Tulián, Antonio, trans.
Buenos Aires: Longsellar, 2001.
Spanish prose translation of selections from CT (MilT, RvT, MkT, NPPT, excerpts from ParsT, and Ret), accompanied by an introduction to Chaucer's life and works.
Trimble, Lester, comp.
Lester Trimble, American Harpsichord Music of the 20th Century (Albany, N.Y.: Albany, 2001), CD-ROM, tracks 14-17.
Audio recording, performed by Nancy Armstrong (soprano), Mark Kroll (harpsichord), Bruce Creditor (clarinet), and Alan Weiss (Flute). The lyrics adapt selections from GP (opening, Knight, and Squire) and WBP.
Rorty, Amélie Oskenberg, ed.
New York: Routledge, 2001.
Chronological anthology of selections and excerpts from philosophy, religious texts, and fiction, representing the historical "varieties" of evil. Includes excerpts from ParsT, entitled "The Seven Deadly Sins" (pp. 100-05) in modern translation.
Proposes that "fade" is an "Anglicized form of Occitan "fado"/"fada" and therefore further evidence that the "Gawain" or "Pearl" Poet served in Aquitaine, associated with military and/or diplomatic exploits, as did Chaucer. Proposes several possible…
Includes discussion of PrT as one of several "possible intertexts" for Ezra Pound's "Usury Cantos." In PrT Chaucer presents usury as a defining characteristic of Jews, antithetical to Christian notions of virginity, and aligned with lust and the…
Hernández Pérez, María Beatriz.
SELIM 11 (2001-2002): 29-47.
Assesses "The Assembly of Ladies" in light of several Chaucerian techniques, particularly his use of a disarming narrative persona. The relatively straightforward female narrative persona of "Assembly" is unlike the narrator of LGW, although both…
Ogborn, Jane, and Peter Buckroyd.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
An introduction to satire for classroom use, directed at university students and focusing on English literature from Chaucer to Carol Ann Duffy; concerned with definitions, social contexts, and the transaction between reader and text. The discussion…
Modern prose adaptation of selections from CT (GP, PardT, RvT, Th, FranT, and MilT), set within the pilgrimage frame, designed for staging by students in their "lower and middle years of secondary school". The text is interspersed with various…
Lisowska, Pauline Sidey, with Tony Buzan.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001.
Study guide to MilT, designed for university students. Includes summaries, commentaries, and discussion of contexts, themes, characterization, style, language, and critical approaches, with advice on how score well on exams, a model exam answer, and…
Adaptation of the CT for staging that incorporates abridged versions of PardT, FrT, MilT, RvT, WBT, and NPT, with stage directions, framed by dialogue among Chaucer, a modern student, the Host, and several fiends. The volume includes suggestions for…
Tasioulas, J. A.
Harlow: Longman; London: York Press, 2000.
Study guide to FranPT and the GP description of the Franklin that includes a plot synopsis, running commentary, and glosses (text not included, except for three passages in Middle English, with closer analysis). Also includes descriptions of the…
Lisowska, Pauline Sidey, with Tony Buzan.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2000.
Study guide to WBPT, designed for university students. Includes summaries, commentaries, and discussion of contexts, themes, characterization, style, language, and critical approaches, with advice on how score well on exams, a model exam answer, and…
Kirkham, David, and Valerie Allen, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Study guide to the PardPT and the GP description of the Pardoner that includes the Middle English text, with facing-page glosses and commentary that encourages careful reading. The volume includes a summary of CT and an introduction to Chaucer's…
King, Pamela M.
Harlow: Longman; London: York Press, 2000.
Study guide to MilPT and the GP description of the Miller that includes a plot synopsis, running commentary, and glosses (text not included, except for three passages in Middle English, with closer analysis). Also includes descriptions of the…
Huddlestone, Elizabeth
Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Study guide to the NPPT that includes the Middle English text, with facing-page glosses and commentary that encourages careful reading. The volume includes a summary of CT and an introduction to Chaucer's language, along with discussion of various…
Study guide to CT, arranged topically, with sections that introduce the Host, the narrator, and other "voices"; genre and the relations of teller and tale; and several thematic concerns: ideal womanhood and its subversion, writing and authority, and…
Andretta, Helen R[uth].
Jonathan Gates, ed. Proceedings: 1999 Northeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature (Surf City, N. J.: American Graphic Services, 2000), pp. 1-13.
Compares T. S. Eliot's worldview in "The Waste Land" with Chaucer's view of the "world as a wilderness" in CT and Truth. Both poets see the need for renewal.
Includes selections from GP, RvT, and FranT, along with selections from BD, HF, PF, TC, LGWP, and the complete Pity. Texts in Middle English, with occasional end-of-text glosses.
Whitesides, Nigel, and Adrian G. Packer.
Rochester, Kent: P.S. Publishers, 1998.
Lesson plans and activities for teaching CT, centered on adaptations of WBT, FranT, and PardT for staging, and including abridged versions of KnT, RvT, NPT, and FrT. Also includes a short play about the death of Thomas Becket. The volume includes…
Tasioulas, J. A.
Harlow: Longman; London: York Press, 1998.
Study guide to WBPT that includes a plot synopsis, running commentary, and glosses (text not included, except for three passages for closer analysis). Also includes descriptions of the Wife's character, various themes and devices, sources and…
Andrew, Malcolm, and A. C. Cawley, eds.
London: Dent, 1998.
Text and notes of WBPT, ClPT, and MerPT in Middle English, originally edited by Cawley and here revised by Andrew. Includes a Chronology of Chaucer's life and times and an Introduction (xiv-xx) by Andrew that focuses on the theme of marriage in the…
Adapts aspects of CT (particularly WBPT, PardPT, and MilT), "Everyman," and "Piers Plowman" in a single plot, designed for the stage, with a brief Introduction and stage directions.
Pickering, Kenneth, and Michael Herzog.
Malvern: J. Garner Miller, 1997.
Adapts TC for the stage in modern prose, with Production Notes, a dramaturgical Introduction, and stage directions in the modern-English text. Michael B. Herzog's "Music Score" (n.p.; at end of text) provides musical scores for four lyrics in the…
