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Boitani, Piero.   Bari: Adriatica Editrice, 1980.
Trans. Joan Krakover Hall as "English Medieval Narrative in the 13th and 14th Centuries" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982).

Dillon, Janette.   Basingstoke and London:
Historicist introduction to Chaucer's life, works, literary context, and influence.

Thomas, Nigel, and Richard Swan.   Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1986.
Pedagogy (undergraduate).

Alexander, Michael, ed.   Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1986.
For beginners, a study outline that introduces the major issues in MilT.

Fannon, Beatrice, ed.   Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Offers essays that reflect the variety of critical viewpoints of medieval writers, including William Langland and Chaucer. Part 2 is devoted to Chaucer scholarship. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval English Literature…

Hobday, J[ohn], trans.   Bath, U.K.: Brodie, 1961
Item not seen. WorldCat record notes that FranT is "Rendered into modern English prose by John Hobday."

Jones, Terry.   Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. 2d rev. ed., 1985; with new introduction, 1994 (London: Methuen).
Ranging through the history of the Crusades, Jones attempts to prove that Chaucer's Knight is a venal mercenary and Chaucer's means to criticize his contemporary military politics.

Nelson, Marilyn.   Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.
An anthology of narrative poetry that includes "The Cachoeira Tales," modeled on CT, with a number of distinct allusions to Chaucer's work, including a "General Prologue" that opens with references to April rains and several tales attributed to…

McKenna, Conan.   Bealoideas 45-47 (1977-79): 63-77.
Common characters and incidents in PardT and three Irish versions of Aarne-Thompson folktale Type 763 may indicate cross-fertilization between folklore and medieval literature. Most arguments favor an oral source for the PardT. The episode of the…

Sammel, Rebecca E.   Beate Müller, ed. Parody: Dimensions and Perspectives. Rodopi Perspectives in Modern Literature, no. 19 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997), pp. 169-90.
In its carnivalized parody of the sacrament of confession, the "calculated self-portrait" of the Archpoet's "Estuans intrinsecus" foreshadows PardPT. Each speaker creates a "mythopoeia of self" by manipulating sacred topoi; the Pardoner draw his…

Beer, Lewis.   Beatrice Fannon, ed. Medieval English Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 112-27.
Examines the "author/reader dynamic" in Dante's "Commedia" and HF.

Evans, Ruth.   Beatrice Fannon, ed. Medieval English Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 128-43.
Explores memory and gender in TC, focusing on the poem's deployment of the trope of the knot, as representative of both memory and the bond of love. Argues that the poem's use of knots and nets does not easily resolve itself into gender binaries or…

Allen, Valerie.   Beatrice Fannon, ed. Medieval English Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 144-60.
Draws on connections between "Chaucerian poetics and the properties . . . of gold," and maintains that "gold is a deep metaphor for poetry." Examines Chaucer's poetic references to gold and "sumptuous description" in CT, particularly in KnT.

Phillips, Helen.   Beatrice Fannon, ed. Medieval English Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 79-94.
Addresses Chaucer's discourse on medieval political principles, including kingship and hierarchical order. Examines SqT, Mel, KnT, ClT, LGW, PF, and Sted.

Gossedge, Rob.   Beatrice Fannon, ed. Medieval English Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 95-111.
Discusses the influence of Boethius and Boccaccio on Chaucer's depiction of the Monk in CT.

Groves, Beatrice.   Beatrice Groves, Literary Allusion in "Harry Potter" (New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 38-59.
Argues that the most "tempting objects" in J. K. Rowling's "Deathly Hallows" derive in part from the girdle in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"; the "thirty pieces of silver that persuade" the biblical Judas to betray Jesus; and the "deadly pile of…

Chidora, Tanaka.   Because Sadness Is Beautiful (Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe: Mwanaka, 2019), p. 78.
Twenty-seven-line poem in which the appearance of Chaucer in a classroom triggers an epiphany.

Yuan, Xianjun.   Beijing: Peking University Press, 1995.
Reads TC as a "jubilant celebration of earthly love" which "testifies to the accessibility of Christian salvation by means of human love" (xi). Earthly love and divine love are balanced in the poem, with Troilus regarding Criseyde as the "Blessed…

Hlebec, Boris, trans.   Belgrade: Srpska Literary Cooperative, 1983.
Translation of CT into Serbo-Croatian poetry and prose. Includes bottom-of-page notes.

Peters, Robert A.   Bellingham, Wash. : Western Washington University, 1980.
After briefly placing Chaucer's language in the history of the development of English, Peters describes Chaucer's vocabulary, phonology, morphology, and syntax. The study is presented as a "one-text description of Chaucer's language for the student…

Allen, Charles A., and George D. Stephens, eds.   Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1962.
Anthologizes theoretical essays and illustrative examples of literary satire drawn from the ancients through the moderns. Designed for classroom use, with a glossary of terms, a bibliography of suggestions for further study, and an index. Includes…

Kuhl, Ernest P.   Beloit, Wisc.: Belting Publications, 1971.
Reprints forty-one essays by Kuhl, originally published between 1914 and 1960, brought together to celebrate Kuhl's ninetieth birthday. Twenty-one of the essays pertain to Chaucer, many dealing with biographical details, life records, and allusions…

Hutchins, Christine E.   Ben Jonson Journal 15 (2008): 248-70.
Late sixteenth-century Elizabethan reception of Chaucer focused as much on his "recreational" talents as a vernacular poet and stylist as on his doctrinal or philosophical themes. Constructed as a "prodigal" poet as well as a laureate, Chaucer was…

Weiss, Jim, trans.   Benicia, Calif.]: Greathall, 1990, track 9.
Includes an oral retelling of NPT for children, "Chanticleer the Rooster," adapted and read by Jim Weiss, with a brief introduction. Track 9; ca. 15 min.

Taggie, Benjamin F.   Benjamin F. Taggie, Richard W. Clement, and James E. Caraway, eds. Spain and the Mediterranean (Kirksville, Mo.: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1992), pp. 35-44.
Describes political and military events involving Edward, the Black Prince, Pedro of Castile, and his rivals that led up to the military campaign of 1366. Suggests the nature and timing of Chaucer's likely participation in these events, perhaps as an…
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