Rabin, Andrew.
Notes and Queries 266 (2021): 164-65.
Claims that Chaucer may have been aware of a fourteenth-century alchemical work prescribing an "elixir" of "a grain of wheat soaked in wine" that prolongs life long enough for someone whose death is imminent to "speak, make their will, and confess."…
Fragments VIII and IX are connected by opposed images of sight and blindness, idleness and work. Themes of alchemical transformation and restraints on freedom (food, mates, language) also link the fragments.
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Hisao Tsuru, ed. Fiction and Truth: Essays on Fourteenth-Century English Literature (Tokyo: Kirihara Shoten, 2000), pp. 133-44.
Assessing the punctuation in editions by Baugh, Donaldson, Fisher, Howard, Pollard, Robinson, Root, Skeat, and Windeatt, Nakao suggests that editorial punctuation of TC obscures another voice of Crisyede.
Richardson, Janette.
Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 198 (1962): 388-90.
Traces the scribal and editorial history of capitalizing (or not) "S/summoner" in FrT 3.1327, advocating the lower case "s" for the way it maintains the ambiguity of reference to the protagonist of FrT and the Friar's pilgrim-opponent.
Kirby, Thomas A.
Beryl Rowland, ed. Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1974), pp. 381-83.
Summarizes the plot of a modern analogue to RvT, David Madden's story called "Night Shift," published in "Playboy" magazine in 1971.
Christine de Pizan uses the Griselda tale to illustrate the virtues of patience and constancy in her "Livre de la Cite des Dames," derived from a French prose version of Philippe de Mezieres, perhaps also consulting the anonymous French prose…
Green, Richard Firth.
English Language Notes 28:4 (1991): 9-12.
Discusses similarities between Chaucer's WBT and the French farce "Les deux maris et leurs deux femmes" and suggests that the loathly lady's riddle at the end of WBT "might be drawing on a less recherche tradition than that of Latin rhetoric."
De Nerville, Catherine Jenelle Maness.
DAI 35.03 (1974): 1619A.
Discusses critical approaches to Chaucer's poetry using M. H. Abrams' categories of literary theory (mimetic, objective, pragmatic, and expressive) and commenting on the criticism of D. W. Robertson Jr., Robert M. Jordan, Robert O. Payne, and Charles…
Andersen, Jens Kr.
Orbis Litterarum 27 (1972): 179-201.
Investigates how the frame of the Canterbury pilgrimage is reflected in individual tales, gauging their degrees of authenticity, the quarrels among the pilgrims, the relations between social rank and taste, the interdependence of solace and sentence,…
Silar, Theodore I.
Chaucer Review 32 (1998): 284-309.
The repetition of "fin" (the settlement of a fictitious suit) at the ending of TC has many legal overtones. It evokes "landholding," "harmonization of contrary positions," and "legal fiction," as in a legal suit for which there is, as in TC, a…
Analyzes the "organization and assumptions" of four medieval rhetorical handbooks, focusing on their "methods of amplification," and assesses the influence of rhetorical tradition on the characterizations in TC, in comparison with those of Boccaccio…
Foulke, Robert, and Paul Smith, eds.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972.
An anthology of English and American literature arranged by mode (Romance, Tragedy, Comedy, and Irony, with various sub-categories), designed as a textbook for college-level study. Each section is introduced by discussion of constituent features of…
Farber, Lianna.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006.
Farber examines the "idea of trade . . . in medieval writing from the middle of the twelfth to the early fifteenth century," examining theoretical treatises and literary depictions of trade and its relations to valuation, marital exchanges, and…
Doherty, P. C.
New York: St. Martin's; London: Headline, 1994.
Historical gothic detective fiction set in the frame of the CT, in which a knight, modeled on Chaucer's Knight, tells a story to the rest of the pilgrims about age-old vampires, mysterious deaths in Oxford, and a blind exorcist.
Jost, Jean E.
Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 7: 108-25, 2000.
Characterizes the Prioress of GP and PrT as "psychologically androgynous," a combination of "feminine on the outside" and "masculine on the inside." This combination is evident in the Prioress's fusion of sentimentality and cruelty and her other…
Fisher, John H., et al.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 1 (1979): 201-55.
A list of 273 items, including reviews, based upon the "MLA International Bibliography," with additions, compiled by an international team of scholars.
Fisher, John H.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 2 (1980): 221-85.
Compiled by an international team of scholars, and based upon the 1977 and 1978 listings in the MLA International Bibliography, with additions. Includes 311 entries, including reviews.
Fisher, John H., and others.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 3 (1981): 189-259.
Based on the "MLA 1979 International Bibliography," plus additions, including 232 books, articles, and reviews, compiled by an international team of contributors.
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y., and Cynthia Dobrich Myers.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 06 (1984): 233-78.
A total of 232 items including reviews, compiled by an international team of scholars, and based upon the MLA International Bibliography, with additions.
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y., comp. and ed., with the assistance of Hildegard Schnuttgen, Bege Bowers, et al.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 07 (1985): 295-338.
