Visual and verbal guide to the "Pilgrims' Way" between London and Canterbury, documenting the remaining evidence of ancient and medieval archeology, architecture, and topography, and exploring possible side routes and byways where remaining evidence…
Dramatic adaptation of portions of GP, KnT, WBT, PardT, FranT, NPT, and MilT, designed for "youth groups and dramatic societies." Includes stage directions, brief production notes and instructions, property list, etc. Musical score for piano, by…
Classroom adaptations of selections from CT (GP, KnT, ClT, WBT, PardT, FranT, FrT, PhyT, and NPT), with a brief Introduction, questions for discussion, and a list of "new words." Reissued in 1987 with illustrations by Victor G. Ambrus.
An anthology of eight short stories by British writers, including PardT (pp. 65-77), each accompanied by a "Vocabulary Preview," explanatory notes, and a closing commentary. Illustrations by Clint Hanson.
Presents the Manly and Rickert text (1940) of KnT, with facing-page notes and end-of-text glossary and glossary of rhetorical terms. The Introduction (pp. 11-69) includes commentary on Chaucer's life, various techniques and themes of KnT, and the…
Sabine, Maureen.
Jonathan Hall and Ackbar Abbas, ed. Literature and Anthropology (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1986), pp. 52-95.
Reads PardT as evidence of the "darker undercurrents" of Chaucer's worries about his worldly success, especially as reflected in the night-time setting of the tale, its demonic imagery, and the Old Man's associations with avarice, death, and the…
Crowley, Duane.
Manchaca, Texas: Blue Boar Press, 1986.
Murder mystery in which the medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his fellow squire at law, Hugh le Hunt, seek to protect John of Gaunt and others from the implications of the death of Lady Mary de Clairmont. The fiction incorporates details from…
Observes points of similarity and difference between WBP and Martha Moulsworth's poetic autobiography, "Memorandum" (1632). The Wife serves as Moulsworth's "stylistic and rhetorical precursor."
Woodbridge, Linda.
Yearbook of English Studies 25 (1995): 22-40.
Challenges various assumptions about fundamental differences between oral and literate composition, assessing various features of folktale, drama, and narrative in early English culture. Cites MilT as an example where "legend" becomes a short story,…
Considers Robert Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid" as a tragedy and the role of writing in the demise of the central character. Also explores medieval attitudes toward leprosy, versions of the Criseyde story before Henryson, and Henryson's debt to…
Steinberg, Glenn A.
Dissertation Abstracts International 55.08 (1995): 2383A.
Post-structuralist analysis of Chaucer's use of Dante as a source in HF and TC, and Spenser's use of Chaucer's BD in his "Daphnaida" and HF in his Mutabilitie Cantos.
Beach, Charles Franklyn.
CSL: The Bulletin of The New York C. S. Lewis Society 26. 4-5 (1995): 1-11.
Describes C. S. Lewis's formulation of courtly love and applies it to TC, arguing that Chaucer exaggerates certain of its features to show its "weaknesses" (particularly through humor, Pandarus, and the narrator) and to replace it with divine love.
Tripp, Raymond P., Jr.
Geardagum 14 (1993): 89-110.
Assesses "St. Erkenwald" as hagiography, exploring in particular its orthodoxy and the relation of the Saint and the Judge. Also compares the "rationalism" of the poem with that of KnT and its elegiac qualities with those of BD.
Stanbury, Sarah.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
Argues in detail that the "Gawain"-poet develops a "visually focused descriptive poetic" in his works and, by way of conclusion, asks whether such a poetic is unusual in late-medieval English literature, going on to treat works by Chaucer, "Sir…
Stephens, John, and Ruth Waterhouse.
New York: Routledge, 1990
Seeks to describe and negotiate the variety of "cultural codes" that serve as the contexts for the "language of literature" between Chaucer and Alan Garner. The section on Chaucer and Gower (pp. 24-30) focuses on their "syntagmatic" emphasis within…
Johnson, Lesley.
Keith Busby and Erik Kooper, eds. Courtly Literature: Culture and Context. Selected Papers from the 5th Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, Dalfsen, The Netherlands, 9-16 August, 1986 (Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1990), pp. 313-21.
Reads Robert Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid," not as a "sequel" to TC, but as a "further displacement of the history of Troy," one that "questions the value of the vicarious experience of reading" fiction, particularly as it is realized in the…
Boenig, Robert.
Bruce L. Edwards, ed. The Taste of Pineapple: Essays on C. S. Lewis as Reader, Critic, and Imaginative Writer (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988), pp. 138-48.
Reads C. S. Lewis's essay on TC, "What Chaucer Really Did to 'Il Filostrato'" (1932), as an index to how Lewis adapted H. G. Wells' novel "The First Men in the Moon" in his own "Out of the Silent Planet." Because of Chaucer's changes to Boccaccio's…
Edits "The Isle of Ladies," with accompanying notes, glossary, and commentary, the latter including discussion of the text, language, date, authorship, literary context, style, and meter of the poem. The poem was first printed by Thomas Speght in…
Stafford, Kim R.
John Witte, ed. 2084: Looking Beyond Orwell (Portland: Oregon Committee for the Humanities, 1984), pp. 17-21.
Contemplates the notion that "space travel helps us to see what we have on earth," musing upon the Apollo 11 moon landing and a number of literary representations of travel through space, ancient and modern, including Troilus's rise through the…
Limited edition (210 copies), photo-litho facsimile of GP from British Library copy of William Caxton's 1476 first edition, with facing-page modern translation by Nevill Coghill, two original wood engravings (a portrait of Chaucer and the Knight…
