Kirkpatrick, Robin.
Religion & Literature 47.3 (2015): 1-24.
Focusing on TC, argues that Chaucer relied heavily on previous works, primarily Dante's "Divina commedia," for theological and linguistic direction. Contends that Chaucer, like Dante, does not merely regurgitate biblical narratives, but expands on…
Luttecke, Francisco.
Carmen Rabell, ed. Ficciones legales: Ensayos sobre ley, retórica y narración (San Juan, P.R.: Maitén III, 2007), pp. 125-39.
Compares ClT with Boccaccio's tale of Griselda and the version by Juan de Timoneda, showing that Chaucer makes more extensive, more explicit, and more radical the class politics of the narrative, critiquing traditional assumptions about marriage and…
Ellis, Roger, ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Anthologizes nineteen essays by various authors, with topics ranging from theory of translation to individual translators. Includes two essays that pertain to Chaucer: Barry Windeatt, "Geoffrey Chaucer" (pp. 137-48) and Stephen Medcalf, "Classical…
Copeland, Rita, ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Includes twenty-eight sections by various authors (four by Copeland) who address the impact of the classics on medieval and early modern English culture: education, mythology, historiography, moral philosophy, humanism, translations, individual…
Parker, Joanne, and Corinna Wagner, eds.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xx
Includes thirty-nine essays by various authors on a wide range of topics relating to medievalisms in Victorian culture, generally British and American, with attention to the historical development of interest in medieval languages, literature, arts,…
Treharne, Elaine, and Greg Walker, with the assistance of William Green, eds.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Thirty-five essays by various authors, with a prologue by Treharne, an epilogue by Walker, and a cumulative index. The individual essays, each accompanied by a bibliography, are arranged thematically under seven thematic headings: Literary…
McCabe, Richard A., ed.
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Covers a wide range of concerns in Spenser criticism, with forty-two individual essays arranged under five headings: Contexts, Works, Poetic Craft, Sources and Influence, and Reception. The handbook cites Chaucer and his works recurrently, with…
Akbari, Suzanne Conklin, and James Simpson, eds.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Offers a comprehensive, “stereoscopic,” and wide-ranging view of Chaucer’s culture and connections in a collection of essays focusing on current work in Middle English studies. For twenty-nine individual essays by various authors, search for Oxford…
McArthur, Tom, ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Includes an entry entitled "Chaucer, Geoffrey [1343?-1400]," by Whitney F. Bolton, which surveys Chaucer's life, works, language, and style, with a brief bibliography. The same information is published in McArthur's "Concise Oxford Companion to the…
Gray, Douglas, ed.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.
A single-volume encyclopedia with more than 2,000 entries, composed by a team of thirteen contributors and the editor. Alphabetized entries include each of Chaucer's works, important sources and analogues, character and place names, select…
Stallworthy, Jon, ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Arranged chronologically, this anthology of 259 poems and excerpts about war ranges from the Bible and Homer to Peter Porter, including a selection from John Dryden's translation of the description of the temple of Mars in KnT.
Gross, John, ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Surveys parodies in English, including two brief examples from Alexander Pope that parody Chaucer, plus Stanley J. Sharpless's "The Tale of Miss Hunter Dunn [Geoffrey Chaucer Rewrites Sir John Betjeman]" (pp. 6-7).
Opie, Iona and Peter, eds.
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
An anthology of British narrative verse, ranging from Chaucer to W. H. Auden; includes Middle English versions of NPT ("The Cock and the Hen") and PardT ("Death and the Three Revellers"), with bottom-of-the-page glosses and diacritical marks to…
Jackson, Kevin, ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
An anthology of excerpts and selections from poetry, fiction, drama, and essays on the topic of money, arranged by sub-topics. Includes the following pieces by Chaucer: Purse and the apostrophe to poverty from MLP, in the section called "Riches and…
Sisam, Celia and Kenneth, eds.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1970.
Selections from Chaucer (pp. 257-316) include excerpts from HF, LGWP, TC, GP (Prioress, Clerk, Wife of Bath, and Reeve), WBP, and PardT, along with the complete RvT, Form Age, the rondeau from PF, Truth, Purse, and MercB. All are in Middle English,…
Gross, John, ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Selections of comic verse in English, from Chaucer to Glyn Maxwell. The Chaucer selection (pp. 1-4) includes the descriptions of the Monk, Summoner, and Pardoner from the GP.
Opie, Iona and Peter, eds.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1973.
An anthology of samples of English verse for children, ranging from selections by Chaucer and Lydgate to works by A. A. Milne and T. S. Eliot. Includes one sample from Chaucer: "Controlling the Tongue" (i.e., ManT 9.319-42), in Middle English, with…
David, Alfred.
Martin Stevens and Daniel Woodward, eds. The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library; Tokyo: Yushodo, 1995), pp. 307-26.
Traces the ownership of Ellesmere from (speculatively) Thomas Chaucer and the de Vere family to Henry E. Huntington.
Mulryne, J. R.
M[arie]-T[hérèse] Jones-Davies, ed. Le Dialogue au Temps de la Renaissance. Centre de Recherches sur la Renaissance, no. 9 (Paris: Jean Touzot, 1984), pp. 169-83.
Places Shakespeare's bird dialogue from the end of "Love's Labour's Lost" in the tradition of bird debates, commenting on other examples of the genre, and noting parallels with PF and Sir John Clanvowe's "The Boke of Cupid," attributed to Chaucer…
Matthews, Ricardo.
Dissertation Abstracts International A77.10 (2016): n.p. Open access at https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2cz1v5sv; accessed January 31, 2023.
Uses KnT, among other works, in a study of medieval works combining prose and lyric poetry (common in France, but less studied in English.)
Gravlee, Cynthia Acosta.
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1988): 826A.
Following consideration of the duality of women's nature in Old English poetry, chapters are devoted to Criseyde, to the Prioress, and to the Wife of Bath to illuminate their submerged qualities.
Harris, Duncan,and Nancy L. Steffen.
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 8 (1978): 17-36.
That "Daphnaida" is based on BD has long been recognized. But whereas Chaucer's poem works within the conventions to assuage grief, Spenser's anti-pastoral produces an uncomfortable tension between instruction and pity.
