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Jokinen, Anniina.   Luminarium, 1996-2012.
A series of interlinked webpages that pertain to the study of Chaucer, including works, biography, selected quotations, audio clips, images, and a variety of essays and studies, including web-published student essays, external links, and more. Much…

Reimer, Stephen R.   Edmonton: University of Alberta, 1996.
Lists a variety of items (some annotated) that pertain to the study of Chaucer. Eighteen topical sub-headings address social and literary contexts, as well as critical studies of Chaucer's works.

Zatta, Jane.   [Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University], 1996-2005.
Pedagogical website dedicated to CT, with separate pages for selected tales that include introductions and ancillary information. Considers KnT, MilT, RvT, MLT, WBPT, FrT, ClT, FranT, PardPT, PrT, MkT, Mel, and NPT. Also includes links to related…

Deary, Terry.   London: Scholastic, 1996.
Includes a brief comical introduction to Chaucer's poetry and a modernized selection from the conclusion to NPT, with b&w illustrations by Philip Reeve.

Burns, Christopher, ed.   New York: Park Lane, 1996.
Selects a variety of poems by British and American writers, arranged thematically, including examples from GP: 1-18 (original and translation), and 445-76 (Wife of Bath), 165-207 (Monk), and 285-308 (Clerk) in modern English; all translations by the…

[n.p.]: Jasper Publishing, 1996.
Item not seen. WorldCat record gives ISBN 9781874009429.

Allen, Valerie, and Margaret Connolly.   Year's Work In English Studies 75 (1997): 167-200.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucerian scholarship and research in 1994; divided into four categories: general CT, TC, and other works.

Allen, Mark,and Bege K. Bowers.   Studies in the Age of Chaucer 19 (1997): 353-447.
Continuation of "Studies in the Age of Chaucer" annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on 1995 "MLA Bibliography" listings, contributions from an international bibliographic team, and independent research.

Boswell, Jackson Campbell,and Sylvia Wallace Holton.   Chaucer Review 31 (1997): 291-316.
Assembles references to Chaucer's character and literary reputation recorded in English books 1475-1640, the dates of the Short Title Catalog. Entries include author, title, publisher, and STC and University Microfilm (UMD) numbers and establish the…

Burton, T. L., and Rosemary Greentree, eds. with annotations by David Biggs, Rosemary Greentree, Hugh McGivern, David Matthews, Greg Murrie, and Dallas Simpson.   Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 1997
The complete annotated bibliography of scholarly and critical treatments of "The Miller's Tale,""The Reeve's Tale,"and "The The Cook's Tale" from 1900 through 1992, subdivided into the following categories: editions, translations, and modernizations…

Seymour, M. C.   Aldershot, Hants: Scolar Press, 1997.
Describes fifty-six manuscripts of "The Canterbury Tales," providing detailed contents and collations, plus briefer comments on binding, decoration, glosses, rubrics, scribes, and provenance. Follows Manly and Rickert's classifications of the…

Boffey, Julia,and A. S. G. Edwards, introd., with an appendix by B. C. Barker-Benfield.   Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997.
Includes TC, Truth, Mars, Ven, PF, LGW, several pieces of Chaucerian apochrypha, and works by Lydgate, Hoccleve, James I, and anonymous authors (twenty-five works total). Eight color plates complement the sepia-tone facsimile, photographed in 1994…

Carlson, David R.   Library, ser. 6, 19 (1997): 25-67.
Traces the history of two related series of woodcuts. The first, cut for Caxton's 1483 edition, apparently derives from miniatures in the manuscript now known as the Oxford Fragments (Ox1 and Ox2). The second series was copied from Caxton for…

Donaghey, Brian.   John Scattergood and Julia Boffey, eds. Texts and Their Contexts: Papers from the Early Book Society, pp. 150-64.
Considers Thynne's 1532 collected edition of Chaucer's work, assessing the planning of the work, its physical make-up, and the technical processes of producing it.

Haas, Renate.   Marie-Francoise Alamichel and Derek Brewer, eds. The Middle Ages After the Middle Ages in the English-Speaking World (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 1997), pp. 91-101.
Recognizing parallels between "The Wife of Bath and Her Tale" and contemporary female practice, Dryden intensified the elements of faery and magic in his version of the "Tale." In addition, he greatly reduced the lively presence of the Wife,…

Keyburn, Karen.   Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1997): 861A.
"Second Nun and Her Tale" as prepared for the "Variorum Chaucer," based on the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts, with explanatory notes and critical commentary to 1994.

Phillips, Helen, and Nick Havely, eds.   London and New York: Longman, 1997
Edits Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, Parliament of Fowls,and portions of Legend of Good Women (G-version Prologue and Dido), providing an introduction, bottom-of-the-page glosses and commentary, selected source material, and textual notes for…

Robinson, Peter   Richard J. Finneran, ed. The Literary Text in the Digital Age. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996), pp. 99-115.
Argues that electronic editions are both archival and interpretive, enabling users "to find the one text they seek" and recording data that reflect reception history and provide linguistic information. Cites examples from the electronic WBP (SAC 20…

Wheatley, Edward.   PMLA 112 (1997): 271-72.
The treatment of Chaucer (often in translation) in cultural studies programs tends to divest his verse of its poetic qualities as, for example, in the tournament in "The Knight and His Tale."

Beadle, Richard.   P. R. Robinson and Rivkah Zim, eds. Of the Making of Books: Medieval Manuscripts, Their Scribes and Readers. Essays Presented to M. B. Parkes, pp. 116-46.
Describes Glasgow, University Library, Hunterian MS U.I.1 (Gl) and its relation to its exemplar-Cambridge University Library Mm.2.5 (Mm). Spirleng was the sole scribe for the portion of Gl that depends on Mm,and preliminary analysis of variations…

Blake, N. F.   Norman Blake and Peter Robinson, eds. The Canterbury Tales Project Occasional Papers, Volume II (London: King's College, Office of Humanities Communications, 1997), pp. 5-14.
Describes a system of lineation for consistent citation of all materials relating to the textual history of CT, not only lines generally accepted as genuine but also all spurious and contested lines, including spurious tales. Explains the need for…

Blake, N. F.   Jacek Fisiak, ed. Studies in Middle English Linguistics (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997), pp. 59-78.
Fifteenth-century scribal additions and changes to manuscripts of CT indicate the "linguistic and stylistic prejudices and attitudes" of scribes and their audiences. Treats Hengwrt as a base text and explores how changes in Ellesmere, British…

Blake, N. F.,and Peter Robinson,eds.   London: King's College, Office for Humanities Communiciations, 1997.
Nine essays by various authors and a preface by the editors, all of which pertain to textual issues of CT or to the principles and practices of the "Canterbury Tales" Project. For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Canterbury…

Edwards, A. S. G.   Evelyn Mullally and John Thompson, eds. The Court and Cultural Diversity: Selected Papers from the Eighth Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, The Queen's University of Belfast, 26 July-1 August 1995 (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N. Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1997), pp. 309-17.
John Shirley lived on the "fringes of the aristocracy," and aspects of the manuscripts he produced suggest that he desired to emulate courtliness in his book production.

Fredell, Joel.   Early Book Society Newsletter 3:2 (1998): [7-12]
Categorizes patterns of paragraphing in the "landmark" manuscripts of CT as "sparse" or "dense," arguing that the patterns emphasize the "florilegium qualities" of CT and focusing on uses of paraphs in SqT.
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