Gittes, Katharine S.
New York, Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 1991.
In the traditions of Indian and Greek frame narratives, tensions exist between the framing story and the enclosed tales, although Western aesthetics promote tighter structure and more detailed characterization. Medieval framed narratives florished…
Wolterbeek, Marc.
New York, Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 1991.
Defines and traces the development of three genres of early medieval Latin comic literature: ridicula ("funny stories in rhythmic verse"), nugae ("trifles" of learned poets), and satyrae (vevality satires). Such tales, especially ridicula,…
Crocker, Holly A., and D. Vance Smith, eds.
New York; Routledge, 2014.
Includes thirty-eight essays, new and previously printed. by various authors who examine debates within English medieval literary studies on topics that focus on gender and sexuality, politics, language, nationhood, science, and desire. For six…
Deals with medieval systems of dividing life into ages, with ages based on time divisions, and with exhortations to overcome the difficulties of various ages and to act one's age. Discusses the GP Squire as a youth, the Wife of Bath's youth, old…
Eleven essays by various authors. In his introduction, Stillinger characterizes Chaucer studies up to the 1980s as a great debate between New Criticism and exegetical criticism; he says that he selected the essays in the volume for the ways they go…
Robbins, Rossell Hope, ed.
New York: Franklin, 1975.
Ten essays by various authors, originally presented at the Chaucer Conference at the State University of New York in Albany, November, 1973. For ten essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer at Albany under Alternative Title.
Creekmore, Hubert, ed.
New York: Grove Press, 1959.
Anthologizes samples of Greek, Latin, Provençal, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Welsh, Irish, Norse, Danish, Dutch, German, and Old and Middle English verse--generally in modern English translation--from the fifth to the fifteenth century.…
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),…
Seven essays and a critical introduction, with a brief chronology of Chaucer's life and works, and a short selected bibliography. For the Introduction and the seven essays, search for Geoffrey Chaucer: A Collection of Original Articles under…
Pugh, Tison, and Angela Jane Weisl, eds.
New York: Modern Language Association, 2007.
Thirty brief essays on teaching TC, BD, HF, PF, LGW, and the lyrics, divided into four groups and an appendix: (1) materials (survey of editions and teaching aids by the editors); (2) backgrounds (lyrics, William A. Quinn; French tradition, Karla…
Graves, Robert.
New York: Academy of American Poets, 1965.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this lecture was recorded on February 18, 1965, and includes comments on "flaws" in Chaucer's poems, as well as ones by Milton, Longfellow, Keats, Poe, and more.
An introduction to poetry in English, its history, and its forms, arranged by author and topic. Includes a brief introduction to Chaucer that emphasizes his social mobility, CT, and his use of English.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, with parallel record for a piano/vocal score. A related website, Criseyde: A New Opera by Alice Shields, is available at http://www.aliceshields.com/criseyde/index.html (accessed March 28, 2014).
Vercoe, Elizabeth, comp.
New York: American Composers Alliance, 2021.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this musical score includes "Qui bien aime" by Geoffrey Chaucer, i.e., the title of a French song cited in several manuscripts of PF before the roundel at PF, 680-92, here set to music, along with…
Holloway, Julia Bolton.
New York: AMS Press, 1998.
Ten essays and a personal testimony by the author on the interrelated topics of pilgrimage and exile in works from Homer and Plato to James Joyce. Focuses on the Middle Ages, with essays on female saints and mystics, "Song of Roland," Dante,…
Sinnreich-Levi, Deborah M.,ed.
New York: AMS Press, 1998.
Thirteen essays reexamining Deschamps's work and life. While critics in the first half of the century saw Deschamps as a possible source for Chaucer and as an admirer of Chaucer's work, these essays investigate a wider context for his work, including…
Sinnreich-Levi, Deborah M., and Gale Sigal, eds.
New York: AMS, 1992.
This collection of fourteen essays honors Helaine Newstead and focuses on the sources--primarily Celtic--of Arthurian literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Voices in Translation under Alternative Title. …
A series of essays by various authors, some with continental applications, with an annotated bibliography of medieval English literature through 1987.
For essays that pertain to Chaucer. search for Typology and English Medieval Literature under…
Briskly surveys English literature and studies of it from the Middle English period to 1960, providing introductions to individual historical periods and lists of editions and criticism for individual authors and topics. Chaucer figures largely in…
Baugh, Albert C., ed.
New York: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1963.
A teaching edition that includes BD, HF, PF, TC, LGWP-F and the legend of Cleopatra, CT (without Mel or ParsT), and eight short lyrics (Ros, Adam, Gent, Truth, Sted, Scog, Buk, and Purse), with bottom-of-page notes and glosses, and a glossarial…
Nichols, Stephen G., Jr., ed.
New York: Appleton-Century-Croft, 1967.
An edition of Guillaume de Lorris's portion of "Le Roman de la Rose," with glosses and an Introduction (pp.1-12) in modern French. Includes as an Appendix fragment A (lines 1-1705) of Rom, with glosses and an Introduction (pp.149-51) in modern…
Barnhart, Clarence L., ed., with the assistance of William D. Halsey.
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1954.
Capacious encyclopedia of international names--people, places, books, fictional characters, etc., with various appendices. Includes an entry for Chaucer (1:917), who is also cited in more than 100 other entries. Entries are unsigned, but Robert R.…
