Suggests that the "cluster of ideas" that conclude Shakespeare's Sonnet 38 are a version of the "topos of supplication" that Bawcutt traces back to Boccaccio's "Filostrato," citing mediating examples in TC (1.15-21), KnT (2405-6), and Gavin Douglas's…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic Literary Studies 41 (1994): 19-43.
Charts use of "pite" in Chaucer's works and argues that, as applied to and by Criseyde in TC, it signals transitions in her affections and enables the audience to view her both critically and empathetically.
Parsigian, Elise K.
Rackham Literary Studies 6 (1975): 51-54.
Though the Pardoner is consummately evil, the Host must be reconciled with him because the former is still a representative of the church. The Host's outburst, though justified, is destructive because to the company the Pardoner is an embodiment of…
Barlow, Richard G.
Theatre Southwest 14 (1987): 9-12.
The love ballad "Rosemounde" is a "sophisticated dramatic monologue" in which Chaucer unconventionally develops the theme of carnal versus spiritual love "through the 'persona' of a boastful knight." Through the comic irony of the ballad and the use…
Kehler, Joel R.
English Language Notes 12 (1975): 184-87.
Joseph's Conrad's epigraph to "The Rescue" quotes FranT 5.1342-44, and the two works share concern with "chivalric idealism" and 'amour courtois'." The heroines of the two works are "captives of illusion," and they abandon courtly suitors when…
Owen, Charles A., Jr.
Chaucer Newsletter 2:2 (1980): 14.
Variations in the ink color of MSS. Ellesmere and Hengwrt have yet to be accurately described and may provide information concerning the order in which the parts of the mss were written.
Scott, P. G.
Notes and Queries 211 (1966): 125-26.
Adduces ParsT 10.445 and "Purity" 1407-8 to argue that the paper castle in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (800-02) has moral implications of luxury and excess.
Besserman, Lawrence [L.]
Chaucer Review 24 (1990): 306-308.
Not only does Troilus's address to the "paleys desolat" of Criseyde echo the lament over the deserted Jerusalem in the first two chapters of Lamentations, but also Troilus's fixation upon that house is designed to evoke the self-punishing behavior…
Contrary to Stephen R. Reimer's crediting them to George Vertue (in Chaucer Review 41 [2006]), the drawings for the Urry portraits were executed by J. Chalmer and printed thereafter from engravings by Vertue.
Mehl, Dieter.
Boika Sokolova and Evgenia Pancheva, eds. Renaissance Refractions: Essays in Honour of Alexander Shurbanov (Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2001), pp. 47-54.
Compares how Chaucer's Criseyde and Shakespeare's Cressida reflect each respective author's concerns with literary and historical authority.
Graybill, Robert V.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 5.2 (1997): 41-49.
Comments on selected images in "Beowulf," Langland's "Piers Plowman," and MilT, where the "imagery of holiness" can be seen to align Nicholas and Alisoun's love-making with divine pattern. Also includes a classroom exercise to sensitize students to…
In its concerns with social rank and professional distractions, the marriage of Arveragus and Dorigen in FranT mirrors that of Chaucer and Philippa. The theme of the Tale (that true love cannot be maintained without outside considerations) might…
Nance, Jerry.
D.M.A. Dissertation. New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2020. DAI-A 83/2(E), Dissertation Abstracts International A83. 02 (E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses; accessed August 20, 2025.
Analyzes "the literary and musical tools used by Ralph Vaughan Williams to aid in an informed performance" of songs composed by Vaughan to various texts; includes discussion of MercB, accompanied by musical score and commentary.
Horobin, Simon, and Linne R. Mooney.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 26 : 65-112, 2004
Attributes Trinity College, Cambridge, MS B.15.17 (which includes the B-text of "Piers Plowman," Richard Rolle's "Form of Living," and a devotional poem) to the Hengwrt/Ellesmere scribe (Scribe B), summarizing and illustrating the graphetic features…
Twenty-seven articles on Chaucer, Langland, Malory, and others. For fourteen essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.
Using the fourteen extant manuscripts of PF as points of reference, Preston questions reductive thematic approaches to compilations and argues that other factors--authorial attribution and class, for instance--are equally plausible as explanations…
Pietka, Rachel.
Sigma Tau Delta Review 7 (2010): 86-95.
Through its "aversion to binary opposites," NPT promulgates "an inclusive perspective that avoids fixed interpretations" of notions of poverty, gender, free will, and authenticity.
A selection of Jennings' personal favorites among English poems, beginning with selections from GP (lines 1-78, 101-62, 219-330, 411-76, and 822-35), in Middle English.
Paxson, James J.
Dissertation Abstracts International 50 (1990): 2484A.
Although personification is currently devalued, analysis of its poetic codes of invention reveals its complexity in the works of Prudentius, Langland, Spenser and Chaucer (HF and PF).
