Worsfold, Brian J., ed.
Lleida and Catalunya, Spain: Department of English and Linguistics, University of Lleida, 2005.
Thirteen essays by various authors, with an introduction by the editor and a preface by Tavengwa M. Nhongo. Literary topics include Chaucer and modern fiction and poetry. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Women Ageing Through…
Stambusky, Alan A.
Lock Haven Review 5 (1963): 43-60.
Compares MerT, MilT, and ShT with works by Moliére, arguing that Chaucer's "dramatic impulse" is clear in light of "Comedy Proper," a dramatic form in which intellectual error leads to folly and just, comic punishment. Both writers succeed through…
Blanch, Robert J.
Lock Haven Review 8 (1966): 8-15.
Demonstrates the presence of three kinds of irony in MerT: verbal irony in the Merchant's double entendres and introductory comments on marriage, rhetorical irony in the deflation of courtly ideals by means of distorted or exaggerated figures and…
An anthology of eight short stories by British writers, including PardT (pp. 65-77), each accompanied by a "Vocabulary Preview," explanatory notes, and a closing commentary. Illustrations by Clint Hanson.
Reece, Paula J., ed.
Logan, Iowa: Perfection Learning, 2002.
A pedagogical anthology of twelve short stories, each accompanied by exercises to improve reading comprehension. Includes PardT in modern English (pp. 23-28), excluding the sermon on the tavern vices, followed by questions about plot and vocabulary…
Howard, H. Wendall.
Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 18.3 (2015): 15-32.
Considers the historicity of St. Cecilia, her association with music, and various accounts of her life and legend, including the "Passio Caeciliae," SNT, an opera by Licinio Refice and Emidio Mucci, John Dryden's "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day,"…
Hanning, Robert W.
Lois Ebin, ed. Vernacular Poetics in the Middle Ages (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University Press, Medieval Institute Publications, 1984), pp. 1-32, esp. pt. 3, pp. 24-28.
Treats Alceste as Christian emblem of transformation in LGW.
Wetherbee, Winthrop.
Lois Ebin, ed. Vernacular Poetics in the Middle Ages (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University Press, Medieval Institute Publications, 1984), pp. 153-76.
Parallels between the "Thebiad" and TC, particularly when viewed in light of the Christianized Statius in Dante's "Purgatorio," point to a pattern of engagement and transcendence that characterizes Chaucer's narrator. At the end of TC, the narrator…
Olson, Glending.
Lois Ebin, ed. Vernacular Poetics in the Middle Ages (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University Press, Medieval Institute Publications, 1984), pp. 227-48.
Discusses lyric genres of Machaut, Froissart, Chaucer, and others to show that late-medieval society saw lyrics as "recreation, as conversation, as personal expression, as music." Treats TC, BD, GP, Buk, Purse, Truth, and Sted.
Payne, Robert O.
Lois Ebin, ed. Vernacular Poetics in the Middle Ages (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University Press, Medieval Institute Publications, 1984), pp. 249-61.
Among poets who "present images of themselves both as poets and as readers" was Chaucer, though the idea-language model was not fully appropriate, as in HF.
An introduction to critical approaches to Middle English literature, featuring twenty-two reprinted examples of critical methods by various authors. Chapters include authorship; textual form; genre; language, style and rhetoric; allegory;…
Borlenghi, Patricia, and Giles Greenfield.
London : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 1999.
A collection of animal stories set in a frame-tale of animals on pilgrimage to Assisi. Twelve children's stories from international folk traditions. Text by Borlenghi; illustrations by Greenfield. Commemorates 600th anniversary of Chaucer's death.
Hughes combines travelogue and appreciative criticism as he traces the lives and footsteps of Chaucer, Froissart, and Boccaccio, exploring what each author contributed to growth in popular literature. Focuses on Chaucer's life and CT.
Edwards, A. S. G., Vincent Gillespie, and Ralph Hanna, eds.
London : British Library, 2000.
Thirteen essays on codicology, compilation, and book production in the English late Middle Ages, an introduction, and two memorials honor the work of Jeremy Griffiths. Includes a list of Griffiths's publications, a general index, and an index of…
Ackroyd discusses Chaucer within the larger context of describing and defining the distinctive qualities of English imagination, focusing on Chaucer's themes of remembrance, science, and truth as part of the process of becoming English. Considers HF,…
A biography of Chaucer that records his career as a courtier and diplomat and explores how it may have affected his personality and shaped his poetry. Designed for a general audience, with translations of quoted material, suggestions for further…
Edwards, David L.
London : Darton, Longman, and Todd, 2005.
Appreciative criticism of seven major poets, aware of academic theory (formalist, psychoanalytic, feminist) but addressed to a nonacademic audience. Chapter 1, "Chaucer" (pp. 1-33), considers Chaucer's characterization, moral tolerance, comedy,…
Collects essays by Woolf published over a period of thirty years. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Art and Doctrine under Alternative Title.
Richmond, E. B., trans.
London : Hesperus Poetry, 2004.
Facing-page translation of PF and nineteen short poems and lyrics by Chaucer, with introduction and brief notes. The translations maintain Chaucer's metrical forms and, where possible, original rhymes, while normalizing spelling and modernizing…
Richardson, Catherine.
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2001.
Introduces Chaucer and his works, with focus on CT, and provides commentary on context, themes, and critical approaches. The guide is aimed at high school students or students early in college.
Representative British poetry (lyrics and selections from narrative verse), ranging from Middle English lyrics to poetry written in the 1990s. Arranged chronologically, with no introduction or notes, but with indexes of poets, first lines, and…
An edition of TC, with on-page glosses, explanatory notes at the end of the text, a glossary, and a selected bibliography. Includes a table of correspondences between TC and Boccaccio's "Filostrato," plus a chronology of Chaucer's life and writings.…
