Devlin, Mary
San Jose, Calif.: Writers Club Press, 2000.
A murder mystery that incorporates details from Chaucer's life and from CT, featuring Chaucer in the role of detective seeking to solve three murders on the pilgrimage to Canterbury, with the aid of John of Gaunt.
A survey of fantasy literature in England, arranged topically in six categories: secondary world, metaphysical, emotive, comic, subversive, and children's. Includes commentary on various works by Chaucer in an opening chapter called "The Origins of…
Mey, Jacob.
Eva Hajicová, Miroslav Cervenka, Oldrich Leska, and Petr Sgall, eds. Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague/Prague Linguistic Circle Papers, I (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1995), pp. 261-94.
Considers the question of how language may (or may not) preserve technological knowledge over time by commenting on the linguistic features of "Inland English," invented by Russell Hoban in his futuristic novel "Riddley Walker" (1980). Uses…
Terry, Richard.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
A history of the idea of English literature and the development of an English literary canon, focusing on the long eighteenth century, but hearkening back to the early modern period. Recurrent attention to the role of Chaucer and his works, including…
A textbook for religious studies that anthologizes theological, philosophical, and literary essays and excerpts. all concerned with the nature of evil. Includes excerpts from Chaucer's "Patient Griselda" (ClT in David Wright translation, pp.…
An anthology of appreciative poetry, narratives, and essays (some in excerpts) that pertain to organs, organ music, and organists, including a selection from SNT in Middle English (pp. 5-6; lines 8.120-40) and a brief commentary.
An anthology in Spanish of seventeen pieces of short fiction from international medieval and modern sources, and a prologue by Montero that discusses the motif of the unfaithful woman. Includes WBPT (pp. 89-119).
Mitchell, Ken, Thomas Chase, and Michael Trussler, eds.
Regina, Saskatchewan: University of Regina, 1999.
An anthology of forty works of short fiction designed for "first-year university students," with an Introduction that discusses the genre, and an appendix of related literary terms. Each narrative is accompanied by a brief assessment and a…
Ingpen, Robert.
Port Melbourne, Victoria: Lothian Books, 1999.
Includes drawings of each of the Canterbury pilgrims, plus a scene of the gathering at the Tabard Inn, interspersed with short quotations from GP (Nevill Coghill translation) and a brief introduction.
An anthology of four tales of cuckoldry, with a brief Introduction. Includes a version of ShT in Spanish, here titled "Vestida de Pecado: Versión Libre Sobre un Cuento de Geoffrey Chaucer" (pp. 37-65).
Barisone, Ermanno.
Paola Carbone, ed. Congenialità e Traduzione: Barisone/Chaucer, Bacigalupo/Wordsworth, Kemeny/Byron, Righetti/Browning, Parks/Calasso (Milan: Mimesis, 1998), pp. 21-31.
Describes the process and challenge of translating Chaucer into Italian. The volume also includes a round table discussion of translation, including comments about Chaucer, London standard, and Chaucer's stylistic and linguistic variety (pp. 91-103).
Mitchell, John D., in collaboration with Donald Berwick and George Drew.
John D. Mitchell and others. Men Stand on Shoulders (Key West, Fla.: Published by Institute for Advanced Studies in the Theatre Arts Press in association with Florida Keys Community College, 1996), pp. 1-71.
A film script which combines "key lines and phrases" from Boccaccio's "Filostrato," TC, and Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," interspersed with appearances of the three writers in moments of fictional biography. Re-tells the broad outlines of the…
Yuan, Xianjun.
Beijing: Peking University Press, 1995.
Reads TC as a "jubilant celebration of earthly love" which "testifies to the accessibility of Christian salvation by means of human love" (xi). Earthly love and divine love are balanced in the poem, with Troilus regarding Criseyde as the "Blessed…
Spearing, A. C., ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Edition of KnT, originally published in 1966, based on F. N. Robinson's 2d edition (1957), with a new Introduction (pp. 1-111), "reconsidered" notes, and a corrected glossary, both included at the end of the volume, much as in the 1966 original. The…
Rowland, Beryl.
Beryl Rowland, ed. Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1974), pp. 43-55.
Identifies elements of MilT that burlesque the Annunciation, the Incarnation, and the Flood, explaining imagery and allusions derived from the biblical narratives and mystery plays.
Provost, William.
Susan J. Ridyard and Robert G. Benson, eds. Man and Nature in the Middle Ages (Sewanee, Tenn.: University of the South Press, 1995), pp. 185-98.
Describes Chaucer's various uses of the terms "kynde" and "nature" (and their derivatives), focusing particularly on their semantic range and potential as personifications
Ridyard, Susan J., and Robert G. Benson, eds.
Sewanee, Tenn.: University of the South Press, 1995.
Fourteen essays from the seventeenth Sewanee Mediaeval Colloquium, on late-classical and medieval ideas of Nature, science, and human perception. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Man and Nature in the Middle Ages under Alternative…
Pomerleau, Mary Farrell, trans.
Arcadia, Calif.: Charlemagne Press, 1995.
Modern translation of ParsPT, Ret, and the GP description of the Parson, accompanied by brief notes and a glossary, Farrell's pen-and-ink illustrations, and her introduction (pp. 15-29) that comments on the structure and outlook of ParsT and what we…
Cowgill, Kent.
Rochester, Minn.: Lone Oak Press, 1995.
A comic novel that derives its characters from GP and most of its sub-plots from CT, cast as the thirty-year reunion of a hapless college baseball team, the Tabelard Bees, with first-person narration by the team's utility player, Jeffrey Shoemaker,…
Riehle, Wolfgang.
Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowoht, 1994.
An introductory biography of Chaucer and chronological commentary on all of his major works in light of social and personal history. Includes a time line, brief selections from critical traditions, a bibliography, an index, and illustrations largely…
An anthology for children of animal tales from Aesop, the Grimm brothers, etc., including a selection from NPT (pp. 51-56; excludes the dream commentary and philosophy), as "retold by" Stephen Corrin. Plates and illustrations by Angel Dominquez.
