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Mann, Jill, ed.   London : Penguin, 2005.
New edition of CT, based on both the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts, with on-page glosses, explanatory notes (pp. 795-1111), and glossary (pp. 1112-54). The introduction (pp. xvii-lxx) comments on the importance of Chaucer and CT, Chaucer's…

London 'Times', July 26, 1986, p. 14.
Terry Jones is reported as persisting in his belief that "Chaucer's 'parfit gentil knight' was no such thing," that Chaucer's portrait was ironic.

Brewer, Derek.   London and Basingstoke: Humanities Press; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Macmillan Press, 1982.
A collection of Brewer's previously published articles which discuss Chaucer's relationships to the "literary culture of his own times and to our present attitudes." For one new essay, "The Archaic and the Modern," search Tradition and Innovation…

Kean, P. M.   London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972.
Describes Chaucer's contributions to English literary tradition: a "new kind of organization" of large narrative, an "urbane" style that assumes a shared set of values with its audience, and a "new attitude" toward the "usefulness and dignity" of…

Pearsall, Derek.   London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977.
Covers the first nine hundred years of English poetry. Includes treatments of Chaucer, his circle of friends, his choice of English as a literary language, his foreign influence.

Norton-Smith, John.   London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul,1974.
Studies Chaucer's poetic achievement in major and minor works with recurrent attention to relative chronology, the development of Chaucer's art, sources and analogues, and treatment of genres. Focuses on BD; Ven, Pity, and Mars as complaints; HF; LGW…

Brewer, D. R., ed.   London and Edinburgh: Nelson, 1960.
An edition of PF based on University of Cambridge Library MS Gg.4.27, with end-of-text textual and explanatory notes, modern punctuation, and original spelling. The Introduction (pp. 1-68) presents the poem as the "best of Chaucer's shorter poems,"…

Bishop, Ian.   London and Melbourne: Everyman's University Library, 1987.
Reviews various theories about the overall design of CT, warning that individual tales can be ignored, though CT is greater than the sum of its parts, and that Chaucer's final intentions concerning the order of the tales are unknown. In an analysis…

McCarthy, Conor, ed.   London and New York Routledge, 2004.
Anthology for teaching medieval ideas about love, sex, and marriage; includes modern translation of portions of Chaucer's works: PardT, WBP, and Buk.

Webb, Diana.   London and New York : Hambledon, 2000.
Describes the activities, theology, sociology, and psychology of medieval English pilgrimage from its roots in Anglo-Saxon tradition to criticism of the institution in the late Middle Ages. Considers English and British sites primarily, discussing…

Swanton, Michael.   London and New York : Longman, 1987.
Critical overview of selections from Old English and Early Middle English literature.

Morrison, Susan Signe.   London and New York : Routledge, 2000.
Studies "medieval perceptions of pilgrimage, gender, and space," discussing literary and historical female pilgrims, their motives, and the effects pilgrimages had on their families and social dynamics. Discusses the shrines at Walsingham and…

Ashton, Gail.   London and New York : Routledge, 2000.
Analyzes the voices in medieval vernacular saints' lives: the controlling masculine voice and the submerged and subversive feminine voice. Defines female hagiography as a genre separable from male hagiography. French feminist critics (Cixous and…

Rudd, Gillian.   London and New York : Routledge, 2001.
A discursive handbook to Chaucer's life and its context, his works, and criticism of his works. The biographical portion provides basic information and notes the variety of Chaucers constructed over the years. Rudd discusses the works chronologically…

Galloway, Andrew.   London and New York: Continuum, 2006.
A guide to Old and Middle English literature, its contexts, and its reception. Separate sections address political and social contexts; literary genres and the communities that produced them; reception from the Renaissance to current debates; and…

Hines, John.   London and New York: Longman, 1993.
This six-chapter history of fabliau tradition begins with an examination of medieval French fabliaux, including a description of their usual characteristics and a discussion of relevant criticism. It then addresses French fabliaux in English, as…

Brown, Peter.   London and New York: Longman, 1994.
An "interactive" introduction to CT designed for classroom use. Provides for GP and select tales contextual materials from sources and analogues, rhetorical and visual traditions, and contemporary resources, guiding students in their considerations…

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…

Dyas, Dee.   London and New York: Longman, 1997
An introduction to the influence of Christian thought and history on Old and Middle English literatures. A chapter on "Piers Plowman" and CT (pp. 101-38) surveys late-medieval ecclesiastical offices, the theology of salvation, penance and…

Burnley, David.   London and New York: Longman, 1998.
Historical survey of the language and actions of courtly behavior as evident in Anglo-Norman and Middle English writings, with some corroboration from Latin. Traces the emergence of aristocratic courtliness in the eleventh century through to its…

Brewer, Derek.   London and New York: Longman, 1998.
A "radical revision" (xi) of Brewer's 1984 "Introduction to Chaucer" (SAC 8 [1986], no. 55a); like its predecessor, a general introduction intended for specialists and first-time readers of Chaucer alike. Carried over from the first edition, the…

Ellis, Steve, ed.   London and New York: Longman, 1998.
An anthology of twelve previously published essays and excerpts from longer works that apply modern critical theory to CT. Ellis's introduction assesses the contributions of the essays to a postmodern understanding of CT.

Orme, Nicholas I.   London and New York: Methuen, 1984.
Relates Chaucer's references to aristocratic upbringing to contemporary social practice.

Churchill, Caryl.   London and New York: Methuen, 1984.
A play in two acts that depicts the meeting of various women from fiction and history, including Patient Griselda, who tells her life story in a version of ClT. First produced and published in 1982; this is a fully revised, post-production edition.

Coghill, Nevill.   London and New York: Published for the British Council and the National Book League by Longmans, Green, 1956.
Influential biographical discussion of Chaucer as the "first poet" of England "in the high culture of Europe," and the "most courteous to those who read or listen to him." Considers Chaucer's individual works in light of his life, medieval literary…
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