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Study guide to the NPPT that includes the Middle English text, with facing-page glosses and commentary that encourages careful reading. The volume includes a summary of CT and an introduction to Chaucer's language, along with discussion of various…

Study guide to MilPT and the GP description of the Miller that includes a plot synopsis, running commentary, and glosses (text not included, except for three passages in Middle English, with closer analysis). Also includes descriptions of the…

Study guide to the PardPT and the GP description of the Pardoner that includes the Middle English text, with facing-page glosses and commentary that encourages careful reading. The volume includes a summary of CT and an introduction to Chaucer's…

Study guide to WBPT, designed for university students. Includes summaries, commentaries, and discussion of contexts, themes, characterization, style, language, and critical approaches, with advice on how score well on exams, a model exam answer, and…

Study guide to FranPT and the GP description of the Franklin that includes a plot synopsis, running commentary, and glosses (text not included, except for three passages in Middle English, with closer analysis). Also includes descriptions of the…

Provides an expansive list of Indo-European cognates for "mochel," with a sematic core of "'approximation' in time or space."

Translation of selections from CT in modern prose, designed for "pre-intermediate" readers. Includes adaptations of GP, KnT, ClT, WBT, PardT, FranT, FrT, and NPT), with a brief Introduction and activities for classroom use. Illustrated by Victor…

Diachronic analysis of how reflexive pronouns follow the "transformation of English from a synthetic to an analytic language," particularly their increase in "Uninterpretable features." Includes a section on Chaucer's reflexive pronouns (pp. 86-91)…

Explores how "contemporary academic criticism" has influenced twentieth-century adaptations of CT for children, commenting on versions by Eleanor Fargeon, Selina Hastings, Ian Serraillier, Geraldine McCaughrean, and Joel Myerson.

Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, which indicates that this anthology includes material by Chaucer in German translation.

Proceedings from a seminar on Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's short story, "The Wife of Bath," in which a modern character (a Jane Austen fan) travels to Bath and meets a woman, Alice, whose life recalls Chaucer's character in several ways. The story is…

Twelve chapters on British works and writers, designed for juvenile audience. Includes "Geoffrey Chaucer in Depth" (pp. 24-43), which comprises a biographical introduction, a timeline, selections from PardT and KnT (translated into modern verse by…

Thirty-six excerpts from CT, read in Middle English by Trevor Eaton. The commentary in the booklet explains the selections.

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…

Edits GP with rollover, pop-up glosses, pop-up explanatory notes, and links to audio files, images, translation, and background information.

Item not seen. The WorldCat record of this item indicates that it is a translation of selections from CT into Japanese poetry.

Lyric poem in first-person voice, with recurrent allusions to the WBP and GP description of the Wife of Bath, including gapped teeth, five husbands, and a physical battle with husband number four.

Lyric adaptation of the WBP 3.1-134 in Jamaican dialect.

Text and notes of KnT, SqPT, and FranPT in Middle English, originally edited by Cawley and here revised by Andrew. Includes a Chronology of Chaucer's life and times and an Introduction (xii-xvii) by Andrew that focuses on the Tales as romances and…

Analyzes Chaucer's use of seascapes and water imagery in LGW, HF, and TC, attending to their metaphoric qualities and their narrative functions.

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.

Observes tensions between masculine, political responsibilities Troilus has to his state and feminized submissiveness to his "sovereyn" Criseyde, grounding these tensions in medieval critiques of courtly love and aligning Troilus's submission with…

Studies "the bibliographic sensibility that characterized late medieval English manuscript culture," analyzing "the dialectical interaction between literary representation and its material support in a selection of late Middle English poems."…

Focuses on the use of vernacular English, specialized vocabulary, rural protagonist, and addresses to reader in "Piers Plowman" that work to engage a "national audience." Includes attention to "Mankind," Gower's "Vox Clamantis," and several works by…

Comments on Chaucer's connections with Spain, focusing on 1366, when he was married and visited Spain, and on 1387, when many died of pestilence after accompanying John of Gaunt on his invasion of Spain in 1386.