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Benson, Larry.   Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 2000.
A series of interlinked webpages that provides a variety of texts, translations, glossaries, selected essays and graphics, instructional aids, and supporting information about language, analogues, social conditions, and other backgrounds to Chaucer's…

Glencoe Literature Library.   New York: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, with the following abstract: "Provides teaching strategies, background, and suggested resources; reproducible student pages to use before, during, and after reading." Also available at…

Shields, Alice.   New York: Alice Shields, 2007.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, with parallel record for a piano/vocal score. A related website, Criseyde: A New Opera by Alice Shields, is available at http://www.aliceshields.com/criseyde/index.html (accessed March 28, 2014).

[Daniel, Ted, and Florence Daniel, eds.]   Portland, Ore.: New Wave Publishers, 1993.
Digitalized public domain edition of CT, reproduced on the Internet recurrently and issued by ebrary in 2001 (not seen; cited in WorldCat, with link to title-page preview).

Culos, Ermes, trans.   Project Gutenberg, 2009.
Friulian prose translation of NPT.

Lee, Bud, director.   Cabellero Control Corporation, 1985.
Erotic film adaptation of CT; loosely adapted. Screenplay by Hyapatia Lee.

Anderson, Earl R.   Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2003.
Studies the Old and Middle English vocabularies of category in nature and human experience, anatomizing the words used for colors, the senses, the seasons, compass directions, geometric shapes, types of plant life and animal life, and human selfhood.…

Swift, Graham.   New York: Knopf, 1992.
Comic novel cast as the first-person memoir of British academic who identifies with Shakespeare's Hamlet (p. 7) and alludes to Chaucer at least once, citing his own feelings as being similar to those of the "ghost of Troilus at the end of Chaucer's…

Naylor, Gloria.   New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1992.
First-person novel with several possible allusions to Chaucer's Harry Bailey, the Wife of Bath, and perhaps others.

Hynes, James.   New York: Picador, 2002
Comic novel set in a modern university, replete with literary references and allusions, including several to Chaucer, e.g., a quotation from GP 1.308 in its dedication, PardT 6.895-903 as an epigram, and a parody of Ret at the end of the book.

Leyerle, John.   Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 113-45.
Examines "heart" (in its several meanings) as the nucleus of BD, and "prison"/"chain" as one in KnT, treating each as a structuring device and a wellspring of the themes and imagery in its respective narrative. Similar nuclei function comically in…

Reiss, Edmund.   Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 95-111.
Gauges Chaucer's "view and use of love," concentrating on BD, TC, and KnT as his only narratives that take courtly love seriously, both as a theme and a plot device. Even in these cases, courtly love is presented pejoratively--both foolish and…

Reinecke, George F.   Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 81-93.
Confronts several questions or matters of internal inconsistency in CT (1.164; 1.361; 3.45; 4.1222; 5.673; 2.96; 6.443) and speculates about possible resolutions and their usefulness in the Chaucer classroom.

Brookhouse, Christopher.   Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 67-80.
Appreciative comments on BD, HF, TC, and CT, addressing their concerns with death, isolation, knowledge of self, and above all, the hman need for self-disclosure in confronting these concerns. The human need for narrative is particularly evident in…

Longsworth, Robert.   Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 61-66.
Reads details of ClT as evidence of the Ckerk's pedagogical skills in his efforts to instruct the Wife of Bath and others.

Bleeth, Kenneth A.   Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 45-60.
Examines various evocations of paradise as a garden in MerT as parodic inversions of Christian understanding of the scene of the Fall.

Lenaghan, R. T.   Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 31-43.
Argues that in SqT, FranT, KnT, and TC Chaucer used romance to reconcile his two responsibilities as a lay clerk: "to speak of morality and of the refinements of love."

David, Alfred.   Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 19-29.
Identifies a source for HF 1229-32, where Marsyas is gendered female: a group of mansucripts of the "Roman de la Rose" that interpolate a comic account "in which Apollo flays a female satyr called 'Marse'."

Brosnahan, Leger.   Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 11-18.
Explains the imagery of BD 646 as a literary application of a commonplace proverb; the line is drawn from Machaut and implies the instability of Fortune.

Knopp, Sherron E.   James M. Dean and Christian Zacher, eds. The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992), pp. 91-107.
Explores Chaucer's radical, bookishly theoretical preoccupation with language and art and argues that the social and psychological "realism" seen by earlier critics is also present. Knopp examines the Ovidian section of BD as an example of narrative…

Benson, Larry D., ed.   Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974.
Twenty-five essays by various authors, plus an appreciation of the teaching of Bartlett Jere Whiting, a list of his publications, and a poetic analogue to "Thomas of Erceldoune." For nine essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Learned and the…

Sharpless, F. Parvin, ed.   Rochelle Park, N.J.: Hayden, 1974.
An anthology of short works and excerpts from the Bible to modern poetry pertaining to the Fall and Redemption, with brief introductions and discussion questions designed for classroom use. Includes an excerpt from ParsT (10.316-57; pp. 33-36) in…

Boethius, Anicius M. T. S.   Norwood, N. J.: Walter J. Johnson; Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarun, 1974.
Facsimile reproduction of Caxton's edition of Bo, reproducing STC 3199.

Conner, Jack.   The Hague: Mouton, 1974.
Studies the history of English meter from Chaucer to Wyatt, considering scansion, rhythm, pronunciation, and syllabification, assessing Chaucer's uses of tetrameter and pentameter, and the practices of Lydgate, Hoccleve, and Wyatt. Focuses on the…

Rowland, Beryl, ed.   London: George Allen and Unwin, 1974
Thirty-six essays by various authors on late-medieval literature and manuscripts, accompanied by an appreciation of Robbins's career and list of his publications. For seventeen essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer and Middle English…
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