Maggioni, Maria Luisa.
Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria 11 (2003): 13-28.
Close comparison of Chaucer's translation of Petrarch's Sonnet 132 in TC 1.400-420 as a process of paraphrase and commentary on the original, with particular attention to Chaucer's treatment of the Italian phrase "S'a mal mio grado" and nuances he…
Brewer, Derek.
Steven R. Serafin and Valerie Grovenor Myer, eds. The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature (New York: Continuum, 2003), pp. 176-78.
Encyclopedia entry that surveys Chaucer's life, language, and works chronologically.
Bartlett, Kate, and others.
[U.K.]: British Broadcast Corporation, 2003.
Adaptations of selections from CT in modern settings and circumstances, originally broadcast by BBC1 in six episodes, September 11-October 16, 2003. Written by Peter Bowker (MilT), Tony Grounds (PardT), Olivia Hetreed (MLT), Avie Luthra (ShT), Tony…
Describes how Chaucer reaches beyond the phallocentrism and "human parochialism" of his time by giving voice to the feminine and the animal in PF, even though the poem ends with a return to masculinist, human-centered subjectivity.
Performance of music composed by Logan Skelton, including "Chaucer Songs," a "set of six songs with a textless interlude" set to poems by Chaucer (from MercB, from Bal Compl, BD 1223-44, Purse, from Lady, and PF 680-92). Sung by Philip Frohnmayer;…
Study guide that describes Chaucer's life and historical context, and surveys the characters, plots, themes, and literary devices of CT. Designed for young adult readers; includes suggestions for essays and excerpts from critical studies.
Masson, Cynthea.
Dr. Faustroll and Cal Clements, eds. Pataphysica: 2. Pataphysica e Alcimia (New York: iUniverse, 2004), pp. 102-16.
Describes the concept of "the alchemical hermaphrodite" and its sexual associations; then traces the concept and its figurative implications in CYPT, arguing that the relationships between the Canon and the Yeoman and between the canon and the priest…
Anderson, Earl R.
Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2003.
Studies the Old and Middle English vocabularies of category in nature and human experience, anatomizing the words used for colors, the senses, the seasons, compass directions, geometric shapes, types of plant life and animal life, and human selfhood.…
Item not seen; described in an online review by Joy Calderwood (http://www.reviewers-choice.com/the_insomniac_tales.htm) as thirteen "Chick Lit" short stories by various women writers in imitation of CT.
Dermond, Donna, and Paul Hogan.
Once and Future Classroom 1.2 (2003): n.p. [Web publication]
Describes an experiment in teaching CT (especially GP) that has students attempt to write their own Chaucerian satiric descriptions and tales, perhaps delivered orally at different campus locations.
Once and Future Classroom 2.1 (2003): n.p. [Web publication]
No author listed; intended for pedagogical purposes. Summarizes the plots of several medieval narratives with garden settings, including MerT and FranT, exploring their versatility. Also comments on garden settings in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of…
A murder mystery that incorporates details from Chaucer's life, featuring investigations of two murders, the involvement of Philippa and John of Gaunt, and Chaucer's interests in poetry and astrology.
Catto, Jeremy.
Past and Present 179 (2003): 24-59.
Describes the rise of writing in English during the "age of Chaucer," commenting on the Ricardian poets (emphasizing Chaucer), Middle English sermon cycles, Lollard translation, and other examples of the "elevated vernacular" of late…
Kendall, Elliot.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Oxford, 2003. Dissertation Abstracts International C70.36. Abstract accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (accessed April 7, 2026).
Item not seen. Kendall's abstract indicates that the "vision poetry" of both Chaucer and Sir John Clanvowe share "discursive territory" with Gower's "Confessio Amantis," particularly "concepts of the late fourteenth-century aristocratic household and…
Allen, Mark, and Bege K. Bowers.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 26 (2004): 443-535.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings.
Boswell, Jackson Campbell, and Sylvia Wallace Holton.
New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2004.
Tallies 1,378 "references to, allusions to, and echoes of Chaucer and his works in printed books published between 1475 and 1640," updating and correcting a portion of Caroline Spurgeon's landmark bibliography. Entries are arranged chronologically by…
A biography of Chaucer that records his career as a courtier and diplomat and explores how it may have affected his personality and shaped his poetry. Designed for a general audience, with translations of quoted material, suggestions for further…
Carlson, David R.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Chaucer's occupations--domestic servant, customs agent, justice of the peace, and clerk of the King's Works--shaped his literature, and his "servility" enabled him to become the "father" of English poetry. His biography and his works alike reveal…
Hughes combines travelogue and appreciative criticism as he traces the lives and footsteps of Chaucer, Froissart, and Boccaccio, exploring what each author contributed to growth in popular literature. Focuses on Chaucer's life and CT.
Lerer, Seth.
University of Toronto Quarterly 73: 906-15, 2004
Comments on Thomas and Lewis as Chaucer's sons and explores Astr as a didactic treatise, part of Chaucer's "Macrobean" development from "literary study to moral inquiry."
Brewer, Charlotte.
Richard Firth Green and Linne R. Mooney, eds. Interstices: Studies in Middle English and Anglo-Latin Texts in Honour of A. G. Rigg (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), pp. 15-43.
Examines several key terms in textual/editorial theory, exploring their application to various editions of Chaucer--Skeat's edition, Pollard's Globe edition, and editions by Zupitza, Koch, Manly and Rickert, and Robinson. The terms are used…
Dane, Joseph A.
Ian Gadd and Alexandra Gillespie, eds. John Stow (1525-1605) and the Making of the English Past: Studies in Early Modern Culture and the History of the Book (London: British Library), pp. 145-55.
Traces Stow's declining reputation among eighteenth- and nineteenth-century editors of Chaucer as well as a gradual revival of appreciation of Stow's edition, first among bibliophiles and later with modern Chaucerians. Dane examines the variants in…
Driver, Martha.
Ian Gadd and Alexandra Gillespie, eds. John Stow (1525-1605) and the Making of the English Past: Studies in Early Modern Culture and the History of the Book (London: British Library), pp. 135-43.
Driver assesses "Stow's pervasive intellectual influence on two later antiquarian readers of Chaucer." To Browne and Le Neve, Stow's edition was "a highly regarded and trusted exemplar, used to supply omissions, correct errors, and add notes."
