In WBP, Chaucer represents the Wife of Bath as Woman conceived in terms of masculine discourse. His presentation makes authoritative misogynist discourse both familiar and available for questioning.
Hennequin, M. Wendy.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 24, no. 1 (2017): 121-40.
Justifies the use of historical re-creation assignments in university classrooms, offering in appendices a sample assignment and a grading rubric. Describes examples of more and less successful student projects, with commentary and illustrations,…
Ridley, Florence (H.)
Robert Graybill, Judy Hample, and Robert Lovell, eds. Teaching the Middle Ages IV (Terre Haute: Indiana State University Press, 1990), pp. 1-26.
Pedagogical commentary on CT aligned with reader-response theory and affective stylistics.
Pedagogy, syllabus, sample assignments, and itineraries for a semester-long, London-based excursion course on English medieval literature, including Chaucer.
Clifton, Nicole.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 20. 1 (2013): 99-109.
Offers an approach to teaching MLT that encourages "students to question their own identities and own attitudes toward race and, in doing so, come to a more complex understanding" of Chaucer's story.
Horobin, Simon.
Gail Ashton and Louise Sylvester, eds. Teaching Chaucer (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 96-104.
Argues that analyzing Chaucerian manuscripts and comparing them with edited versions can help students discover important principles of variation and evidence.
Sylvester, Louise.
Gail Ashton and Louise Sylvester, eds. Teaching Chaucer (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 81-95.
Explores an apparent disconnect between pedagogical goals of classes that study Chaucer's literature and those that study the history of the English language, suggesting that sociolinguistic approaches can help bridge the gap.
Pugh explores opportunities for defining gender conventions of romance by examining parodies: knightly masculinity in Guerin's "Long-Assed Berenger" and in Th, and gender construction in episodes from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
Jost, Jean E.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 8.1: 61-69, 2000.
Recommends a learning-centered approach to teaching CT in which students collaborate to produce a creative imitation of Chaucer's work. Description of college-level assignment included.
Raybin, David.
Helen Phillips, ed. Chaucer and Religion (Cambridge: Brewer, 2010), pp. 189-95.
Offers approaches to teaching ethics and spirituality in CT. Provides models and suggestions for teaching CT, and for preparing seminars and conferences designed for new or experienced teachers.
Includes thirteen essays by various authors and an introduction by the editor, all focusing on teaching medieval narratives that involve rape, attempted rape, or false accusation while attending to twenty-first-century awareness of rape, sexual…
Robinson, Olivia.
Daisy Delogu and Anne-Hélène Miller, eds. Approaches to Teaching the "Romance of the Rose" (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2023), pp. 227-36.
Describes goals and methods of teaching the "Roman de la Rose" in undergraduate courses that include Middle English literature. Includes attention to manuscript illustrations and to intertextual relations of MerT to Rom.
Cross, J. E.
English: The Journal of the English Association 10, no. 59 (1955): 172-75.
Surveys Astr to identify Chaucer's "teaching method," finding evidence of his attention to teaching "technically-minded small boys" that clashes at times with concern for a wider audience. Considers Astr to be "a dull, intentionally prolix but…
Butler, Richard J.
[Jay Ruud, ed.] Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota ([Aberdeen, S.D.: Northern State University, 1989), pp. 211-36.
Presents for high school teachers several "exercises and activities that may be useful in a unit on Chaucer and the middle ages," including objectives, questions to consider, paper topics, audio-visual resources, and supplementary materials.
Describes the pedagogical use of museum objects (from the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame) in support of a Freshman Seminar in medieval literature, with particular focus on CT, Santiago de Compostela, and pilgrimage.
Hall, Kathryn A.
South Atlantic Review 72.4 (2007): 59-71.
Encourages pairing Margery Kempe and WBT in British literature surveys, noting that Kempe was "a good deal more vulnerable than the fictitious Wife of Bath."
Braswell, Mary Flowers.
Austin Sarat, Cathrine O. Frank, and Matthew Anderson, eds. Teaching Law and Literature (New York: Modern Language Association, 2011), pp. 155-61.
Offers a pedagogical unit in which advanced students explore similarities between CT (especially GP) and manor court records, capitalizing on Chaucer's familiarity with legal proceedings. Suggests that the "manor court seems to have influenced…
Clopper, Lawrence M.
Thomas A. Goodmann, ed. Approaches to Teaching Langland's "Piers Plowman" (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2018), pp. 112-19.
Treats GP and Langland's Prologue in relation to the traditional model of three estates, arguing that the order of the pilgrims in GP reveals inadequacies in the "trifunctional model" (fight, pray, labor) and alludes to the Fall of Humanity in the…
Pearsall, Derek.
R. F. Yeager and Brian W. Gastle, eds. Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower (New York: Modern Language Association, 2011), pp. 31-35.
Surveys Gower's reception among fellow poets and critics, including comments on the effect of Chaucer upon Gower's reputation and the value of comparing their versions of individual stories.
Cheng, Elyssa Y.
Patricia Haseltine and Sheng-Mei Ma, eds. Doing English in Asia: Global Literature and Culture (Langham, Md.: Lexington, 2016), pp. 69-85.
Reports briefly on the study of English language and literature in Taiwan and describes a pedagogy for teaching a course in early British literature, including discussion of the advantages of using, among others, a "painting and drawing technique" to…
Pedagogical strategies for exploring how Chaucer's early reception and apocrypha can be used to "engage students in some of the larger issues of literary history and canon formation," with comments on how to use twentieth- and twenty-first century…
Berlin, Dorthea.
[Jay Ruud, ed.] Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota ([Aberdeen, S.D.: Northern State University, 1989), pp. [176]-85.
Lists several pedagogical activities that pertain to GP.
Prescott, Anne Worthington.
Once and Future Classroom 1.1 (2002): n.p. [Web publication]
Describes a pedagogical session at a meeting of the New Chaucer Society, provides translations for several passages from HF, and lists nine questions concerning HF for discussion in high school classrooms.
McShane, Kara L.
Once and Future Classroom 9.1 (2013): n.p.
Lists and describes the pedagogical value of selected resources in the study of Chaucer, focusing on CT but not exclusively, and arranged in several categories: Language, Editions, Adaptations and Translations, Backgrounds, Social History, Reference…
