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Brewer, D. S.   London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1953.
Combines social and intellectual history and appreciative criticism of Chaucer's writing in a "short study of Chaucer's life and works for people with literary tastes," arranged chronologically from Chaucer's youth to death. Describes his…

Menmuir, Rebecca.
Buchanan, Peter.
Kask, Pamela.   Year's Work in English Studies 102 (2023): 264-94.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2021, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, other works, and reception. See also "Middle English," YWES 102 (2023): 171-263.

Coxe, Louis O., ed.   [New York]: [Dell], 1963.
Edits portions of CT (KnT, MilT, WBP, MerT, FranT, PardT, NPT, and PrT), selections from TC, and from lyrics (Truth, MercB) in Middle English, with introduction, notes, and glossary.

Coxe, Louis O.   [New York]: [Dell], 1963.
Edits portions of CT (KnT, MilT, WBP, MerT, FranT, PardT, NPT, and PrT), selections from TC, and from lyrics (Truth, MercB) in Middle English, with introduction, notes, and glossary.

Menmuir, Rebecca, Peter Buchanan, and Lucy Brookes.   Year's Work in English Studies 101 (2022): 283-315
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2020, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, other works, and reception and reputation. Augmented by the bibliographies on "Middle English" in this volume of YWES.

Pitard, Derrick, Lindsey Simon-Jones, and Krista Sue-Lo Twu.   Year's Work in English Studies 100 (2021): 289–305.
Presents a discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2019, divided into five subcategories: general, CT, TC, other works, and reception.

Lawlor, John.   London: Hutchinson University Library, 1968.
Treats Chaucer's major narrative poems as "oral script(s)" presented to a "small and courtly audience," offering sustained readings that reflect the poems' tensions between authority and experience (or "pref") and address concerns of poetic freedom…

Ackerman, Robert W.   John H. Fisher, ed. The Medieval Literature of Western Europe: A Review of Research, Mainly 1930-1960 (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1966), pp. 110-22.
Discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies (ca. 1930-1960), with five sub-sections: Bibliographies, Editions, and the Chaucer Canon; Chaucer's Life and Times; Chaucer's English; General Critical Works; The Canterbury Tales; and Troilus and Criseyde…

Simon-Jones, Lindsey, Derrick Pitard, and Krista Sue-Lo Twu   Year's Work in English Studies 99 (2020): 292-312.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2018, divided into six subcategories: general, CT, TC, LGW, other works, and reputation and reception.

Glück, Robert.   Robert Glück. Elements of a Coffee Service (San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1982), pp, 50-55.
Modern prose adaptation of PardPT, adapted into a fictional frame that refers to Passolini's cinematic version of CT.

Turner, Marion.   Richard Bradford, ed. A Companion to Literary Biography (Oxford: Wiley, 2018), pp. 375-90.
Describes the "ideological investments" that underlie the history of Chaucer biographies, explores authorial self-consciousness and the "autobiographical impulse" in early English literature, and explains the interests and emphases that underlie…

Twu, Krista Sue-Lo, Lindsey Simon-Jones, and Derrick Pitard.   Year's Work in English Studies 98 (2019): 267-90.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2016, divided into five subcategories: general, CT, TC, other works, and reputation and reception.

Parsons, Ben, and Natalie Jones.   Year's Work in English Studies 97 (2018): 286-305.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2016, divided into five subcategories: general, CT, TC, other works, and reputation and reception.

Berry, Craig A.   In Andrew Escobedo, ed. Edmund Spenser in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 246-53.
Describes the "audacity and intensity" of Spenser's debt to Chaucer, considering the later poet's archaisms, his allusions to and quotations of Chaucer (particularly in "The Faerie Queene"), and the importance of Chaucer to Spenser's English…

Turner, Marion.   Oxford Handbooks Online: Scholarly Research Reviews. Free access available at http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935338.001.0001/oxfordhb-97 80199935338-e-58?skey=ycbEz7&result=1. 2015 (accessed February 23, 2019).
Surveys "current critical trends" in Chaucer studies, focusing on "twenty-first-century interest in interconnectedness, intersubjectivity, and cultural networks." Then discusses "Chaucer's own understanding of the construction of the self in relation…

Parsons, Ben, and Natalie Jones.   Year's Work in English Studies 96 (2017): 285-311.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2015, divided into five subcategories: general, CT, TC, other works, and reputation and reception.

Parsons, Ben, and Natalie Jones.   Year's Work in English Studies 94 (2015): 237-62.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2013, divided into five subcategories: general, CT, TC, other works, and reputation and reception.

Jones, Natalie, and Ben Parsons.   Year's Work in English Studies 95 (2016): 309-32.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2014, divided into five subcategories: general, CT, TC, other works, and reputation and reception

Grose, M. W.   London: Evans Brothers, 1967.
Introduces to a non-scholarly audience Chaucer's life and works, cast against a background of social, scientific, and intellectual history, with frequent comparisons and contrasts with the modern world. Includes sections on Chaucer's Life, his…

Baugh, Albert C.   New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1968.
Lists bibliographical citations of Chaucer studies, with sections on reference works, biography, social and cultural environments, editions and modernizations, language and versification, sources, individual works, apocrypha, etc., but excluding…

Fein, Susanna, and David Raybin, eds.   University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016.
Includes twelve essays, an index, ninety-seven b&w and color illustrations, and an introduction by the editors, who argue for a fuller critical reckoning with the "multimodal aesthetic practices of late medieval visual art and literature" aided by…

Dauby, Helene.   Cahiers de l'Abbaye de Saint-Arnoult, vol. 2 (Paris: Editions Andre Silvaire, 1987), pp. 99-110.
Compares Helinand's "Vers de la mort" with Chaucer's work and concludes that Chaucer is far more optimistic; he is a poet of life rather than death.

Varnam, Laura.   Michael O'Neill, ed. The Cambridge History of English Poetry (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 81-95.
Varnam describes Chaucer's "legacy to English poetry as one of linguistic curiosity and a refusal of generic categorization." With TC, Chaucer "heralded a new era of narrative poetry" rich with philosophy and characterization; in CT, he "created a…

Ingham, Patricia.   London: The British Council.
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Spearing, A. C., ed.   London: Edward Arnold, 1976.
An introduction to TC that considers the demands it places on readers to resolve tensions posed by the work: the genre of romance opposed by conversational and material realism and by philosophical depth; the varying attitudes its poses toward the…
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