... Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract At a historical moment in which we attempt to come to grips with the legacy of racial inequality, this essay considers two twenty-first-century adaptations of Chaucer’s ‘Man...

... Robert Henryson (died c. 1490) was among the first of Chaucer's successors both to take up the story of Criseyde and to reflect on the implications of writing about the most infamous woman of medieval secular literature. In the Testament of Cresseid, Henryson not only holds Cresseid...

...Rhiannon Purdie THE IMPLICATIONS OF MANUSCRIPT LAYOUT IN CHAUCER’S TALE OF SIR THOPAS SEVERAL EARLY and authoritative manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales, includ- ing Hengwrt (Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth 392 D...

...This chapter examines the political and cultural implications of William Thynne’s 1530 edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Focusing on the preface, actually ‘ghost-written’ by Sir Bryan Tuke, it argues for the contemporary significances of the text’s discussions of Chaucer’s...

... Works of Chaucer; the playwright John Heywood; Sir Thomas Elyot; Sir Thomas Wyatt; and Henry Howard, the poet Earl of Surrey....

...This chapter traces satirizations of the alchemist from the late Middle Ages (Dante) to the Renaissance (Ben Jonson), citing such examples as Chaucer’s Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale, Sebastian Brant’s Ship of Fools, Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel...

...This chapter presents a reading of Chaucer's Knight's Tale, which takes up the theme of human-animal relations as an enterprise of control. It is argued that in the Tale, the degree to which the human characters attain mastery over events is partly expressed...

...This chapter offers an overview of the critical reception of Lydgate's work, tracing the decline from a tradition of medieval encomium (voiced by, among others, William Dunbar and William Caxton), which praised Lydgate's aureate style and moralistic content and placed him alongside Geoffrey Chaucer...

... of Chaucer's de casibus Monk's Tale on Lydgate's understanding of the genre. Attention is then paid to the role played by Fortune in the narratives: the differences between Lydgate's Book I narratives and their various sources are documented to assess how far Lydgate's view of tragedy departs...

... to constitute a tradition, in that later works are significantly shaped by the earlier ones. To demonstrate the complexity of the tradition of thought of which Gower and Chaucer were heirs is also one of the aims of this book. 2 These remarks articulate a view often, I think, taken for granted by modern...

...This chapter suggests that the unsatisfactoriness of the natural for Chaucer and Gower was inevitable because they were much concerned with nature as promoter of sexual love; and in late medieval culture sexual love and reason were inevitably at odds. Nevertheless, they are greatly interested...

...‘Nature’ is a highly important term in the ethical discourse of the Middle Ages and, as such, a leading concept in medieval literature. This book examines the moral status of the natural in writings by Alan of Lille, Jean de Meun, John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, and others, showing how — particularly...

...Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913–1959. John M. Bowers and Peter Steffensen, Oxford University Press. © John M. Bowers and Peter Steffensen 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192848888.003.0002 Tolkien’s early work on Chaucer, from 1913 to 1925, began with his undergraduate student essay...

...Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913–1959. John M. Bowers and Peter Steffensen, Oxford University Press. © John M. Bowers and Peter Steffensen 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192848888.003.0003 While still at Leeds, Tolkien was commissioned to produce the Clarendon edition Selections from...

...Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913–1959. John M. Bowers and Peter Steffensen, Oxford University Press. © John M. Bowers and Peter Steffensen 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192848888.003.0004 Tolkien’s fascination with the dialect humour of the Reeve’s Tale began while he...

... is made (as Chaucer might say) under necessitee condicionel. ⁶ For inscrutable Providence has guided the compilers of our syllabus and the prescribers of our texts to name these two tales… Earlier in 1945 before Tolkien knew that his future duties would include lecturing...

...Tolkien used the occasion of his retirement lecture to continue his career-long advocacy of language over literary studies, and he steadily emphasized Chaucer as an author who benefited most from careful philological studies. He addressed a packed audience in Merton College’s hall on 5 June 1959...

...Our “Coda” ends the book with consideration of a 1957 letter that Tolkien wrote as part of his response to a Polish professor’s review article on the 2nd edition of F. N. Robinson’s Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Tolkien covered Professor Mroczkowski’s draft article with detailed...

...List of Illustrations 1. Tolkien s 1913 tutorial essay The Language of Chaucer (Bodleian MS Tolkien A 21/1, fols. 44v and 45r). 13 2. Lecture notes from Professor Raleigh s Chaucer and his Contemporaries (Bodleian MS Tolkien A 21/4, fols. 16v 17r). 21 3. Tolkien s 1915 student notes on Troilus...

... movement of Chaucer’s ‘own’ hands is especially complex. Through discussion of gesture, manicules, and codicology, the chapter dismantles Chaucer’s iconic left hand from its customary placement. boundaries categorisation Pardoner the Pardoner’s Tale The encounter gesture intermediality pardoners...