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.
Mapstone, Sally.
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne et al., eds. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain: Essays for Felicity Riddy (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2000), pp. 131-47.
Although the love affair between Criseyde and Troilus is a medieval invention, Criseyde had a significant literary ancestry. In Latin versions of the Iliad, in Ovid's Heroides and Ars amatoria, and in the later romance tradition,…
Erzgräber, Willi.
Joerg O. Fichte, ed. Chaucer's Frame Tales (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1987),: pp. 11-33.
By applying it to BD, PF, HF, TC, and CT (MilT, WBP, and GP Monk), Erzgraber tests Karl-Heinz Stierle's thesis that the "object of comicality is anything that threatens a culture." Chaucer reflects the cultural complexity of his age.
Harris, Kate.
Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 8 (1983): 299-333.
Surveys what is known and what can be inferred about the origins of the so-called Findern manuscript, its scribes, manuscript affiliations, and codicological features, with recurrent comments on the works by Chaucer that are anthologized in it (PF,…
Scattergood, V. J.
Chaucer Review 11 (1977): 210-31.
ShT contradicts the usual view of merchants in the fabliaux. By setting the merchant against the monk and the wife, Chaucer defies tradition and presents the merchant in a generally favorable light.
Bruns, Gerald L.
Comparative Literature 32 (1980): 113-29.
Theorizes differences between grammatical/rhetorical invention and Romantic ideas of creativity and originality, commenting on Chaucer's TC and, passingly, on his Adam Scriveyn, as well as on Petrarch's adaptation of Boccaccio's tale of Griselda,…
Like Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato," TC is veiled literary autobiography. About love, TC is also about love poetry but rejects Boccaccio's philosophy and poetics.
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid.
North-Western European Language Evolution 16 (1990): 3-52.
Through a largely comparative approach, the author draws on sources that have remained almost unexploited, whether dialectical or belonging to the standard language. Evidence from Dutch, Frisian, German, and Chaucer's English (a three-year-old boy's…
Kaylor, Noel Harold. Jr.
Medieval Perspectives 10 (1995-96): 133-47.
Chaucer's allusions to the Orient or to the East (e.g., to Turkey, Syria, and India) refer, on the one hand, to a practical knowledge of geography and, on the other--with ecclesiastical use of the "mappae mundi" in mind--to a symbolic spiritual goal,…
Heffernan, Carol F.
Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y. : Boydell and Brewer, 2003.
A series of studies focusing on depictions of the Orient and people from the Orient in medieval romances: MLT, Dido and Cleopatra from LGW, SqT, "Floris and Blauncheflur," and "Le Bone Florence." The introduction concentrates on how contact with the…
Donaldson, E. Talbot
Jerome Mandel and Bruce A. Rosenberg, eds. Medieval Literature and Folklore Studies: Essays in Honor of Francis Lee Utley (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1970), pp. 193-204.
Comments on the "impediments" to determining the order of CT with certainly, focusing on manuscript evidence, especially the problems evident in MLE and the "Rochester-Sittingbourne contradiction" in the Ellesmere order of the Tales. Suggests…
Cooper, Helen.
Martin Stevens and Daniel Woodward, Eds. The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation (San Marino, Calif.: Huntingon Library; Tokyo: Yushodo, 1995), pp. 245-61.
The manuscripts and internal evidence of CT indicate that those who "put the various examplars of the tales, links, and fragments in order for Ellesmere did not have any manuscript consensus to work from, and indeed, they have helped create such…
Brown, Murray L.
Mediaevalia 11 (1989, for 1985): 219-44.
Conjectures that, while Deschamps may have met Chaucer in 1360, his "Ballade to Chaucer" was probably written in 1391 and reflects the association of Chaucer and Deschamps with the Order of the Passion of Jesus Christ in the late 1380s and early…
Markland, Murray F
Research Studies: A Quarterly Publication of Washington State University 33 (1965): 1-10.
Compares how and to what extent Theseus in KnT and Prospero in Shakespeare's "The Tempest" are responsible for the initial disorder and the final order of their respective stories. Theseus progresses from aggressive engagement in the world to…
Benson, Larry D.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 3 (1981): 77-120.
By analysis of manuscript traditions Benson argues that there were at most two early orderings of CT. All later orderings in manuscripts are scribal rearrangements or distortions of these two. Both orders, one of which is the Ellesmere order,…
