Performance of music composed by Logan Skelton, including "Chaucer Songs," a "set of six songs with a textless interlude" set to poems by Chaucer (from MercB, from Bal Compl, BD 1223-44, Purse, from Lady, and PF 680-92). Sung by Philip Frohnmayer;…
Describes how Chaucer reaches beyond the phallocentrism and "human parochialism" of his time by giving voice to the feminine and the animal in PF, even though the poem ends with a return to masculinist, human-centered subjectivity.
Bartlett, Kate, and others.
[U.K.]: British Broadcast Corporation, 2003.
Adaptations of selections from CT in modern settings and circumstances, originally broadcast by BBC1 in six episodes, September 11-October 16, 2003. Written by Peter Bowker (MilT), Tony Grounds (PardT), Olivia Hetreed (MLT), Avie Luthra (ShT), Tony…
Brewer, Derek.
Steven R. Serafin and Valerie Grovenor Myer, eds. The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature (New York: Continuum, 2003), pp. 176-78.
Encyclopedia entry that surveys Chaucer's life, language, and works chronologically.
An adaptation of NPT, "retold and illustrated" by Helen Ward for young children. Appends comments on the plot and explanatory notes that focus on the barnyard breeds depicted in the illustrations.
Gardiner, Patrick, and Miriam Jacobson.
New York: Spark, 2002.
Study guide to CT, with emphasis on plot, character, theme, and motif, particularly in GP, KnT, MilPT, WBPT, PardPT, and NPPT. Includes summaries, commentary on quotations, suggested essay topics, and review materials.
An illustrated encyclopedia of western cultures in the 14th-16th centuries that includes brief comments on "The Social Realism of Chaucer" in CT, with three accompanying passages in modern prose: the opening of the GP (1.1-41) the description of the…
California Health Kids Resource Center.
Hayward, Calif.: California Health Kids Resource Center, 2002.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, where [vol. 3] is entitled "The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer," with the volumes described as "Lesson-plan booklets integrating HIV/AIDS education with core literature in grades 6-12."
Moulton, Carroll.
Upper Saddle River, N. J.: Prentice Hall, 2000.
Twelve chapters on British works and writers, designed for juvenile audience. Includes "Geoffrey Chaucer in Depth" (pp. 24-43), which comprises a biographical introduction, a timeline, selections from PardT and KnT (translated into modern verse by…
Ballestra, Gianfranca, and Leslie-Anne Crowley, eds.
Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 2000.
Proceedings from a seminar on Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's short story, "The Wife of Bath," in which a modern character (a Jane Austen fan) travels to Bath and meets a woman, Alice, whose life recalls Chaucer's character in several ways. The story is…
Falstein, Mark, trans.
Upper Saddle River, N. J.: Globe Fearon Educational Publishers, 1999.
Selections from CT, adapted and abridged in modern English for a juvenile audience; includes GP, KnT, MLT, NPT, WBPT, FrT, SumT, ClT, FranT, PardPT, CYPT, and Ret, with linking material. Illustrated by Laurie Harden.
Includes biographies of thirteen artists and three writers, designed for juvenile audience. The Chaucer material (pp. 84-87) includes basic information and a magnified color detail of William Bell Scott's portrait of Chaucer in from "A Four Leaf…
Uriarte Rebaudi, Lía N.
Martha Vanbiesem de Burbidge, ed. Il Coloquio Internacional de Literatura: "El Cuento," I-II (Buenos Aires: Fundación María Teresa Maiorana, 1995), II:209-12.
Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography, which indicates that the essay addresses marital fidelity in CT, Boccaccio's "Decameron," and Juan Manuel's "El Conde Lucanor."
Bennett, Andrew, and Nicholas Royle.
New York: Prentice Hall, 1995.
Comments (pp. 6-7) on T. S. Eliot's allusion to GP at the beginning of his "The Waste Land" and discusses (pp. 78-79) the comedy of MilT as "very specifically linguistic," turning on a double meaning of the word "water," as well as depending upon the…
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, which indicates that this is an Italian translation of Geraldine's McCaughrean's adaptation of selections from CT (1984), designed for a juvenile audience, with illustrations by Victor G. Ambrus.
Ghaly, Salwa.
Hoda Gindi, ed. Encounters in Language and Literature (Cairo: Department of English Language and Literature. Faculty of Arts, University of Cairo, 1993), pp. 447-56.
Explores the "tensions" between the narrator and "author-subject" of TC, assessing how (as in other medieval works) the author's "signature" is found within the narrative rather than in its paratext. Such embedded signatures are characteristic of…
Griffith, Benjamin W.
Hauppauge, N. Y.: Barron's Educational, 1991.
This study guide includes brief summary descriptions of works from "Beowulf" to Beckett; Includes a list of Chaucer's works and sentence-long summaries of seven of the "key" CT (pp. 14-15).
Dye, Shirley A.
Huntsville, Tex.: Educational Video Network, 1991.
A reading of GP in modern adaptation by Shirley A. Dye, accompanied by color drawings of scenes and characters. Illustrated by Dye and Angela Parotti. Released in 2004 on DVD.
Sargent, Michael G.
Wilfried Haslauer, ed. A Salzburg Miscellany: Emglish and American Studies 1964-1984. 2 vols. (Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1984): 2:131-80.
The third of the three "notes" is entitled "III. Religious Form, Amorous Matter: Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women' and Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'" (pp. 157-80); it documents a number of similarities of form, theme, and occasion between the two works…
