Pearsall, Derek.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990
A selective, annotated bibliography of 614 entries, indexed rather than cross-listed, covering 1900-1988. Entries are arranged under descriptive and topical categories such as Bibliography, Date, Meter, Literary Relationships, Allegory,and Dream…
Leahy, Conor.
Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 22 (2021): 217-24.
Describes the annotations made by book-collector Stephan Batman (c. 1542–84) in his copy of John "Stow's edition of The "Woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer" (1561), explaining how they evince Batman's habits and interests.
Nicholson, Peter.
Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1989
Line-by-line commentary on the Confessio that synthesizes criticism and scholarship. The introduction surveys critical tradition, and the notes clarify details, patterns,and literary relations of the work.
Brandt, Paul R.
Uuniversity of Dayton Review 22:2 (1993-94): 113-21.
Aware of his own failings and mortality, the Pardoner is more honest than the rest of the Pilgrims. He is a "messenger of Death" to them, although they do not know it. The only one without delusions, he is perhaps the "most worthy of forgiveness."
Fisher, John H., Malcolm Richardson, and Jane L. Fisher.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984.
Diplomatic transcriptions of select writings of "Signet clerks of Henry V, who established the first forms and style of the official written (English) language." Includes 241 letters,indentures, and other documents, with an introduction to forms and…
Altmann, Barbara K., and R. Barton Palmer, trans. and eds.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2006.
Translates into modern unrhymed pentameter the LGWP-F version and LGW, based on the Riverside edition, with a brief introduction and notes. Also translates works by Guillaume de Machaut ("Jugement dou roy de Behaigne" and "Jugement dou roy de…
Maveety, Stanley R.
CLA Journal 4.2 (1960): 132-37.
Recommends showing students how digressive, "extra-narrative passages" in NPT "are the essence of Chaucer's intention, not obstructions." Includes discussion of contrasts between NPT and the Cock and Fox fable of Marie de France, focusing on…
Baumgaertner, Marcia Anne.
Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1977): 2105A.
Even though Chaucer's characters are defined by the strong theological framework in which they appear, they still achieve an effect of individualized feeling and characterization. Although TC reveals elements of a controlled classical approach to…
Examines Chaucer's uses of the terminology of dreams, his sources of this terminology, critical approaches to dreams in Chaucer, and Chaucer's "handling of dream incidents and narrative themselves," arguing that Chaucer is "reticent about providing…
Jimura, Akiyuki.
Jacek Fisiak and Akio Oizumi, eds. English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1998), pp. 91-110
A revised, abridged version of three previous essays: see SAC 17 (1995), no. 257 (Parts I and II), and SAC 19 (1997), no. 306 (Part III).
Robinson, Peter.
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 17-47.
Indicates the enormous variation in manuscripts of CT by summarizing variants between the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts of WBP--thus providing evidence of the need for computer-assisted collation and recension. Surveys practical difficulties of…
Morgan, Gerald.
Roman Bleier, Brian Coleman, and Clare Fletcher, eds. Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World (New York: Peter Lang, 2022), pp. 121-53.
Explicates the rhetorical, conventional, and philosophical aspects of the combination of physical beauty and moral virtue in Chaucer's portrait of Blanche in BD, "a triumph of the poet's art." Clarifies similarities and differences between Chaucer's…
Frese, Dolores Warwick.
Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1991.
The twofold purpose of this study is "first, to demonstrate the originality and complexity of Chaucer's intertextual practice . . .; second, to advance the claims of the Ellesmere manuscript as the poetic text best reflecting Chaucer's final…
Honda, Takahiro.
Research Reports (Fukushima National College of Technology) 55 (2014): 125-30.
Compares TC with Boccaccio's "Il filostrato" and points out there are two kinds of death for Troilus in TC, as well as salvations in the Chaucer and Boccaccio texts. Traces the continuity of the theme of death from TC to CT. In Japanese, with English…
Honda, Takahiro.
Research Reports, National Institute of Technology, Fukushima College 63 (2022): 56-62.
Contrasts the master-pupil relationships in CYT and Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" and their concepts of philosophy. Argues that CYT ridicules the false nature of philosophy. In Japanese, with English abstract.
Ando, Shinsuke.
Heinz Antor and Kevin L. Cope, eds. Intercultural Encounters-Studies in English Literatures: Essays Presented to Rdiger Ahrens on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday (Heidelberg: Universittsverlag C. Winter, 1999), pp. 168-74
Compares Chaucer's notion of tragedy, defined and exemplified in MkPT, with that in Japanese "Kishuryuritan" (legends of exiled nobles). Neither view is easily compatible with modern Western notions of tragedy.
Coletes Blanco, Agustin.
Cuadernos de Filologia Inglesa 2 (1986): 63-81.
MilT is a typical fabliau in form and content, but it goes beyond the conventions of the genre in its links with the rest of CT, its metafictive deep structure, and its riches of lexicon parody.
Examines the "apparent momentary tenderness between Aleyn and Malyne" in RvT 1. 4234-48, reading the passage as a parody of the "dawn-song," variously known as the "aube," "aude," "aubade," or "tageliet," an "established form in the medieval poetry…
Locates an allusion to "Chaucers Bootes" (see Bo 4m5) in line 17 of Nathaniel Ward's "commendatory poem" written for Anne Bradstreet's "Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America . . ." (1650).
Identifies a politically cautious reference to CT in the "opening lines" of the "Kingdomes Weekly Intelligence," no. 241, "covering the week of Dec. 28, 1647, to Jan. 4, 1648.
