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Adapts TC for the stage in modern prose, with Production Notes, a dramaturgical Introduction, and stage directions in the modern-English text. Michael B. Herzog's "Music Score" (n.p.; at end of text) provides musical scores for four lyrics in the…

Murder mystery in which the medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his fellow squire at law, Hugh le Hunt, seek to protect John of Gaunt and others from the implications of the death of Lady Mary de Clairmont. The fiction incorporates details from…

A collection of essays previously published, to which Delany has added a new essay, "Run Silent, Run Deep: Heresy and Alchemy as Medieval Versions of Utopia," to examine utopian discourse in the Middle Ages.

Explores drinking establishments (inns, taverns, alehouses, pubs) in English literature for how they have helped to constitute what is thought to be particularly English, starting with CT and Langland's "Piers Plowman" and ending with Martin Amis's…

Surveys the polarities in critical assessments of CT, focusing on four oppositions: realism vs. stereotypicality, monologic vs. dialogic approaches, allegorical vs. humanist (ironic) approaches, and misogyny vs. feminism. Assesses the opposed…

Examines how the "experiences and voices" of young, unmarried women in late-medieval England reflect ideals of femininity and the social processes of becoming adult women. Focuses on social history and literature, with recurrent mention of CT, TC,…

Illustrated, slightly modernized version (Globe ed.) of CYPT. Numerous monochromatic woodblock engravings (plates and marginal figures) illustrate the narrative and depict alchemical symbols.

An anthology of translated lyrics, theoretical writings, and excerpted romances.

A selection of Jennings' personal favorites among English poems, beginning with selections from GP (lines 1-78, 101-62, 219-330, 411-76, and 822-35), in Middle English.

Combines traditional literary Chaucerian scholarship with innovative ways of looking at the material culture of medieval texts and early modern drama. Focuses on how Chaucer plays with time, "temporal circularity," and textual history. Includes…

In "Turning the Other Cheek: Scatology and Its Discontents in The Miller's Tale and The Summoner's Tale," pp. 12-59, Smith uses farting in MilT and SumT to explore Chaucer's complex and refined "scatological rhetoric," a trope that has been obscured…

Includes 4,632 annotated entries, compiled and edited from the annual bibliography reports published in SAC, newly arranged and cross-referenced in categories that reflect changes in the reception and teaching of Chaucer and Chaucerian scholarship.…

Includes twelve essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors on affect, periodization, queer history, and Chaucer's and Shakespeare's versions of the story of Troilus and Criseyde/Cressida. For nine essays that pertain to Chaucer,…

Twelve essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors explore the material and symbolic status of roads in medieval history and literature. The volume includes a bibliography and index. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search…

Fourteen essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors, all inspired by or in response to the critical studies of Stephanie Trigg. The introduction describes the "affective" criticism underlying Trigg's "Congenial Souls," "Shame and…

Draws on modern media studies to clarify practices of "participatory reading" in late medieval England, exploring how vernacular authors, texts, and manuscripts elicit and/or limit the agency of their readers who engage with texts in making meaning,…

Investigates the relationship between medieval studies and medievalism and how "the history of the medieval" provides contemporary readers with "a model of how to relate to the past." Argues that medieval writers offer models for understanding how…

Twelve essays on Spenser's knowledge of and uses of Chaucer as source or inspiration. The introduction by the editors summarizes earlier critical studies, describes the essays, and asserts that the essays together "characterise the relationships…

Focuses on a variety of late medieval households and argues that there is "a dynamic and reciprocal relationship between domestic experience and its forms of cultural expression" and cultural production. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search…

Investigates how medieval English literature "encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against the possibility of sexual shame." Includes discussion of women's virtue and honor during Chaucer's time, with particular…

Analyzes the relationship between conceptions of social class and literary representations of them in Britain from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century. Chapter 2, "Perceptions of Class in the Late Middle Ages," addresses William Langland's…

Engages several literary and anthropological theories of gifts, and addresses related motifs of reciprocity, generosity, promising, and exchange in medieval English texts, especially romances. Individual chapters assess "King Horn"/"Horn Childe"…

Surveys literary representations of swooning from late medieval works to modern ones, assessing how the motif is "inflected and re-inflected as ideas of the body, gender, race, sexuality and sickness shift through time." After an introductory essay…

Twelve essays by various authors on the concept of "voice" in medieval literature, with an introduction by the editors, an appreciative tribute to David Lawton by John M. Ganim, and a comprehensive index. Generally, the essays focus on the literature…

Twelve essays by various authors, covering religious, courtly, and secular texts and contexts, with an introduction by the editor and a comprehensive index. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Painful Pleasures: Sadomasochism in…