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Coleman, Janet.   New York: Columbia University Press, 1981.
Deals with verse and prose in Middle English, Latin, and Anglo-Norman as literary evidence of the rise of literacy and social mobility. Most literary works aimed at reform and edification in Christian ethical behavior rather than at entertainment. …

Jackson, W. T. H.   New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.
Fifteen essays by Jackson on classical and medieval subjects, focusing on courtly love, lyric, epic and drama, allegory and romance and covering literary works from Continental Europe. Edited by Joan M. Ferrante and Robert W. Hanning.

Hanning, Robert W.   New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
Considers "social and political crises that activate the comic poetry" of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto. In particular, chapter 2, "Chaucer: Dealing with the Authorities, Or, Twisting the Nose That Feeds You," addresses Chaucer's humor as it relates to…

Collins, Billy, ed., with illustrations by David Allen Sibley.   New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
Comprises an anthology of English-language poetry about birds and bird species, with accompanying color plates. In the section concerning hawks, includes a stanza from PF (lines 330-36).

Oerlemans, Onno.   New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
Explores the connection between animals and poetry, arguing for an emphasis on poetry that describes animals. Maintains that poetry's openness to experimentation with language mirrors its depiction of a blurred boundary between the human and the…

Oerlemans, Onno.   New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
Explores the range of representations of animals in English poetry for the ways poems can generate knowledge of animal life and sympathy for it, analyzing animal fables, poems that treat animals generally, species poems, poems about individual…

Richmond, Velma Bourgeois.   New York: Continuum, 1992.
Biographical review; consideration of the fourteenth-century cultural context; and critical discussion of all of Chaucer's works. Half of the chapters are devoted to the CT, divided by subject and tone into secular romances, fabliaux, religious…

Ashton, Gail.   New York: Continuum, 2007.
An introduction to CT designed for student use, with questions for discussion, research suggestions, and a review at the end of several topical sections: (1) biography and socioliterary setting; (2) language, style, and form; (3) reading CT; (4)…

Ashton, Gail.   New York: Continuum, 2010.
Outlines the literary and social contexts in which late medieval English romances were produced. Assesses a number of these romances and their "afterlives," exploring their gender affiliations, uses of symbols, concerns with familial and cultural…

Rosten, Murray.   New York: Continuum, 2011.
Describes and assesses the presence of the comic mode in English literature, including a discussion (pp. 42-51) of portions of CT (especially MilT, RvT, and WBP) that explores how Chaucer achieves comedy without negating the "seriousness of the…

Schlauch, Margaret.   New York: Cooper Square, 1971. Originally published in Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1956.
Surveys the literatures of medieval England, with emphasis on origins, multilingualism, feudalism, developmental transitions, dominant themes, and social, political, and religious contexts. Includes chapters on the contemporaries of Chaucer,…

Parker, Elinor, ed.
David, Ismar, illus.   New York: Crowell, 1955.
Anthologizes a selection of poetic characterizations or descriptions of people, historical and fictional, from English poetry. Includes the GP description of the Clerk (1.285-309), in Frank Ernest Hill's 1930 translation.

Campion, Emma.   New York: Crown, 2010.
Historical fiction that follows the life of Alice Perrers an includes Chaucer as a minor character and friend of Alice. First published in 2009 in London (Century), without the subtitle.

Miller, Margaret J., trans.   New York: David White, 1969.
Includes fourteen translations of materials from medieval British literary sources, from the "Mabinogion" to Thomas Malory, selected and adapted for a juvenile audience, and illustrated by Charles Keeping. Includes a translation of FranT (pp.…

Gaiman, Neil.   New York: DC Comics, 1990.
Gothic fantasy graphic novel in which Chaucer makes a cameo appearance, discussing poetry in a tavern in 1389. One of the characters in the tavern seeks to avoid death, an echo of PardT. Originally published in magazine form as The Sandman 9.16…

San Souci, Robert D., ed.   New York: Delacorte Press, 1994.
An anthology of the editor's "favorite scary tales," collected for a juvenile audience. Includes a modernized, simplified version of PardT, entitled "Three Who Sought Death" (pp. 75-77).

Untermeyer, Louis.   New York: Delacorte, 1966.
A series of literary portraits, each combining biography and appreciative criticism. The section on Chaucer, entitled "Founder of English Literature" (pp. 17-31), emphasizes his careers in business and diplomacy, his poetic "borrowings," and his…

Maitland, Karen.   New York: Delacorte, 2008.
Historical fiction set in the time of the Black Death in England involving a tale-telling competition, with similarities to CT and Boccaccio's "Decameron."

Warren, Robert Penn, ed.
Erskine, Albert, ed.   New York: Dell, 1955.
Anthologizes selections from the poetry of English writers, arranged chronologically from Chaucer to Wilfred Owen, with an Introduction by the editors that justifies the selections. Includes an alphabetical index of titles and first lines. The…

Kennedy, Caroline, ed., and Jon J. Muth, illus.   New York: Disney-Hyperion, 2013.
Anthologizes poetry for a juvenile audience, arranged topically. Includes the first eighteen lines of GP in Middle English (pp. 168–69) in a section entitled "Extra Credit."

Robb, Candace.   New York: Diversion, 2008.
Murder mystery set against the backdrop of political uncertainty over the impending death of Archbishop Thoresby of York and investigated by Owen Archer, aided by his confidante Geoffrey Chaucer, recently appointed chamber squire to Edward III. Other…

Canton, James, ed.   New York: DK, 2016.
In a chapter called "Renaissance to Enlightenment, 1300- 1800," includes a section (pp. 68–71) entitled "Turn over the Leef and Chese Another Tale: The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387–1400), Geoffrey Chaucer" that describes CT, its innovations, and…

Walisiewicz, Marek, Diana Loxley, Johnny Murray, and Kirsty Seymour-Ure, eds.   New York: DK, 2018.
Brief, illustrated summaries of the lives and works of writers, mostly from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. The opening chapter covers fifteen "Pre-19th Century" writers from Dante to Voltaire, arranged chronologically, with a section…

Brewer, Derek.   New York: Dodd, Mead, 1977; London: Eyre Methuen, 1978.
The significance of the known facts about Chaucer's life is elucidated in the context of the political, social, intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic background. The volume is handsomely illustrated, and includes readings of Chaucer's works.

Simmons, Dan.   New York: Doubleday, 1989.
Frame-tale science-fiction novel. Among a number of literary allusions, the titles of its several parts recall the CT: "The Priest's Tale," "The Soldier's Tale," "The Poet's Tale," etc.
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