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Barrington, Candace   Gail Ashton and Daniel T. Kline, eds. Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 13-28.
Asserts that PrT "depends upon, and perpetrates, the worst stereotypes of Jews," and assesses thirty-two YouTube dramatizations and adaptations of the tale (posted 2006–11) as evidence of its contemporary reception among high school audiences,…

Barrington, Candace, and Jonathan Hsy.
  postmedieval 6.2 (2015): 136-45.
Focuses on the "mirroring structure" of Agbabi's "Unfinished Business," from"Telling Tales" (2015), and Mel. Also reflects on the inherent "problematizing of translation" that accompanies transforming Mel into contemporary poetry.

Barrington, Candace, and Jonathan Hsy.   https://globalchaucers.wordpress.com/ (2012; accessed October 14, 2016).
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…

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,…

Barrington, Candace, and Jonathan Hsy.   Accessus: A Journal of Premodern Literature and New Media 2,2(2015): n.p.
Reflects on the "Global Chaucers" project, which creates a forum for world-wide nonanglophone reworkings of Chaucerian material. Presents challenges and goals for future projects in response to scholars' diverse interests and expanding discoveries.

Barrington, Candace, and Jonathan Hsy.   Literature Compass 15.6 (2018): n.p.
Emphasizes the global diversity of CT--settings, sources, influence, etc.--and asks "what underappreciated meanings in Chaucer's Middle English work open up through translation and adaptation." Summarizes the essays included in this special issue…

Barrington, Candace, Brantley L. Bryant, Richard H. Godden, Daniel T. Kline, and Myra Seaman, eds.   Website (2017). Available at https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/ (accessed March 7, 2020). Relocated 2025 at https://opencanterburytales.lsusites.org/
Comprises thirty-six "introductory essays for first-time, university-level readers" of CT, written by more than thirty "professional scholars," covering GP and each of the tales (two each for KnT, WBPT, and MerT), the Host and frame, Chaucer's…

Barrington, Candace, Lisa Lampert-Weissig, Katie Little, and Eva von Contzen.   New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession 2.1 (2021): 1–9.
Reports on contemporary cultural conditions for teaching medieval narratives about rape, and summarizes the contents of this issue of the journal. Includes brief comments on modern responses to "Cecily Chaumpaigne's charges against Geoffrey Chaucer…

Barrington, Candace.   New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Barrington studies examples of "Chaucer's appearances in American popular culture over the past two hundred years": Percy MacKaye's play, pageant, and opera; James Norman Hall's WWI memoir "Flying with Chaucer" (1930), Anne Maurey's pageant "May Day…

Barrington, Candace.   Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Katherine A. Hermes, eds. Sex and Sexuality in a Feminist World (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009), pp. 26-51.
Modern adapters of Chaucer interfere with the transmission of Chaucer by infusing their own values. In each era, the versions written for children bear witness to what aspects of feminism have reached popular culture.

Barrington, Candace.   American Literary History 22 (2010): 806-30.
Assessing the conservative ideological underpinnings of the pageantry and commenting on its "inability to control the polysemy of Chaucer's texts," Barrington summarizes the history of Mistick Krewe and describes its 1914 parade and party dedicated…

Barrington, Candace.   European Journal of English Studies 15 (2011): 143-56.
Discusses General Ethan Allen Hitchcock's 1865 published explication of Chaucer's BD. Argues that this study of Chaucer's dream visions offers new insights into "Chaucer's reception in the nineteenth-century United States."

Barrington, Candace.   Myra Seaman, Eileen A. Joy, and Nicola Masciandaro, eds. Dark Chaucer: An Assortment (Brooklyn, N. Y.: Punctum Books, 2012), pp. 1-11.
Studies the poem "Chaucer" by Benjamin Brawly, an early twentieth-century African-American poet.

Barrington, Candace.   Educational Theory 64.05 (2014): 463-77.
Recognizes the difficulties surrounding modern translations of Chaucer's work and its relation to humanism. Using Nazmi Ǎgıl's Turkish translation of SqT as a test case, argues that studying non-anglophone translations of CT activates both Emily…

Barrington, Candace.   Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 22 (2015): 21–32.
Describes writing assignments, for an upper-division Chaucer course, that help students read CT in Middle English. Demonstrates how breaking the assignments into smaller steps promotes a greater understanding of fluency and discovery of unfamiliar…

Barrington, Candace.   Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 88-107.
Recounts efforts to find "film elements" (recorded vestiges) of "The Deadly Riddle," a 1956 television version of WBT, produced by Roy Huggins for "Warner Brothers Presents," starring Natalie Wood and Jacques Sernas. Only paratextual material…

Barrington, Candace.   Louise D'Arcens, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 180-95.
Addresses how spatial, temporal, and linguistic global medievalisms shaped the reception of CT translations. Discusses global translations, including "Wahala Dey O!," an Icelandic translation of MilT, and translations of CT in Turkish, Brazilian, and…

Barrington, Candace.   In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017. Relocated 2025 at https://opencanterburytales.lsusites.org/
Approaches SNPT as translations of source materials, assessing Chaucer's assignment of his early life of St. Cecilia to the Second Nun as narrator, the implications of rhyme royal, and the thematic and formal concerns of transformation, idleness, and…

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…

Barrington, Candace.   David Hadbawnik, ed. Postmodern Poetics and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics (Boston: De Gruyter, 2022), pp. 61-80.
Assesses Jos Charles's "transpoetics" in "feeld" (2018), showing how the collection of poems capitalizes on the "historical ruptures" and other constitutive features of Middle English, mimicking its "malleability and fluidity." Also suggests that…

Barrington, Candace.   Ken Seigneurie, gen. ed. A Companion to World Literature, 6 vols. Vol. 2, 601 CE to 1450, ed. Christine Chism (Chichester: Wiley and Sons, 2020), pp. 751-62.
Surveys the "global reach" of the literatures and languages that underlie the sources and settings of CT (with particular attention to SqT), and describes the multilingual, international range of translations, modernizations, adaptations, and other…

Barrington, Candace.   Yearbook of English Studies 53 (2024, for 2023): 134-50.
Argues that "contemporary critical translation theories shed light on" Chaucer's "translational environment" and identifies "a cluster of five translational actions"--"communication, transformation, transportation, hermeneutics, and liminality"--that…

Barron, Caroline L.   Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 24-41.
Discusses the character of Chaucer the pilgrim in GP. Includes history of Chaucer's life at Aldgate, his work as controller of customs, and later years when he moved away from London.

Barron, Caroline.   In Linda Clark and Elizabeth Danbury, eds. "A Verray Parfit Praktisour": Essays Presented to Carole Rawcliffe (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2017), pp. 141-51.
Questions why there was "no great belfry housing a public clock in medieval London," arguing that something similar was raised in the 1350s at the parish church of St. Pancras in Soper Lane. Includes one reference to Chaucer: the cock crow rather…

Barron, W. R. J.   London: Longman, 1988.
Treats the nature of romance; the evolution of European romance; English romance; the "matters" of England, France, Rome, and Britain; derivatives; the diffusion of the genre; and "The Tale of Gamelyn."
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