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Argues that Shakespeare's exploration of the "nature of literary adaptation-as-innovation" in "The Rape of Lucrece"--conducted by means of “competing versions of the Troy story"--engages with the "Chaucerian poetics" of HF and TC, particularly…

Includes ten short stories, plus a Prologue and an Epilogue, all overtly modeled in topic and tone on CT and Boccaccio’s "Decameron," both works referred to in the Prologue and alluded to in titles such as “The Reeve’s Sister’s Tale.”

Assesses the lifelong development of Ted Hughes's attitudes toward Chaucer in published and archival materials, including comments on Hughes's view of Chaucer as the "perfect model of a public poet" and as a "presiding presence" in his relationship…

Describes aspects of Hughes's "imaginative encounter with the Middle Ages," particularly his reading of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," Chaucer’s works, and those of Dante, exploring how these works influenced his poetry and thoughts on…

Analyzes Ovid’s "Metamorphoses" in Renaissance poetry, with some attention to how Chaucer, in LGW, and Gower, in "Confessio Amantis," may have influenced sixteenth-century Tudor England’s Ovidian poetry.

Argues that Shakespeare's uses of Ovid in his plays and poems was largely mediated by medieval works, specifically ones by Chaucer and John Gower. Shows that the dream frame of BD influenced "The Taming of the Shrew" and "Cymbeline," that Chaucer’s…

Identifies a series of "parallels in plot and language" between Charles Dickens's "The Cricket on the Hearth" and MerT, arguing for Chaucer’s influence on "Cricket," on the Strong subplot of "David Copperfield," and on Dickens’s "Chaucerian…

Historical novel about Chaucer’s reasons for the writing of the CT; also includes versions of several characters and tales derived from CT.

Contemplative lyric poem (eighteen lines in threes) that refers to four of Chaucer’s pilgrims (Knight, Miller, Reeve, and Pardoner) and includes six brief quotations from CT.

Focuses on Hoccleve's engagement "with contemporary religious reform movements and religious debate," arguing that he was interested in the "spiritual health of English society" rather than "earthly fame," and exploring how Hoccleve invented Chaucer…

Anthologizes in four volumes oral accounts by asylum seekers and immigrants detained in Britain and elsewhere, recorded by various poets and novelists, and modelled on the CT, with an opening Prologue in each volume, followed by narratives with…

Edits Lydgate's two poems for classroom study, and includes as an appendix the Latin source of his "Guy of Warwyk." The introduction to the "Fabula" addresses Lydgate's debts to Chaucer in this poem: particularly how its view of friendship was…

Centers on Gloria Naylor’s novel "Bailey’s Café," and examines how feminist approaches have informed scholarship of Chaucer's work, often to battle the misogyny of his works, that nevertheless can upload the heteronormative and patriarchal…

Fourteen essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors, all inspired by or in response to the critical studies of Stephanie Trigg. The introduction describes the "affective" criticism underlying Trigg’s "Congenial Souls," "Shame and…

Considers possible motives for the "Beryn" scribe to include the "Prologue" and the "Tale of Beryn" in one of the CT mansucripts that he copied, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, MS 455 (Nl), arguing that he was responding to the "agency of the text,"…

Assesses Troilus's and Criseyde's first looks at one another in TC as examples of physiological sense perception, rather than as mental or emotional processes or stages. Resists feminist and patristic readings of these gazes, and reads them in light…

Identifies associations between hunting and Fortune in various Middle English romances, exploring the "shared formal and thematic ambitions" of BD and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" as "two members of this hunting-and-Fortune group." Shows how the…

Examines similarities between the maidens who yearn for the love of Thopas--despite his chastity (Th 7.742-45)--and lovesick women “who offer themselves” in analogous romances, particularly "Ipomadon" and the romances cited in Th 7.897-900.…

Contemplates the notion that "identification" with a given author is a "frequent, if unacknowledged, component of literary appreciation." Theorizes the notion in Freudian terms and those of reader-response criticism, exploring the processes and…

Proposes as an epistemological and hermeneutical concept that "literary cognition is fundamentally a matter of re-cognition," exploring recognition as cognition in literary texts and in the apprehension of literary texts. Examines Virgil’s "Aeneid"…

Focuses on nineteenth-century critical attention to Chaucer as childlike, simple, or fresh for the ways that it contributed to later inattention to Chaucer as a religious poet, particularly inattention to Chaucer as an English Catholic poet. Examines…

Ecocritical examination of "heavy atmosphere" as an environmental state, an affective state, and/or a narrative tone or "feel" in several of Chaucer’s narratives, with focus on RvT, TC, and KnT. Explores parallels between medieval cosmology,…

Gauges Tudor awareness of and attitudes toward earlier English, comparing comments and lexical choices made by William Caxton in two of his printed volumes: the second edition of CT and John of Trevisa’s translation of Ranulf Higden’s…

Laments critical inattention to the prevalence of rhyme-breaking in Chaucer's poetry, and explores precedents in continental medieval verse and its critical traditions. Clarifies the term, and gauges the effects and functions of the device in a…

Studies the “narratological representation of the non-normative exemplarity of facial pallor" in Chaucer's poetry, exploring associations of facial paleness with facial expressions and emotional reactions, contrasting paleness with blushing, and…