Moulton, Carroll.
Upper Saddle River, N. J.: Prentice Hall, 2000.
Twelve chapters on British works and writers, designed for juvenile audience. Includes "Geoffrey Chaucer in Depth" (pp. 24-43), which comprises a biographical introduction, a timeline, selections from PardT and KnT (translated into modern verse by…
Ballestra, Gianfranca, and Leslie-Anne Crowley, eds.
Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 2000.
Proceedings from a seminar on Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's short story, "The Wife of Bath," in which a modern character (a Jane Austen fan) travels to Bath and meets a woman, Alice, whose life recalls Chaucer's character in several ways. The story is…
Falstein, Mark, trans.
Upper Saddle River, N. J.: Globe Fearon Educational Publishers, 1999.
Selections from CT, adapted and abridged in modern English for a juvenile audience; includes GP, KnT, MLT, NPT, WBPT, FrT, SumT, ClT, FranT, PardPT, CYPT, and Ret, with linking material. Illustrated by Laurie Harden.
Includes biographies of thirteen artists and three writers, designed for juvenile audience. The Chaucer material (pp. 84-87) includes basic information and a magnified color detail of William Bell Scott's portrait of Chaucer in from "A Four Leaf…
Uriarte Rebaudi, Lía N.
Martha Vanbiesem de Burbidge, ed. Il Coloquio Internacional de Literatura: "El Cuento," I-II (Buenos Aires: Fundación María Teresa Maiorana, 1995), II:209-12.
Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography, which indicates that the essay addresses marital fidelity in CT, Boccaccio's "Decameron," and Juan Manuel's "El Conde Lucanor."
Bennett, Andrew, and Nicholas Royle.
New York: Prentice Hall, 1995.
Comments (pp. 6-7) on T. S. Eliot's allusion to GP at the beginning of his "The Waste Land" and discusses (pp. 78-79) the comedy of MilT as "very specifically linguistic," turning on a double meaning of the word "water," as well as depending upon the…
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, which indicates that this is an Italian translation of Geraldine's McCaughrean's adaptation of selections from CT (1984), designed for a juvenile audience, with illustrations by Victor G. Ambrus.
Ghaly, Salwa.
Hoda Gindi, ed. Encounters in Language and Literature (Cairo: Department of English Language and Literature. Faculty of Arts, University of Cairo, 1993), pp. 447-56.
Explores the "tensions" between the narrator and "author-subject" of TC, assessing how (as in other medieval works) the author's "signature" is found within the narrative rather than in its paratext. Such embedded signatures are characteristic of…
Griffith, Benjamin W.
Hauppauge, N. Y.: Barron's Educational, 1991.
This study guide includes brief summary descriptions of works from "Beowulf" to Beckett; Includes a list of Chaucer's works and sentence-long summaries of seven of the "key" CT (pp. 14-15).
Dye, Shirley A.
Huntsville, Tex.: Educational Video Network, 1991.
A reading of GP in modern adaptation by Shirley A. Dye, accompanied by color drawings of scenes and characters. Illustrated by Dye and Angela Parotti. Released in 2004 on DVD.
Sargent, Michael G.
Wilfried Haslauer, ed. A Salzburg Miscellany: Emglish and American Studies 1964-1984. 2 vols. (Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1984): 2:131-80.
The third of the three "notes" is entitled "III. Religious Form, Amorous Matter: Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women' and Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'" (pp. 157-80); it documents a number of similarities of form, theme, and occasion between the two works…
Pinsky, Robert, and Maggie Dietz, eds.
New York: Norton, 2002.
Includes an excerpt from BD (the Black Knight's lament, lines 475-86), with Maggie Dietz's brief comments about how Middle English words "change in the mouth" (p. 128).
Shute, Sarah, gen. ed. KnowledgeNotes Student Guides (Cambridge: ProQuest Information and Learning Company, 2002), n.p.
Introduces Chaucer and his works; then summarizes the characters, plot, style, and themes of MilT, along with a running commentary on MilPT, with bibliography.
Shute, Sarah, gen. ed. KnowledgeNotes Student Guides (Cambridge: ProQuest Information and Learning Company, 2002), n.p.
Introduces Chaucer and his works; then provides a summary of plot, descriptions of style and themes, a character list, and a running commentary that identifies the salient points of GP, with bibliography.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, which indicates that this anthology includes some material by Chaucer, as well as by Dante, Boccaccio, Shakespeare, and others; in Spanish translation.
Mack, Dana, and David Blankenhorn, eds.
Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2001.
The chapter entitled "Who's the Head of the Family?" includes the modern translation of WBPT by A. Kent Hieatt and Constance Hieatt, somewhat abridged.
Roberts, James L.
Grafton, Ellen, reader.
New York: Wiley, 2000.
Study guide to CT, with backgrounds to Chaucer and the poem, along with summaries and commentaries on all of the tales, sample character analyses and short essays, and resources for review and further reading. An audiobook version of this text was…
