Having normalized the language "in accordance with the grammar and spelling of late fourteenth-century London English," Duncan divides this "comprehensive selection" of lyrics into four thematic groups, three of which include lyrics attributed to…
Readings of selections from CT, translated by Nevill Coghill, including GP, KnT, MilPT, RvPT, PrPT, PardPT, WBPT, FrPT, SumPT, MerPT, and Ret. Read by Richard Breers, Alan Cumming, James Grout, Alex Jennings, Geoffrey Matthews, Richard Pasco, Tim…
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat which indicates that this is a selection from CT in Middle English. WorldCat also cites a 1998 release of this publication.
Wilcockson, Colin, ed. and trans.
London: Penguin, 2008.
Prose translations of GP, KnT, MilPT, RvPT, WBPT, ClPT, MerPT (and epilogue), FranPT, PardPT, and NPPT, with Middle English texts from The Riverside Chaucer on facing pages. Includes bottom-of page explanatory notes, a chronology, and an introduction…
Verse-drama adaptation/translation of WBPT and Ret in decasyllabic rhyming couplets and north London dialect, with Jamaican patois, and multiple actors. WBP is set in a contemporary London pub; WBT, in eighteenth-century Maroon Town, Jamaica, under…
Ackroyd, Peter, trans.
London: Penguin; New York: Viking, 2009.
Primarily a prose modernization of CT (Th in verse; Mel and ParsT excluded) that emulates Chaucer's shifts in register and idiom. Includes a translator's note and an introduction on Chaucer's life and works. Illustratrd by Nick Bantock.
Chapter 1 (pp. 15-31) describes Chaucer's 1373 visit to Florence, a great industrial and financial center declining into political factionalism. Italian meters influenced Chaucer's rhyme royal. Boccaccio taught him the potential of romance; Dante…
Historical fiction and murder mystery, involving Chaucer and his contemporaries, including John of Gaunt, Adam Scriveyn, the murdered Cecily Champagne, and others.
Praises Chaucer (pp. 17-31) as the first poet in English to be "read for pleasure" because he "invented in English the pleasant habit of writing for the sake of writing." Commends Chaucer's innovative uses of French and Italian models and the "wealth…
A book "about the different aspects of words" (etymology, morphology, language acquisition, language and cognition, etc.), designed for a popular audience and arranged as a series of 121 topical pieces of varying lengths. Item 54 ("Chaucer's Words,"…
Includes a chapter entitled "Chaucer's English" (pp. 56-71) that focuses on the growth of the dominance of the East Midland dialect over other dialects of Middle English, with commentary on Chaucer's English and CT, the "Gawain"-poet, Wyclif, the…
Reconstructs "medieval people's experience of time as continuous, discontinuous, linear, and cyclical--from creation through judgment and into eternity," clarifying concepts of aging, eternity, planetary motion, time-keeping, apocalypse, etc.,…
Selection of critical writings from fourteenth century through 1933. Vol. 1 (1385-1837) contains remarks about Chaucer by Deschamps, Usk, Lydgate, Caxton, Dryden, Hazlitt, Blake, Crabbe, and Coleridge; vol. 2 (1837-1933) contains hitherto neglected…
Aers explores the conflict between traditional Christian ideology and social and individual realities in "Piers Plowman," and Langland's criticism of abuse of power in all ranks of the clerical hierarchy. Langland calls for reformation within…
Pearsall, John.
London: Routledge and K. Paul; Charlottesville, N.C.: University of Virginia Press, 1970.
Combines literary biography with genre-study to assess the poetry of John Lydgate, particularly his conventionality and craftsmanship, his techniques of amplification and idealization, his commonplaces and "categories of thought," internal and…
Brewer, D. S., and L. Elisabeth Brewer, eds.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969.
A textbook edition of selections from TC in Middle English (some 5000 lines), with an introduction and end-of-text commentary and glossary. Much of Book 4 is excluded (its Prologue of is included), and other passages reduced slightly. The…
Pugh, Tison, and Angela J. Weisl.
London: Routledge, 2012.
Analysis of the influence of medieval literature and culture on contemporary film, literature, and various academic disciplines. Includes discussion of Chaucer's CT, KnT, PF, and TC.
Dramatic adaptation of portions of GP, KnT, WBT, PardT, FranT, NPT, and MilT, designed for "youth groups and dramatic societies." Includes stage directions, brief production notes and instructions, property list, etc. Musical score for piano, by…
A comic, absurdist, satirical novel of interlocking tales told by a series of ship's passengers, loosely modeled on CT, opening with a "General Prologue" that introduces the tale-tellers and proceeds in chapters dedicated to individual tellers and…
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.
