The Olde Daunce
The Olde Daunce

Author: Robert Edwards

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780791404393

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In this volume a variety of perspectives reevaluate the nature of friendship, desire, and the olde daunce of love in the Middle Ages. Challenging earlier scholarly notions about medieval marriage, this book suggests and explores the legitimacy of marital friendship, affection, and mutuality. The authors explore the relationship of medieval love to companionship, equality, and power, and relate medieval expressions of love to a number of issues including creativity, reading and writing, voyeurism, chastity, violence, and even hate. The book reconsiders the theological, philosophical, and legal background of medieval attitudes toward marriage, analyzes expressions of love and desire in European vernacular literature, and considers several implications of Chaucer's treatment of love, marriage, and sexuality.

The Olde Daunce
The Olde Daunce

Author: Robert R. Edwards

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1991-01-22

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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An account of Dickens' novel in its manuscript, proof and printed versions; a survey of editions, adaptations, and responses to the novel from 1840 until 1985. Limited to material published in English. Revised from papers presented at a conference in April 1986, 13 essays re-evaluate the nature of intimate relations in the middle ages. They explore the relations between love and companionship, equality, and power; and between expressions of love and creativity, literacy, voyeurism, chastity, hate and other issues. The overall impression is that people used to do it in a very scholarly manner. A paper edition is available (0440-4, $17.95). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation
The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2012-03-27

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 039334178X

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Fisher's work is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter and faithfully articulating his poetic voice, Fisher makes Chaucer's tales accessible to a contemporary ear.

The Book of the Duchess
The Book of the Duchess

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-08-10

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13:

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The Book of the Duchess is a surreal poem that was presumably written as an elegy for Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster's (the wife of Geoffrey Chaucer's patron, the royal Duke of Lancaster, John of Gaunt) death in 1368 or 1369. The poem was written a few years after the event and is widely regarded as flattering to both the Duke and the Duchess. It has 1334 lines and is written in octosyllabic rhyming couplets.

Chaucerian Dream Visions and Complaints
Chaucerian Dream Visions and Complaints

Author: Dana M Symons

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2004-11-01

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1580444067

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On several counts, one particular collection of French lyrics made in France in the late fourteenth century, University of Pennsylvania MS 15, is the most likely repository of Chaucer's French poems. It is the largest manuscript anthology extant of fourteenth-century French lyrics in the formes fixes (balade, rondeaux, virelay, lay, and five-stanza chanson) with by far the largest number of works of unknown authorship. The known authors represented in the manuscript and the texts themselves have notable associations with England and with Chaucer. And intriguingly there are fifteen lyrics each headed by the initials Ch, very likely indications of authorship, neatly inserted between rubric and text. . . . [The] rubrics, together with other substantial manuscript evidence and the intrinsic worth of the poems, make them easily the best candidates among extant French lyrics for Chaucer's authorship, appropriate representatives of his French work. - from the Introduction

A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature
A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature

Author: David Lyle Jeffrey

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 1000

ISBN-13: 9780802836342

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Over 15 years in the making, an unprecedented one-volume reference work. Many of today's students and teachers of literature, lacking a familiarity with the Bible, are largely ignorant of how Biblical tradition has influenced and infused English literature through the centuries. An invaluable research tool. Contains nearly 800 encyclopedic articles written by a distinguished international roster of 190 contributors. Three detailed annotated bibliographies. Cross-references throughout.

The Merchant's Prologue and Tale
The Merchant's Prologue and Tale

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-06-02

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1316615472

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Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. This stunning full-colour edition from the bestselling Cambridge School Chaucer series explores the complete text of The Merchant's Prologue and Tale through a wide range of classroom-tested activities and illustrated information, including a map of the Canterbury pilgrimage, a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words and suggestions for study. Cambridge School Chaucer makes medieval life and language more accessible, helping students appreciate Chaucer's brilliant characters, his wit, sense of irony and love of controversy.

Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780802043665

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The Chaucer Bibliography series aims to provide annotated bibliographies for all of Chaucer's work. This book summarizes 20th-century commentaries on Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Prologue" and "Tale."