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Selection from CT in Russian poetic translation by Ivan Kashkin and O. B. Rumer, with Introduction and notes by A. Anikst. Miniature book in 9 cm., with nine b&w illustrations of the tales and a fold-out color depiction of the pilgrims in progress.

Compares and contrasts descriptions of feasts by the "Gawain"-poet and Chaucer (WBT, KnT, SqT, the GP description of the Prioress, and ParsT), with comments on the "Second Shepherds' Play," and Robert Henryson.

Interactive, illustrated exploration of the "multiple meanings of pilgrimage within the Christian tradition," especially as expressed in the Middle Ages, although set in the broader context of worldwide practice. Includes a wide variety of…

Describes the role of performance, or delivery, in medieval rhetorical and grammatical treatises, and exemplifies the evidence of Chaucer's concern with rhetoric and performance in CT--in the Host's remarks to the Clerk, the role-playing of the…

This anthology includes the description of the Clerk from the GP, with a commentary that explains details unfamiliar to modern readers and analyzes features of structure and prosody.

Translations into modern English prose of BD, HF, Anel, PF, Bo, TC, LGW, the "Shorter Poems," and Rom.

Translation of CT into modern English prose.

Studies how John Lydgate's occasional poetry, including mummings and diguisings, reacts to and helps to shape an emergent notion of "public culture" that differs from that of his predecessor, Chaucer. Lydgate, Nolan argues, translated "the poetic…

Comments on Chaucer's uses of words that have come to be regarded as obscene or distasteful.

Comments briefly on references to Chaucer in the fiction and criticism of Sinclair Lewis.

Study guide to MilPT, designed for adolescents, with Middle English text and facing translation in modern verse and a variety of background materials: GP descriptions of Miller, Wife, of Bath, and Pardoner; an introduction to Chaucer's life and…

Describes Ovid's response to Virgil, and gauges Ovid's influence on Chaucer, focusing on the latter's acquaintance with "Ars Amatoria," "Remedia Amoris," and "Amores," and on the "self-conscious, obtrusive narrator." Like Ovid, and unlike Virgil,…

Assesses the prosody of Willem van Afflighem's "Het Leven van Sinte Lutgart" as iambic pentameter, gauging its place in the development of the meter. Includes a section (pp. 13-19) on Chaucer's iambic pentameter. In Dutch.

Translation of CT into Hungarian, with notes by Miklós Vajda and Gyözö Ferencz and an epilogue by Adám Nádasdy. Reprints the 1950 translation by a team of translators, in verse and prose: László Benjámin, Fodor András, Gábor…

Translation of selections of CT into Bengali prose.

Adaptations in modern prose of five shortened selections from CT, designed for staging. Includes NPT, ClT, RvT, WBT, and PardT.

Suggests that both TC and CT conclude in accord with the medieval rhetorical principle of "digression." Identifies the device in medieval rhetoric tradition, particularly the "Poetria Nova" of Geoffrey of Vinsauf, and applies it briefly to the…

Translation of CT into Serbo-Croatian poetry and prose. Includes bottom-of-page notes.

Translation of GP into modern Welsh verse, with notes.

Translation of CT into Hebrew, with end-of-text notes, reproductions of the Caxton woodcuts of the pilgrims, and a postscript by Lawrence Besserman.

Seeks to bridge the intellectual and emotion distance between modern readers and medieval literature, addressing the nature of semantic change and changing ideas about human personality. Includes commentary on a range of medieval works, with extended…

Describes the emergence of "something very like a Ricardian literary movement," focusing on the ability of Langland, Chaucer, and the "Pearl" poet to accept the mundane world completely and yet remain detached from it. Connects this ability with the…

Explores fusions of penitential values and Wycliffite ideals in Chaucer's LGW, ParsT, and Ret, arguing that he used them to counter Richard II's use of exempla to suppress political dissent.

An alphabetical one-volume encyclopedia of international medieval writers, their works, anonymous works, literary genres, and major cultural contexts, with entries by a dozen contributing authors, a time line of writers, a bibliography, and an index.…

Describes how, increasingly identified with Chaucer in early editions, "The Plowman's Tale" advanced "Chaucer's status as an early Protestant figure," noting in particular the association of them in Milton's "Of Reformation."