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Beidler, Peter G., ed.   Boston and New York: Bedford-St. Martin's, 1996.
Based on the Hengwrt manuscript, this edition of WBPT and the Wife's sketch from GP is designed for classroom use. It includes notes and glossary, a biographical sketch of Chaucer, a guide to pronunciation and verse, and a summary of historical…

Thynne, William ed. Intro. by D. S. Brewer.   London: Scolar Press, 1969.
Thynne's edition was the first substantial effort at a complete edition of the "Works" of Chaucer. A facsimile of the 1532 edition is here accompanied by appendices containing material from the later editions of 1542, 1561, 1598, and 1602.

Andrew, Malcolm, and A. C. Cawley, eds.   London: Dent, 1998.
Text and notes of WBPT, ClPT, and MerPT in Middle English, originally edited by Cawley and here revised by Andrew. Includes a Chronology of Chaucer's life and times and an Introduction (xiv-xx) by Andrew that focuses on the theme of marriage in the…

Andrew, Malcolm, ed.
Cawley, A.C., ed.   London: Dent, 2000.
Text and notes of KnT, SqPT, and FranPT in Middle English, originally edited by Cawley and here revised by Andrew. Includes a Chronology of Chaucer's life and times and an Introduction (xii-xvii) by Andrew that focuses on the Tales as romances and…

Windeatt, Barry, ed.   London: Longman, 1984.
Places Chaucer's TC text side by side with its main source, Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato," with variant spellings of TC MSS. Includes introduction discussing TC as translation, the scribal medium, the text of TC, the meter, and lists of manuscripts.

Bloom, Harold, ed.   New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2007.
Ten previously printed or excerpted essays by various authors, with an introduction by the editor, a Chaucer chronology, and a bibliography. Topics include the ending of TC (E. Talbot Donaldson); LGWP (Robert Worth Frank, Jr.); interplay between KnT…

Cader, Teresa D.   Robert Pack and Jay Parini, eds. Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite Poem (Hanover, N. H.: University Press of New England, 1996), pp. 31-36.
Explicates the opening eighteen lines of GP to demonstrate Chaucer's rich combination of formal prosodic devices, colloquial variety of register, and thematic resonance. The appeal of his verse "lies primarily in its sound."

Crépin, André, and Juliette Dor.   Sylvie Parizet, ed. La Bible dans les littératures du monde (Paris: Cerf, Collection Dictionnaires, 2016), pp. 526-28.
Claims that Chaucer contributes to the debate concerning the translation of the Bible into English through his exploitation of the Old Testament in MLT and WBT.

Burrow, J. A.   Claude Rawson, ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Poets (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 20-36.
Introduces Chaucer's life and describes each of his major works in chronological order, identifying the French context of BD, the Italian travels and reading that influenced him later, the philosophical concerns of TC, and his self-representations in…

Nelles, William, and Evelyn Newlyn.   Charles E. May, ed. Critical Survey of Short Fiction. 2nd rev. ed. Vol. 2, Italo Calvino--Louise Erdrich (Pasadena, Calif.: Salem, 2001), pp. 518-31.
Introduces Chaucer's life and works, emphasizing the "scope and diversity" of his poetry. Describes each of his major works, and anatomizes CT as "one of the earliest collections of short stories of almost every conceivable type," describing the…

Howard, Edwin J.
  New York: Twayne, 1964.
Describes Chaucer's life and works, with an introduction to historical backgrounds, a chronology of events, a summary of critical reception, a bibliography for further reading, and an index. The biography emphasizes dates and events, and the survey…

Dean, James M., ed.   Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2017.
Collection of essays that explores various literary aspects of Chaucer's oeuvre, with particular focus on the "international motif" and "transnational" themes found in many works. Essays address critical contexts and readings to help understand…

Barrington, Candace.   Candace Barrington and Sebastian Sobecki, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 135-47.
Reviews Chaucer's experience with law and legal proceedings, and argues that in his poetry he "questions the fourteenth-century English legal system" and critiques its tendencies to favor the powerful. Focuses on "virtuous women undone or ignored by…

Dunn, Charles W.   In Frank N. Magill, ed. Cyclopedia of World Literature (New York: Harper, 1958), pp. 204-06.
Lists Chaucer's works in chronological order, summarizes his career as a civil servant and poet, and offers a brief list of bibliographical references.

Turner, Marion.   Raluca Radulescu and Sif Rikhardsdottir, eds. The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature (New York: Routledge, 2022), pp. 278-88.
Shows how Chaucer's life and literature were "embedded in European contexts," even as he "ostentatiously displays the Englishness of his poetry." Comments generally on Continental and English aspects of Chaucer's style and content, and examines how…

Bloom, Harold, ed.   Philadelphia : Chelsea House, 2003.
Five essays by various authors, a brief introduction by the editor, a chronology, and selective bibliographies on Chaucer's work, primary and secondary. Three essays are reprints (George L. Kittredge's on the marriage group; Larry D. Benson's on…

Payne, Robert O.   Boston: Twayne/G. K. Hall, 1986.
Although technically a "second edition," Payne's "Geoffrey Chaucer" is essentially a new book, having little in common with the first Twayne Chaucer, written by Edwin J. Howard and published in 1964. Payne's seven chapters treat Chaucer's life,…

Courtney, Eleanor Lewer.   Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Arizona, 1975. xlv, 387 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 37 (1976): 327A. Fully accessible via https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/290393 (accessed April 12, 2026).
The Introduction is a survey of trends in Chaucer criticism 1964-71. Robertson's 'Preface to Chaucer' and Jordan's 'Chaucer and the Shape of Creation' are found especially influential. The second part is an annotated bibliography of 1218 items,…

Aloni, Gila, and Shirley Sharon-Zisser.   Mediterranean Historical Review 16.2: 69-77, 2001.
Describes Chaucer's use of Arabic and Hebrew diction in Astr as "horizontal multilingualism," i.e., "not colonialist or Orientalist."

Arbesú, David.   SELIM 11 (2001-2002): 51-96.
Reviews and revises Eleanor Hammond's discussions of the relations among the fifteen known manuscripts of PF, focusing on the five manuscripts of Group B and providing the evidence for relocating Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Tanner 346 in a new…

Haselwood, Dave, trans.   San Francisco: Grabborn-Hoyem, 1967.
An art-book version of ABC, limited to 1000 copies, with facing-page Middle English text taken from the Kelmscott Chaucer and verse translation into Modern English by Dave Haselwood. The font of the Middle English text derives from "lettre batarde"…

McGillivray, Murray, ed.   ALberta: University of Calgary Press, 1997.
CD-ROM.

Voelker, Sarah Ray.   Piscataway, N. J.: Research & Education Association, 1995.
Study guide to the CT, with character lists, plot summaries and analyses, and study questions and answers for each tale. Also includes introductory backgrounds and suggested essay topics. Illustrated by Karen Pica. Reissued in 2003.

Bloom, Harold, ed.   New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2008.
A summary/introduction to the pilgrims and plots (Part 7 excepted) of CT, with brief excerpts from fourteen critical commentaries written between 1956 and 2007; annotations of twenty-one book-length studies; and an index.

Bloom, Harold, ed.   New York: Infobase, 2008.
Eleven essays previously published between 1999 and 2004. Includes essays by Fiona Somerset on SumT and on clerical hypocrisy, Colin Wilcockson on GP, Katherine Little on ParsT, Lee Patterson on PrT, Elizabeth Robertson on MLT, Louise M. Bishop on…
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