Inspired by CT and designed for 2-3 players, aged 10 and above. Players are "medieval pardoners who travel the Road to Canterbury tempting Pilgrims with the Seven Deadly Sins--and then pardon these sins for a fee," with the goal of winning the most…
Benson, Larry D., gen. ed.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
A compilation by thirty-three Chaucerians (based on "The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer," edited by F. N. Robinson [2d ed., 1957]), this new edition updates, expands, and revises its predecessor while generally preserving its sequence. Entirely rewritten…
Read, Dennis M.
Modern Philology 86 (1988): 171-90.
The idea for the artistic representation of the Canterbury pilgrims was that of Robert Hartley Cromek, Blake's enemy. Few preferred Blake's paintings over Cromek's engravings.
Discusses references to the middle class in Arthurian literature and relates to SqT, Th, and ShT to the medieval "commercial revolution." Arcite, in KnT, is a type of Horatio Alger, beginning as a page, gaining status, and marrying into nobility.
Balhorn, Mark.
Journal of English Linguistics 32 (2004): 79-104.
Traces usage of generic 'they,' following an epicene antecedent (such as 'anyone' or 'everyone') to the late fourteenth century. The Hengwrt manuscript of CT shows an eighteen percent occurrence of 'euery,' 'ech, 'and 'euerich' as antecedents to…
Bertolet, Craig E.
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1995): 1766A.
Certain qualities of fourteenth-century London created a cultural atmosphere in which a new kind of poetry flourished, emphasizing urban community and its values.
Molencki, Rafał.
Masachiyo Amano, Michiko Ogura, and Masayuki Ohkado, eds. Historical Englishes in Varieties of Texts and Contexts: The Global COE Programme, International Conference 2007 (New York and Frankfurt am Main, 2008), pp. 201-15.
Discusses the "sudden emergence" of and rapid growth in use of the "adverbial subordinator" because in Middle English writing, including the works of Chaucer.
Reviewing the traditional narrative of the Great Vowel Shift, with its recognition by Chaucer's early editors that major changes in prosody were underway, Giancarlo suggests revision of the monolithic GVS model in the direction of a more localized…
Cannon Christopher.
Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace, eds. Medieval Crime and Social Control (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), pp. 156-85.
Legal records reflect the struggles of medieval women to gain legal (and verbal) representation. A similar struggle is evident in the court case of Lady Meed of Piers Plowman, as well as in Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Love, The Book of Margery…
Clayton, Candyce Lynn.
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 800A.
Half a millenium before Freud, Chaucer's WBT asks "What does woman want?" In light of recent critical theory, this question is explored in the works of Gabriela Mistral and Gillian Clarke as well as in WBT.
Aguirre Daban, Manuel.
Modern Language Review 88 (1992): 273-82.
Analyzes the treatment of sovereignty in WBT, "The Marriage of Sir Gawaine," "The Wedding of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell," John Gower's "The Tale of Florent," and an Irish story, "Echtra mac n-Echach." Also discusses the continuity between the…
Blackbourne, Matthew.
Medieval History Magazine 6 (2004): 30-33.
Brief summary of Ricardian literature and contemporary social and political events. Mentions Gower's works, "Piers Plowman," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," and Chaucer's works, especially GP and WBPT.
Hill, John M.,and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, eds.
Madison, N.J., and London : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and Associated University Presses, 2000.
Fourteen essays by various authors, along with an introduction and "Robert O. Payne: In Memoriam" by Hill. For eight essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages under Alternative Title.
Leicester, Henry Marshall, Jr.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.03 (1967): 1052-53A.
Studies Chaucer's uses of first-person narration in light of rhetorical tradition and medieval notions of the individual, examining PF as the site of the first "fully realized" instance of Chaucer's "characteristic narrative mode," reading TC as…
Juxtaposes the various rhetorical styles of BD and its central dialogue to highlight the resolution of the two in the final couplet. Assesses the narrator by comparing his text and its rhetoric and by examining borrowings from Ovid, the figure of the…
Leech attempts to formulate a context for understanding medieval body images, using Rolle, Hilton, Julian of Norwich, and Kempe along with Chaucer. Chapter 5 considers KnT, GP, WBT, and ParsT.
Feminist poststructuralist approach to TC, LGW, HF, and MLT that emphasizes the instability of readers as well as texts and indicates possibilities for subversive readings.
Reads the rape motif of WBT against the background, context, and language of the Statute of Rapes (1382), arguing that the tale uses "narrative strategies made possible in late-medieval regulation of 'raptus'" to present "the realities of gendered…
The manipulation of narrative techniques in TC (as, for example, in the five-book structure or the epilogue) is one way in which the story reveals its value system and subtly encourages us to adopt that system.
Daye, Mary Louise.
Dissertation Abstracts International 29.02 (1968): 563-64A.
Surveys rhetorical criticism of Chaucer, exploring medieval and modern concepts of rhetoric, and assesses the "interruption by a pilgrim of his own narrative" in SqT, ManT, MerT, and NPT for the ways that such interruptions help to characterize the…
Crocker, Holly Adryan.
Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 3373A, 1999.
Female characters may reveal the weakness or value of male characters. Crocker examines BD and TC, as well as Spenser's "Faerie Queene" and Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew."
The comic theory of Aristotle is a source for CT comic realism in which all topics, however volatile, may be explored as in TC, MilT, HF, CYT, FrT, PardT, GP, NPT, and PF.
