Twelve short dramas for oral reading, including a Modern English prose adaptation of CT (pp. 161-83) that retells portions of GP, KnT, WBT, NPT, and PardT, with narrative transitions between them. Designed for juvenile audience; reading time…
Malcolmson, Anne, ed.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964.
Modern English verse translations of portions of CT, designed for a juvenile audience, comprising abridged versions of GP, MkT (Samson, Nebuchadnezzer, and Croesus), NPT, ClT, ManT, FranT, Th, MLT, CYT, and PardT, each introduced with brief comments…
Keller, Wolfram R.
Hoofnagle, Wendy Marie, and Wolfram R. Keller, eds. Other Nations: The Hybridization of Medieval Insular Mythology and Identity (Heidelberg: Winter, 2011), pp. 185-205.
Interprets Geffrey's encounters with the story of Troy in HF as analogous to Chaucer's own struggle with poetic authority, contrasting the account with that of Guido delle Colonne in his "Historia Destructionis Troiae," and linking it with Chaucer's…
Wells, Paul.
Journal of Screenwriting 7 (2016): 65-81.
Uses the concepts and terminology of animation studies (e.g., "metamorphosis, condensation, anthropomorphism, choreography, fabrication, performance, sound, etc.") to gauge how and to what extent Jonathan Myerson in his "The Canterbury Tales" (1998)…
Robertson, Elizabeth.
Bettina Bildhauer and Chris Jones, eds. The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-First Century Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 219-38.
Examines Chaucer's impact on medievalisms of early and later Romantic English poets. Portrays Chaucer's influence on Wordsworth, not only in deliberately medievalist work, but throughout his corpus, focusing on daisies and their presentations in text…
McCarthy, Conor.
Bettina Bildhauer and Chris Jones, eds. The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-First Century Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 239-53.
Uses Chaucer and the "Pearl"-poet as metonyms for the tasks of translating and updating medieval works for later readers. Evokes both works in these translations, if at times obliquely.
Jones, Chris.
Bettina Bildhauer and Chris Jones, eds. The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-First Century Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 168-85.
Attends to histories of reinterpretation and translation of medieval poetry of Chaucer and of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Focuses on the return to medievalism
by British poets of the twenty-first century, including Seamus Heaney. Also notes…
Bildhauer, Bettina, and Chris Jones, eds.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Collection of essays that address medieval and medievalism themes and how they continue to impact contemporary perspectives. The introduction includes a history of medievalism from the fourteenth to the twenty-first centuries, and remarks how…
di Carpegna Falconieri, Tommaso, and Lila Yawn.
Bettina Bildhauer and Chris Jones, eds. The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-First Century Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 186–215.
Briefly invokes Chaucer, noting Pasolini's 1971 film, "The Canterbury Tales," and its adaptation of Chaucer's work to highlight increasing cultural degradation as works are transmitted.
Barwell, Graham, and Christopher Moore.
Jenna Ng, ed. Understanding Machinima: Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds (New York:Bloomsbury, 2013), pp. 207-26.
Explores the goals and accomplishments of an interdisciplinary (English studies and communication) pedagogical experiment in adapting portions of CT to the online game "World of Warcraft," commenting on the processes of animation, mediation, and…
Armstrong, Dorsey.
San Francisco: Kanopy Streaming.
Includes commentary on "Piers Plowman"; Boccaccio's "Decameron"; and the impact of the plague on Chaucer's life, CT (especially PardT), and BD, claiming that Chaucer "could not have been Chaucer" if not for the plague.
Amsel, Stephanie
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 39 (2017): 393-60.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 237 items, plus listing of reviews for 33 books. Includes an author…
Describes principles of aesthetic appreciation evident in Elizabethan architecture, painting, sculpture, music, and literature, including a section entitled "The Elizabethan Appreciation of Chaucer" (pp. 223-30) which emphasizes admiration of Chaucer…
Sargeson, Frank.
In Collected Stories (Auckland, N.Z.: Blackwood and Janet Paul, 1964; London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1965), pp. 12-13.
Brief short story in which the narrator's desire to hear an authentic story--"to get to the Canterbury Tales outside the covers of a book"--leads to a change in his life.
Kleinstück, Johannes.
In Johannes Kleinstück, Mythos und Symbol in Englischer Dichtung (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1964), pp. 25-55.
Argues that Chaucer's depiction of fame in HF is skeptical, emphasizing its dependence upon fortune, and arguing that it is more similar to Montaigne's notion of glory than to those of Dante or Petrarch.
Hoffman, Richard L.
Classica et Mediaevalia 25 (1964): 263-72.
Surveys arguments that seek to identify sources and analogues to the claim in KnT 1.1625-26 that neither love nor lordship "likes competition with another of its kind," citing similarities with TC 2.755-56, FranT 5.764-67, and others, and arguing…
Barakat, Robert A.
Southern Folklore Quarterly 28 (1964): 210-15.
Cites the folk motif of "burying Death" under an oak tree and identifies "numerous parallels" between the Old Man of PardT and Odin from Norse mythology to argue that Odin is the "prototype" of the Old Man.
Barab, Seymour, comp. and M. C. Richards.
[New York]: Boosey and Hawkes, 1964.
Musical score that adapts NPT, with lyrics in Modern English. Libretto by M. C. Richards. Composed, with additional lyrics and vocal score by Seymour Barab.
Pask, Kevin.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013
Explores developments in the writing of fantasy literature, describing WBT along the way as an indication of an early stage in the diminishing status of romance, migrating from "elite to popular culture."
