Interlinear translation in modern English of the selections from Chaucer in the 8th edition of the "Norton Anthology of English Literature" (2006), edited by Alfred David and James Simpson. Includes GP, MilPT, MLE, WBPT, PardPT, NPT, ParsP, Ret,…
Lombardi, Chiara.
Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2005.
Analysis of the versions of the Troy story by Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Shakespeare, with attention to earlier versions and to the impact of the story and its main characters on western culture. Gauges the importance of ancient stories in shaping…
Maggioni, Maria Luisa.
Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria 11 (2003): 13-28.
Close comparison of Chaucer's translation of Petrarch's Sonnet 132 in TC 1.400-420 as a process of paraphrase and commentary on the original, with particular attention to Chaucer's treatment of the Italian phrase "S'a mal mio grado" and nuances he…
Reece, Paula J., ed.
Logan, Iowa: Perfection Learning, 2002.
A pedagogical anthology of twelve short stories, each accompanied by exercises to improve reading comprehension. Includes PardT in modern English (pp. 23-28), excluding the sermon on the tavern vices, followed by questions about plot and vocabulary…
Collects twelve stories that explore "the notions of fate, destiny, and coincidence," including a prose adaptation of the PardT, "A Meeting with Death: Adapted from 'The Pardoner's Tale' from 'The Canterbury Tales'" (pp. 79-90), which modifies the…
Items not seen; cited in WorldCat. Readings of selections from CT in modern poetic translation by Frank Ernest Hill. Volume I (3 CDs; 1995) includes GP, KnT, MilT, PardT, MerT and FranT. Volume II (3 CDs, 2002): WBPT, ClT, RvT, and NPT. Volume III (3…
McArthur, Tom, ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Includes an entry entitled "Chaucer, Geoffrey [1343?-1400]," by Whitney F. Bolton, which surveys Chaucer's life, works, language, and style, with a brief bibliography. The same information is published in McArthur's "Concise Oxford Companion to the…
Cotton, Eve.
Mount Kisco, N. Y.: Guidance Associates, 2005.
Item not located; cited in WorldCat, with the following abstract: "Examines the life and ideas of Geoffrey Chaucer and traces the route of his pilgrimage."
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat as an anthology in Spanish of selections from CT, Boccaccio's "Decameron," and Don Juan Manuel's "Conde de Lucanor," with selection and notes by Susana G. Artal.
Includes comments on Chaucer's use of "deliberate space" in MerB and rhyme royal in TC, along with more extended discussion of the variety of voices and registers in CT, in which Chaucer "makes the pleasure and purpose of story-telling the very…
Edits GP and WBPT from the Ellesmere manuscript, with glosses, notes, and brief introductions. The first edition of the volume (2000) includes no works by Chaucer; the third (2010) includes no additional material by him.
Imahayashi, Osamu, and Hiroji Fukumoto, eds.
Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2004.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, where the summary of contents includes reference, without page numbers, to two essays that pertain to Chaucer: "Chaucer's 'Semely' and Its Related Words from an Optical Point of View," by Yoshiyuki Nakao, and…
Historical fiction that reinterprets CT from the points of view of the Wife of Bath and the Prioress, integrating the pilgrimage plot with those of individual tales.
Fletcher, Chris, and others.
London: British Library, 2003.
An anthology of reproductions of selections from English literary manuscripts and books held at the British Library, including portraits of Chaucer ("one of the earliest English writers to have been accurately represented in portraits") from…
Dinshaw, Carolyn, and David Wallace, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Seventeen essays by various authors on topics that pertain to women, writing, and social conditions in England and the Continent in the late Middle Ages. None of the essay pertains to Chaucer exclusively, but references to his works recur throughout,…
Burnley, David.
Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas H. Jucker, eds. Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems. Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, no. 107 (Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2003), pp. 27-45.
Describes the "difficulties faced by scholars in unraveling" the complications involved in the usage and nuances of meaning of late Middle English you /thou pronouns, with particular attention to Chaucer's works, Eustace Deschamps' address to…
Beach, Charles Franklyn.
Anthony Giffone and Marlene San Miguel Groner, eds. Proceedings, Northeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature, 2003, Farmingdale State University of New York (Farmingdale, N.Y.: Farmingdale State University, 2004), pp. 5-10.
Comments on various assessments of the Prioress as a figure of false appearances and suggests that Chaucer undercuts PrT through the reference to Hugh of Lincoln, which ironically evokes the twelfth-century Hugh, bishop of Lincoln, who defended Jews.
Andretta, Helen R[uth].
Edward Wesley, ed. Christianity & Literature (Brooklyn, N.Y.: St. Francis, 2003), pp. 16-27.
Essay not located; reported in the MLA International Bibliography, with the following note: "Proceedings of the Northeast Region Conference: Voices Far and Near: Myth, Legend, Folktale, Fantasy, Held Friday, October 25 and Saturday, October 26,…
Schildgen, Brenda Deen.
Jon Ma. Asgeirsson and Nancy van Deusen, eds. Alexander's Revenge: Hellenistic Culture through the Centuries (Reykjavik: University of Iceland Press, 2002), pp. 209-21.
Compares and contrasts the "treatment of Islam" in MLT and in "Decameron" 1.3 and 10.9, arguing that, unlike Boccaccio, Chaucer "vehemently condemns fraternizing with Islam" and presents Islam "as a dangerous and perfidious opposition to the…
