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Sáez-Hidalgo, Ana, trans.   Madrid : Gredos, 2001.
Spanish prose translation of TC, with a biographical and critical introduction that emphasizes Chaucer's adaptation of source material.

Cox, Kenneth.   Kenneth Cox. Collected Studies in the Use of English. (London: Agenda, 2001), pp. 43-62.
Cox examines verse, style, and several cruces (textual and narrative) in PrT to clarify Chaucer's ironic technique and to argue that the "prioress's hold on reality is [. . .] weak and her language correspondingly lax, with a concern for decorum far…

George, Jodi-Anne, ed.   New York : Columbia University Press, 2000.
Summary-survey of critical responses to GP. Six chapters focus on particular time periods and the critical emphases that dominated them: (1) 1368-1880, Chaucer's "greatness" and the early editorial tradition; (2) 1892-1949, later editors and…

Wetherbee, Winthrop.   New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Re-issue of the 1989 edition, with a revised guide to further reading. See original enrty.

León Sendra, Antonio R., and Jesús Serrano Reyes, trans.   Córdoba : Universidad de Córdoba, 1999.
Spanish translation of HF, with facing-page Middle English. Includes a brief introduction (pp. 1-8) and extensive notes (pp. 195-346), with lists of bibliographical references and proper names.

Ikegami, Tadahiro, trans.   Poetry and Prose 67: 91-93, 2000.
Translates lines 1-117 of GP into Japanese, based on The Riverside Chaucer (1987).

Rooney, Anne.   Bristol, England : Bristol Press, 1989.
A research guide that review major lines of Chaucer criticism, which is becoming increasingly diverse.

Brown, Peter.   Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Comprehensive look at Chaucer's life and analysis of how cultural, literary, and historical events affected Chaucer's poetry.

Alexander, Michael.   London: Scala, 2012.
A brief guide to Chaucer's life, times, and works, with illustrations.

Norton-Smith, John.   London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul,1974.
Studies Chaucer's poetic achievement in major and minor works with recurrent attention to relative chronology, the development of Chaucer's art, sources and analogues, and treatment of genres. Focuses on BD; Ven, Pity, and Mars as complaints; HF; LGW…

Windeatt, Barry   Roger Ellis, ed. The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Volume I: To 1550 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 137-48.
Surveys Chaucer's career as a translator and the varieties of his "translational practice," focusing on his literal translations and how his "guise of the slavishly faithful translator" sometimes enables his "transformative adaptation." Considers…

Riehle, Wolfgang.   Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowoht, 1994.
An introductory biography of Chaucer and chronological commentary on all of his major works in light of social and personal history. Includes a time line, brief selections from critical traditions, a bibliography, an index, and illustrations largely…

Galloway, Andrew.   Oxford Bibliographies Online. http://oxfordbibliographies.com
Updateable, annotated bibliography of Chaucer studies, launched in 2010, available by subscription only. Arranges individual studies alphabetically under 23 categories (plus subsections), providing hypertext links to the original material when…

Coghill, Nevill.   London and New York: Published for the British Council and the National Book League by Longmans, Green, 1956.
Influential biographical discussion of Chaucer as the "first poet" of England "in the high culture of Europe," and the "most courteous to those who read or listen to him." Considers Chaucer's individual works in light of his life, medieval literary…

Brewer, Derek, ed.   London: G. Bell, 1974.
Twelve essays on a range of topics that consider Chaucer in light of his contemporary culture and literary tradition. For individual essays, search for Geoffrey Chaucer. Writers and their Background under Alternative Title.

Whitehead, Christiania.   Rebecca Lemon, and others, eds. The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature. (Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), pp. 134-51.
Whitehead surveys Chaucer's engagement with the Bible and biblical texts in CT and suggests a parallel between the poem's dialogic structure and the fourteenth-century debate over Wycliffite ideology. While parts of CT may corroborate certain…

Scanlon, Larry.   The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100-1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 165-78.
Scanlon introduces Chaucer as the "most monumental of English poets," summarizes Chaucer's biography, surveys his works and their reception, and comments on the difficulties of dealing with his legacy: especially in CT, Chaucer is "eager to disavow"…

Bloom, Harold, ed. [Cornelius, Michael G., vol. ed.]   New York: Infobase, 2008.
An anthology of eighty-three responses to Chaucer and his works excerpted from commentaries written from the fourteenth through the twentieth centuries: fourteenth (2), fifteenth (9), sixteenth (20), seventeenth (4), eighteenth (10), nineteenth (35),…

Kelly, Stuart.   Stuart Kelly. The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You Will Never Read (New York: Random House, 2005), pp. 105-09.
Comments on implications of the lists of works in Chaucer's Ret and their relationship to the fragmentary nature of CT.

Bloom, Harold, ed.   Broomall, Pa. : Chelsea House, 1999.
Includes a brief biography, bibliography, and introduction to CT; summaries of GP, KnT, WBPT, and PardPT; and excerpts from critical studies of these sections of CT.

Shippey, Tom.   Joseph Epstein, ed. Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature (Philadelphia, Pa.: Paul Dry Books), 2007, pp. 8-15.
Comments on Chaucer's life and works, focusing on his narrative timing, depth of characterization, and linguistic subtlety as means to express sympathy for human weakness. Includes three glossed passages from CT and two wood engravings by Barry Moser…

Staley, Lynn.   David Scott Kastan, ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. 5 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, vol. 1, pp. 450-56.
Treats Chaucer as a "means of entry" into the political and cultural world of late fourteenth-century England, surveying Chaucer's works (CT most extensively) and summarizing his life and reception. Includes a brief bibliography.

Burnley, J. D.   D. Alan Cruse et al., eds. Lexikologie: Ein Internationales Handbuch zur Natur und Struktur von Wortern und Wortschatzen/Lexicology: An International Handbook on the Nature and Structure of Words and Vocabularies. 2 vols. . Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2002, 2: pp. 1468-71.
Describes the historical and regional characteristics of Chaucer's vocabulary, his particular uses of various registers, and how he adapts them to circumstances and contexts.

Bloom, Harold.   Harold Bloom. Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds. New York: Warner, 2002, pp. 102-9.
Impressionistic praise of Chaucer's ability to combine human sensitivity with comedy, his refusal to be cowed by Dante, his characterizations, and his irony.

Ellis, Steve.   Plymouth, U.K : Northcote House, in Association with the British Council, 1996.
An introduction to Chaucer that surveys critical issues and concentrates on how oppositions are posed in his poetry rather than resolved. Topics include the following: The Chaucer Business; Life, Works, Reputation; Dream, Text, Truth; Society,…
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