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Investigates the role of "tradition in the literary imagination" and the value of literature, particularly the "value of close and nuanced reading for our understanding of both past and present." Includes discussion of George Orwell's engagement with…

Comments on Chaucer's expansion in TC of the emotional range of Boccaccio's "Il filostrato" and focuses on Shakespeare's expansion and narrowing of Chaucer's poem in "Troilus and Cressida": Shakespeare develops a "generic range" in the play that is…

Analyzes Criseyde's "speaking face" in TC, along with similar depictions of suggestive facial beauty in BD, PhyT, and Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida." Attends most closely to Criseyde's "ascaunce" look in TC 1.288-94.

Identifies parallel concerns with privacy and erotic tension in TC and Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," both of which pose the closed space of the bedchamber against the pressures of crowdedness in Troy/London, gossip, and public observation.…

Maintains that Chaucer in TC and Shakespeare in "Troilus and Cressida" present love as detached from history or topicality, depicting it through irresolvable plural discourses--Platonic, Petrarchan, courtly love-sickness, and more--and thereby…

Argues that in TC Criseyde is the "embodiment of literary invention," enacting a "poetological" claim to fame, both humble and arrogant. Through his Cressida, Shakespeare presents a similar "counter-authorship," one that reflects the playwright's…

Investigates two crucial scenes of reading in TC--Criseyde's reading with her attendants in Book 2 and Pandarus's voyeuristic reading of a romance in the consummation scene--finding in their contrasts two opposed models of reading: one that…

Contrasts the presentations of interiority in TC and in Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida" as a basis for analyzing Shakespeare's vacating his play of chivalric principles.

Treats the literary tradition of Troy as a war in which different versions of the story struggle to claim validity. Focuses on how Shakespeare seeks to "deface and disable the entire tradition," rendering it "unfit for any but the lowest human…

Assesses Hecuba as a "potent absent presence" in Shakespeare's :"Troilus and Cressida," and comments on the possible influence of LGW and TC on Shakespeare's "Rape of Lucrece" as well as his Trojan play. Includes attention to Dido and Penelope.

Includes twelve essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors on affect, periodization, queer history, and Chaucer's and Shakespeare's versions of the story of Troilus and Criseyde/Cressida. For nine essays that pertain to Chaucer,…

Investigates the "moral version of Chaucer that emerges" in Hoccleve's "Regiment of Princes," arguing that it is a kind of poetic authority produced "in the face of an increasingly militant and repressive English Church," and that, unlike other early…

Treats three examples of eighteenth-century comic medievalism as the "male adolescence of the Enlightenment": Henry Fielding's presentation of Arthurian material as "farcically lascivious discourse" in "Tom Thumb," the "pre-modern prurience" of…

Describes Paul C. Doherty's seven murder mysteries based on CT, exploring them as deeply allusive appropriations rather than adaptations, and theorizing how Chaucer-adept readers of this fan fiction can achieve Lacanian jouissance as well as…

Compares and contrasts Immerito's and E. K.'s attitudes toward language and archaism in Edmund Spenser's "Shepheardes Calender," with particular attention to how the "overly generous glossing" of the text presumes a "reader's familiarity with…

Surveys Chaucer's influence on "Tottel's Miscellany," commenting on various allusions and the inclusion of Chaucer's Truth in the collection (although "deliberately anonymized"), and exploring more thoroughly how he is "strongly resisted," i.e., how…

A short story that alludes to the opening of GP in its title, and includes a character who recites Chaucer and is interested in Chaucerian apocrypha.

Argues that Spenser emulates Chaucer in "furthering the project of language formation in English." Attending to Chaucer's model in CT (and to Richard Mulcaster's precepts), Spenser uses interactive speakers who have various dialects and lexicons to…

Tallies a number of specific "[i]nfluences, echoes, or borrowings from Chaucer in English poetic tradition as it developed between Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, and Shakespeare," mentioning familiar instances and adding ones previously unnoticed.…

Includes a thirteen-line poem entitled "Chaucer" (p. 15).

Shows that the list of hard words included in Thomas Speght's 1602 edition of Chaucer's "Werkes" influenced the linguistic inventiveness of Shakespeare and Fletcher's "Two Noble Kinsmen."

Uses postcolonial theory to argue that Agbabi and Breeze "interrogate the borders of British poetry and its ‘modernity,'" by capitalizing on the "subversive elements already present" in WBPT, "from the subtle irony and the crafty use of the…

Describes how Chaucer and John Gower appear as two poets/storytellers in "Greenes Vision" (1592), offering "authorization and legitimization" to Robert Greene's work "within a specifically English tradition," colored by "ambivalent nostalgia for an…

Examines intertextual relations between CT and Ackroyd's "Clerkenwell Tales," acknowledging the dependencies of the latter, but emphasizing its postmodernist techniques and themes.

Describes the "Night Lesson" chapter of James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" and argues that it shares a number of features with Astr.