Pintor, Ivan, and others.
Hamilton, N. J.: Films Media Group, 2009.
An illustrated interview with Harold Bloom, with commentary and contributions by others. The section entitled "Chaucer and the Creation of Character" includes Bloom's suggestion that the Pardoner is a precursor to Shakespeare's Iago and Edmund, and…
Spanish prose adaptations of selections from CT (GP, WBT, ClT, PhyT, and Ret), designed for juvenile readers. Includes several study questions and background information. Illustrated by Román Varela.
Item not located; cited in WorldCat, which reports that the volume includes WBT and PardT in the Spanish translations by Manuel Pérez y del Río-Cosa (originally published in 1921).
Hacht, Anne Marie, and Dwayne D. Hayes, eds.
Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2009.
This encyclopedia of world authors describes how the works of individual authors "fits with the context of the author's life, historical events, and the literary world"; it includes a comprehensive index, printed in each of the four volumes. The…
An anthology compiled to promote reading among young readers in Eritrea. Includes international tales, ancient to modern, in modern English adaptation, including ClT (here titled "The Scholar's Tale: The Test of a Good Wife."
Ulrych, Margherita.
John Douthwaite and Domenico Pezzini, eds. Words in Action: Diachronic and Synchronic Approaches to English Discourse (Genoa, Italy: Culturali Internatzionali Genova, 2008), pp. 295-311.
Describes various kinds of mediation involved in interlingual, intralingual, and intersemiotic translation, and assesses the nature and degree of interpretation and originality in such mediation. Includes extended discussion of Ermanno Barisone's…
Facing-page translation of PF into modern French poetry. Includes as an appendix Marteau's poetic tribute to Chaucer, "Hommage au Noble Geffroy Chaucier, Grant Translateur."
Historical fiction set in the time of the Black Death in England involving a tale-telling competition, with similarities to CT and Boccaccio's "Decameron."
Voth, Grant L.
Chantilly, Va.: Teaching Company, 2007.
Includes a thirty-minute audio lecture (Part 2 of 4, disc 9, Lecture 17) on "Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales'," with emphasis on the frame narrative (in contrast to Boccaccio's "Decameron"), appropriateness of tales to tellers, dramatic interaction…
Includes the Middle English text of GP 1-42, with Lithgow's reading of the passage and his commentary on how it "grabs you" and makes you want to hear more.
Presented as an antidote to the "indoctrination" that is imposed on literature classes by "PC English professors." Chapter two, entitled "Medieval Literature: 'Here Is God's Plenty'" (pp. 23-47) focuses on CT, Langland's "Piers Plowman," the vigor of…
Erickson, Sandra S. F., and Glenn W. Erickson.
Sandra S. F. Erickson and Glenn W. Erickson. Logos e Poesis: Neoplatonismo e Literatura (Natal, Brazil: EDUFRN, Editora da UFRN, 2006), pp. 35-60.
Argues that Biblical and Neoplatonic number symbolism conveys the message of BD: that souls return to heavenly happiness. Considers Chaucer's summary of Scipio's dream, traces references to Pythagoras in BD, and identifies places where it…
Bebb, Richard, Philip Madoc, and Michael Maloney, readers.
[Franklin, Tenn.]: Naxos Audiobooks, 2006.
Disc 1 comprises Richard Bebb's reading in Middle English of GP and PhyT; disc 2, Madoc and Maloney's reading of them in modern verse translation. The booklet includes notes by Derek Brewer and Perry Keenlyside.
Nelson, Marilyn.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.
An anthology of narrative poetry that includes "The Cachoeira Tales," modeled on CT, with a number of distinct allusions to Chaucer's work, including a "General Prologue" that opens with references to April rains and several tales attributed to…
Kirschenbaum, Valerie.
New York: Global Renaissance Society, 2005.
Recounts Kirchenbaum's career and thoughts as an innovative teacher who uses creative design to inspire her students, arranged as a series of examples from international history and personal experience. Includes "Measuring the Immeasurable: Chaucer"…
Figg, Kristen Mossler, and John Block Friedman, eds.
Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2005.
An encyclopedic survey of medieval arts and humanities. The section on Literature, by Lorraine Stock, includes a summary analysis of CT (pp. 199-201) and a description of Chaucer's life and works (p. 205).
Drout, Michael D. C.
Prince Frederick, Md.: Recorded Books, 2005.
Designed as a college-level academic course, with a series of fourteen lectures by Drout on Chaucer's life, language, and works. Lectures 1-2 pertain to biography, language, and style; lectures 3-4 to the dream visions and translations; 5-6 to TC;…
Cornelius, Michael J.
Zachary Michael Jack, ed. Black Earth and Ivory Tower: New American Essays from Farm and Classroom (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005), pp. 143-55.
Assesses Chaucer's respect for the work of medieval farmers and medieval students (as evident in GP and ClT), interspersed with Cornelius' recollections of his decision to leave farming for academic study.
Adaptation of NPT in Modern English pentameter verse, designed for staging by a cast of seven, with a brief introductory note for performance and stage directions. The frame-story characters are pilgrims who decide to "dramatize the Fox and…
Noble, Thomas F. X.
Chantilly, Va.: Teaching Company, 2004.
Includes two thirty-minute audio-visual recordings of lectures (nos. 35 and 36) on "Geoffrey Chaucer--Life and Works" and "Geoffrey Chaucer--'The Canterbury Tales'." The first surveys Chaucer's life and works; the second describes CT, with attention…
Masson, Cynthea.
Dr. Faustroll and Cal Clements, eds. Pataphysica: 2. Pataphysica e Alcimia (New York: iUniverse, 2004), pp. 102-16.
Describes the concept of "the alchemical hermaphrodite" and its sexual associations; then traces the concept and its figurative implications in CYPT, arguing that the relationships between the Canon and the Yeoman and between the canon and the priest…
Study guide that describes Chaucer's life and historical context, and surveys the characters, plots, themes, and literary devices of CT. Designed for young adult readers; includes suggestions for essays and excerpts from critical studies.
