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Bardavio, Jose M.   Estudios de Filologia Inglesa 3 (1977): 5-17.
Assesses the relations between the dreamer and the narrator in BD, PF, HF, and LGW.

Hobsbaum, Philip.   Philip Hobsbaum. Tradition and Experiment in English Poetry (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield; London: Macmillan, 1979), pp. 30-67.
Identifies a number of ways in which Chaucer is innovative in various works--metrical variety, interplay of tones, indebtedness to Continental sources and "ingenuity," combination of narrative attachment and detachment--and surveys the range of…

Youmans, Gilbert, and Xingzhong Li.   Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell, eds. Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002), pp. 153-75.
Argues that Chaucer's decasyllabic lines are based on metrically significant, statistically normative feet, with clear and significant caesuras. Chaucer's and Shakespeare's iambic lines deviate from prototypical lines in similar ways. See Thomas…

Di Rocco, Emilia.   Rome : Carocci Editore, 2003.
An introduction to CT, including discussion of Chaucer's life, the structure of CT, plots and themes of the tales, analyses of the pilgrims and major characters in their tales, and Chaucer's language and meter. Includes bibliographies for each…

Howard, Donald R.   New York: E. P. Dutton; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
This very readable biography by the late Donald Howard brings together "Chaucer, the man and the poet, and the age in which he lived." Howard traces developments in Chaucer's life from birth to death, setting Chaucer's works contextually within the…

Dor, Juliette De Caluwe, trans.   Paris: Christian Bourgois, 10/18, Bibliotheque Medievale, 1991.
Introduction, bibliography, and French translations of WBP, WBT, ClT, MerT, FranT, PhyT, PardT, ShT, PrT, NPT, SNT, CYT,and ManT.

Ashby, Cristina, Geoff Couldrey, Susan Dickson, et al.   Woodbridge, Conn., and Reading, U.K.: Primary Source Media, 1995.
A "comprehensive interactive resource for both students and teachers," providing hypertext-linked, point-and-click access to Chaucer's works ("The Riverside Chaucer") and accompanying glossary, introductions to the works and seventeen previously…

Wagenknecht, Edward, ed.   New York: Oxford University Press, 1959.
Reprints twenty-sex selections/excerpts from previous criticism, seventeen pertaining to CT, four on TC, two on LGW, and one each on BD, HF, and PF.

Nevo, Ruth.   Modern Language Review 58 (1963): 1-9.
Argues that in the GP Chaucer offers an "analysis of social rank in terms of economic behavior," consistently evident in the descriptions where a "pilgrim's characteristic behavior is defined in every case in terms of the acquisition and use of…

Lucotti, Claudia.   AnLM 6 : 249-56, 1993-94.
Reads the confusions, contradictions, and ambiguities of ClT and its Envoy in light of feminist critical discourse.

Corsa, Helen Storm.   Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1964.
Describes how Chaucer's "mirth reveals his moral premises" and conveys joy throughout his poetic corpus, explaining how the early dream poems, in varying degrees, communicate the progress of the comic narrators toward greater moral and philosophic…

Braddy, Haldeen.   Arlington Quarterly 2.1 (1969): 121-38.
Argues that Chaucer is "multivoiced" and a "realist par excellence" whose "verism . . . encompasses minor elements like obscenity and bawdry." Draws examples from TC and CT, WBPT most extensively.

Tracy, Kisha G.   Kisha G. Tracy. Memory and Confession in Middle English Literature (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 67-92.
Explores the language and operation of confession--especially the importance of remembered transgressions--in Chaucer's depictions of love in TC, BD, and MLT, with Troilus, the Black Knight, and Alla as transgressors, and Pandarus, the BD narrator,…

Sukagawa, Seizō, and Tsutomu Satō.   Tokyo: Seibido, 1982.
Volume not seen; reported by MLA International Bibliography. In Japanese.

Miller, Robert P., ed.   New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
An anthology of selections from Voragine, Augustine, Macrobius, Hugh of St. Victor, Vainsauf, Garland, Bury, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Cicero, Ovid, Deschamps, John of Salisbury, Ramon Lull, Saint-Amour, Boethius, Andreas Cappellanus, Walter Map,…

Wakefield, Emma, dir.   Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1993.
Originally produced by Thames Television, titled "Middle English, Knowlege About Language: Chaucer, 1991."

Medcalf, Stephen.   Deland, Florida: Everett/Edwards, 1973.
Item not seen.

Tasioulas, Jacqueline.   New York: Routledge, 2019.
Introduces Chaucer's life and historical context, surveying major works, and elements of Chaucer's poetry and language. Essentials of Middle English pronunciation are included, along with a glossary of key terms and a timeline.

Ashton, Gail.   New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
An introduction to CT, designed to enable students to approach the poem on their own. Includes sections on style and narrative technique; voice, narration, and form; and themes,tensions, and ambiguities--each with explanatory discussion,summary of…

Ellis, Steve, ed.   London and New York: Longman, 1998.
An anthology of twelve previously published essays and excerpts from longer works that apply modern critical theory to CT. Ellis's introduction assesses the contributions of the essays to a postmodern understanding of CT.

Knight, Stephen.   Rick Rylance and Judy Simons, eds. Literature in Context (Houndmills, Basingstoke; and New York: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 1-14.
Comments on the historical, religious, social, literary, and linguistic contexts necessary to understand Chaucer's subtleties and subversions throughout CT, but especially in GP. Includes close reading of GP 1.1-18.

O'Hear, Anthony.   Anthony O'Hear. The Great Books: A Journey Through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature (Wilmington, Del.: ISI [Intercollegiate Studies Institute] Books, 2009), pp. 177-95.
Description of CT that comments on Chaucer's social range and authenticating detail, arranges the Pilgrims into social classes, and comments on the plot of each of the Tales.

Anderson, J. J., ed.   London: Macmillan, 1974.
Collects examples of criticism of CT in two sections: 1) five "Early Appreciations" (Caxton, Dryden, Blake, Hazlitt, and Arnold), and 2) eleven selections from twentieth-century criticism (1912 to 1957), the latter focusing on the themes and…

Pittock, Malcolm.   Criticism 1 (1959): 160-68.
Describes several "difficulties" in the close reading of medieval poetry, and then examines complex "interplay between the real and apparent plots" of "Pity," reading the addressee as both a Lady and as an abstract emption, and tracing shifting…

Brewer, Derek, ed.   London: Rouledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.
Selection of critical writings from fourteenth century through 1933. Vol. 1 (1385-1837) contains remarks about Chaucer by Deschamps, Usk, Lydgate, Caxton, Dryden, Hazlitt, Blake, Crabbe, and Coleridge; vol. 2 (1837-1933) contains hitherto neglected…
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