Semper, Philippa.
Gail Ashton and Louise Sylvester, eds. Teaching Chaucer (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 120-38.
Describes efforts at the University of Birmingham (between 2000 and 2005) to incorporate web-based materials (computer-mediated materials and virtual learning environments) into teaching Chaucer and Middle English. Also considers methods of assessing…
Knapp, Peggy A.
Gail Ashton and Louise Sylvester, eds. Teaching Chaucer (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 17-29.
Uses theoretical perspectives from Raymond Williams, Emmanuel Kant, and Hans-Georg Gadamer to explain and justify a pedagogical approach to CT based on student pursuit of individual "keywords" in the text and students' selection of a single pilgrim…
Kruger, Steven F.
Gail Ashton and Louise Sylvester, eds. Teaching Chaucer (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 30-45.
Pedagogical approach to CT combining traditional "high-stakes" formal writing and "low-stakes" informal writing, incorporated in a broader portfolio of student responses and projects.
Tolhurst, Fiona.
Gail Ashton and Louise Sylvester, eds. Teaching Chaucer (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 46-64.
Describes procedures for incorporating student performances of portions of LGW into classroom activities and using these performances to help students evaluate other Chaucerian texts.
Fitzgibbons, Moira.
Gail Ashton and Louise Sylvester, eds. Teaching Chaucer (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 65-80.
Explores the pedagogical value of encouraging students to combine analysis and creativity in performing (aloud and in writing) from the points of view of individual Chaucerian characters. Suggests using Chaucer's characters to critique those of…
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.
Kelly, Kathleen Coyne.
Gail Ashton, ed. Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015), pp. 134-43.
Comments on each of the BBC television versions of Chaucer's narratives (MilT, WBP, KnT, PardT, ShT, and MLT), exploring how adaptation, updating, and remediation duplicate or change aspects of Chaucer's aesthetics and morality.
Barrington, Candace, and Jonathan Hsy.
Gail Ashton, ed. Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015), pp. 147-56.
Provides a survey of translations and appropriations of CT. Examines four translations of CT--Afrikaans, Turkish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Mandarin Chinese--and argues how these global Chaucers enhance understanding of CT. Also examines works,…
Peverley, Sarah.
Gail Ashton, ed. Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), pp. 48-57.
Describes the dramatic adaptations of selections from CT presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company in November 2005, exploring how the adaptations and their staging at times modify and at times convey the "key elements" of Chaucer's work,…
Chance, Jane, ed.
Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 1990.
A collection of articles covering mythographic art in the literature of early France, early England (Chaucer), and Renaissance England (Shakespeare). Chance defines mythography as "the explanation of classical mythology that often involves…
Sigal, Gale.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 1996.
Examines the active role of women in medieval albas, or dawn-songs, as indications of women in society. Defines the lyric genre and its history, exploring its relations with courtly tradition, the fantasies reflected in the genre, and the sexual…
Condren, Edward I.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 1999.
Reads CT (in Ellesmere order) as organized by the universal principles of entropy (movement to chaos), cybernetics (movement to stability), and synergy (transition to a changed or transcendent state). These three principles also inform the structure…
Wheatley, Edward.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2000.
Surveys the use of Latin beast fables in medieval schools and the legacy of this material in the works of late-medieval authors who were educated in the tradition and who wrote in English. Focuses on fables associated with the legendary Roman emperor…
Shoaf, [Richard] Allen.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2001.
Chaucer's use of metonymy in CT expresses his "anxiety of circulation," which is traced through his references to the fragmented body and bodily functions, infection, magic, rhetoric, and translation. Shoaf examines relationships among tales,…
Schildgen, Brenda Deen.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2001.
Applying Habermas's notion of discourse ethics, Schildgen focuses on stories in CT that are "set outside a Christian-dominated world." Individual chapters include discussions of KnT and SqT, MLT, WBT and FranT, PrT and MkT, and SNT. Chaucer's…
Jacobs, Kathryn.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2001.
Four chapters explore the influence of contemporary marriage law on Chaucer's imagination, and three investigate similar influences on religious and Renaissance drama. Chaucer did not merely reflect his society's concerns with marriage and its…
Forni, Kathleen.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2001.
Forni traces the complex relationship between Chaucer's canon and the apocrypha, with particular focus on the "Folio" canon, from Thynne's 1532 "Workes" edition to editions of the eighteenth century. The first part examines the formation of the Folio…
Cox, Catherine S.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2005.
Four chapters and an epilogue. Chapter 1 establishes the background for exploration of "the late medieval legacy of early Christianity's appropriation of the Hebrew scriptures." Chapters 2-3 assess Dante's "Commedia" and "Sir Gawain and the Green…
Altmann, Barbara K., and R. Barton Palmer, trans. and eds.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2006.
Translates into modern unrhymed pentameter the LGWP-F version and LGW, based on the Riverside edition, with a brief introduction and notes. Also translates works by Guillaume de Machaut ("Jugement dou roy de Behaigne" and "Jugement dou roy de…
Thurston, Paul T.
Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1968.
Argues that "for the sophisticated reader" KnT satirizes the "hallowed institutions of the chivalric tradition and their literary and supposed societal foundations." While "literal-minded" readers may justifiably find that the Tale "idealizes the…
Frese, Dolores Warwick.
Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1991.
The twofold purpose of this study is "first, to demonstrate the originality and complexity of Chaucer's intertextual practice . . .; second, to advance the claims of the Ellesmere manuscript as the poetic text best reflecting Chaucer's final…
Bowers, John M.
Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2012.
Places the "Gawain"-poet "within the context of Richard II's court and its numerous intrigues" (ix), with chapters on each of his poems (including "Saint Erkenwald"); a life; "A Survey of Sources and Influences"; and a chronology, glossary of…
Pugh, Tison.
Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2013. xviii, 251 pp.
Includes biographical information, historical context, Chaucer's sources, a pronunciation guide, and glossary of common Middle English words. Chapter 2, "Chaucer's Literature," is a comprehensive guide for beginning readers, and covers Chaucer's…
