Bibliographical Citations and Annotations

Bibliographical Citations and Annotations Bibliographies, Reports, and Reference 1. Allen, Mark, and Bege K. Bowers. ‘‘An Annotated Chaucer Bibliography , 2002.’’ SAC 26 (2004): 443–535. Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 315 items, plus listing of reviews for 95 books. Includes an author index. 2. Allen, Valerie, and Margaret Connolly. ‘‘Middle English: Chaucer .’’ YWES 83 (2004): 194–224. A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2002, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, TC, and other works. 3. Boswell, Jackson Campbell, and Sylvia Wallace Holton. Chaucer’s Fame in England: STC Chauceriana, 1475–1640. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2004. xxx, 390 pp. Tallies 1,378 ‘‘references to, allusions to, and echoes of Chaucer and his works in printed books published between 1475 and 1640,’’ updating and correcting a portion of Caroline Spurgeon’s landmark bibliography. Entries are arranged chronologically by date of publication and, within years, alphabetically ; they provide bibliographical information, including Short Title Catalog (STC) numbers, and (where appropriate) quote the source and identify subsequent editions. Headnotes indicate who discovered the references. The work includes several appendices and indexes: STC books, a general index, an index of Chaucer’s life and reputation, an index of Chaucer’s works, and a list of works cited. 4. Oizumi, Akio. A Lexical Concordance to the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. 5 parts. A Complete Concordance to the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, vol. 13, parts 1–5. Supplement series, vol. 13, parts 1–5. Hildesheim, Zurich, and New York: Olms-Weidman, 2003. Parts 1–2: xx, xiii, 1478 pp.; parts 3–5: xii, xiii, xii, 1718 pp. A lemmatized concordance, arranged alphabetically, based on the text and corpus of The Riverside Chaucer. Each entry includes a headword, part of speech, references to standard dictionaries (MED, OED, and others), definitions, frequency of occurrence , a list of attested spellings (with frequencies specified), occasional cross-references, information about collocations and uses in phrases 363 STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER (where appropriate), and a list of occurrences, with the headwords quoted in the context of the lines in which they appear. Volume 1: A–D; 2: E–L; 3: M–R; 4: S–T; 5: U–Z and numerals. Recordings and Films 5. Forni, Kathleen. ‘‘A Cinema of Poetry: What Pasolini Did to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.’’ Literature/Film Quarterly 30 (2002): 256–63. Not a realization of CT, Pasolini’s I racconti di Canterbury is a subversive parody, providing a critical model different from many contemporary approaches. See also no. 40. Chaucer’s Life 6. Ackroyd, Peter. Chaucer. London: Chatto & Windus, 2004. xvi, 175 pp. 21 b&w illus.; 18 color illus. A biography of Chaucer that records his career as a courtier and diplomat and explores how it may have affected his personality and shaped his poetry. Designed for a general audience, with translations of quoted material, suggestions for further reading, and a brief index. See also no. 219. 7. Brook, Lindsay L. ‘‘The Ancestry of Sir Paon de Ruet, Father-inLaw of Geoffrey Chaucer and of John ‘of Gaunt.’ ’’ Foundations 1.1 (2003): 54–56. Brook suggests that Sir Paon de Ruet may have been ‘‘a cadet of the family of the Lords of Roeulx’’ and part of the entourage of Philippa of Hainaut. He was probably born about 1309. 8. Carlson, David R. Chaucer’s Jobs. The New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 168 pp. Chaucer’s occupations— domestic servant, customs agent, justice of the peace, and clerk of the King’s Works—shaped his literature, and his ‘‘servility’’ enabled him to become the ‘‘father’’ of English poetry. His biography and his works alike reveal ‘‘submersion in the interests of power,’’ so that the early complaints mythologize the ‘‘ideal of the aristocratic good life’’; TC is an ‘‘apology for the good life of erotic preoccupation’’; and CT gives voice to some dissidence, only to police and suppress it. Admirers and imitators of Chaucer emulated his servility and, in doing so, shaped his critical legacy. 9. Hughes, David. The Hack’s Tale. Hunting the Makers of Media: 364 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CITATIONS AND ANNOTATIONS Chaucer, Froissart...