Helen Cooper

Douglas Gray

Sally Mapstone

Fellow and Tutor in English Helen Cooper

Joanna Morse Memorial Fellow and Tutor in English Sally Mapstone

This book is a collection of essays written in honor of Professor Douglas Gray, editor of the groundbreaking Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose. The essays provide a comprehensive survey of fifteenth-century literature, stressing its importance, interest, and richness.

Essays for Douglas Gray

The Long Fifteenth Century

The great story motifs of romance were transmitted directly from the Middle Ages to the age of print in an abundance of editions. Spenser and Shakespeare assumed a familiarity with them and therefore exploited it, with new texts aimed at both elite and popular audiences

Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare

The English Romance in Time

While making pumpkin soup, three friends discover they have no salt and go to the city to buy some, but while Cat and Squirrel head straight to the salt store, Duck pauses at a pepper shop, then fears he will never see his friends again.

A Pipkin of Pepper

Written by a group of internationally renowned scholars, the Oxford Guides to Chaucer offer complete summaries of all that is known about Chaucer's work and include fresh interpretations based on recent advances in both historical knowledge and theoretical understanding. Providing essential and up-to-date information on dating and sources, and original analyses of thematic issues, structure, style, rhetoric, and generic relations, the Guides will inspire readers to find new ideas and meaning in Chaucer's works. This premier volume, easily the most comprehensive single-volume guide to The Canterbury Tales available, brings together a wide range of disparate material, including useful commentary on all aspects of the work. Sure to establish itself as the standard guide to Chaucer's Tales, the book throws new light on the work as a whole, critically discusses each individual tale, and provides a survey of literary responses to the Tales over the two centuries following Chaucer's death.

Fellow and Tutor in English Helen Cooper

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