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  2. The Chaucer Review - Wikipedia

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    The Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism is an academic journal published quarterly by the Penn State University Press. [1] Founded in 1966 by Robert W. Frank, Jr. (who continued as editor through 2002) and Edmund Reiss, The Chaucer Review acts as a forum for the presentation and discussion of research and concepts about Chaucer and the literature of the Middle ...

  3. Geoffrey Chaucer - Wikipedia

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    The Chaucer Review was founded in 1966 and has maintained its position as the pre-eminent journal of Chaucer studies. In 1994, literary critic Harold Bloom placed Chaucer among the greatest Western writers of all time , and in 1997 expounded on William Shakespeare 's debt to the author.

  4. The Canterbury Tales - Wikipedia

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    Chaucer may have read the Decameron during his first diplomatic mission to Italy in 1372. [citation needed] Chaucer used a wide variety of sources, but some, in particular, were used frequently over several tales, among them the Bible, Classical poetry by Ovid, and the works of contemporary Italian writers Petrarch and Dante. Chaucer was the ...

  5. Category:Geoffrey Chaucer - Wikipedia

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    Adaptations of works by Geoffrey Chaucer (3 C, 1 P) C. Chaucer scholars (46 P) W. ... The Chaucer Review; Chaucer School, Sheffield; Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk;

  6. D. W. Robertson Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Durant Waite Robertson Jr. (Washington, D.C. October 11, 1914 – Chapel Hill, North Carolina, July 26, 1992) was a scholar of medieval English literature and especially Geoffrey Chaucer. He taught at Princeton University from 1946 until his retirement in 1980 as the Murray Professor of English, and was "widely regarded as this [the twentieth ...

  7. The Pardoner's Tale - Wikipedia

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    The Chaucer Review. 9 (3): 246–52. ISSN 1528-4204. JSTOR 25093311. Murphy, Michael. "The Pardoner, his Prologue, and his Tale" (PDF). The Canterbury Tales: A Reader-friendly Edition of the General Prologue and sixteen tales. Brooklyn College. Vance, Eugene (1989). "Chaucer's Pardoner: Relics, Discourse, and Frames of Propriety". New Literary ...

  8. The Book of the Duchess - Wikipedia

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    Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, ed. by Helen Phillips, Durham and St. Andrews Medieval Texts, 3 (Durham: Durham and St. Andrews Medieval Texts, 1982), ISBN 0950598925 'Book of the duchesse', in The complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. by Walter William Skeat (London: Oxford University Press, 1937), pp. 83–96.

  9. The Merchant's Tale - Wikipedia

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    One question that splits critics is whether the Merchant's tale is a fabliau. [citation needed] Typically a description for a tale of carnal lust and frivolous bed-hopping, some would argue that especially the latter half of the tale, where Damyan and May have sex in the tree with the blind Januarie at the foot of the tree, represents fabliau.