Bravo [García], Antonio, ed.
[Oviedo]: Universidad de Oviedo, Servicio de Publicaciones, 1998.
This anthology of Middle English writing includes MilT and PardT(edited from the Ellesmere manuacript), with facing-page glosses and a brief introduction.
Robb, Candace [M.]
New York: St. Martin's; London: Heinemann, 1995.
Murder mystery involving a nun who apparently comes back to life; Chaucer figures as a secondary character. Translated into Italian as "La Reliquia Rubata: Thriller Medioevale" (Casale Monferrato: Piemme, 2001).
Fifteen volumes comprise this reading of CT in Middle English: 1) MilT, 2) GP and RvT; 3) GP and PardPT; 4) WBPT; 5) FranPT; 6) MerPT; 7) NPT, ShT, and PrPT; 8) FrPT, SumPT, and Thop; 9) ClT and PhyT; 10) KnT [two cassettes]; 11) MLT, CkT, and ManT;…
Walton, William, Sir.
U. K.: EMI Records, 1977.
London: Oxford University Press, [1954].
Adaptation of TC as an opera, with libretto by Christopher Hassell, originally rpoduced in 1954. This revised version was released by EMI on CD (2 discs) in 1995, with a 43 pp. booklet that includes a production history, synopsis, and libretto. Also…
Critical discussion of Chaucer's life and each of his major works, including a section concerned with the resonances of his poetry in later literature, including Russian literature. Considers social and religious conditions of Chaucer's age, his…
Pintor, Ivan, and others.
Hamilton, N. J.: Films Media Group, 2009.
An illustrated interview with Harold Bloom, with commentary and contributions by others. The section entitled "Chaucer and the Creation of Character" includes Bloom's suggestion that the Pardoner is a precursor to Shakespeare's Iago and Edmund, and…
Spanish prose adaptations of selections from CT (GP, WBT, ClT, PhyT, and Ret), designed for juvenile readers. Includes several study questions and background information. Illustrated by Román Varela.
Item not located; cited in WorldCat, which reports that the volume includes WBT and PardT in the Spanish translations by Manuel Pérez y del Río-Cosa (originally published in 1921).
Hacht, Anne Marie, and Dwayne D. Hayes, eds.
Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2009.
This encyclopedia of world authors describes how the works of individual authors "fits with the context of the author's life, historical events, and the literary world"; it includes a comprehensive index, printed in each of the four volumes. The…
An anthology compiled to promote reading among young readers in Eritrea. Includes international tales, ancient to modern, in modern English adaptation, including ClT (here titled "The Scholar's Tale: The Test of a Good Wife."
Ulrych, Margherita.
John Douthwaite and Domenico Pezzini, eds. Words in Action: Diachronic and Synchronic Approaches to English Discourse (Genoa, Italy: Culturali Internatzionali Genova, 2008), pp. 295-311.
Describes various kinds of mediation involved in interlingual, intralingual, and intersemiotic translation, and assesses the nature and degree of interpretation and originality in such mediation. Includes extended discussion of Ermanno Barisone's…
Facing-page translation of PF into modern French poetry. Includes as an appendix Marteau's poetic tribute to Chaucer, "Hommage au Noble Geffroy Chaucier, Grant Translateur."
Historical fiction set in the time of the Black Death in England involving a tale-telling competition, with similarities to CT and Boccaccio's "Decameron."
Voth, Grant L.
Chantilly, Va.: Teaching Company, 2007.
Includes a thirty-minute audio lecture (Part 2 of 4, disc 9, Lecture 17) on "Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales'," with emphasis on the frame narrative (in contrast to Boccaccio's "Decameron"), appropriateness of tales to tellers, dramatic interaction…
Includes the Middle English text of GP 1-42, with Lithgow's reading of the passage and his commentary on how it "grabs you" and makes you want to hear more.
Presented as an antidote to the "indoctrination" that is imposed on literature classes by "PC English professors." Chapter two, entitled "Medieval Literature: 'Here Is God's Plenty'" (pp. 23-47) focuses on CT, Langland's "Piers Plowman," the vigor of…
Erickson, Sandra S. F., and Glenn W. Erickson.
Sandra S. F. Erickson and Glenn W. Erickson. Logos e Poesis: Neoplatonismo e Literatura (Natal, Brazil: EDUFRN, Editora da UFRN, 2006), pp. 35-60.
Argues that Biblical and Neoplatonic number symbolism conveys the message of BD: that souls return to heavenly happiness. Considers Chaucer's summary of Scipio's dream, traces references to Pythagoras in BD, and identifies places where it…
Bebb, Richard, Philip Madoc, and Michael Maloney, readers.
[Franklin, Tenn.]: Naxos Audiobooks, 2006.
Disc 1 comprises Richard Bebb's reading in Middle English of GP and PhyT; disc 2, Madoc and Maloney's reading of them in modern verse translation. The booklet includes notes by Derek Brewer and Perry Keenlyside.
