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e-Chaucer: Chaucer in the Twenty-First Century
NeCastro, Gerard.
Machias, Maine: University of Maine at Machias, 2007.
Electronic texts of Chaucer's works in plain text and html, with a concordance and glossary, translations, and links to images, a chronology, and various web resources.
The Canterbury Tales and Other Works by Geoffrey Chaucer
[Kökbugur, Sinan].
Librarius, 1997.
Presents the texts of CT, TC, BD, and PF, with brief introductions, a chronology of Chaucer's life and historical events, and links to supporting information and audio files. The texts are accompanied by hypertext glosses, and the works in verse, by…
Poetry in Translation
Kline, A. S., trans.
Includes links to verse modernizations of CT (Mel and ParsT excerpted in prose) TC, the Dream Poems, and various lyrics, imitating Chaucer's meter and rhyme schemes; translated and uploaded 2007-2008.
Geoffrey Chaucer (c1343-1400)
Jokinen, Anniina.
Luminarium, 1996-2012.
A series of interlinked webpages that pertain to the study of Chaucer, including works, biography, selected quotations, audio clips, images, and a variety of essays and studies, including web-published student essays, external links, and more. Much…
The Insomniac Tales
Chaucer's Women
DLSIJ Press, 2003.
Item not seen; described in an online review by Joy Calderwood (http://www.reviewers-choice.com/the_insomniac_tales.htm) as thirteen "Chick Lit" short stories by various women writers in imitation of CT.
An Electronic Edition of the General Prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Duncan, Edwin, ed.
Towson, Md.: Towson University, 2000-12.
Edits GP with rollover, pop-up glosses, pop-up explanatory notes, and links to audio files, images, translation, and background information.
Chaucer
Delahoyde, Michael.
[Pullman]: Washington State University, n.d.
Pedagogical website that focuses on CT but includes internal links to descriptions of Chaucer's other works and to background information. Individual webpages provide descriptions of the Tales that comment on themes and critical issues, accompanied…
Caxton's Chaucer
British Library.
London: British Library, n.d.
Digital reproduction of William Caxton's two editions of CT that enables onscreen comparison of them, with links to background information on Caxton and print history.
Chaucer's English
British Library.
London: British Library, n.d.
Four connected webpages that introduce Chaucer's language by focusing on the pronunciation and vocabulary of the GP descriptions of the Cook and Shipman, with an audio link, an image from Caxton's first edition, and exercises in vocabulary…
The Criyng and the Soun: Chaucer Audio Files
Baragona, Alan.
Baragona's Literary Resources.
Provides links to online samples of Chaucer's works, "read by professors" and intended to "help students improve their pronunciation of Chaucer's Middle English." Includes passages from CT, TC, and other works. Formerly hosted at Virginia Military…
Chaucer: A Semi-Systematic, Serendipitous Bibliography
Baragona, Alan.
Baragona's Literary Resources, n.d.
Lists approximately 250 books and articles pertaining to the study of Chaucer published before 2004. Formerly hosted at Virginia Military Institute.
Geoffrey Chaucer Website
Benson, Larry.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 2000.
A series of interlinked webpages that provides a variety of texts, translations, glossaries, selected essays and graphics, instructional aids, and supporting information about language, analogues, social conditions, and other backgrounds to Chaucer's…
Study Guide for The Canterbury Tales: Selected Works by Geoffrey Chaucer
Glencoe Literature Library.
New York: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, with the following abstract: "Provides teaching strategies, background, and suggested resources; reproducible student pages to use before, during, and after reading." Also available at…
Orchestral Score and Libretto for Five Scenes from Criseyde: A Feminist Retelling of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde : Opera in Two Acts
Shields, Alice.
New York: Alice Shields, 2007.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, with parallel record for a piano/vocal score. A related website, Criseyde: A New Opera by Alice Shields, is available at http://www.aliceshields.com/criseyde/index.html (accessed March 28, 2014).
The Canterbury Tales
[Daniel, Ted, and Florence Daniel, eds.]
Portland, Ore.: New Wave Publishers, 1993.
Digitalized public domain edition of CT, reproduced on the Internet recurrently and issued by ebrary in 2001 (not seen; cited in WorldCat, with link to title-page preview).
Chantaclar e Partelote (The Nun's Priest's Tale)
Culos, Ermes, trans.
Project Gutenberg, 2009.
Friulian prose translation of NPT.
Hyapatia Lee's The Ribald Tales of Canterbury
Lee, Bud, director.
Cabellero Control Corporation, 1985.
Erotic film adaptation of CT; loosely adapted. Screenplay by Hyapatia Lee.
Folk-Taxonomies in Early English
Anderson, Earl R.
Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2003.
Studies the Old and Middle English vocabularies of category in nature and human experience, anatomizing the words used for colors, the senses, the seasons, compass directions, geometric shapes, types of plant life and animal life, and human selfhood.…
Ever After
Swift, Graham.
New York: Knopf, 1992.
Comic novel cast as the first-person memoir of British academic who identifies with Shakespeare's Hamlet (p. 7) and alludes to Chaucer at least once, citing his own feelings as being similar to those of the "ghost of Troilus at the end of Chaucer's…
Bailey's Cafe
Naylor, Gloria.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1992.
First-person novel with several possible allusions to Chaucer's Harry Bailey, the Wife of Bath, and perhaps others.
The Lecturer's Tale
Hynes, James.
New York: Picador, 2002
Comic novel set in a modern university, replete with literary references and allusions, including several to Chaucer, e.g., a quotation from GP 1.308 in its dedication, PardT 6.895-903 as an epigram, and a parody of Ret at the end of the book.
The Heart and the Chain
Leyerle, John.
Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 113-45.
Examines "heart" (in its several meanings) as the nucleus of BD, and "prison"/"chain" as one in KnT, treating each as a structuring device and a wellspring of the themes and imagery in its respective narrative. Similar nuclei function comically in…
Chaucer's Courtly Love
Reiss, Edmund.
Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 95-111.
Gauges Chaucer's "view and use of love," concentrating on BD, TC, and KnT as his only narratives that take courtly love seriously, both as a theme and a plot device. Even in these cases, courtly love is presented pejoratively--both foolish and…
Speculation, Intention, and the Teaching of Chaucer
Reinecke, George F.
Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 81-93.
Confronts several questions or matters of internal inconsistency in CT (1.164; 1.361; 3.45; 4.1222; 5.673; 2.96; 6.443) and speculates about possible resolutions and their usefulness in the Chaucer classroom.
In Search of Chaucer: The Needed Narrative
Brookhouse, Christopher.
Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 67-80.
Appreciative comments on BD, HF, TC, and CT, addressing their concerns with death, isolation, knowledge of self, and above all, the hman need for self-disclosure in confronting these concerns. The human need for narrative is particularly evident in…
