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Study guide to WBPT that includes commentary on their place in the CT, their sources and backgrounds, and medieval and modern ways of assessing the Wife's character. Includes a summary/commentary of the narratives, arranged in segments, followed by…

Study guide to KnT that includes an introduction to Chaucer's court culture and courtly tradition and discussion of KnT in relation to part one of CT (GP, MilT, RvT, and CkT). Includes a summary/commentary on KnT, arranged in narrative fragments,…

A survey of fantasy literature in England, arranged topically in six categories: secondary world, metaphysical, emotive, comic, subversive, and children's. Includes commentary on various works by Chaucer in an opening chapter called "The Origins of…

Explores the sources of several details and attitudes in poems by A. E. Housman, including discussion of the impact of KnT and TC on "A Shropshire Lad," particularly their depictions of love sickness ("amor heroes") and the ennobling effects of…

Explores Chaucer's use of "the physics of measurement," an aspect of the science of optics (new in Chaucer's day), which measured "motion and relationships among objects inside a framed space." Chaucer's "verbal structures often move as the eye…

Literal Modern English translation with introduction (pp. 3-62) treating the catalogue tradition, classical heroines, Jerome, Boccaccio, Christine de Pisan, LGW, LGWP, and the victims.

Social history of late-medieval England, designed for adolescents, including discussion of Chaucer as "royal servant," poet, and "father of the English language" (pp. 1-9). Recurrent mention of Chaucer in subsequent discussions of historical topics.…

Reviews medieval disapproval of pet-keeping among religious personnel as evidence that companionship with animals has a long history and that medieval "pet-love" can "help us to unthink the human." Comments on pet-slayings in versions of the…

Assesses "Dryden's conception of Chaucer," his poems, and the "purpose guiding" the changes he made while modernizing WBT, KnT, NPT, and the apocryphal "Flower and the Leaf." Also discusses Dryden's "Character of the Good Parson" and "Hind and the…

Suggests that Haze Motes of Flannery O'Connor's "Wise Blood" is "not unlike Chaucer's Pardoner" and the Old Man of PardT, who is "perhaps the Pardoner's alter-ego'."

Compares Chaucer's treatment of order in KnT with the concept in "De consolatione philosophiae" of Boethius, the "Confessions" of Saint Augustine, and the "Commedia" of Dante.

Online translation of GP in rhymed couplets approximating pentameter, with facing-column Middle English text. Last accessed November 11, 2016.

Frisian verse translation of GP, with notes.

This updated version of Murphy's computer-based project includes "audioglossed" versions of GP, MilT, PardT, and NPT in which readers hear the text in modern pronunciation. In addition, unfamiliar words are glossed to the ear rather than visually.…

Organizes links to illustrations from editions of Chaucer's works published between 1484 (Caxton's 2d ed.) and 1930. The images are "listed chronologically by either editor, illustrator, title, or author depending on the source," all derived from…

A crowd-sourced online reference work described as an "Online archive and community for post-1945, non-Anglophone Chauceriana." Includes listings of translations, adaptations, and recordings of Chaucer's works (especially CT), along with various…

Considers Chaucer's uses of bird imagery in TC, contrasting them at many points with other, more anthropocentric literary birds, and generally commending his bird (and animal) imagery for its rhetorical range and evocation of precise emotion.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of selections from TC in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of HF in Middle English, with Kerrigan Prescott in Books 1 and 2 (1963); Piehler reads Book 3 alone (1980).

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler and Bland of selections from Rom in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of BD in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of GP in Middle English. Also re-issued (1986), with the title "The General Prologue for Beginners."

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of selections from KnT in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of PardT in Middle English and that it was re-issued in 1986 and 2010.