Seven essays and a critical introduction, with a brief chronology of Chaucer's life and works, and a short selected bibliography. For the Introduction and the seven essays, search for Geoffrey Chaucer: A Collection of Original Articles under…
Dunn, Charles W., ed.
G. B. Harrison, gen. ed. Major British Writers, Volume 1: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Swift, Pope (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1954), pp. 1-90.
Anthologizes GP, PardPT, PrPT, MilT, WBPT, ClT, FranT, NPT, and Ret., each with a brief introduction and bottom-of-page glosses. Also introduces Chaucer's life, works, literary techniques, and language, with suggestions for further reading.
Krstovic, Jelena.
Lawrence Trudeau, ed. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Vol. 260 (Farmington, Mich.: Gale, 2017), pp. 114-0.
Reprints eleven examples of Chaucer criticism published between 2001 and 2013 and an excerpt from 1934. The introduction by Krstovic summarizes Chaucer's biography, major works, and critical reception, updating information supplied in Volume 56 of…
Trudeau, Lawrence.
Lawrence Trudeau, ed. Literature and Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Volume 56 (Farmington, Mich.: Gale, 2000), pp. 1-117.
Anthologizes nine critical essays or excerpts from books published between 1970 and 1997 on issues of gender and sexuality in Chaucer's works, with a brief introduction.
Person, James E.
James E. Person, ed. Literature and Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Volume 17 (Farmington, Mich.: Gale, 1991), pp. 42-247.
Reprints forty-eight examples of critical commentary on Chaucer and his poetry, from Deschamps, Gower, and Caxton to 1989, some excerpted and some complete essays, with an annotated list of suggestions for further reading. The Introduction (pp.…
Gaffke, Carol T., ed. Poetry Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Poets of World Literature, Volume 19 (Detroit: Gale, 1997), pp. 1-79.
Excerpted selections from Chaucer criticism, ranging from 1809 (William Blake) to 1995, prefaced by a brief introduction to his life and works and followed by suggestions for further reading.
Text of TC based on Riverside edition, with Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato" on facing pages, in the English translation of Robert P. apRoberts and Anna Bruni Benson. Includes Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, as edited by Robert L. Kindrick; ten…
Verse translation of CT with several tales abridged or excerpted (KnT, MLT, ClT, SqT, FranT, MkT) and several summarized (Mel, CYT, ManT, ParsT), based on the Riverside edition. Converts Chaucer's pentameter couplets into octosyllabic couplets to…
Crépin, André, and others, trans., in collaboration with Ann Wéry.
Paris: Laffont, 2010.
Bilingual edition of the works of Chaucer, based on The Riverside Chaucer. Includes CT, Rom, BD, HF, Anel, PF, Bo, TC, LGW, short poems, Astr, Equat, and French poems attributed to Chaucer. Translators include André Crépin, Jean-Jacques Blanchot,…
Rabil, Albert, Jr.
Karen Nelson, ed. Attending to Early Modern Women (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2013), pp. 189-206.
Suggests that Chaucer and Pizan may have created "female voices to speak in opposition to male misogyny" at about the same time because they shared similar educations and the same "cultural and intellectual universe," most evident in their…
Brewer, Elisabeth
Harlow: Longman; Beirut: York Press, 1982.
Study guide to MilT that includes a plot synopsis, running commentary, and glosses (text not included). Also includes descriptions of characters and characterization, various themes and devices, stylistic features, and suggestions for further study;…
Study guide to ClT that includes a plot summary and glosses (text not included), and commentary on various subjects: the patient wife as a literary motif, characterization in ClT, medieval clerks, linguistic and stylistic features of ClT (including…
Explores the factors involved in assessing Chaucer's rank among literary greats, summarizing parts of CT, describing difficulties of teaching the poem, suggesting the use of Nevill Coghill's translation, and offering other pedagogical comments.
Though he probably knew nothing of the theatre, Chaucer displays the essence of dramatic technique--the ability to create the persons of his characters objectively in CT.
Roger, Euan, and Sebastian Sobecki.
Chaucer Review 57 (2022): 407-37.
Examines newly discovered documents to argue that Chaucer and Cecily Chaumpaigne were both party to Staundon's legal maneuvers, and that, because of the Statute of Laborers, Chaumpaigne's quit claim offered a resolution. Presents a reappraisal of…
Harley, Marta Powell.
Chaucer Review 28 (1993): 78-82.
Challenges Haldeen Braddy's assertion that Cecilia Chaumpaigne was the stepdaughter of Alice Perrers, since, in fact, Chaumpaigne was not one of Alice's surnames. Elsewhere, Braddy's reading and citing of sources on this issue are suspect.
Weise, Judith.
Walton Beacham, ed. Research Guide to Biography and Criticism, vol. 1 (Washington, D.C.: Research Publishing, 1985): pp. 218-223.
Brief synopsis of Chaucer's life, listing of his works, and selective review of biographical sources, critical approaches, criticism, dictionaries, and encyclopedias.
Fruoco, Jonathan.
Iris 39 (2019): n.p.
Available at http://ouvroir-litt-arts.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/revues/actalittarts/553-geoffrey-chaucer-the-merchant-s-tale-et-la-dialectique-de-l-elevation. Accessed January 12, 2021.
Explores the implications of ascent and descent in MerT, focusing on the significance of the tale's vacillations between courtliness and the fabliau genre in comparison with several analogous narratives that include fruit-tree episodes. In French,…
Truter, Wolfgang.
Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1979): 4698C.
A line-by-line commentary on NPT reveals that the primary difficulties of the poem are not linguistic, but lie rather in the tremendous range of subjects from which Chaucer draws in the work: medicine, theology, astrology, and music, among others.
Lehnert, Martin.
Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik 32:1 (1984): 5-18.
Chaucer explores complex psychology of love in TC and CT, juxtaposing carnal with spiritual, crude with refined, translating the ideal into the everyday, synthesizing French and Italian traditions.
Hernández Pérez, Ma Beatriz.
Liminar: Estudios sociales y humanisticos 6.2 (2008): 15-30
Examines Chaucer's works, particularly BD and LGW, in connection to female patronage networks in the late fourteenth century in England, France, and the Iberian Peninsula. Argues that the new cultural and political role of many aristocratic women had…
A series of interlinked webpages that provides a variety of texts, translations, glossaries, selected essays and graphics, instructional aids, and supporting information about language, analogues, social conditions, and other backgrounds to Chaucer's…
Silvia, D. S.
Revue des Langues Vivantes 33 (1967): 228-36.
Considers "gentilesse" (the "quality that makes human relationships most proper and ennobling") to be the main theme of the "Marriage Group" in CT, commenting on the virtue as it is presented in Mel, NPT, WBPT, ClT, MerT, and FranT, and exploring its…
