California Health Kids Resource Center.
Hayward, Calif.: California Health Kids Resource Center, 2002.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, where [vol. 3] is entitled "The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer," with the volumes described as "Lesson-plan booklets integrating HIV/AIDS education with core literature in grades 6-12."
An illustrated encyclopedia of western cultures in the 14th-16th centuries that includes brief comments on "The Social Realism of Chaucer" in CT, with three accompanying passages in modern prose: the opening of the GP (1.1-41) the description of the…
Gardiner, Patrick, and Miriam Jacobson.
New York: Spark, 2002.
Study guide to CT, with emphasis on plot, character, theme, and motif, particularly in GP, KnT, MilPT, WBPT, PardPT, and NPPT. Includes summaries, commentary on quotations, suggested essay topics, and review materials.
An adaptation of NPT, "retold and illustrated" by Helen Ward for young children. Appends comments on the plot and explanatory notes that focus on the barnyard breeds depicted in the illustrations.
Hacht, Anne Marie, and David Kelly, eds.
Detroit: Gale, 2002.
Includes a brief biography of Chaucer, plot summaries of the frame and the tales of CT, discussion of themes and style, a description of historical context, a critical overview, a selection of sixteen critical essays or excerpts, and suggestions for…
Comic novel set in a modern university, replete with literary references and allusions, including several to Chaucer, e.g., a quotation from GP 1.308 in its dedication, PardT 6.895-903 as an epigram, and a parody of Ret at the end of the book.
Prescott, Anne Worthington.
Once and Future Classroom 1.1 (2002): n.p. [Web publication]
Describes a pedagogical session at a meeting of the New Chaucer Society, provides translations for several passages from HF, and lists nine questions concerning HF for discussion in high school classrooms.
A comic, absurdist, satirical novel of interlocking tales told by a series of ship's passengers, loosely modeled on CT, opening with a "General Prologue" that introduces the tale-tellers and proceeds in chapters dedicated to individual tellers and…
In a section exploring "epic masculinity" in the age of Marlowe, suggests that Chaucer's depiction of Aeneas in LGW and HF anticipates humanist "rethinking" about the hero, that Chaucer "greatly influenced" Marlowe's depiction of him in "Dido, Queen…
Turner, Marion.
Turner, Marion. Urban Chaucer: Fragmented Fellowships and Troubled Teleologies in Some Late Fourteenth-Century Texts. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Oxford, 2002. Dissertation Abstracts International C70.03. Abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
"This thesis examines the depiction of social antagonism in certain texts written in the 1380s and 1390s, in the London area. It focuses on Chaucer, looking at 'Troilus and Criseyde' and the 'Canterbury Tales' alongside other, contemporary texts.…
Davis, I.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of York, 2002. Dissertation Abstracts International C67.02 and C70.33. Abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global; accessed August 24, 2025.
Item not seen. From the abstract: "This thesis investigates a particular discourse which conflated ideas of male sexuality and work . . . in the particular social and economic climate of late fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century London." Discerns…
Lochrie, Karma, and Usha Vishnuvajjala, eds
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022.
Collects twelve essays that celebrate friendship among women in medieval literature, with an Introduction by the editors, an Afterword by Penelope Anderson, and a cumulative Index. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Women's Friendship…
Spencer, Matthew, Barbara Bordalejo, Li-San Wang, Adrian C. Barbrook, Linne R. Mooney, Peter Robinson, Tandy Warnow, and Christopher J. Howe
Computers and the Humanities 37 (2003): 97-109.
Construction of a stemma for CT based on gene-order analysis supports the idea that there was no established order when the first manuscripts were written. The resulting stemma shows relationships predicted by earlier scholars, reveals new…
Moon, Hi Kyung.
Medieval English Studies 11.1 : 117-30, 2003.
Human experience explodes the reductive and stereotypical distinctions between good and bad and between women and men posed in LGW, undercutting the title of the poem, rendering the narrator's task pointless, and encouraging the reader to reject the…
Blandeau, Agnès.
Wendy Harding, ed. Drama, Narrative and Poetry in The Canterbury Tales (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2003), pp. 35-50.
Though Pasolini's visualization of CT chooses to emphasize "solaas" rather than "sentence," both the filmmaker and the poet offer metafictional reflections on their art and the "discourse of the narrative."
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
English and English Teaching: A Festschrift in Honour of Prof. Hisashi Takahashi and Prof. Jiro Igarashi (Hiroshima: Department of English, Faculty of School Education, Hiroshima University, 1993), pp. 177-85.
Discusses "slydynge" and related words (such as "kynde" and "pite") with regard to Criseyde's characterization. Examines also the syntactic structures containing those words.
Borroff, Marie.
Traditions and Renewals: Chaucer, The Gawain-Poet, and Beyond (New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 2003), pp. 50-70.
Clearly implied but not stated, May's pregnancy in MerT results from having sex with Damian and helps to punish January's foolishness. In similarly covert ways, the parson of RvT is punished by the pregnancy of Malyne, and all pardoners are…
Allen, Mark, and Bege K. Bowers.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 25: 459-546, 2003.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 295 items, plus listing of reviews for 85 books. Includes an author…
Finley, William K., and Joseph Rosenblum, eds.
New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll; London: British Library, 2003.
Includes an introduction by the editors and ten essays and three appendices by various authors, who describe and discuss visual depictions of the Canterbury pilgrims and their tales in books and paintings, from the Ellesmere manuscript into the…
