BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sargent-Baur, Barbara Nelson and Robert Francis Cook. “Aucassin et Nicolette”: A Critical Bibliography. London: Grant & Cutler Ltd., 1981, 83p.

Critical discussion of significant editions and translations, followed by a detailed bibliography.

CRITICISM

Dorfman, Eugene. “The Flower in the Bower: Garris in Aucassin et Nicolette.” Studies in Honor of Mario A. Pei, edited by John Fisher and Paul A. Gaeng, pp. 77-87. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1972.

Identifies parallels between the details of the bower episode and the Biblical Song of Songs.

Frank, Grace. “The Cues in Aucassin et Nicolette.” Modern Language Notes XLVII, No. 1 (January 1932): 14-16.

Maintains that certain passages in the text of Aucassin et Nicolette serve as signals exchanged by the singer and reciter who originally performed the chantefable.

———. “Aucassin et Nicolette.” The Medieval French Drama, pp. 237-42. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954.

Examines Aucassin et Nicoletteas an example of a work of the Middle Ages in which narrative recitation and dramatization are co-mingled.

Griffin, Robert. “Aucassin et Nicolette and the Albigensian Crusade.” Modern Language Quarterly 26, No. 2 (June 1965): 243-56.

Investigates the possibility of the influence of Cathar dogma and of troubadour style on Aucassin et Nicolette, cautioning that readers should not view the work as allegory.

McKean, M. Faith. “Torelore and Courtoisie.” Romance Notes. 3, No. 2 (Spring 1962): 64-8.

Argues that the Torelore episode represents the climax of the author's parody of the courtly lovers.

Rea, John A. “The Form of Aucassin et Nicolette.” Romance Notes 15, No. 3 (Spring 1974): 504-08.

Suggests that the form of the material performed by the Provençal troubadours might have been adapted by the author of Aucassin et Nicolette to suit his comic purposes.

Urwin, Kenneth. “The Setting of Aucassin et Nicolette.” Modern Language Review 31, No. 3 (July 1936): 403-05.

Contends that despite some critical opinion to the contrary, the author of Aucassin et Nicolette may have had personal knowledge of the town in which he set his story.

Woods, William S. “The Aube in Aucassin et Nicolette.”

Examines the differences between the traditional aube poem and the way the aubeis dramatized in Aucassin et Nicolette.Woods suggests that the author used stock elements so that the audience would recognize the aube pattern, and then manipulated their expectations by undermining those patterns.