Imahayashi, Osamu, Nakao Yoshiyuki, and Michiko Ogura, eds.
New York: Peter Lang, 2010.
Twenty-eight essays by various authors. For six essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Aspects of the History of the English Language and Literature under Alternative Title.
Comments on HF and TC in chapter 2, "Medieval Literature: Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland" (pp. 47-86). Compares the three buildings that the dreamer visits in HF--the temple in the desert, the palace of Fame, and the twirling house of…
Marshall, Simone Celine.
New York: Peter Lang, 2010.
Questions why "The Assembly of Ladies" has been in print for so long and explores the role of its anonymity in its publishing history. Addresses its attribution to Chaucer, affiliations with the corpus of his works, and surmises about female…
Collection of essays addressing various Chaucerian topics, including "textual authority, poetic design, political affiliations and sympathies, and religious convictions." For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer in Context: A…
Jacobs, Nicolas, and Gerald Morgan, eds.
New York: Peter Lang, 2014
Includes twelve essays by various authors on Middle English literature, and an introductory appreciation of A. V. C. (Carl) Schmidt, a list of his publications, and an index. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Truth is the Beste under…
Bilynsky, Michael, ed.
New York: Peter Lang, 2014.
Collection of essays reflecting contemporary topics in linguistic and literary research on the Middle Ages. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Studies in Middle English: Words, Forms, Senses and Texts under Alternative Title.
Conde Silvestre, Juan Camilo, and Javier Calle Martın, eds.
New York: Peter Lang, 2015.
Includes papers from the eighth International Conference on Middle English, University of Murcia, Spain, 2013. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Approaches to Middle English: Variation, Contact and Change under Alternative Title.
Considers the "authoritative weight" of dreams and visions in literature, focusing on their connections with other forms of prophetic or revelatory texts and offering a taxonomy of varieties. Includes chapters on the biblical Book of Daniel,…
Item not seen. From publisher's website: "This study argues that the vernacular fable constituted a productive site for negotiating scholastic poetics in late medieval England. On the basis of a close reading" of NPT and ManT, "the book analyses how…
Includes commentary on depictions of Islam and Muhammad in MLT and GP: despite the pejorative naming of the Prophet in MLT, GP is "the inaugural English text which set in motion cross-cultural understanding between the West and the Muslim world."
Ruszkiewicz, Dominika.
New York: Peter Lang, 2021.
Considers relations between moral virtue and courtly love in a variety of Chaucer's works and Scottish Chaucerian works, analyzing a series of pairings--Rom and William Dunbar's "Golden Targe," Chaucer's Boethian poems and "The Kingis Quair," HF and…
Bleier, Roman, Brian Coleman, and Clare Fletcher, eds.
New York: Peter Lang, 2022.
Collects twelve essays from the 2016 conference on memory and identity, with a preface and a cumulative index. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World under Alternative Title.
Item not seen. Description and sample score available at https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/publishers/edition-peters/ (accessed November 22, 2025). Opera in four acts; running time 2 hrs. 15 min.
Midonick, Henrietta O., ed.
New York: Philosophical Library, 1965.
Anthologizes 54 selections and excerpts from the history of mathematics and related sciences from around the world, ranging widely in date from classics to the nineteenth century. Includes a selection (pp. 220-42) of a modernization of Astr, from R.…
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.
Notes Chaucer's attention to "loss of sexual power" in the process of aging, commenting on two brief passages in modern translation: WBP (3.198-203) and RvP (1.3879-382, 3887-98).
Bennett, Andrew, and Nicholas Royle.
New York: Prentice Hall, 1995.
Comments (pp. 6-7) on T. S. Eliot's allusion to GP at the beginning of his "The Waste Land" and discusses (pp. 78-79) the comedy of MilT as "very specifically linguistic," turning on a double meaning of the word "water," as well as depending upon the…
Gwynn, Frederick L., ed.
Condee, Ralph E. , ed.
Lewis, Arthur O., Jr., ed.
New York: Prentice-Hall, 1954.
Anthologizes selections from poems by British and American writers. arranged alphabetically by author, some accompanied by critical and pedagogical materials. Includes selections from GP: 1-78, 118-62, and 361-92 (opening, Knight, Prioress, and Wife…
Colwell, C. Carter.
New York: Putnam's Sons, 1971.
Surveys English literature in Britain from Chaucer to ca. 1970, with the opening section (pp. 13-72) covering Chaucer's life, works, audience and reception, and his cultural environment--both historical and literary. Pays particular attention to CT,…
Washburn, Katharine, John S. Major, and Clifton Fadiman, eds.
New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1998.
Includes two excerpts from Chaucer in modernized English (pp. 527-28), translated by Burton Raffel and Selden Rodman: the ballade from LGWP (F249-69) and TC (5.1786-1834).
Wright, David, trans.
New York: Random House, [1964].
Translates into "straightforward contemporary prose" all of CT, except for Th (here in verse) and Mel and ParsT (here summarized briefly). The Introduction (pp. ix-xii) summarizes Chaucer's life and comments on the translation.
Macdonald, Dwight, ed.
New York: Random House, 1960; London: Faber and Faber, 1961.
A chronological and thematic anthology of literary parodies that opens with Pr-ThL, Th, and a section of Th-MelL in Middle English as examples of parody of romance, followed by an "Imitation of Chaucer" by Alexander Pope and "A Clerk Ther Was of…
Introduces "Social and Religious Backgrounds" to Old English and to Middle English literatures in separate chapters, along with one chapter each on developments in the medieval English language, "Popular Christian Doctrine" of the era, and the…
Danziger, Marlies K., ed,
Johnson, Wendell Stacy, ed.
New York: Random House, 1968.
An introduction to poetry for classroom use, with an anthology that includes MercB, Ros, Truth, and Purse, with notes and glosses, based on the edition of F. N. Robinson.
