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Knapp, Peggy (A.)   David Raybin and Linda Tarte Holley, eds. Closure in The Canterbury Tales: The Role of The Parson's Tale (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2000), pp. 95-113.
Analyzes uses of "glose," "lewed," "estat," and "fre" to clarify the relation of the Parson and ParsT to Lollardy. Lollard diction is more prevalent in the GP description of the Parson and in ParsP than in ParsT, perhaps neutralizing the…

Staley, Lynn.   David Scott Kastan, ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. 5 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, vol. 1, pp. 450-56.
Treats Chaucer as a "means of entry" into the political and cultural world of late fourteenth-century England, surveying Chaucer's works (CT most extensively) and summarizing his life and reception. Includes a brief bibliography.

Roy, Kari Anne.   David Shields and Matthew Vollmer, eds. Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (New York: Norton, 2012), pp. 213-14.
Offers a satire of "hipster pilgrims" at a modern music festival, rendered in faux Middle English.

Chickering, Howell.   David Sofield and Herbert F. Tucker, eds. Under Criticism: Essays for William H. Pritchard. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998), pp. 91-108.
Considers the pedagogical value of memorizing verse and comments on exercises in retention for students of Chaucer's poetry. Includes close reading of several stanzas of PF.

Harty, Kevin J.   David W. Marshall, ed. Mass Market Medieval: Essays on the Middle Ages in Popular Culture (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2007), pp. 13-27.
Compares the six tales of The BBC Canterbury Tales (MilT, WBP, KnT, ShT, PardT, and MLT) with their Chaucerian originals. Emphasizes plot parallels, modern themes, and the lack of interconnection among the "six stand-alone telefilms."

Wallace, David.   David Wallace, ed. Europe: A Literary History, 1348-1418 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), 1:180-90.
Describes the late-medieval literary affiliations of the city of Calais, emphasizing its role in the Hundred Years War and commenting on allusions to the city, noting that Chaucer knew the city personally but "mapped its spaces" (in the GP…

Olson, Glending.   David Wallace, ed. The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 566-88
Surveys Chaucer's life and art in light of their cultural contexts, commenting on his status as a court poet, the nature of his audience, his self-consciousness and uses of contemporary literary forms, his relations to his contemporaries, and his…

Gransden, K. W.   David West and Tony Woodman, eds. Creative Imitation and Latin Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979), pp. 157-71.
The "aubade" of Troilus shows its indebtedness to Ovid's "Amores" (I, 13) in both references and tone, but the effect is transformed by the poet's playing off of medieval complaint and Ovidian satire. Donne makes a similar combination but transforms…

Balestrini, María Cristina.   De medio aevo 10.15 (2021): 169-79.
Reviews development of late fourteenth-century English poetry and the canonization and recognition of Chaucer and Gower as founders of English literature. Claims that their literature contributes to a sense of belonging, through the use of the…

Martin, Ellen E.   Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi and Gale Sigal, eds. Voices in Translation: The Authority of "Olde Bookes" in Medieval Literature (New York: AMS, 1992), pp. 117-36.
Capitalizing on foregoing treatment of fidelity and intention, the ending of FranT poses a hypothetical and interminable debate over reading the characters. In this concluding turn, Chaucer points up an essential link between the characters' selves…

Sigal, Gale.   Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi and Gale Sigal, eds. Voices in Translation: The Authority of "Olde Bookes" in Medieval Literature (New York: AMS, 1992), pp. 191-205.
Through their dramatic rendering of the lovers' discrepant responses to the coming of dawn, the aubades in TC highlight the tempermental differences of the characters and prefigure their separate, though intertwined, fates.

Calin, William.   Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, ed. Eustache Deschamps, French Courtier-Poet: His Work and His World (New York: AMS Press, 1998), pp.73-83.
Contrary to earlier critical opinion, the "Ballade to Chaucer" demonstrates very little about Chaucer's renown outside court circles in southern England; it cannot necessarily be read as a sincere expression of Deschamp's opinion of Chaucer the poet.

Sinnreich-Levi, Deborah M.   Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, ed. Eustache Deschamps, French Courtier-Poet: His Work and His World. (New York: AMS Press, 1998), pp. 123-30.
The misogynist female voices in a number of Deschamps's poems seem to share common sources with WBPT and MerT.

Swan, Richard.   Deddington, Oxfordshire: Philip Allan Updates, 2005.
Student guide to MerPT and the GP description of the Merchant (text included for GP selection only), with general information about CT and reading Chaucer, and more specific discussion of plot, characters, themes, genre, and techniques of MerT.…

Swan, Richard.   Deddington, Oxfordshire: Philip Allan Updates, 2005.
Student guide to MilPT and the GP description of the Miller (text included for GP selection only), with general information about CT and reading Chaucer, and more specific discussion of plot, characters, themes, genre, and techniques of MilT.…

Swan, Richard.   Deddington, Oxfordshire: Phillip Allan Updates, 2009.
Study guide to PardPT, with discussion of themes, genre, verse, and characterization. Includes running commentary on the poem and various pedagogical tools for teachers and students, keyed to the U. K. exam board specifications and assessment…

Swan, Richard.   Deddington, U.K.: Philip Allan Updates, 2010.
Reported in WorldCat; item not seen.

Phillips, Helen.   Dee Dyas, ed. The English Parish Church Through the Centuries: Daily Life and Spirituality, Art and Architecture, Literature and Music. York: University of York; Nottingham: St. John's College, 2010, n.p. [Interactive CD]
Describes key clerical figures in CT and exemplifies details of worship, parish social life, and the Church in daily life. Includes color illustrations and hypertext links to key terms and concepts.

Medcalf, Stephen.   Deland, Florida: Everett/Edwards, 1973.
Item not seen. WorldCat entry describes this as a lecture which "Discusses the significance and meaning" of CT.

Medcalf, Stephen.   Deland, Florida: Everett/Edwards, 1973.
Item not seen. WorldCat entry describes this as a lecture which discusses TC, "comparing it to similar poetry of the period."

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

Green, Marion N.   Delaware Notes 30 (1957): 57-92.
Assesses TC as a "peculiar combination of church, chivalry, and courtly love," exploring the history of the amalgamation of the "system of knighthood," the church's influence on the "chivalric code," and the "idealization of woman." Then examines…

Kumar, Jyotika, trans.   Delhi: Academic Excellence, 2007.
Interlinear Modern English translation of WBPT, with accompanying introduction and commentary presented as a pastiche of observations and reactions.

Cleary, Barbara A.   Delta Epsilon Sigma Bulletin 24 (1979): 108-12.
There are several contrasts and incongruities in tone, style, and ideas in Chaucer's PF, as for example the naive narrator vs. condescending Scipio, ideal love vs. natural love, the love garden vs. the discordant parliament held therein, courtly…

Petrina, Alessandra.   Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead, eds. Lost in Translation? (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2009), pp. 121-31.
Explores the tension between the Chaucerian legacy of French influence and the Lancastrian concern with English in the works of John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve. Opens with an explication of details of Eustache Deschamps' praise of Chaucer as "grand…
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