Pearsall (1990): Bibliography

Bibliography
Edited by Derek Pearsall
Originally Published in The Floure and the Leafe; The Assembly of Ladies; The Isle of Ladies
Kalamazoo, Michigan: Western Michigan University for TEAMS, 1990; reprinted 1992

BIBLIOGRAPHY Bibliographies

Rossell Hope Robbins. 'The Chaucerian Apocrypha,' in A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, ed. Albert E. Hartung (New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1974). Volume IV, chapter XI, pp. 1094-7, 1302-5.

Russell A. Peck. Chaucer's Romaunt of the Rose and Boece, Treatise on the Astrolabe, Equatorie of the Planetis, Lost Works and Chaucerian Apocrypha: An Annotated Bibliography 1900-1985 (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1988). Pp. 308-9, 317-21, 325-6.

Editions

W. W. Skeat, ed. Chaucerian and Other Pieces. Volume VII of The Works of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1897). Editions of FL and AL.

D. A. Pearsall, ed. The Floure and the Leafe and The Assembly of Ladies. Nelson's Medieval and Renaissance Library (London and Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson, 1962; reprinted Manchester University Press, Old and Middle English Texts Series, 1980).

Anthony Jenkins, ed. The Isle of Ladies or the Ile of Pleasaunce. Garland Medieval Texts, Number 2 (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1980).

Vincent Daly, ed. A Critical Edition of The Isle of Ladies. The Renaissance Imagination: Important Literary and Theatrical Texts from the Late Middle Ages through the Seventeenth Century. Volume 28 (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1987). Typescript of Harvard University Ph.D. thesis, 1977.

Critical Studies

G. L. Marsh, 'Sources and Analogues of The Flower and the Leaf,' Modern Philology, 4 (1906-7), 121-68, 281-328.

Eleanor Prescott Hammond, ed. English Verse between Chaucer and Surrey (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1927). Texts and excellent commentary. Invaluable background.

C. S. Lewis. The Allegory of Love (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1936). See especially pp. 247-9.

Ethel Seaton. Sir Richard Roos: Lancastrian Poet (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961). Valuable literary and social background, especially in chapters I and II; the authorship attributions (all three poems are ascribed to Roos) are not to be taken seriously.

John Stevens. Music and Poetry in the Early Tudor Court (London: Methuen, 1961). See especially chapter 9, 'The Game of Love,' pp. 154-202 (AL, 179-80; FL, 180-2).

Derek Pearsall, 'The English Chaucerians,' in D. S. Brewer, ed., Chaucer and Chaucerians: Critical Studies in Middle English Literature (London and Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson, 1966), pp. 201-39 (especially 225-30).

David V. Harrington, 'The Function of Allegory in The Flower and the Leaf,' Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 71 (1970), 244-53.

John Stephens, 'The Questioning of Love in the Assembly of Ladies,' Review of English Studies, ns 24 (1973), 129-40.

Richard Firth Green. Poets and Princepleasers: Literature and the English Court in the Late Middle Ages (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980). See especially chapter 4, 'The Court of Cupid.'

Ann McMillan, "'Fayre Sisters Al': The Flower and the Leafe and The Assembly of Ladies,' Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 1 (1982), 27-42.

Alexandra A. T. Barratt, "'The Flower and the Leaf' and 'The Assembly of Ladies': Is There a (Sexual) Difference?' Philological Quarterly, 66 (1987), 1-24.

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