Sydorenko, Sergiy.
Babel: Revue internationale de la traduction/International Journal of Translation 65, no. 2 (2019): 200-221.
Reviews translations of MilT from the eighteenth century forward, and offers a "translatological analysis" of four twentieth-and twenty-first-century versions, focusing on the sexual attitudes and activities in the plot and on the lexicons used by…
Contrasts Chaucer's familiarity with and uses of astronomy and astrology with those of other Middle English authors, particularly John Gower. Indicates that 1380 is a turning point in Chaucer's uses of astral sciences, suggesting that he accepted the…
Murder mystery set against the backdrop of political uncertainty over the impending death of Archbishop Thoresby of York and investigated by Owen Archer, aided by his confidante Geoffrey Chaucer, recently appointed chamber squire to Edward III. Other…
Clayton, Margaret.
Notes and Queries 224 (1979): 103-04.
In the astrological setting of TC (2.54-55), Chaucer refers to Taurus as a "white Bole." The epithet probably came from Virgil (Georgics, I, 217-18), perhaps through the intermediary of Macrobius' "Commentary on the Dream of Scipio." It is…
Breckenridge, Jay Rankin.
Dissertation Abstracts International 45 (1985): 2868A.
A sixty-year-old Chaucer is represented as reading from his works to students at an English school, digressing for audience understanding; includes commentary, playscript, and videotaped reading for beginning students of Chaucer.
Ruggiers, Paul G.
J. B. Bessinger and R. Raymo, eds. Medieval Studies in Honor of Lillian Herlands Hornstein (New York: New York University Press, 1976), pp. 193-225.
Aristotle's "Nichomachean Ethics" and "Rhetoric" and the Costinian "Tractate" can be used to anatomize comedy in CT.
Osberg, Richard H.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 18 (1996): 25-54.
The naive, heavily repetitive, oratorical style of PrT appears to be influenced by late-medieval devotional prose written by men for women. Broader patterns of recurrence signal oppositions in the "Tale" that subvert its feminine voice and its…
Ando, Mitsunobu.
Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 383-97
Explores "gentilesse" as it relates to characterization in KnT and comments on the relationship between "earnest" and "game."
Takamiya, Toshiyuki.
Eigo Seinen 146.8: 508-11, 2000.
Comprehensive description of four paintings pertaining to The Canterbury Tales: Blake's (1810), Stothard's (1807), Corbould's (1840), and Mileham's (1924).
Biebel, Elizabeth M.
Peter G. Beidler, ed. Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde (Cambridge; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 63-75.
WBT reveals the Wife's idealized vision of society. The Tale answers her society's gender inequities, which victimize both men and women, by depicting a world wherein ultimately women and men are recognized as individuals.
Watson, Robert Allen.
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1988): 503A.
Images of the cosmos based on the liberal arts appear in the epics of Martianus Capella, Bernard Silvestris, Alain de Lille, and Dante. Chaucer parodies and humanizes the universe in HF.
Conlan, J. P.
Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography 10: 120-47, 1999.
Reexamines the "paradoxical evidence" of Ha4, arguing that Manly and Rickert's discussion of it was distorted by their a priori assumptions and their concluding that Chaucer's foul papers "served as the exemplar" of the manuscript. The affiliations…
Christine de Pizan's version of the Griselda story emphasizes the gaze theme less than the versions by Chaucer and Petrarch do. Pizan's version is more clearly feminist than ClT, which presents a male viewpoint addressed to a community of male…
Snell, William.
Philologie im Netz, Supplement 4 (2009): 41-54.
Clarifies Edith Rickert's role in her collaborative work with John Matthews Manly--i.e., "Chaucer Life-Records" and "Text of the 'Canterbury Tales'"--arguing that people need to study the background of Rickert to see her as an important female…
Takahashi, Isamu.
Eigo Seinen 146.8: 499-501, 2000.
Surveys the transformations of the Wife of Bath in "The Wanton Wife of Bath" (1600), Johnson's "A New Sonnet of a Knight and a Faire Virgin" (1612), Fletcher's "Women Pleased" (1620), "Pilgrim's Progress" (1678), "The New Wife of Bath" (1700), Gay's…
Hayes, Alfred M., and James Laughlin, ed.
[New York]: New Directions, 1972.
A selection of poems by various authors from Virgil to the twentieth century. Includes a selection from SNP (8.36-56) and its source, i.e., a facing-page selection from Dante's "Paradiso." Illustrated by José Erasto. Selection slightly revised from…
Dor, Juliette, ed.
Liege: Universite de Liege, 1992.
A collection of twenty-six essays, fourteen of which address Chaucer and his works. Includes papers presented at a 1990 conference at the University of Liege marking the retirement of Paule Mertens-Fonck. Each essay addresses women's issues in…
Conlee, John W.
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales". (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 27-37.
With the Knight and the Squire, Chaucer's Yeoman comprises the "basic English fighting unit--a unit sometimes referred to as a 'lance.'" Details of the Yeoman's GP sketch capitalize on the various connotations of "yeoman," and depict the Yeoman as a…
Huey, Peggy.
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 14-26.
Explores the lexical and cultural meaning of "squire" as background to the GP sketch of the Squire. Chaucer's portrait is an idealized one, counterpointed by the lack of rhetorical skill in SqT.
Dor, Juliette.
Risto Hiltunen, Marita Gustafsson, Keith Battarbee, and Liisa Dahl, eds. English Far and Wide: A Festschrift for Inna Koskenniemi (Turku: Turun Yliopisto, 1993), pp. 167-81.
Dor explores Chaucer's punning from the vantage point of a translator of CT into French. Puns known as "traductio" and "adnominatio" during the Middle Ages are less easily translatable than are "significatio," perhaps because of the cultural and…
Gaylord, Alan.
Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 43 (1960): 341-61.
Provides historical background to the characterization of the Squire in GP 1.85-88, focusing on the economics, politics, and tactics of the so-called "Crusade of 1383" (or "Despenser's Crusade"), the implications of the word "chivachie," and ways…
Meyer-Lee, Robert J.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 35 (2013): 47-83.
Documents how editors' presentation of CT as a sequence of fragments is misguided and encourages that the description be abandoned. The term misrepresents the evidence of the manuscripts, and is misleading because Chaucer's discontinuities are…
Hagedorn, Suzanne C.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2004.
Hagedorn emphasizes the variety of versions of classical stories of abandoned women (Statius, Virgil, and Ovid) and the ways they were adapted in medieval tradition (e.g., Dante's "Inferno"; Boccaccio's "Teseida," "Fiammetta," and "Amorosa Visione";…
Hagedorn, Suzanne Christine.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 2671A-72A.
Ovid undercuts epic male heroism, treating the emotional cost to the women deserted by Achilles, Theseus, Ulysses, and Aeneas and casting a shadow on these heroes in the works of Dante, Boccaccio, and Chaucer (KnT, LGW, TC). Bakhtin's views…
