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Explores Deschamps's Ballade 285 in praise of Chaucer in the "context of late fourteenth-and early fifteenth-century humanist epistolary exchanges . . . including the polemic over 'The Romance of the Rose," and particularly . . . the exchange that…

Observes several points of similarity and difference between the marital relations depicted in WBPT and FranT on the one hand and in "The Taming of the Shrew" and "The Merry Wives of Windsor" on the other.

Item not seen. Young-adult, historical novel about Edward III's ascendancy to power and marriage, presented as a tale told by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of Edward's reign.

Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates that this volume includes a poem titled “Opening Prologue of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales."

Twenty-five tales in modern iambic verse, told by various travelers on a cruise ship headed to St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, but beset by the COVID-19 pandemic. Modeled on CT.

Contemplative memoir of walking the Pilgrims' Way from Winchester to Canterbury, highlighted with literary and historical references and commentary. Chaucerian references include, for example, lines translated from GP (1–2, 12–18), a surmise that…

Argues that Washington Irving was broadly influenced by Chaucer. Focuses on Irving's "Sketch Book" and its narrative personae in particular and, more generally, his attention to Chaucer, medieval literature, and poetic language in his process of…

Collects twenty-six critical essays about Caroline Bergvall's literary output and outlooks, accompanied by three interviews with her, a foreword by David Wallace, an afterword by Rachel Gilmore, and a comprehensive index. Several essays refer to…

Focuses on fifteenth-century writers such as Audelay, Hoccleve, Kempe, and Charles d'Orléans, and shows how these authors fashioned themselves as self-publishing and scribes in their own right. Argues that this modeling was influenced by Chaucer,…

Assesses Edmund Spenser's quotation of FranT, 764-66, in Britomart's speech in T"he Faerie Queene," Book III, arguing that the Chaucerian material and its original context carry suggestions of the "need for tolerance in social relations" and "[set] a…

Historical novel in which friar-detective Rodric Chandler investigates murder as he seeks to hide Adam Pinkhurst's copy of CT from Lancastrian censors.

"[I]nvestigates the distinctive conceptions of literary authorship of John Skelton, William Dunbar, Stephen Hawes, and Gavin Douglas by means of close and comparative readings of their utilisation of a particular form and mode: framed first-person…

Challenges Conrad Mainzer's evidence that Gower was influenced by the "Ovide moralisé" and/or the "Ovidius moralizatus" of Pierre Bersuire, arguing that closer, more likely parallels exist between Gower's work and BD and LGW.

Reads TC as a "proleptic palinode" that gives Chaucer "something to apologize for" before he writes LGW, modeling his poetic career on Ovid's. Argues that Pandarus "grounds his amatory practice" in Ovid's works, considers Criseyde's and Cassandra's…

Collects eighteen essays on widely varied topics in Middle English, Anglo-Latin, French, and book production. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for under Alternative Title.

Discloses the implications--some "shocking"--of recognizing Statius's "Thebaid" as the source of Criseyde's imagining of "radical atheism" in TC, IV.1408-11. Explicates resonances of Thebes/Trojan parallels evident elsewhere in the poem and in…

Proposes that the so-called "quarrel" between Chaucer and Gower found in MLP pertains to their uses of Ovidian, fabliau-like material, reading several tales of "Confessio Amantis" as experiments in "fabliauesque" narrative, purged of "schoolboy…

Focuses "on fifteenth-century manuscripts of Chaucer, and . . . how these volumes were read, used, valued, and transformed" in the early modern period, reflecting "conventions which circulated in print and . . . convey prevailing preoccupations about…

Presents previously overlooked "gleanings" of verse that are missing from the general catalogues: one is at the end of Mel in MS Barlow
20, while another is an analogue to lines from KnT.

Seventeen essays by various authors on topics in Middle English manuscripts, their legacies, and the career of Ian Doyle, with an introduction by Saunders and Lawrie, an afterword by Linne Mooney and Derek Pearsall, a list of Doyle's publications by…

Describes conjunctions--"many of them improbable or curious"--among the materials contained in manuscripts "which preserve just one or two of Chaucer's short poems," exploring what they "can tell us about the reception and transmission of Chaucer's…

Challenges the traditional provenance of CT manuscript Oxford, Trinity College, MS 49, detaching it from Saffron Walden, and asserting that it was not donated to Trinity College by Sir Thomas Pope, founder of the college, but given by Thomas Unton,…

Studies the manuscripts of John Gower's "Confessio Amantis" as evidence of his status and role in the production of Lancastrian literature and propaganda, challenging long-held assessments of the dates and sequence of the manuscripts and what they…

Compares the contents of manuscripts of Chaucer's works and those of early printed editions, especially William Thynne's 1532 edition of "Works." Focuses on the heterogeneous mixture of Chaucerian materials, apocrypha, and works by other authors in…

Outlines "the lesson plan and pedagogical approach" (with course description and syllabus) for a senior, undergraduate course called "Retelling, Rereading, Rethinking--the Afterlife of Medieval Texts in Contemporary Literature." Includes explanation…