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…
Edwards, A. S. G.
Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds. Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005), pp. 121-28.
Transcribes a version of CkT from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 45, previously unnoticed or ignored. Accompanied by the apocryphal Tale of Gamelyn, the text was copied by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), probably from a manuscript now lost.
Identifies a cut-down single-page portion of Book 1 of TC ("Cecil" manuscript), found attached to the cover of a rent book in Hatfield House. Provides a facsimile, transcription, table of variants, and commentary.
British Library MS Additional 37049 contains a variant of the third stanza of Sted. The most striking feature is the translation from rhyme royal into couplets. The stanza suggests memorial transmission.
Williams, George.
Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1965.
Detects flaws in previous critical approaches to Chaucer and, as an alternative, reads his works as expressions of his "interest in actual persons," especially John of Gaunt and his circle. In this view, BD, Mars, TC, PF, HF, and most portions of CT…
Hoffman, Richard L.
Library Chronicle 36 (1970): 105-09.
Describes a copy of University of Pennsylvania MS Latin MS 231 which comprises three major works of Albertano of Brescia, including "Livre de Mellibee et Prudence," the source of Mel.
Partridge, Stephen.
English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 6 (1996): 229-36.
Handwriting, materials, decoration, and language indicate that the scribe of Oxford New College MS 314 also copied Bodleian Library MS Dugdale 45 (Hoccleve's "Regement of Princess"). Though not first-rate, MS 314 was executed by a paid scribe.
Thorpe, James.
San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1974.
Reproduces in color the illustrations of the CT pilgrims from the Ellesmere manuscript, and comments on CT, Chaucer and his portrait, and the production and transmission of the manuscript.
