Explores "the ways in which the Medusa figure informs" TC and how "petrification" through astonishment is a recurrent concern in FranT. Neither poem refers directly to Medusa or a gorgon, although each capitalizes on the connotations of "astoned" and…
Calcutt, David.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Modern prose adaptation for staging of PartT (without PardP), designed for child or adolescent actors, with illustrations by Mike Spoor. A simultaneously published pamphlet of "Play Teaching Notes," also titled "Death's Trick," by David Calcutt and…
Cheney, Patrick.
Patrick Cheney and Frederick A. de Armas, eds. European Literary Careers: The Author from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), pp. 231-67.
Argues that in his references to Tityrus in the "Februarie" eclogue of "The Shepheardes Calender" Spenser represents a "Chaucerian" model of a career path for poets, one that emphasizes novelty and poses a third alternative to the classical Virgilian…
Frye, Northrop.
Robert D. Denham, ed. Northrop Frye on Literature and Society, 1936-1989: Unpublished Papers, Volume 10 (Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 2002), pp. 131-43.
Critiques the inconsistencies and overall lack of unity in CT, contrasting it with the structural and thematic wholeness of HF and TC, and castigating the sententiousness of Mel, ParsT, and Ret. Attributes the lack of unity and the inconclusiveness…
Guare, John.
Woodstock and New York, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 2002.
Two plays by John Guare, with additional apparatus, including an "Afterword," comprised of selections from Guare's journal that records, among other things, his thoughts about Chaucer while the playwright was composing "Chaucer in Rome," a play about…
North, John.
New York: Hambledon and London, 2002.
Examines the "highly contrived" allegory of Hans Holbein's painting, "The Ambassadors" (1533), assessing its religious theme as conveyed through evocations of "astronomy and geometry, optics and various occult arts." Also argues that the painting…
Rudd, Gillian.
John Parham, ed. The Environmental Tradition in English Literature (Burlington, Vt.: 2002), pp.117-29.
Analyzes interactions between humans and nature (animals and environment) "through the lens of ecocriticism," exploring animal metaphors and the treatment of trees in KnT and representations of the sea and rocks in FranT. In KnT humans render nature…
Trapp, J. B., Douglas Gray, and Julia Boffey, eds.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
An anthology of works from "Beowulf" to Caxton, with a variety of selections from Chaucer (pp. 111-331) in Middle English, with introductions, notes, and glosses: GP, NPPT (with two other fox stories), WBPT (with Dunbar's "Two Married Women and the…
Study guide to MilPT, designed for adolescents, with Middle English text and facing translation in modern verse and a variety of background materials: GP descriptions of Miller, Wife, of Bath, and Pardoner; an introduction to Chaucer's life and…
Historical gothic detective fiction set in the frame of the CT, in which a student, modeled on Chaucer's Clerk, tells a story to the rest of the pilgrims about murder, exorcism, star-crossed love, and returns from the dead. Published in the U.S. as…
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this includes adapted versions of GP and five tales from CT, with texts, notes, and activities designed to improve reading and langauge skills. Released in several languages for English-learning children.
Kumamoto, Sadahiro.
Kumamoto Daigaku Eigo Eibungaku [Kumamoto Studies in English Language and Literature] 45 (2002): 1-31.
Item not located; reported in MLA International Bibliography, which indicates that the essay pertains to syntactical uses of the infinitive in BD, PF, and HF; also indicates that the essay is in Japanese, with an English summary.
Ruud, Jay.
Nicholas Wallerstein and Roger Ochse, eds. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature (Spearfish, S. D.: Black Hills State University Printing, 2002), pp. 74-83.
Examines Chaucer's translation of Petrarch's Sonnet 132 (TC 1.400-420), commenting on his facility with Italian and his comprehension of the sonnet and other verse forms. Chaucer's translation redirects the emphasis of the lyric to concern for…
Schildgen, Brenda Deen.
Jon Ma. Asgeirsson and Nancy van Deusen, eds. Alexander's Revenge: Hellenistic Culture through the Centuries (Reykjavik: University of Iceland Press, 2002), pp. 209-21.
Compares and contrasts the "treatment of Islam" in MLT and in "Decameron" 1.3 and 10.9, arguing that, unlike Boccaccio, Chaucer "vehemently condemns fraternizing with Islam" and presents Islam "as a dangerous and perfidious opposition to the…
Andretta, Helen R[uth].
Edward Wesley, ed. Christianity & Literature (Brooklyn, N.Y.: St. Francis, 2003), pp. 16-27.
Essay not located; reported in the MLA International Bibliography, with the following note: "Proceedings of the Northeast Region Conference: Voices Far and Near: Myth, Legend, Folktale, Fantasy, Held Friday, October 25 and Saturday, October 26,…
Reece, Paula J., ed.
Logan, Iowa: Perfection Learning, 2002.
A pedagogical anthology of twelve short stories, each accompanied by exercises to improve reading comprehension. Includes PardT in modern English (pp. 23-28), excluding the sermon on the tavern vices, followed by questions about plot and vocabulary…
A selection from CT in Spanish prose, including GP, KnT, MilPT, RvT, ShT, PrPT, ThPT (the tale of Thopas in stanzaic verse), MkP, NPPT, WBPT, ClPE (with Envoy in verse), MerPT, SqE, FranPT, PardPT, ParsT, and Ret. Published again in 2006, with a new…
Shute, Sarah, gen. ed. KnowledgeNotes Student Guides (Cambridge: ProQuest Information and Learning Company, 2002), n.p.
Introduces Chaucer and his works; then provides a summary of plot, descriptions of style and themes, a character list, and a running commentary that identifies the salient points of GP, with bibliography.
Shute, Sarah, gen. ed. KnowledgeNotes Student Guides (Cambridge: ProQuest Information and Learning Company, 2002), n.p.
Introduces Chaucer and his works; then summarizes the characters, plot, style, and themes of MilT, along with a running commentary on MilPT, with bibliography.
Pinsky, Robert, and Maggie Dietz, eds.
New York: Norton, 2002.
Includes an excerpt from BD (the Black Knight's lament, lines 475-86), with Maggie Dietz's brief comments about how Middle English words "change in the mouth" (p. 128).
