Given-Wilson, Chris.
London and New York: Routledge, 1987.
Studies the chief preoccupations of the noble and knightly families of the fourteenth century; politics (both local and national), the lands, and the family structure.
Aers, David.
London and New York: Routledge, 1988.
Explores "some versions of community and individual identity" in "Piers Plowman," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," TC, and the tradition of Margery Kempe. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for Community, Gender, and Individual Identity…
Wynne-Davies, Marion, ed.
London and New York: Routledge, 1992.
An edition of WBPT and ClPT, based on the Hengwrt manuscript. The introduction and critical commentary address the social context of the works, discusssing Griselda and the Wife as accurate reflections of the medieval status of women.
Evans, Ruth, and Lesley Johnson, eds.
London and New York: Routledge, 1994.
Ten essays by various hands, including an introduction by the editors, plus previously published pieces by Mary Carruthers (with a new Afterword), Sheila Delany, and Susan Schibanoff. Topics include Christine de Pizan, Margery Kempe, "Piers Plowman,"…
Smith, Jeremy J.
London and New York: Routledge, 1999.
Introduces Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern English, describing developments in syntax, morphology, pronunciation, lexicon, and dialects. The selection of samples for discussion and assessment includes excerpts from GP, PardT, and ParsT,…
Tambling, Jeremy.
London and New York: Routledge, 2010.
Examines allegory as a mode in English and American literature (and art), surveying its roots in classical and medieval traditions, exploring its relations with other literary devices and forms (irony, personification, apostrophe, prosopopoeia,…
Richmond, Velma Bourgeois.
London and NewYork : Continuum, 2000.
Explores affinities between Roman Catholic doctrine and outlook and Shakespeare's works, especially his romances and other plays that use the "romance mode." Recurrent references to Chaucer reflect his influence on Shakespeare in plot, mode, and…
Braswell, Mary Flowers.
London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1983.
From thirteenth-century sermons and confessional manuals we see attitudes toward penance and moral behavior reflected in the works of Langland, Gower, the "Pearl" poet, and Chaucer. Chaucer treats CT sinners with unusual humor and irony. Penitential…
Allen, David G., and Robert A. White, eds.
London and Toronto: University of Delaware Press; Newark: Associated University Presses, 1992.
Nineteen essays on the continuities and discontinuities of medieval and Renaissance literature. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Work of Dissimilitude under Alternative Title.
Butterfield, Ardis.
London Review of Books, 27 August 2015, pp. 42-43.
Contemplates the writing of a literary biography of Chaucer, considering the use of archival material, the "arcades" of Walter Benjamin, and psychoanalysis. Comments on the GP description of the Shipman.
Pearsall, Derek.
London, Boston, Sydney: George Allen and Unwin 1985.
The manuscripts of the CT attest to the continuous, evolving, and unfinished nature of Chaucer's work on them from 1387 onward. The poet's intent in CT was to stretch the limits of inherited genres and expand the perceptions of his audience. The…
Blake, N. F.
London, Caulfield East, and Baltimore, Md.: Edward Arnold, 1985.
By manuscript evidence Blake justifies his position that of CT only what appears in Hengwrt can be attributed to Chaucer. He attributes all the early manuscripts to a single copy text assembled from Chaucer's own copies after his death. For best…
Study guide to PardPT and the Pardoner's description in the GP, with a running commentary (text not included), survey of topics and themes, suggestions for essay writing, a chronology, and supplemental materials
Jeffares, A Norman, ed.
London, New York, and Toronto: Longmans, Green, 1955. New edition, 1960.
Anthologizes in chronological order poems and extracts from English poetry written in Britain, including selections from Chaucer in Middle English (pp. 5-8): "Now welcome, somer" (PF 680), "At the gate" (TC 5.1114-1183), and "The fresshe flour"…
Salter, Elizabeth
London; Arnold; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1962.
Discursive, analytic commentaries on KnT and ClT, treating source relations, styles, themes, rhetorical patternings, and aesthetic success in Chaucer's "full realisation of the human predicament" in both tales. The discussion of KnT emphasizes the…
Reproduces "The Riverside Chaucer" texts of GP, KnT, MilT, RvT, and CkT, with original glosses on left-hand pages facing the text on the right- hand pages. Includes a brief descriptive introduction, a select bibliography, and thirty pages of…
Summarizes and evaluates critical approaches to CT; explores pervasive ideas of the work, notably "entente," and offers "excess and restraint" as keys to interpretation. Treats GP Franklin, WBT, CYT, MerT, KnT, PardP, MilT, and FranT.
Treats problems of authority and artistic originality encountered by the medieval narrator of a religious story, and the solutions in CT. Parallels between translating and producing the narrative appear in ClT, SNT, PrT, and Mel; subversion of the…
London: Argo Sight and Sound; released in the U.S. by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.
Item not seen; WorldCat records indicate that this audiovisual movie "Depicts the various institutions, traditions, and forces which shaped Chaucer's life and writings. Includes medieval paintings, tapestries, and music, and portions of Chaucer's…
Visual and verbal guide to the "Pilgrims' Way" between London and Canterbury, documenting the remaining evidence of ancient and medieval archeology, architecture, and topography, and exploring possible side routes and byways where remaining evidence…
Chaucer's transformations of his sources produced a work that invites multiple and open-ended responses. Benson contrasts TC and its source, Boccaccio's Filostrato; he assesses medieval and modern readership of TC; and he considers the story of Troy…
An anthology of "subversive," parodic, or satiric poetry, arranged in several categories pertaining to religion, authority, war, justice, etc., mostly English or translated from French. Includes RvT (pp. 104-20) in Middle English (with glosses) in…
Selections from CT (GP, KnT, MilT, RvT, ShT, MkT, NPT, PardPT, WBPT, FrT, SumT, MerT, SqT, FranT, Ret) in Coghill's modernization (originally published 1951), with illustrations from medieval manuscripts, brasses, stained glass, and other artifacts.
