Malcolmson, Anne, ed.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964.
Modern English verse translations of portions of CT, designed for a juvenile audience, comprising abridged versions of GP, MkT (Samson, Nebuchadnezzer, and Croesus), NPT, ClT, ManT, FranT, Th, MLT, CYT, and PardT, each introduced with brief comments…
Zacher, Christian K.
Brian Gastle and Erick Kelemen, eds. Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture: Essays in Honor of James M. Dean (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.), pp. 43-56.
Describes known examples of late medieval travel writing in English, discussing several ways they might be categorized. Includes commentary on pilgrimage narratives and on CT as a fictional example.
Brewer, Derek.
Marie-Francoise Alamichel, ed. La complémentarité: Mélanges offerts à Josseline Bidard et Arlette Sancery à l'occasion de leur départ en retraite (Paris: AMEAS, 2005), pp. 155-64.
Examines the portrayal of friendship in works by Chaucer, Lydgate, and Petrus Alfonsi.
Taylor, Karla Terese.
Comparative Literature 35 (1983): 1-20.
Argues for the influence of the Paolo and Francesca episode in "Inferno" 5 on TC, especially in shaping the reader's attitude toward stories of romantic, carnal love.
Kikuchi, Shigeo.
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 32 (1987): 44-53.
Argues that a semiotic analysis of oppositions in the narrative structure of CT yields a better understanding of Chaucer's perception of the nature of reality.
Tokunaga, Satoko.
Jacob Thaisen and Hanna Rutkowska, eds. Scribes, Printers, and the Accidentals of Their Texts (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2011), pp. 157-76.
Tabulates, compares, and analyzes the "collation results" of understudied sections of Wynkyn de Worde's edition of CT and Caxton's second edition, comparing them with variants in manuscripts, and arguing that while De Worde's editorial practice was…
Ebi, Hisato.
Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 137:7 (1991): 345-50.
Confronting the Latin world, Chaucer established his own theory of tragedy, which had not developed completely in the English vernacular. Ebi explores the meanings of "dite," "theatrum," and "scene," concluding that Chaucer used theater imagery to…
Phelan, Walter S.
Journal of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing 6 (1985): 39-54.
Part 1: Semantic categories of vocabulary are useful in tracing Chaucer's macrostructure for CT. Using a computerized morpheme dictionary, Phelan traces medieval static macrostructures such as the seven deadly sins--a deductive approach to his…
Juby, W. H.
ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 1 (1988): 123-25.
A proverb in LGW (LGWPF 464-65) may in fact be a (translated) borrowing from a line in Gower's "Vox clamantis." If so, this is clear evidence of the argument raised by John Fisher that Chaucer was "substantially influenced by the older poet."
Through its several nested narratorial performances, each of which includes its own disavowals and subtle appropriations of authority, MLT renegotiates the relative power of spiritual and secular domains to control the interpretation and transmission…
Mukherji, Sajni.
Supriya Chaudhuri and Sukanta Chaudhuri, eds. Writing Over: Medieval to Renaissance (Calcutta: Allied, in collaboration with the Department of English, Jadavpur University, 1996), pp. 1-10.
Reads the dreams of Criseyde and of the Wife of Bath as "counter discourse" to the male dominant discourse of prophetic dreaming. The dreams of the women are more complex and without clear directives.
Bishop, Louise M.
Martha W. Driver and Sid Ray, eds. Shakespeare and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Performance and Adaptation of the Plays with Medieval Sources or Settings (Jefferson, N. C.: McFarland, 2009), pp. 232-44.
Bishop argues that Paulina's "female eloquence" reflects the influence of Chaucer's Mel on Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale," commenting on the fact that the folio editions of Chaucer present Mel as "The Tale of Chaucer" and observing how Richard…
Doherty, P. C.
New York: St. Martin's; London: Headline, 1996.
Historical gothic detective fiction set in the frame of the CT, in which a franklin, modeled on Chaucer's Franklin, tells a story to the rest of the pilgrims about a mysterious murder linked to the battle of Poitiers and the parentage of one of the…
Suggests that Griselda's excesses of bodily humiliation, self-sacrifice, and assent to contractual obligations, in response to her husband's rational program of complete control, actually represent a mystical negation of the self as subject that in…
Hutmacher, William Frederick.
Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1977): 779A.
De Worde's 1498 edition of CT uses no other source than CX2. The many variants between the two texts result from his attempts to correct the CX2 edition and his adherence to common practices of early printers. One significant variant in de Worde's…
Nohara, Yasuhiro.
English Review (Momoyama Gakuin University) 17 (2002): 35-49.
Diachronic exploration of the morphology and function of English "independent" (as opposed to interrogative and conjunctive) adverbs, with examples from Old English, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Sidney Sheldon. In Japanese, with English…
Eisner, Sigmund, ed.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.
Edition of Astr based on Bodley 619 and Digby 72, Bodleian Library, Oxford, with collated variants from all known manuscripts and scholarly editions through The Riverside Chaucer. Contains explanatory notes and critical notes variorum through 1997.…
Gentieu, Norman P., trans.
Foote Prints 31.2 (1960): 12-25.
Translates a portion of Astr (through Part 2.7) into Modern English with accompanying illustrations "re-drawn" from the manuscripts. The Introduction summarizes the nature, variety, and uses of astrolabes, describes Chaucer's text, and commends it as…
A previously uncollected analogue emerges in the form of a joke in Kansas. Structural parallels include the motivating action, the consummation in a tree, and the refusal of the husband to believe the evidence of his own eyes.
Kopaczyk, Joanna.
Jacob Thaisen and Hanna Rutkowska, eds. Scribes, Printers, and the Accidentals of Their Texts (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2011), pp. 91-106.
Identifies several difficulties in representing manuscript abbreviations digitally, focusing on graphic subscription and superscription, and drawing data from manuscripts of MLT transcribed for the "Canterbury Tales" Project.
Beckwith, Sarah.
David Aers, ed. Medieval Literature (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986), pp. 34-57.
Drawing on Lacan and feminist criticism, Beckwith examines female mysticism as the only public expression permitted women in the Middle Ages and discusses the Otherness of the female and of God.
