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Summary (without text) and commentary on FranT, arranged in sections, accompanied by glosses to Middle English phrases. Also includes a brief introduction to Chaucer and his backgrounds, commentary on themes and style of FranT, its characterization…

Facing-page edition and translation of Nicholas of Lynn's "Kalendarium," a source for Astr (as Chaucer tells us) and for the astronomical observations in three passages of CT (MLP, NPT, and ParsP). Based on Bodleian Library MS Laud Miscellaneous 662,…

This volume provides select bibliographical listings for a range of English writers, from Joseph Addison to W. B. Yeats, arranged alphabetically by author, covering materials up to 1977. The Chaucer section (pp. 32-37) lists discussions of canon and…

An introduction to Petrarch, his works, and their reception in England and France to the seventeenth century. Observes connections between the end of Petrarch's "Canzoniere" and Chaucer's Ret, and comments on Chaucer's reference to Petrarch in ClP…

Adjustments to the traditional narrative in ClT compel us to read Walter, Griselda, and the "peple" as complex characters, rich in ambiguity, in a setting that "moves between an ideal and real world" (27). These complications enrich the simple…

Summary (without text) and commentary on NPPT, arranged in sections, accompanied by glosses to Middle English phrases. Also includes a brief introduction to Chaucer and his literature; commentary on source materials of NPT, its characterization and…

Summary (without text) and commentary on PardPT, arranged in sections, accompanied by glosses to Middle English phrases. Also includes a brief introduction to Chaucer and his literature, commentary on source materials of PardPT, its characterization…

Reads KnT as a veiled, enigmatic "literary game," disclosing it to be a "pagan analogue of the Old Testament" and a prefiguration of the New, ripe with figurative characters and events, and deeply inscribed with archteypes.

Reported by MLA International Bibliography; essay not seen.

In Russian; with English summary (p. 55): "The realistic tendencies of 'The Canterbury Tales,' a result of Chaucer's cultivating the traditions of medieval literature, are considered. According to contemporary scholars, the basis for these tendencies…

Explores how and to what extent Chaucer's experiences in trade and in civil life affected his literary concerns and style, considering his "realism" as it is depicted in passages from GP, ShT, CYT, and MilT.

Reported by MLA International Bibliography; essay not seen.

Translation of CT into Hebrew, with end-of-text notes, reproductions of the Caxton woodcuts of the pilgrims, and a postscript by Lawrence Besserman.

Selection from CT in Russian poetic translation by Ivan Kashkin and O. B. Rumer, with Introduction and notes by A. Anikst. Miniature book in 9 cm., with nine b&w illustrations of the tales and a fold-out color depiction of the pilgrims in progress.

An edition of FranPT, the description of the Franklin from the GP, and the endlink from the SqT, with notes and glosses. In his Introduction (pp. 1-47), Morgan comments on the "challenges" of reading Chaucer's poetry, the "modulation" of his poetic…

Examines the oral features in Chaucer's poetry, exploring how French clichés are evident in TC and CT. In Japanese.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of ClT in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of selections from TC in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of MerT in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of WBPT in Middle English and that WBP and WBT were re-issued separately in 1986 and 2010.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of FrT in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of SumT in Middle English.

Verse dialogue in iambic pentameter couplets in which the Wife of Bath recommends to a convalescent Chaucer the idea of writing CT and offers to tend him while he writes.

Assesses secular misogamy as a topos "exploited in early Western literature for two fundamental purposes: propaganda and entertainment," dividing it into four categories: Pagan, Ascetic, Philosophic, and General. Discusses WBP in the latter category…

A collation of fifteen manuscripts and two printed editions (Robinson and Brewer), with introduction and select bibliography.