An alphabetical glossary of obscene, sexual, and scatological references, puns, and allusions in Chaucer's works. Individual entries define and analyze the terms and phrases, providing bibliographical citations to previous critical discussions; the…
Howard, Donald R.
New York: E. P. Dutton; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
This very readable biography by the late Donald Howard brings together "Chaucer, the man and the poet, and the age in which he lived." Howard traces developments in Chaucer's life from birth to death, setting Chaucer's works contextually within the…
Surveys 115 books threatened with censorship in the United States because of objections to their social (rather than political, religious, or sexual) depictions. Arranged alphabetically by title of the work, each entry includes a plot summary, a…
An alphabetical one-volume encyclopedia of international medieval writers, their works, anonymous works, literary genres, and major cultural contexts, with entries by a dozen contributing authors, a time line of writers, a bibliography, and an index.…
Karolides, Nicholas J., Margaret Bald, and Dawn B. Sova.
New York: Facts on File, 2011.
Originally published in 2005. Treats CT (pp. 474-77) in a section called "Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds," describing the pilgrimage and the social variety of the pilgrims, claiming that "Risqué language and sexual innuendo pervade most of…
Hughes, Ted.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998.
A series of husband-to-wife [Hughes to Sylvia Plath] love poems in free verse, including two poems that refer to Chaucer: "St Botolph's" (pp. 14-15) which connects Chaucer with Dante and astrology, and "Chaucer" (pp. 51-52) which commemorates a…
Jackson, Shirley.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1958.
A novel of family tensions, centering on death, possessiveness, and the legacy of a household estate. A central image is the sundial of the title, on display in the family library. Inscribed on the sundial is a half-line quotation of KnT 1.2777:…
Bowen, Muriel.
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Co., 1964.
Introduces Chaucer's life and works to "those who are new readers" of the poet, evoking a sense of late-medieval life, especially London, Chaucer's court life, and international contexts. Explicates the tales and tellers of CT in thematic chapters,…
McLane, Maureen N.
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2012.
Combines memoir with literary criticism to explore the importance of poetry in the examined life. Begins with discussion of TC and Chaucer's use of "kankedort."
A textbook anthology of British and American poetry, arranged topically, with a glossary of poetic terms, a section entitled "About the Poets," and a first-line index. In a chapter labeled "Human Condition" includes a modern English translation of…
Item not accessed; reported by WorldCat, which describes this video as concerned with the impact of French on the English language and identifies four units that pertain to Chaucer: "Geoffrey Chaucer: Father of English Literature" (3:10); "Geoffrey…
New York: Films Media Group, 2011. Originally produced by the BBC; available through Films on Demand.
Features the beauty and importance of the Luttrell Psalter and Caxton's second edition of CT, with commentary on book production and the sociohistorical importance of the featured texts. Four sections pertain to Chaucer: "Commercial Printing" (2:30),…
Dunn, Charles W., reader.
New York: Folkways, 1959.
Includes various readings by Dunn that illustrate changes in the English language and English literary style, among them, a reading of Book III.m9 of Bo (Side 1, band 9; 41 sec.). Text from F. N. Robinson's edition of Chaucer complete works (1957).
Anderson, Judith H.
New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.
Anderson considers intertextuality to be both a result of authorial intent and an inevitability of language, assessing various kinds of influence, imitation, allusion, and citation. Allegory is a "process of thinking," a kind of metaphor that is…
Chaganti, Seeta, ed.
New York: Fordham University Press, 2012.
Essays emphasize the importance of poetry and poetics in the "formation of social structures, actions, and utterances" in this festschrift for Penn R. Szittya. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Poetics and Social Practice…
Kirk, Jordan.
New York: Fordham University Press, 2021.
Examines works by Priscian, Boethius, Augustine, Walter Burley, and Chaucer,
to explore how fourteenth-century writers understood "possibilities in language" and "transformed these accounts into new forms, and practices of non-signification."…
Strouse, A. W.
New York: Fordham University Press, 2021.
Uses Pauline "theo-poetics of circumcision" to explore circumcision and "uncircumcision" as hermeneutic tropes, focusing on allegoresis and amplification, and analyzing queerly Augustine's Boy with a Long Foreskin" (from "De Genesi ad litteram");…
Green, Margaret, ed.
Grabianski, Janusz, illus.
New York: Franklin Watts, 1965
Anthologizes animal fables from worldwide cultures and various historical periods, classical to modern, including a modernized prose adaptation of NPT, here titled "The Tale of Chanticleer" (pp. 158-64), accompanied by five pen-and-watercolor…
A social and political history of the "aristocracy of the fourteenth century through the life and times of John of Gaunt." Chapter ten, "Chaucer" (pp. 203-15), summarizes the poet's career, Gaunt's role in his life, and Gaunt's possible reactions to…
Collects sixty-two case studies, accompanied by "questions to consider," designed as exercises in decision-making for library managers. Study number 58, "This Is the Year for Chaucer" (pp. 105-07), pertains to the development of the Chaucer…
Rofheart, Martha.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.
Historical novel about the life of Owen Glendower (Owen ap Griffith of Wales), presented as a series of first-person recollections by Glendower and several people of his time. Chapter 2 is "Told by Geoffrey Chaucer, squire, customs clerk,…
A novel about a small group of women in a modern setting who travel on pilgrimage from Southwark to Canterbury, telling stories along the way. Includes occasional references and allusions to CT.
