Pérez Gállego, Cándido, intro. Juan G. de Luaces, trans.
Madrid: Sociedad General Española de Libreria, 1984
Spanish prose translation of the complete CT, with an introduction to Chaucer's life and the poem, with emphasis on plot summary, and brief bibliography. The Luaces translation was originally published in 1946, 2 volumes.
Chocano Díaz, Gema, Noelia Hernando Real, and Ana Ardid Gumiel, eds.
Madrid: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2020.
Includes a selection of passages from Chaucer, with word-by-word English translations and an introduction to Chaucer's linguistic and literary context. Intended for use as a manual for Middle and early modern English literature survey courses.
Rodríguez Redondo, Ana Laura, and Eugenio Contreras Domingo, eds.
Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2011.
Includes four articles related to Middle English manuscripts, CT, and medievalisms. For essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Focus on Old and Middle English Studies under Alternative Title.
Dabydeen, David.
Maggie Butcher, ed. Tibisiri: Caribbean Writers and Critics (Sydney: Dangaroo Press, 1989), pp. 121-35.
Interrogates differences and tensions between modern black British poetry and the dominant Anglo-American tradition, focusing on the use of "Caribbean creole" to resist colonial subordination of black voices. Refers to Chaucer and the tradition of…
Gomez, Francesc J.
Magnificat: Cultura i literature medievals 2 (2015): 159–96.
Taking as a starting-point the study of a chapter from the "Tractat de les penes particulars d'infern" by Joan Pasqual (c. 1436), traces the dissemination (and the "stemma narrationum") of two narrative motifs: the fake alchemist and the king…
Saito, Isamu.
Main Current: Extra Number in Memory of Professor Toichiro Ohta (Kyoto, 1982): 220-36.
Examines to what extent Chaucer's promise in GP to describe each pilgrim "so as it semed" to him is fulfilled. Character portrayals are not illustrative, like Langland's, but representative.
Edits GP and WBPT from the Ellesmere manuscript, with glosses, notes, and brief introductions. The first edition of the volume (2000) includes no works by Chaucer; the third (2010) includes no additional material by him.
Thirty-eight essays by various authors, arranged in seven subheadings: "Overviews"; "The Production and Reception of Texts"; "Language and Literature"; "Encounters with Other Cultures"; "Special Themes"; "Genres"; "and Readings." Each essay includes…
Wallace, David.
Malden, Mass., and Oxford : Blackwell, 2004.
Wallace contemplates and reconstructs historical understanding of several locations, using visual and verbal texts to recapture perspectives of medieval and early modern witnesses or visitors.
Momma, Haruko, and Michael Matto, eds.
Malden, Mass.; and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
Fifty-nine essays by various authors on topics ranging from the Indo-European roots of English to linguistic theory of the twenty-first century, from "the history of the history of English" to various geographical Englishes, and from English…
Thirteen essays intended for the new and returning student of Chaucer. Following the editor's introduction (pp. 1-10) describing facets of Chaucer's art and life and the contents of the collection, the work is divided into parts: Chaucer in Context,…
Surveys the forms, topics, and contexts of Middle English writing, clarifying its construction from various literary traditions set against a number of social, economic, and political conditions. The discussion is divided into five broad categories…
Hirsh, John C., ed.
Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2005.
A classroom anthology with notes, marginal glosses, introductions, bibliographical citations, and occasional illustrations. Fifty poems arranged by topic into ten categories, with three appendices of additional poems, including one appendix titled…
A textbook for religious studies that anthologizes theological, philosophical, and literary essays and excerpts. all concerned with the nature of evil. Includes excerpts from Chaucer's "Patient Griselda" (ClT in David Wright translation, pp.…
McGrath, Alister E., ed.
Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2001.
An anthology of selections and excerpts, arranged chronologically, from Clement of Rome to Garrison Keillor, each example accompanied by a brief biographical introduction and study questions. Includes a translation of PardP (6.329-462).
DeMaria, Robert, Jr., and Robert D. Brown, eds.
Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2007.
Collects excerpts from various "British, Irish, and Caribbean Writers" (Chaucer to Seamus Heaney) and from various classical writers (Homer to Juvenal) to demonstrate classical influence. Opens (pp. 3-10) with a selection from WBP (ll. 627-822) in…
Surveys representations of Helen in literature, assessing the characterization in light of prevailing attitudes towards such topics as beauty, sexual culpability, and rape. Includes a summary of Chaucer's Helen in TC as an example of ambiguity, where…
Thirty-four essays by various authors, with an introduction and an epilogue by the editor, all on topics pertaining to English poetry from its origins through the fifteenth century. Each essay includes suggestions for further reading, and the volume…
Dryden's use of the term in the Preface to the "Fables" echoes Chaucer's use in CT I, 3162, "Goddes foyson." Chaucer's use has sexual overtones. Immediately after using it, Dryden explains that he will not translate Chaucer's indecent tales; so he…
Passages from ShT and MLT suggest that men have a right to beat their wives; furthermore, MilT and passages from Mel and WBT (in the wife's marriage to Jankin) seem to suggest masochism in female characters. MkP suggests that women are naturally…
The Host's use of "tredefowel" in MkT and NPE suggests that he may have been aware of "cock" as an obscenity (as well as a symbol for priest), a meaning supported by evidence from other languages, literature, and iconography.
