Neuse, Richard.
Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), pp 247-77.
As KnT is a reduction of the Teseida, MkT is a miniature imitation of Boccaccio's "De casibus virorum illustrium." The Monk, Boccaccio's ironic double, interrogates newly emergent forms of tragedy and contests with the other pilgrims within the…
Lepley, Douglas L.
Chaucer Review 12 (1977): 162-70.
Despite recent arguments to the contrary, parallels (such as the depiction of Fortune) between MkT and Books II-IV of "The Consolation of Philosophy" show that the Monk's tragedies are philosophically sound in Boethian terms.
Grennen, Joseph E.
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 82 (1988): 337-40.
Taking "olde thyngs" (GP 175, Monk's sketch) as a scribal corruption or emendation of the unattested "alder-thynge" eliminates problems of syntax, semantics, and meaning.
Garbáty, Thomas Jay.
Modern Philology 67 (1969): 18-24.
Argues that the Monk was the original teller of the MerT, a response directed against the ShT as told originally by the Wife of Bath. Discusses puns and implications in the GP description of the Monk to characterize the Monk is an "amorous man," a…
Heale, Martin.
Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 137-55.
Explores how recent scholarship of late medieval monastic practices informs a deeper understanding of the characterization of Chaucer's Monk. Contends that the Monk can be viewed as a "target of Chaucer's satire."
Harrow, Kenneth.
Kofi Anyidoho, Abioseh M. Porter, Daniel Racine, and Janice Spleth, eds. Interdisciplinary Dimensions of African Literature (Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1985), pp. 75-87.
Harrow explores social criticism in Sembene Ousmane's novella "Le Mandat" (film version "Mandabi") with references to thematic similarities in Chaucer's PardT. Both Ousmane and Chaucer portray the effects of unexpected treasure on its beneficiaries…
Gaylord, Alan T.
Chaucer Review 16 (1982): 311-29.
Readers have been too ready to dismiss Th as a parody of popular romances. Chaucer's achievement is something much more subtle: he invents his own English, his own literary idiolect, and then goes on to parody not merely the romances but also the…
Shimonomoto, Keiko.
Keiko Shimonomoto. The Use of Ye and Thou in the Canterbury Tales, and Collected Articles (Tokyo: Waseda University Enterprise, 2001), pp. 64-71.
Originally published in English Literature (Waseda University) 70 (1994). Ambiguities of speech and thought in TC, particularly Criseyde's, are more likely functions of narrative strategy than reflections of individuated consciousness or…
Dragstra, H. H.
G. H. V. Bunt, E. S. Kooper, et al., eds. One Hundred Years of English Studies in Dutch Universities (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987), pp. 187-97.
In their use of the term "modern," modern Chaucer scholars agree on three aspects: modern critical, scientific method;modern literary aesthetics; and the artistic personality of Chaucer himself as seen through modern eyes. Though D. W. Roberson,…
Shows how Dryden altered KnT from romance to epic in order to make his adaptation, "Palamon and Arcite," exemplify "what a heroic poem should be, and by what means it should affect the reader." Also offers "reasons why the change from romance to epic…
De la Cruz, Juan Manuel.
Francisco Fernandez, Miguel Fuster, and Juan Jose Calvo, eds. English Historical Linguistics, 1992 (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1994), pp. 145-56.
The co-occurence of modals of the type "I shall may go" and participial modal constructions of the type "I have wold" in Chaucer's Bo helps us understand the practical absence of them in post-Medieval English. Through a three-hundred-year process,…
Brindley, D. J.
English Studies in Africa 7 (1964): 148-56.
Demonstrates the "stylistic virtuosity" of NPT, consistent with its "multiple perspective," commenting on the plain style of the widow frame, "cinematic" details in descriptions, the quality and comedy of direct dialogue, the "graver rhetoric of the…
Doherty, Mary Jane Margaret.
Dissertation Abstracts International 39 (1978): 1539A.
Equates "mistress-knowledge" of Sir Philip Sidney's "Defence of Poesy" with the "concept of an architectonic . . . usually related to self-knowledge as an ideal," traces the concept from classical to Renaissance treatments, and applies the critical…
Schweitzer, Edward C.
Julian N. Wasserman and Robert J. Blanch, eds. Chaucer in the Eighties (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986), pp. 223-33.
MilT and KnT use parallel portrayals of two young men, Absolon and Arcite, who suffer from the malady of false love. Although Arcite is not cured of his illness, Absolon is, through a traditional cure recorded by several medieval physicians.
As part of larger argument that miscellanies were an "essential material condition of vernacular literature before the introduction of printing," Shuffelton considers CT as a booklet miscellany.
Lucas, Angela M.
Chaucer Review 33 (1998): 123-45.
January's comparison of looking for a bride to reflections in a mirror evokes associations of limited and distorted vision, of two-dimensional representations, and of reversals of left and right. This image of "imperfect vision" is reflected in…
Fewer, Colin D.
Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 1827A, 2001.
The late-medieval sense of individualism (identified by New Historicists) produced anxiety among writers, including Chaucer, Lydgate, and Hoccleve. Through various genres, these writers show a need to redefine sovereignty.
Henry, Avril, ed. and trans.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987.
Critical edition of a fifteenth-century manuscript of a Middle English translation of "Speculum humanae salvationis," written between 1310 and 1324. The work is a compilation for both laity and clergy, a handbook or compendium of images and stories…
Traces the development of Yeats's concern with "writing for a listening audience," and identifies his reading of Chaucer in 1905 as crucial to this process. As several of his letters and lectures attest, Yeats for a time regarded Chaucer as the…
Reads PrT and its concern with usury in light of medieval architectural construction and its dependence upon financing through lending, arguing that although the Tale demonizes Jewish lenders and exalts Christians through associations with,…
Pace, George B., and Alfred David, eds.
Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982.
"Part One" contains five moral or "Boethian" poems, four humorous poems addressed to individuals, four love lyrics, and one gnomic poem: Truth, Gent, Sted, Form Age, For; Purse, Adam, Buk, Scog; Ros, MercB, Wom Nob, Wom Unc; and Prov.
