Gibaldi, Joseph, ed.
New York: Modern Language Associaiton, 1980.
A collection of pedagogical articles from diverse perspectives--general overviews and approaches as well as specific approaches--by well-known Chaucerians, including John Fisher, Emerson Brown, Robert M. Jordan, William Provost, and Thomas W. Ross.
Pugh, Tison, and Angela Jane Weisl, eds.
New York: Modern Language Association, 2007.
Thirty brief essays on teaching TC, BD, HF, PF, LGW, and the lyrics, divided into four groups and an appendix: (1) materials (survey of editions and teaching aids by the editors); (2) backgrounds (lyrics, William A. Quinn; French tradition, Karla…
Yeager, R. F., and Brian W. Gastle, eds.
New York: Modern Language Association, 2011.
Discusses Gower's influence on other Middle English writers and provides recommendations for teaching Gower, from community college to graduate programs. Includes several essays specific to Gower's relationship to Chaucer. Includes bibliography…
Yeager, R. F., and Brian W. Gastle, eds.
New York: Modern Language Association, 2011.
Twenty-five pedagogical essays by various authors, with an introduction by the editors and a comprehensive index. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower under Alternative Title.
Petitt, Thomas.
Tatjana Silec, ed. Voix (et Voies) du Désordre au Moyen Âge. Volume Issu du Colloque du Centre d'Études Médiévales Anglaises de Paris-Sorbonne (22-23 Mars 2012). AMAES, no. 34. (Paris: Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 2013), pp. 5-49.
Refers to Chaucer in connection with rebellion and violence.
Hanning, Robert W.
Karl-Ludwig Selig and Robert Somerville, eds. Florilegium Columbianum: Essays in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller (New York: Italica Press, 1987), pp. 113-23.
Examines little-noticed instances "where allusions to classical texts, or to medieval recreations of pagan life and times," form part of Chaucer's narrative strategy in TC,MerT, and MilT.
Severs, J. Burke
Mieczyslaw Brahmer, Stanislaw Helsztynski, and Julian Krzyzanowski, eds. Studies in Language and Literature in Honour of Margaret Schlauch (Warsaw: PWN--Polish Scientific Publishers, 1966), pp. 385-96.
Comments on how "early elaboration" of characters in MilT and MerT "renders plausible later climactic action," and argues that the "marriage passage" of FranT (5.744-805) works in similar fashion, helping to justify the thoughts and actions of…
Longo, Joseph A.
Cahiers Elisabethains 11 (1977): 1-15.
In Chaucer's TC and Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," the actions focused on the lovers are remarkably alike in general contours and specific internal resonances, a resemblance which points to Chaucer as Shakespeare's source. Chaucer shows a…
Describes how Arabic writing "bridged" Hellenic tradition and medieval philosophy, how Arabic science influenced Western civilization, how Arabic literature influenced portion of CT, and how courtly love in TC may reflect the influence of Ibn Hazan's…
Examines the grove in KnT in the context of hunting and forest laws; reveals how Chaucer alters Boccaccio's "Teseida" to turn the grove first into a politicized space of human discord and then into a space of destruction, evoking warfare among men…
Munro, Lucy.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Explores the use of "archaic linguistic and poetic style" in poetry and drama, 1590–1674, analyzing how combinations of anachronism and nostalgia help to influence the idea of English "nationhood." Includes recurrent comments on lexical…
Test, George A.
American Notes and Queries 2.5 (1964): 67-68.
Adduces the testimony of modern archer, Robert P. Elmer, corroborating that peacock feathers are high quality material for fletching, and a notion thought to underlie Chaucer's reference in the GP description of the Yeoman (1.104).
Herold, Christine.
Charlotte Spivack and Christine Herold, eds. Archetypal Readings of Medieval Literature (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2002), pp. 47-65.
Herold reads WBT as an "individuation myth" in which the knight gains "wisdom and self-empowerment" in his encounters with the anima, manifested in the "triple-aspect of the Great Mother Archetype": maiden, queen, and loathly lady.
Spivack, Charlotte, and Christine Herold, eds.
Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2002.
Nine readings by various authors of archetypal patterns in medieval works. Topics include Marie de France, Christine de Pizan, Julian of Norwich, Joan of Arc, Gottfried von Strassburg, Chrétien de Troyes, the Spanish "Shriek of the Sage Merlin,"…
Psychoanalytic analysis of WBT and ClT, reading the two as parallel transformation stories. The first "seems to commemorate the event of the separation of consciousness"; in the second, Griselda "achieved individuation by recognizing her animus."…
Lloyd-Kimbrel, Elizabeth D.
Mediaevistik 1 (1988): 115-24.
Discusses the "Gothic" aesthetics of Chaucer's work: duality, complexity, progression, juxtaposition of jarringly opposite elements, exposure of structural features, audience participation, incompleteness, ambiguity, and physicality of thought.
Braswell, Mary Flowers.
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 11 (1981): 101-12
Far from being "entirely tropological" or imaginative, the descriptions of the Temple of Venus and the House of Fame and Rumor accurately reflect the forms and details of contemporary structures. As Clerk of the Works and perhaps an acquaintance of…
Twomey, Michael W., and Scott D. Stull.
Chaucer Review 51.3 (2016): 310-37.
Analyzes the two houses in RvT and MilT and contends that Chaucer's precise description of architectural setting displays how architecture shaped medieval social life and communicated social and class satire.
Jardillier, Claire.
Bulletin des Anglicistes Médiévistes 71 (2007): 35-41.
Explores connections between text and places (landscapes, architecture, textual architecture) in KnT, focusing on Theseus's efforts to organize space and events and on the narrative's introduction of original motifs and discrepancies.
Green, Richard Firth.
English Language Notes 18 (1981): 251-57.
Chaucer's digression from Boccaccio concerning Arcite's career at court should be interpreted not biographically but rather in the context of the career of Havelock the Dane. Both tales show the social stigma of being a page; Arcite's role…
Explores how the figure of a drunken man, originating in Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" and "De topicis differentiis," and used by Chaucer in Arcite's complaint in KnT, I.1260–67, "blurs the line between universal and particular" and…
Infusino, Mark H., and Ynez Viole O'Neill.
Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 221-30.
The bitterest controversy between "ancients" and "moderns" in fourteenth-century medicine concerned the treatment of wounds. Whereas Boccaccio in "Teseida" aligns his "medici" with the ancients and prolongs Arcita's death, Chaucer in KnT aligns…
Donaldson, E. Talbot.
Douglas Gray and E. G. Stanley, eds. Middle English Studies Presented to Norman Davis in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 65-67.
The traditional reading is that Arcite's horse pitches him to the ground so that Arcite, falling on his head, has his chest shattered by the saddlebow. The words "pomel" and "pighte," however, show that Arcite is not thrown from his horse but is…
Explores prosimetrum in the Arthurian "Tristan en prose" as a way to understand Palamon's actions after he overhears Arcite's "formally elegant rondeau" in KnT 1.1510ff.
