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Ruud, Jay.   Nicholas Wallerstein and Roger Ochse, eds. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature (Spearfish, S. D.: Black Hills State University Printing, 2002), pp. 74-83.
Examines Chaucer's translation of Petrarch's Sonnet 132 (TC 1.400-420), commenting on his facility with Italian and his comprehension of the sonnet and other verse forms. Chaucer's translation redirects the emphasis of the lyric to concern for…

Kumamoto, Sadahiro.   Kumamoto Daigaku Eigo Eibungaku [Kumamoto Studies in English Language and Literature] 45 (2002): 1-31.
Item not located; reported in MLA International Bibliography, which indicates that the essay pertains to syntactical uses of the infinitive in BD, PF, and HF; also indicates that the essay is in Japanese, with an English summary.

Gorlach, Manfred.   Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2002.
The section entitled "Authentic Languages" includes a sub-section on Chaucer that raises questions about modern ability to gauge the authenticity of the northern literary dialect in RvT.

Faraudo, Rosario.   Anuario de Letras Modernas 11 (2002-03): 53-60.
Observes how Chaucer uses more courtly conventions in TC than does Boccaccio in "Filostrato" or Shakespeare in "Troilus and Cressida."

Sellen, Derek.
Manna, Giovanni, illus.   Genoa: Cideb Editrice; Amsterdam: Intertaal, 2002.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this includes adapted versions of GP and five tales from CT, with texts, notes, and activities designed to improve reading and langauge skills. Released in several languages for English-learning children.

Voelker, Sarah Ray.   Piscataway, N. J.: Research & Education Association, 1995.
Study guide to the CT, with character lists, plot summaries and analyses, and study questions and answers for each tale. Also includes introductory backgrounds and suggested essay topics. Illustrated by Karen Pica. Reissued in 2003.

Walsh, Patrick.   Toronto: Playwrights Canada, 1984.
Dramatic adaptation for the stage of portions of GP, WBPT, MilPT, and RvPT, in a single plot, with Author's Notes and stage directions. The play was "first produced by Theatre Antigonish, Antigonish, Nova Scotia in March 1982."

Conrad, Peter.   London: Dent, 1985.
A history of English literature that emphasizes the continuity of ongoing forms and thematic concerns. Two chapters pertain to Chaucer: "Chaucerian Epic and Romance" and "Chaucer, Langland and the Treachery of the Text." The first traces how Chaucer…

Stallworthy, Jon, ed.   New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Arranged chronologically, this anthology of 259 poems and excerpts about war ranges from the Bible and Homer to Peter Porter, including a selection from John Dryden's translation of the description of the temple of Mars in KnT.

Rey Briones, Antonio del, ed.   Madrid: Akal, 2008.
This anthology of international short fiction in Spanish translation is intended for classroom use, with a pedagogical introduction (pp. 9-105) and study questions (pp. 485-524). It includes PardT (pp. 123-31), without PardP, as well as tales by Don…

Jost, Jean E.   Albrecht Classen, ed. Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: New Approaches to a Fundamental Cultural-Historical and Literary-Anthropological Theme (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008), pp. 599-632.
Contrasts Chaucer's Troilus and the title character of "Sir Tristrem," with comments on brutality and violence in "Athelston," exploring the "nobility" or lack of nobility of masculine protagonists in courtly romance. Devotion and affection dominate…

New York: New Directions, 2008.
Eighty-four brief poems or excerpts from longer ones, including lines 36-56 of SNP in Middle English (pp. 68-69), with indication of Chaucer's debt to Dante, whose version of "St. Bernard's Hymn to the Virgin" is given in Italian and English…

Peters, Harry.   Albrecht Classen, ed. Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Neglected Topic (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2007), pp. 375-91.
Describes two medieval views of old age, based in the "seasonal model" of the four ages of life and the planetary model of seven ages. Comments on various poets' uses of the age of Jupiter and the age of Saturn, and identifies Chaucer's depictions of…

Medieval Murderers, The. [Bernard, Knight, Ian Morson, Michael Jecks, Philip Gooden, and Susanna Gregory.]   London: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Historical fiction in a series of five "interlinked mysteries" that pertain to Bermondsey Priory and its curse. The section titled "Act Four," by Philip Gooden, "relates to how the poet Chaucer becomes embroiled in the priory's dark history."

Kumamoto, Sadahiro.   Kumamoto Daigaku Eigo Eibungaku [Kumamoto Studies in English Language and Literature] 50 (2007): 1-24.
Item not seen, reported in MLA International Bibliography as a study of enjambment in relation to syntax in BD.

DeMaria, Robert, Jr., and Robert D. Brown, eds.   Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2007.
Collects excerpts from various "British, Irish, and Caribbean Writers" (Chaucer to Seamus Heaney) and from various classical writers (Homer to Juvenal) to demonstrate classical influence. Opens (pp. 3-10) with a selection from WBP (ll. 627-822) in…

Capra, Sisto.   Pavia: G. Iuculano, 2007.
Item not seen; reported in WorldCat, which describes the volume as a historical novel about Chaucer.

Bragg, Melvyn.   New York: Films Media Group, 2006.
Item not accessed; reported by WorldCat, which describes this video as concerned with the impact of French on the English language and identifies four units that pertain to Chaucer: "Geoffrey Chaucer: Father of English Literature" (3:10); "Geoffrey…

Forni, Kathleen, ed.   Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute, 2005.
Edits sixteen medieval narrative poems and lyrics "prized and preserved because of their associations with Chaucer." Includes glosses, notes, and textual information, with a cumulative bibliography and brief glossary. The selection includes "The…

Turgon [David E. Smith].   Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Cold Spring Press, 2004
An anthology of selections from medieval literatures that influenced J. R. R. Tolkien: Old English, Middle English, Old Norse, Celtic (Welsh and Irish), and Finnish. Includes RvT, NPT, and FranT (pp. 127-53), translated by John S. P. Tatlock and…

Reece, Spencer.   New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
In her "Foreward" to this collection of Reece's poems (ix-xiii), Louise Glück comments on the theme of virtue in ClT as a "problem" for modern readers, "possibly because virtue unconvincingly disarms brutality." She also observes that Reece's book…

Howard, Margaret, Bernard Palmer, David Bellan, and Martin Souter, readers.   Worton, Oxfordshire: Classical Communications, 2004.
Extracts from GP in modern English translation (J. U. Nicolson, trans.), "intermingled with atmospheric music of the period: songs, dances and instrumental pieces" (cover notes).

Damrosch, David, gen. ed.   New York: Longman, 2004.
Volume B, entitled "The Medieval Era," includes selections from CT (GP, MilPT, and WBPT; pp. 1239-1306) in the translation by J. U. Nicolson, with brief notes and glosses. The 2d edition (2009) adds David L. Pike as a gen. ed., and includes the same…

Corn, Alfred.   Contemporary Poetry Review n.v. (Feb. 2004): n.p. [Available electronically.]
Personal account that assesses several influential pilgrimage/travel narratives, including Homer's "Odyssey," Dante's "Divine Comedy," and CT, with comments on Chaucer's narrator, his debt to Dante, intertextuality, and the experience of reading GP…

Córdoba, Argentina: El Cid Editor, 2003.
Item not seen; reported by WorldCat as a Spanish translation of CT.
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