Williams, David.
Mary Reichardt, ed. Encyclopedia of Catholic Literature. 2 vols. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2004), 1:93-104.
Summarizes Chaucer's life and the plot and themes of CT; then gives "something of the flavor" of the CT by assessing the theological perspectives of pilgrims from differing social classes, treating KnT, WBP, PardPT, and NPT. Closes with a description…
Robb, Candace [M.]
New York: St. Martin's; London: Heinemann, 1998.
Historical detective novel in which Geoffrey Chaucer, while recruiting Welsh archers for defense against the French, assists Owen Archer's investigations of a murder in Wales.
Historical gothic detective fiction set in the frame of the CT, in which a student, modeled on Chaucer's Clerk, tells a story to the rest of the pilgrims about murder, exorcism, star-crossed love, and returns from the dead. Published in the U.S. as…
Historical gothic detective fiction set in the frame of the CT, in which a carpenter tells a story to the rest of the pilgrims about the solving of mysterious murders.
Doherty, P. C.
New York: St. Martin's; London: Headline, 1997.
Historical gothic detective fiction set in the frame of the CT, in which a priest, modeled on Chaucer's Parson, tells a story to the rest of the pilgrims about a series of mysterious hauntings and deaths involving Knights Templar.
Doherty, P. C.
New York: St. Martin's; London: Headline, 1996.
Historical gothic detective fiction set in the frame of the CT, in which a franklin, modeled on Chaucer's Franklin, tells a story to the rest of the pilgrims about a mysterious murder linked to the battle of Poitiers and the parentage of one of the…
Doherty, P. C.
New York: St. Martin's; London: Headline, 1994.
Historical gothic detective fiction set in the frame of the CT, in which a knight, modeled on Chaucer's Knight, tells a story to the rest of the pilgrims about age-old vampires, mysterious deaths in Oxford, and a blind exorcist.
Doherty, P. C.
New York: St. Martin's; London: Headline, 1994.
Historical gothic detective fiction set in the frame of the CT, in which a lawyer, modeled on Chaucer's Man of Law, tells a story to the rest of the pilgrims about gruesome murders and the underworld of medieval London. Also published with the…
Medcalf, Stephen.
Roger Ellis, ed. The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Volume I: To 1550 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 364-90.
Surveys the tradition of medieval translation from Latin into English, commenting on Continental mediators and awareness of Greek literature. Focuses on translations of Boethius (including Chaucer's) and those of Apollonius of Tyre, treating them as…
Windeatt, Barry
Roger Ellis, ed. The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Volume I: To 1550 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 137-48.
Surveys Chaucer's career as a translator and the varieties of his "translational practice," focusing on his literal translations and how his "guise of the slavishly faithful translator" sometimes enables his "transformative adaptation." Considers…
Griffith, John Lance.
Fu Jen Studies: Literature and Linguistics 41 (2008): 13-45.
Reads KnT as a "tale of anger rather than (as is often the case) a tale of pity" which reveals Chaucer's ambivalence about anger as both "necessary and destructive" in human affairs. Explores Thomistic and Stoic notions of anger and assesses the…
Ellis, Roger, ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Anthologizes nineteen essays by various authors, with topics ranging from theory of translation to individual translators. Includes two essays that pertain to Chaucer: Barry Windeatt, "Geoffrey Chaucer" (pp. 137-48) and Stephen Medcalf, "Classical…
Considers "Testament of Cresseid" as a "Nebenmensch" (next man, or neighbor) to TC, doubting or negating it rather than emulating it, and, by "the logic of imperial translation," suspending England's rise as Scotland's "hostile neighbor."
Bridges, Margaret.
Dagmar Wieser, Patrick Labarthe, Jean-Paul Avice, eds. Mémoire et Oubli dans le Lyrisme Européen (Paris: Champion, 2008), pp. 311-41.
Describes the tradition of the rhetorical topos of the abandoned lover's apostrophe to the bed, considering the "gendered" fetishism of Ariadne's address in LGW, the description of Alceste in LGWP, Troilus's address to the empty house in TC, and Dido…
Bowler, Bill.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Pedagogical workbook for language learners of modern English, centered on modern prose adaptations of selections from CT (GP, KnT, MerT, ClT, FranT, WBT), with accompanying vocabulary exercises and comprehension activities. Illustrated by Natalia…
Explores how the concern with vision as a way of knowing is a concern in a variety of medieval dream visions, including "Pearl," "Piers Plowman," and HF.
Nisse, Ruth.
Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005.
Assesses the biblical and theatrical allusions in MilT for the ways that they engage the theme of interpretation, challenge gender categories, and dovetail with contemporary concerns about the dangers of drama and reading. Compares these with similar…
Turner, Marion.
New Medieval Literatures 9 (2007): 139-77.
Describes the cultural production of members of late-medieval English livery companies, focusing on political and literary activities of scribes (Thomas Usk in particular) who were members of the companies and comments on the impact of these…
Sugito, Hisashi.
Sophia English Studies 32 (2007): 17-31.
Chaucer uses Wycliffite discourse sympathetically in order to "satirize church corruption which the Pardoner represents," particularly the literal understanding of Scripture and allegories. The Pardoner's treatment of Scripture aligns with the views…
Mason, Tom.
Translation & Literature 16.1 (2007): 1-28.
Documents Dryden's wide-ranging allusiveness in his adaptation of NPT and comments on the reception of this version, arguing that "The Cock and the Fox" presents a delicate balance between praise and blame of humanity.
Argues that Chaucer seeks to persuade the audience of ShT to "use money wisely" by exposing the fallacy of equating wisdom and wealth and by following St. Augustine's arguments about wealth (that are also echoed in Mel and ParsT). This helps to…
Macaulay, Richard.
Cardiff: Drama Association of Wales, 2007
Includes "A Canterbury Tale" (pp. 91-113), a play that presents a fictional account of events that inspired Chaucer to write the CT, framed as a meeting between Chaucer and Simon Burley on the occasion of Burley's arrest. Also published as a…
