An anthology for children of animal tales from Aesop, the Grimm brothers, etc., including a selection from NPT (pp. 51-56; excludes the dream commentary and philosophy), as "retold by" Stephen Corrin. Plates and illustrations by Angel Dominquez.
Mitchell, Ken, Thomas Chase, and Michael Trussler, eds.
Regina, Saskatchewan: University of Regina, 1999.
An anthology of forty works of short fiction designed for "first-year university students," with an Introduction that discusses the genre, and an appendix of related literary terms. Each narrative is accompanied by a brief assessment and a…
Gallagher, Joseph E.
Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities, 1999.
On location in England, Gallagher recites passages from Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, comparing and contrasting their phonologies, morphologies, and vocabularies. The emphasis is on "Beowulf," but includes a passage from FranT…
Study guide that includes text and facing-page prose translation of PardPT and the GP description of the Pardoner, with end-of-text notes and glosses, study questions, and commentary on the Pardoner as a character, the characters in his tale,…
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.
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).
Hicks, Michael A.
London: Shepheard-Walwyn; Chicago: St. James, 1991.
Biographical dictionary of some 200 political and cultural people of late-medieval England, "Englishmen" and "Englishwomen," along with "foreigners prominent in English history," arranged chronologically by life-dates, with descriptive and…
Person, James E.
James E. Person, ed. Literature and Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Volume 17 (Farmington, Mich.: Gale, 1991), pp. 42-247.
Reprints forty-eight examples of critical commentary on Chaucer and his poetry, from Deschamps, Gower, and Caxton to 1989, some excerpted and some complete essays, with an annotated list of suggestions for further reading. The Introduction (pp.…
Las Vergnas, Raymond, intro. Juan G. de Luaces, trans.
Mexico: Porrúa, 1992.
Spanish prose translation of the complete CT, with an introduction that summarizes his life and describes the work. The Luaces translation was originally published in 1946, 2 volumes.
Love, Nathan, and others.
Encomia 14 (1992): 21-147.
Annual bibliography of the International Courtly Literature Society, listing 806 items, briefly annotated in some cases. The subject index lists thirty-two Chaucerian works and topics.
Rudat, Wolfgang E. H.
English Language Notes 29:2 (1991): 16-20.
Carl Lindahl's hypothesis (Earnest Games, SAC 11 [1989], no. 135) of folkloric approaches to Chaucer oversimplifies and stereotypes the poet's art. Such readings, which detract from close reading, "have a potentially distorting effect."
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y., Bege K. Bowers, Bruce W. Hozeski, Hildegard Schnuttgen [et al.].
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 14 (1992): 235-318.
Continuation of SAC annual bibliography (since 1975); based on 1990 MLA Bibliography listings, contributions from an international bibliographic team, and independent research. A total of 355 items, including reviews.
Pearsall, Derek.
Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1992.
Traces Chaucer's life and the development of his works in relation to court life and the affairs of contemporary London. Divides his life into six periods of professional activity and explores his changing status as a public servant, the growth of…
Bowers, John M., ed.
Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992.
Includes editions of Lydgate's Prologue to the Siege of Thebes, The Ploughman's Tale, an expanded version of CkT, eight spurious links, and a combination of The Canterbury Interlude and the Merchant's Tale of Beryn. For each, Bowers provides an…
Recorded Books, pub.
New York and Prince Frederick, Md.: Recorded Books, 1992.
Nine audio cassettes of readings of GP, KnT, MilT, RvT, WBT, FrT, ClT, MerT, FranT, PardT, ShT, PrT, and NPT. Modern pronunciation, following the text in the edition of Michael Murphy.
Kendrick, Laura.
South Atlantic Quarterly 91 (1992): 835-64
Writing fixes texts, inviting marginal explication and commentary. Dante, Boccaccio, Deschamps, Langland, Gower, and Chaucer annotate their own texts to "authorize" them, although modern scholarship has been reluctant to accept glosses as…
Partridge, Stephen Bradford.
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 1529A.
A comprehensive study of CT glosses (except Mel and MkT), indicating that Chaucer himself provided many of them; summary of previous scholarship and descriptions of the glosses.
Brownlee, Kevin, and Sylvia Huot, eds.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.
A collection of essays treating literary approaches to the Roman de la Rose, its iconographic tradition, and its reception in and out of France. Includes a revised reprint of Lee Patterson, "For the Wyves Love of Bathe," SAC 7 (1985), no. 156.
Calabrese, Michael Anthony.
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 804A.
Ovid and the Ovidian tradition provided Chaucer with a poetic ranging from the "game" of Ars Amatoria to the "ernest" of Tristia. Chaucer uses rhetoric to various ends with the Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, and the Canon. In Ret, however, Chaucer…
