Presents various essays that introduce Chaucer, the European literary tradition on which his works draw, and the social conditions, art, and culture of his time. Includes a chronology of Chaucer and a list of recommended readings. In Japanese. For…
Thomas, Paul R.
Encyclia 59 (1985, for 1982): 45-52
Chaucer's learned audience would have seen great irony in Daun Russell's allusion to the cock in Nigel de Longchamps's "Speculum stultorum": that cock, unlike Chauntecleer, had the intelligence to refuse to crow. The textual Chauntecleer is…
Rea, John A.
Philological Quarterly 46 (1967): 128-30.
Offers the "tempting hypothesis" that Adenet le Roi's "Berte aud Grans Pies" is a source of the "coincidence of . . . three motifs" in GP ("pilgrimage, spring, framing device"); also observes several "interesting verbal similarities" between the two.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this facsimile of Dove's musical score includes a libretto by Alasdair Middleton based on ShT, and Italian singing translation by Adam Pollock. Also published as the third part of Dove's trilogy:…
Brown, Peter.
Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 231-43.
Three medieval optical authorities possibly known by Chaucer--Alhazen, Witelo, and Bartholomew--provide parallels for the visual deceptions at the end of MerT, which reflect the medieval tradition of "perspectiva."
The poem's use of "rare variants" such as "peregal," which appears in Chaucer's TC (5.840) and in Lydgate's "Reson and Sensuallyte" (ll. 1738, 4384), exemplifies its "rather refined" language.
Identifies and gives codicological information about Exchequer Records of the King's Remembrancer in The National Archives at Kew, E 163/22/2/24, a portion of Jan van Boendale's Dutch translation of Albertanus of Brescia's "Liber consolationis et…
Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards.
Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 238: 327-30, 2001.
A three-stanza poem in praise of the Virgin Mary--from a single leaf inserted after Lydgate's Life of Our Lady in Bodleian Library MS Bodley 120--alludes to or echoes SqT (5.347) and TC (5.1670).
Mertz, J. B.
Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly 32.3 (1998-1999): 73-74.
Records a copy (the second known) of William Blake's 1809 Chaucer "Prospectus," pasted into the flyleaf of Francis Douce's copy of Tyrwhitt's edition of CT, now in the Bodleian Library. Pasted opposite is a prospectus for Robert Hartley Cromek's…
Singh, Devani.
Notes and Queries 266.1 (2021): 56-59.
Inscribed in Durham Palace Green Library, Bamburgh Select. 8, a copy of the "c. 1550 Thynne edition of Chaucer’s Workes," this epitaph stands apart from the three Latin texts heretofore known. One of its signatories may be identified as the…
Argues that "postmodern literary experiments tend to enact, and embody, an unwitting return to medieval modes of textuality," observing how PF, CT as a whole, individual tales, and the multiplicity of variant manuscripts "actively resist a sense of…
Tabulates and analyzes analytic (more/most) and synthetic (-er/-est) forms of comparatives and superlatives in Chaucer's prose works (Bo, Astr, Mel, ParsT), correlating them with Old English and French derivations of the root words.
Nicholson, Peter.
English Language Notes 17.2 (1979-80): 93-98.
Archer Taylor's account, in "Sources and Analogues," of the analogues to FrT is incomplete and misleading. Exempla from two fourteenth-century English manuscript collections show that it is possible to be much more precise about Chaucer's…
Topliff, Delores E.
Journal of English Linguistics 4 (1970): 78-89.
Tabulates and analyzes the "positive, comparative, and superlative adjectives in Chaucer's works," challenging the notions that in Middle English only monosyllabic adjectives that end in a consonant are inflected and comparative and superlative…
Fradenburg, Louise O.
New Medieval Literatures 2 (1998): 249-76.
Questions the claim that psychoanalytical medievalism is insufficiently historical. Surveys a selection of articles that may consciously or unconsciously use psychoanalytical principles, including articles that address TC and portions of CT.
van Gelderen, Elly.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Classroom textbook of examples for syntactical analysis in English language history, with texts reproduced in color manuscript, original-language transcriptions, and modern translations, plus commentary on significant features of language and…
Spencer, Matthew, Barbara Bordalejo, Li-San Wang, Adrian C. Barbrook, Linne R. Mooney, Peter Robinson, Tandy Warnow, and Christopher J. Howe
Computers and the Humanities 37 (2003): 97-109.
Construction of a stemma for CT based on gene-order analysis supports the idea that there was no established order when the first manuscripts were written. The resulting stemma shows relationships predicted by earlier scholars, reveals new…
Ganim, John M.
Brian Gastle and Erick Kelemen, eds. Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture: Essays in Honor of James M. Dean (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.), pp. 71-89.
Traces attitudes toward and depictions of anarchy and apocalypse in medieval political and penitential traditions, suggesting that they can be associated with communalism as well as with disruption, then and now. Includes comments on Chaucer's (and…
Clements, Robert J., and Joseph Gibaldi.
New York: New York University Press, 1977.
Describes the development of the Renaissance novella, particularly the fourteenth-to-seventeenth century traditions in Italy, France, Spain, and England. Deeply influenced by the model of Boccaccio's "Decameron," the genre is distinct from the later…
