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…
Untermeyer, Louis, ed.
Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1956.
Anthologizes (with commentary) a wide variety of ribald texts and excerpts from the "Ancients" to the "Moderns," including among "Renaissance" works MilT, RvT, and WBP in Theodore Morrison's translations.
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.
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.
