• Book of Judges

Book of Judges Return to Menu of TEAMS Texts Copyright Information for this edition was hent to Hevyn, ose men may here, The Ebrews, men of grett myght, then leved in myrth full mony a yere. And forto

• The N-Town Plays: Play 7, Root of Jesse

his root. (See Isaias 11:1) Play 7, ROOT OF JESSE: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: Bl: Ludus Coventriae, ed. Block (1922); CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; S: N-Town Play, ed. Spector (1991); s.d.: stage direction; s.n.: stage name. The scriptural background for this

• The N-Town Plays: Play 21, Christ and the Doctors

he demonstrates the ambiguity of every human’s genealogy, which goes back to their earthly parents but, more importantly, to what Chaucer calls "the ferste stok," which is God himself, "the firste fader in magestee" ("Gentilesse," lines 1, 8, and 19).

• The N-Town Plays: Play 25, Raising of Lazarus

with his hands and feet bound for burial, and Jesus says Play 25, RAISING OF LAZARUS: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; S: N-Town Play, ed. Spector (1991); s.d.: stage direction; s.n.: stage name; Whiting: Whiting, Proverbs, Sentences, and

• A True Tale of Robin Hood

backwards, face-to-arse, see Thomas Hahn and Richard W. Kaeuper, "Text and Context: Chaucer's Friar's Tale," Studies in the Age of Chaucer 5 (1983), 67-101. 130 The fact that Robin here attacks the "king's receivers" complicates the politics of the ballad;

• The Pride of Life

2 Then, having closed the curtain, the Queen speaks privately with the messenger THE PRIDE OF LIFE: NOTES Abbreviations: CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; MED: Middle English Dictionary; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; s.d.: stage direction; Whiting: Whiting, Proverbs, Sentences, and Pro­verbial

• Part Five

148:5 49 The earth is full of the mercy of the Lord. Psalm 32:5 PART FIVE: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; MED: Middle English Dictionary; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; PL: Patrologia Latina, ed. Migne. 14 propur persoune. His

• The Gast of Gy: Introduction

evoke a doctrine of Purgatory that appears authoritative without being coercive. The popularity of the poem in an age when Chaucer could make his Tale of Melibee a kind of centerpiece of The Canterbury Tales should not be surprising. Edification,

• John Gower, The Minor Latin Works: Introduction

the pulse of his countrymen in greater variety than he might, had he been a Ricardian intimate like his friend Chaucer. Gower's knowledge of uncertain men and times may indeed have influenced his selection of Latin for these overtly political

• Lancelot of the Laik

addition, just as the style and ideas of the author of Lancelot of the Laik were influenced by poets like Chaucer and Gower, surely his language must have been as well. (It should be noted, however, that Gregory Kratzmann--in Anglo-Scottish

• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 20, Lybeaus Desconus

so fair / In every way / He had never seen before Item 20, LYBEAUS DESCONUS: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: CT: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; EETS: Early English Text Society; L: London, Lambeth Palace Library MS 306; MED: Middle English Dictionary;

• Lydgate, A Procession of Corpus Christi

and Eve’s eating of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. 193 Latin Marginalia: Ambrosius. 194 langage laureate. Lerer (Chaucer and His Readers, pp. 47–48), noting Lydgate’s tendency to use the French proclitic article before vowels (e.g., Lenvoy), suggests

• The Craft of Lovers

viiii and viii), although both H and A do use the form ix. In T, Stow adds in the margin, "Chaucer died 1400" and, believing the poem to be Chaucerian, indulges in some conscious variation of his own and changes

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 12, The Annunciation to Mary and the Visitation

The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 12, The Annunciation to Mary and the Visitation Return to Menu of TEAMS Texts Copyright Information for this edition DOCTOURLord God, grete mervell es to mene Howe man was made withouten mysse

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 13, Joseph’s Troubles about Mary

The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 13, Joseph’s Troubles about Mary Return to Menu of TEAMS Texts Copyright Information for this edition JOSEPHOf grete mornyng may I me mene And walke full werily be this way, For nowe

• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 27, Ypotis

/ Against God cannot be forgiven? Item 27, YPOTIS: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: B: London, British Library MS Additional 36983; CT: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; MED: Middle English Diction­ary; Title No title or incipit. The text is occasionally referred to as

• Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love: Book Three

noble philosophical poete in Englissh. Jellech: "Ever since the discovery that Chaucer was not the author of TL . . . this reference has been taken to allude to Chaucer. Skeat makes the interesting point that the metaphysical question of

• The Dialogue of Solomon and Marcolf

Jordan. 25.7 askapyd, escaped. THE DIALOGUE OF SOLOMON AND MARCOLF: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: B: Salomon et Marcolfus, ed. Benary; CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; L: Latin; ME: Middle English; MED: Middle English Dictionary; Whiting: Whiting, Proverbs, Sentences, and Pro­verbial Phrases. Here

• Pearl

University Press, 1991), pp. 316-38; and D. W. Robertson, Jr., A Preface to Chaucer: Studies in Medieval Perspectives (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969), pp. 99-103, 157-58. Chaucer uses the trope as a debate between art and nature in The Physician's

• Caxton, The Game and Playe of the Chesse, Book Two

propre persone, himself. 1009 plete, plead; doubted, feared. BOOK TWO: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: CA: Gower, Confessio Amantis; CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; LGW: Chaucer, Legend of Good Women; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; PL: Migne, Patrologiae cursus completus, series Latina; Whiting: Whiting,