Edwards, Robert R.
Vinay Dharwadker, ed. Cosmopolitan Geographies: New Locations in Literature and Culture. Essays from the English Institute (New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 33-62.
Crossing tendencies characterize the "cosmopolitanism" of the late Middle Ages, and the story of Troy is the "paradigmatic cosmopolitan narrative." Edwards comments on Lydgate's "Troy Book" and addresses the mysterious pagan judge of "Saint…
Nohara, Yasuhiro.
English Review (Momoyama Gakuin University) 16 (2001): 143-66.
Explores development and uses of plural nouns from Old to Modern English. Modern English plural usage was already established for the most part in Chaucer's Middle English.
Innes, Sheila, ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,2001.
Middle English text of MerPT and the GP description of the Merchant,with notes, glossary, and discussion questions on facing pages. Includes contextual information concerning Chaucer's life, courtly love, and the rest of CT, particularly the…
Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Kenneth Pennington, Stanley Chodorow, and Keith H. Kendall, eds. Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law: Syracuse, New York, 13-18 August 1996. Monumenta Iuris Canonici, Series C: Subsidia, no. 2 (Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2001), pp. 985-1001.
Documents where wife beating was both allowed and forbidden in medieval canon and civil law, often presented in analogies to bishops' treatment of clerics and lords' treatment of slaves. Kelly comments on instances in CT, particularly in WBP.…
Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Blair Sullivan, ed. The Echo of Music: Essays in Honor of Marie Louise Göllner (Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 2004), pp. 3-18.
Kelly traces Cecilia's entry into hagiographic tradition and compares details of various versions of the saint's legend, including the original "passio" and the versions by Jacobus a Voragine, Chaucer (SNT), Osbern Bokenham, and John Dryden. Also…
A textbook for religious studies that anthologizes theological, philosophical, and literary essays and excerpts. all concerned with the nature of evil. Includes excerpts from Chaucer's "Patient Griselda" (ClT in David Wright translation, pp.…
Terry, Richard.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
A history of the idea of English literature and the development of an English literary canon, focusing on the long eighteenth century, but hearkening back to the early modern period. Recurrent attention to the role of Chaucer and his works, including…
Reviews and revises Eleanor Hammond's discussions of the relations among the fifteen known manuscripts of PF, focusing on the five manuscripts of Group B and providing the evidence for relocating Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Tanner 346 in a new…
Brosamer, Matthew.
Joyce Moss and Lorraine Valestuk, British and Irish Literature and Its Times; Celtic Migrations to the Reform Bill (Beginnings-1830s). World Literatures and Its Times, no. 3 (Detroit: Gale, 2001), pp. 43-53.
Introductory description of CT, discussed in light of Chaucer's life and several literary concerns: estates satire, the role of the Church and pilgrimage, the "battle of the sexes," and sources. Includes plot summaries of MilT, WBPT, FranT, and NPT.
An international ranking which summarizes the lives and works of 100 writers. Chaucer is listed as number five (behind Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, and Tolstoy), and credited with a "fundamental redefinition of the possibility of poetic expression."
Audio recording of David Butler reading a modernized version of selections from CT (GP, KnT, MilPT, RvPT, CkPT, WBPT, FrPT, MerPT, FranPT, PardPT, PrPT, NPPTE, ClPT, and Ret.
Readings and musical performances of 36 pieces that pertain to cats, including a reading of a brief selection from ManT (9.175-80) in normalized English by Edward Crafts, accompanied by Noel Lester on piano.
This anthology of drama, poetry, fiction, and essays that pertain to Medea ranges from Euripides to the late twentieth century, including a facing-page selection (pp. 114-23) from the story of Hypsipyle and Medea in LGW, presented in Middle English…
McGrath, Alister E., ed.
Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2001.
An anthology of selections and excerpts, arranged chronologically, from Clement of Rome to Garrison Keillor, each example accompanied by a brief biographical introduction and study questions. Includes a translation of PardP (6.329-462).
Murnighan, Jack, ed.
New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001.
Anthologizes excerpts from more than eighty works of literature, from the Old Testament to the Starr Report, including a selection from WBP (pp. 128-31), modernized by Murnighan; includes an appreciative introduction which refers to the Wife as "a…
Adaptation of the CT for staging that incorporates abridged versions of PardT, FrT, MilT, RvT, WBT, and NPT, with stage directions, framed by dialogue among Chaucer, a modern student, the Host, and several fiends. The volume includes suggestions for…
Lisowska, Pauline Sidey, with Tony Buzan.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001.
Study guide to MilT, 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…
Modern prose adaptation of selections from CT (GP, PardT, RvT, Th, FranT, and MilT), set within the pilgrimage frame, designed for staging by students in their "lower and middle years of secondary school". The text is interspersed with various…
Ogborn, Jane, and Peter Buckroyd.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
An introduction to satire for classroom use, directed at university students and focusing on English literature from Chaucer to Carol Ann Duffy; concerned with definitions, social contexts, and the transaction between reader and text. The discussion…
Hernández Pérez, María Beatriz.
SELIM 11 (2001-2002): 29-47.
Assesses "The Assembly of Ladies" in light of several Chaucerian techniques, particularly his use of a disarming narrative persona. The relatively straightforward female narrative persona of "Assembly" is unlike the narrator of LGW, although both…
Includes discussion of PrT as one of several "possible intertexts" for Ezra Pound's "Usury Cantos." In PrT Chaucer presents usury as a defining characteristic of Jews, antithetical to Christian notions of virginity, and aligned with lust and the…
Proposes that "fade" is an "Anglicized form of Occitan "fado"/"fada" and therefore further evidence that the "Gawain" or "Pearl" Poet served in Aquitaine, associated with military and/or diplomatic exploits, as did Chaucer. Proposes several possible…
