...Millett Henshaw Kemp Malone. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1951. Pp. vii + 240. $3.50. William Witherle Lawrence. New York: Columbia University Press, 1950. Pp. ix + 184. $2.50. © 1954 University of Washington 1954 REVIEWS Chaucer and the Canterbury...

...Seth Lerer Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer . By Bruce W. Holsinger. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. xviii + 472 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 380 MLQ September 2003...

...John Watkins Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton . By Judith H. Anderson. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. x + 436 pp. University of Washington 2009 John Watkins is professor of English, medieval studies, and Italian studies...

... follow Marlowe and Nashe’s model in Dido, Queen of Carthage by looking to Chaucer as the poetic authority for classical myth. Like Chaucer, both playwrights foreground the destruction left in empire’s wake. A Midsummer Night’s Dream imagines a retelling of Dido’s story that privileges her authority over...

... is an accomplished profes- sional editor. His playfulness and enthusiasm deserve to be indulged, and he deserves to be listened to. STEPHEN PARRISH Cornell University Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender. By ELAINETUTTLE HANSEN. Berkeley: Uni...

...- ning if the problems of history and change, of determinacy and indetermi- nacy, were not so evident. A great editor takes risks, and Cohen has taken more than any other, to better effect. Marshall Brown Chaucer and the Subject of History...

...James I. Wimsatt Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 James I. Wimsatt is professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He specializes in Middle English and medieval French literature. His most recent book is Chaucer and His French Contemporaries: Natural Music...

...Elizabeth Dipple A. Kent Hieatt. Montreal and London: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1975. xviii + 292 pp. $20.00. Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 REVIEWS Chaucer, Spenser, Milton: Myt hopoeic Continuities and Transformations...

...Charles Muscatine Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 CHAUCER IN AN AGE OF CRITICISM By CHARLESMUSCATINE “There is no good book on Chaucer’s poetry,” wrote Mrs. Q. D. Leavis in Scrutiny in 1943, because no first...

...Paul G. Ruggiers B. G. Koonce Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966, 293 pp. $6.50; 52s. Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 REVIEWS Chaucer and the Tradition of Fame: Symbolism in “The House of Fame.” By B. G. KOONCE. Princeton...

...Richard Rex In nienynge of miracles muche wex ther hangeth. -Piers Plowman (C.I.99) CHAUCER AND THE JEWS By RICHARDREX...

... come as no surprise that his new book on (;haucei-’s first five Cniifei-/jiii? Tciis a thoroughly engaging, wide-ranging, often deeply perceptive critical study which brings to bear upon Chaucer’s narrative craf’t the cultural contexts riiostly of‘ the late Middle Ages. While some...

...John H. Fisher E. Talbot Donaldson. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985. x + 165 pp. $15.00. Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 REVIEWS The Swan at the Well: Shakespeare Reading Chaucer. By E. TALBOTDONALDSON. New Haven...

... deal more about “the world around them about truth and self, cosmos and destiny, suffer- ing and friendship, than we have been accustomed to assume. CAROLINEWALKER BYNUM University of Washington Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on “Troilus...

... gratitude. MORTONY JACOBS University of Washington A Preface to Chaucer: Studies in Medieval Perspectives. By D. W. ROBERT- SON, JR. Princeton University Press, 1962. Pp. xvii + 519; 118 plates. $10.00. The response of critics...

...Austin C. Dobbins Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 CHAUCER ALLUSIONS : 1619-1732 By AUSTIN c. DOBBINS Eight of the following references to Chaucer point to the continua- tion into the seventeenth century...

...George Fenwick Jones Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 CHAUCER AND THE MEDIEVAL MILLER By GEORGEFENWICK JONES Chaucer’s masterpiece, Ihe Canterbury Tales, is often labeled a true picture of fourteenth-century English life, and its miller...

...Robert W. Ackerman Dudley David Griffith. Seattle: University of Washington Publications in Language and Literature, Vol. 13, 1955. Pp. xviii + 398. $5.00. Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 REVIEWS Bibliography of Chaucer, 1908-1953...

... one argue against the “moral” interpreta- tion of Ford GEORGEF. SENSABAUGH Stanford Universif y The Italian Influence in English Poetry from Chaucer to Southwell. By A. LYTTONSELLS. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1955...

.... JOHN S. RICHARDS University of Washington The Living Chaucer. By PERCYVAN DYKE SHELLY. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1940. Pp. vi + 331. $3.00. The Living Chaucer is a substantial volume devoted exclusively to Chaucer the artist and intended primarily...