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Reconsiders possible explanations for the evident inaccuracy of the number of pilgrims given in GP 1.24 as twenty-nine. Suggests two possibilities: the Squire may have been a later addition and/or the addition of the "last five pilgrims" might have…

Examines the imagery, symbols, and themes of BD, HF, PF, and LGW, focusing on the themes of love (courtly and spiritual) and the poet's responsibilities in depicting love, with attention to various aspects of style, form, and structure, and recurrent…

Clarifies the basic meaning and history of the Middle English collocation "look who," meaning "whoever," analyzing the usage at WBT 1113 and discussing similar usages elsewhere in Chaucer, with two instances in Gower. Explains how scribal and…

Provides evidence for the "strongest possibility" that WBT "did not differ from other Arthurian tales but came to Chaucer from Ireland through Wales, Brittany, and France."

Supplements "Verses of Cadence" (1954) to reinforce arguments that Chaucer's prosody was rhythmic, not metrical, and that final -e should not be pronounced in reading Chaucer. Considers the influence on Chaucer's rhythms--in prose as well as…

Theorizes "recursivity"--an alternative to "originality"--as a trope in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century English literary history, arguing that much often considered to be "original" or "revolutionary" in modernity is better understood as remaking…

A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1953.

Translation of TC into Dutch verse, with notes and introduction.

Argues that in "attempting the pen" by telling her own story, the Wife of Bath rebels against patriarchal strictures and escapes suggestions of madness that beset such rebellious women in late medieval England.

Describes the "large scale social mobility" of late medieval England and argues that its modifications of traditional estates categories are reflected in CT. Uses Homi Bhabha's "postcolonial concepts of hybridity, in-betweenness, third space and…

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Tests several theories of humor--especially Victor Raskin and Salvatore Attardo's "General Theory of Verbal Humor" (1985) and Thomas D. Cooke's "Comic Climax" (1978)--for their value in analyzing Elizabethan jests and medieval fabliaux, parodies,…

Shows how MLT and ClT "prove Chaucer's functional use of rhetoric for purposes of decorum," considering the characterizations of the narrators', their uses of rhetoric, and their intentions. Considers source materials, comments on the Wife of Bath,…

A critical edition of the "Plowman's Tale," with notes, glossary, and extensive critical commentary, including discussion of it as an example of Chaucerian apocrypha. Also includes discussion of its relation to "Piers Plowman," the "Pilgrim's Tale,"…

Explores the sources and meanings of Chaucer's "analogies" between animals and humans, focusing on hares, dogs, horses, wolves, and sheep, arguing that, generally, Chaucer uses them to indicate the need for humans to control their "natural passions."

Describes the hierarchical, mystical, Italianate view of love that emphasizes the gentle heart, epitomized in Dante, exploring its influence on Chaucer in TC, comparing and contrasting Chaucer's lovers with Paolo and Francesca as well as Dante and…

Traces the "shapeshifting motif" in English literature from "Beowulf" to the late-medieval metrical romances, focusing on the latter. Chapter five includes attention to WBT as an example of the "human-to-human type of shapeshift," along with seven…

Assesses Chaucer's uses of various kinds of similes and similetic comparisons--Homeric, epic similes; biblical "similitudes"; proverbial comparisons, Ovidian and Dantean comparisons; and more--demonstrating his variety, borrowings, and adaptations.…

Comments on Senecan material in several of the CT (MkT; ManT, WBP, and Mel) and on Chaucer’s access to Senecan sources.

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Assesses the characterization of Criseyde in TC in light of the adjectives she uses and those used of her by the narrator, Troilus, and Pandarus, helping to characterize them as well. Includes comparable data from Boccaccio's "Filostrato."

Offers "close analysis of the use of 'sententiae' and narrative 'exempla'," exploring NPT, WBT, PardT, SumT, and ParsT in light of "traditional and late medieval sermon theory and practice" evident in the "artes praedicandi" and in medieval…

Separates medieval ideas of love (primarily Ovidian and Augustianian) from Romantic and post-Romantic ideas, and argues that Chaucer "was unquestionably a man of his time--an orthodox member of the Church and a firm follower of the teachings of St.…

Item not seen. Kendall's abstract indicates that the "vision poetry" of both Chaucer and Sir John Clanvowe share "discursive territory" with Gower's "Confessio Amantis," particularly "concepts of the late fourteenth-century aristocratic household and…