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).
Danziger, Marlies K., ed,
Johnson, Wendell Stacy, ed.
New York: Random House, 1968.
An introduction to poetry for classroom use, with an anthology that includes MercB, Ros, Truth, and Purse, with notes and glosses, based on the edition of F. N. Robinson.
Schlauch, Margaret.
Beryl Rowland, ed. Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1974), pp. 372-80.
Summarizes the plot of the sixteenth-century Polish romance, "Historia o Cesar zu Otone," observing how a number of its motifs are paralleled in vernacular analogues, including MLT.
Oliver, Clementine.
New Medieval Literatures 6 (2003): 167-98
Explores the identity and political career of Thomas Fovent (Favent), author of the polemical treatise on the Merciless Parliament--"Historia Mirabilis Parliament"--arguing that the treatise is best regarded as a "pamphlet," an index to the public…
Green, Richard Firth.
English Language Notes 24:4 (1987): 24-27.
A late-fifteenth-century French collection of riddles (Musee Conde Bibliotheque MS 654) may point to an origin of SumT in a familiar riddle rather than in the iconography of Pentecost.
Küçükboyaci, Uğur E.
Evrim Doğan Adanur, ed. IDEA: Studies in English (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011), pp. 272-83.
Surveys commentary on Chaucer's uses of postmodern techniques in CT, focusing on his experimentation and evasiveness, and his concern with meaning and with the possibilities whereby literature may or may not be considered literal. Discusses…
McClellan, William.
James J. Paxson, Lawrence M. Clopper, and Sylvia Tomasch, eds. The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 183-96.
Both ClT and Kingston's "No Name Woman" reveal how patriarchal culture operates to disguise male complicity in women's repression, and both connect issues of knowledge and power with the construction of subjectivity, showing how these are intimately…
Responds to critiques of two books previously published by the author--"Some Types of Narrative in Chaucer's Poetry" (1954) and "The Golden Mirror: Studies on Chaucer's Descriptive Technique and Its Literary Background" (1955)--seeking to clarify…
