Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards.
Corinne Saunders, ed. A Concise Companion to Chaucer (Malden, Mass.; Oxford; and Victoria: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 34-50.
The essay describes the "complex exercises in historical reconstruction" essential to bridge the distance between modern readers and Chaucer and his contemporary audience. Discusses Chaucer's literary production, his revisions, and scribal…
Blake, Norman, and Jacob Thaisen.
Special issue, Nordic Journal of English Studies 3.1 (2004): 93-107.
Evaluating two CT manuscripts--Christ Church, Oxford, MS 152 (single exemplar) and British Library MS Harley 7334 (two exemplars)--the authors contend that analysis of spelling can be used to determine changes in exemplars in textual study. Because…
Thomas, Paul, ed.
Birmingham, UK : Scholarly Digital Editions, 2006.
Includes interlinked images and transcriptions of all fifty-five pre-1500 versions of NPT, with complete collations (linked to variant maps), commentaries on family relationships of the versions, and stemmatic commentary on key readings. The search…
Robinson, Peter.
Lou Burnard, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, and John Unsworth, eds. Electronic Textual Editing (New York: MLA, 2006), pp. 74-91.
Generates five general "propositions" about the nature and practice of electronic editing, explaining how the propositions developed from work of Robinson and others on The Canterbury Tales Project and indicating the applicability of the propositions…
Reimer, Stephen R.
Chaucer Review 41 (2006): 105-09.
Proofs of George Vertue's prints held in the University of Southern California's Doheny Memorial Library provide firm evidence that Vertue executed all but one of the engravings in the 1721 edition of John Urry's The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and…
Kuskin, William, ed.
Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.
Ten essays by various authors and an introduction by the editor, exploring the relationship of Caxton to early Continental printing and the influence of Caxton and his practice on English printing, ideas of authorship, editing, and language. Includes…
Gillespie, Alexandra.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Analyzing the impact of print on already-existing ideas of authorship, Gillespie argues "that the medieval author was a mechanism for ordering the new meanings of texts in print," even when the understanding of that author was a result, or…
Galbraith, Steven K.
Spenser Studies 21 (2006): 21-49.
Contrasts the absence of Spenser's portrait in the first folio edition of The Faerie Queen with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Chaucer folios, which were printed throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Fisher, John H., and Mark Allen, eds.
Boston : Thomson Wadsworth, 2006.
Revised edition of CT, based on Fisher's "Complete Poetry and Prose of Geoffrey Chaucer" (1977), with new on-page glosses and explanatory notes, plus bibliography (pp. 402-41). Includes lightly revised essays on Chaucer's life and language and a new…
Choi, Yejung, and Ji-soo Chang.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 12 (2004): 225-56.
The authors critique several Korean translations of CT published since the early 1960s: those by J. Kim, B. Song, Dong-il Lee and Dongchoon Lee, and another attributed to J. Kim.
Facing-page adaptations of KnT (abridged), MilT, PardT, and WBT, with Middle English and lyrics designed for rap performance. The Middle English text is glossed, and each Tale is accompanied by a brief introduction to the plot. Brinkman's…
Beidler, Peter G., trans. and ed.
New York : Bantam, 2006.
Facing-page translation of selections from CT, based on the 1964 version by A. Kent Hieatt and Constance Hieatt, augmented with expanded selections and apparatus. Selections include GP, KnT, MilPT, RvPT, WBPT, MerPT, FranT, PardPT, ShT, PrPT, and…
Text of TC based on Riverside edition, with Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato" on facing pages, in the English translation of Robert P. apRoberts and Anna Bruni Benson. Includes Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, as edited by Robert L. Kindrick; ten…
Altmann, Barbara K., and R. Barton Palmer, trans. and eds.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2006.
Translates into modern unrhymed pentameter the LGWP-F version and LGW, based on the Riverside edition, with a brief introduction and notes. Also translates works by Guillaume de Machaut ("Jugement dou roy de Behaigne" and "Jugement dou roy de…
Perry, Judy.
Foundations: Newsletter of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy 1.2-3 (2003-2004): 122-31 and 164-74.
Perry documents the complex relationships among the Roets, Swynfords, Lancastrians, and Chaucer's family, rejecting speculation that Thomas Chaucer was the illegitimate son of John of Gaunt and commenting on the dowering of Elizabeth Chaucer at…
Two documents in the National Archives (London) show that Alice Perrers was married to Janyn Perers, possibly an Italian, before becoming Edward III's mistress. These records hint that she was "a person of lower birth who made her fortune essentially…
Cannon, Christopher.
Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006, pp. 31-54.
Cannon observes parallels between the "forms of life Chaucer made in his poems" and "what can be reconstructed from his own life from the public record." Suggests that both the textual lives and Chaucer's biography derive "in part from social…
Rogerson, Margaret.
Sydney Studies in English 32 (2006): 45-63.
Surveys efforts to popularize CT through media (television, audio recordings, stage, and animation), commenting most extensively on the 2003 BBC television series.
Brinkman, Baba.
Canada : Spin Digital Media, 2004.
Audio recording of hip-hop performance of adaptations of GP (cast as a bus trip), KnT, MilPT, PardPT, WBPT, and Ret (with additional tracks: "Rhyme Renaissance Prologue," "Rhyme Renaissance," and "Dead Poets"). Affiliated website at .
Blandeau studies Pasolini's cinematic trilogy of medieval tales: The Decameron, CT, and One Thousand and One Nights, focusing on the first two. Argues that Pasolini "puts two semiotic systems in translation with each other, not so much to transmit…
