84.
Proposes a complete descriptive catalog of the manuscripts of CT to be published in electronic form as part of the 'Canterbury Tales' Project, illustrating features of each manuscript through electronic facsimiles.
Horobin, Simon.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 28 (2006): 205-15.
Horobin describes and transcribes a single-leaf, forty-eight line fragment of Rom (lines 2403-50), newly found among the Reverend Joass portion of the Sutherland collection of the National Library of Scotland. Also considers relationships among this…
Duffell, Martin J.
London: Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2008.
Uses comparative and linguistic metrics and statistical analysis to describe the history of English meter from early Germanic verse to modern metrical experiments. Chapter 4, "Versifying in Bilingual England" (pp. 73-95), focuses on the metrical…
Brewer, Derek.
London and New York: Longman, 1998.
A "radical revision" (xi) of Brewer's 1984 "Introduction to Chaucer" (SAC 8 [1986], no. 55a); like its predecessor, a general introduction intended for specialists and first-time readers of Chaucer alike. Carried over from the first edition, the…
Karibe, Tsuneronri, Hisaaki Sasagawa, Ryoichi Koyama, and Yoshiharu Tanaka, eds.
Tokyo : Shohakusha, 2000.
An edition based on the Variorum facsimile edition of the Hengwrt manuscript (1979), retaining the original virgule marks. Includes glosses and explanatory notes at the bottom of the page, with Japanese translation, textual notes, and commentary.
Scott, Florence R.
English Language Notes 2.2 (1964): 81-87.
Describes the involvement of Thomas Chaucer and Thomas Swynford in matters related to the deposition and death of Richard II, suggesting that they help to account for the tone and perspective in Purse (especially the Envoy) and Henry's swift and…
Discusses Chaucer's characterization of the Summoner in GP and asserts that, despite modern assumptions, it is based on the confluence of medical and astrological theories prevalent during Chaucer's time.
Murphy, James J.
James Jerome Murphy. Latin Rhetoric and Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Variorum Collected Studies Series; Collected Studies, no. 827. Burlington, Ver.: Ashgate, 2005.
First published in 1964, the essay is reprinted here with original pagination, along with a number of other essays by Murphy. Murphy argues that Chaucer was not likely to have been directly influenced by rhetoricians such as Geoffrey of Vinsauf.
Murphy, James J.
Review of English Studies 15, no. 57 (1964): 1-20.
Surveys the "status of rhetoric in England" during Chaucer's lifetime, documenting the "ubiquity of grammatical texts and the paucity of rhetorical texts." Tabulates Chaucer's uses of the terminology of rhetoric and style, analyzes his usage of these…
Mooney, Linne R.
A. S. G. Edwards, Vincent Gillespie, and Ralph Hanna, eds. The English Medieval Book: Studies in Memory of Jeremy Griffiths (London: British Library, 2000), pp. 113-34.
Adds to the list of thirteen manuscripts attributed to the "Hammond" scribe another manuscript: BL Add. MS 29901. Long known for his Chaucerian affiliation, the scribe is now also affiliated with the officers of Arms, helping to explain his interest…
Stengel, Paul Joseph.
Mary T. Christel and Scott Sullivan, eds. Lesson Plans for Developing Digital Literacies (Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 2010), pp. 253-62.
This lesson plan focuses on Chaucer's CT. While initially requiring that students become familiar with Chaucer's rhetorical strategies, it also asks students to use these strategies to compose a "multimodal satire" of their own--one that focuses on…
Simms, Norman Toby.
Lewiston, N.Y. : Mellen, 2004.
Reads details of Chaucer's life and works as evidence that he can be viewed as a "fuzzy Jew," who acquired some kabbalistic knowledge through his travels and contact with Jews in London and who disguised this knowledge in ways that anticipate the…
Green-Rogers, Martine Kei, and Alex N. Vermillion
Theatre-History Studies 36 (2017): 231–47.
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,…
Surveys metaphysical and secular Universalist traditions in world literatures. Chapter 3, "The Literature of the Middle Ages," includes a summary of CT and argues that it depicts a "metaphysical quest" with "metaphysical and secular aspects" of a…
Stieve, Edwin (M).
Notes and Queries 232 (1987): 7-10.
The Host's phrase, addressed to the Physician, has the double sense of "learnedly" and "in rhetorical terminology," which is appropriate since in medieval doctrine rhetoric healed the mind as medicine healed the body. Chaucer would have known of the…
Oizumi, Akio.
Jacek Fisiak and Akio Oizumi, eds. English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1998), pp. 287-95
Describes the technology and principles of concordancing that underlie The Rhyme Concordance of the Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (SAC 19 [1997], no. 6).
Blake, Norman, F., ed.
Okayama : University Education Press, 1995.
A comprehensive rhyming dictionary showing a full line for each rhyme word (showing seven lines for rhyme royal), based on Blake's text from the Hengwrt manuscript.
This concordance, a complement to "The Structure of Chaucer's Rime Words (Tokyo, 1964), examines the relationship between "rime words" and the syntactic structure, style, and rhetoric of CT.
Mooney, Linne R.
Journal of the Early Book Society 7 : 131-40, 2004
The scribe of British Library MS Harley 1758 (a copy of CT) also executed London, Society of Antiquaries 134, which includes Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and works by Lydgate, Hoccleve, and John Walton. The two manuscripts were produced in the West…
