Classen, Albrecht, ed.
New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009.
Twenty-three essays on literary and historical topics ranging from ideas of Rome to medieval European waste. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Urban Space in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age under Alternative Title.
Classen, Albrecht, and Marilyn Sandidge, eds.
New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010.
Nineteen essays by various authors, an introduction by the editors, and a comprehensive index. Topics range from friendship in Augustine's "Confessions" to the Whitehall conference of 1655. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for…
Roberts, James L.
Grafton, Ellen, reader.
New York: Wiley, 2000.
Study guide to CT, with backgrounds to Chaucer and the poem, along with summaries and commentaries on all of the tales, sample character analyses and short essays, and resources for review and further reading. An audiobook version of this text was…
Historical novel set in London,1383, featuring John Gower as a first-person narrator, recounting events involved in the murder of a prostitute and a book prophesying an attempt on the life of Richard II. Gower's "slippery friend," Geoffrey Chaucer,…
Historical novel set in late-medieval England. Includes a character modeled on the Wife of Bath: Alyson, who owns a bathhouse/brothel in Southwark. Originally published as "The Brewer's Tale," North Sydney: Harlequin, 2014; 584 pp.
Brooks, Karen.
New York: William Morrow, 2022 (originally published Sydney: Harlequin, 2021).
Historical novel in which the setting, plot, and first-person protagonist, Eleanor (later Alyson) are based on WBPT, with many characters adapted from history and from CT, including Chaucer. Includes a glossary, list of historical characters,…
Russell, John, and Ashley Brown, eds.
New York: World Publishing, 1967.
Anthologizes samples of satire from classical to modern literature, arranged by genre (Prose and Drama, Verse, Epigrams), including modernizations (by Nevill Coghill) of FrPT and SumP under Verse. The Foreward (pp. xv-xxxiv) describes the…
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.
Miskimin, Alice S.
New York: Yale University Press, 1975.
The medieval Chaucer developed by a process of accretion and transformation into "England's Homer." Metamorphoses occur in the language, text, and image of the poet. The history of TC is the metamorphosis of a beautiful idea into an ugly one. …
L. B. H.
New Zealand Engineering: The Journal of the N. Z. Institution of Engineering 9. no. 1 (1954): 1.
Comments on the responsibilities of any audience at a lecture: attentiveness and discernment. Opens by quoting and dilating upon a translation of GP 1.791--the Host's enjoinder to the Canterbury pilgrims, here given as "Each one of you shall help to…
Traversi, Derek.
Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press, 1983.
This critical reading views the beginning and ending as fixed,"twin pillars...within which the unfolding fresco of the action is contained." Traversi explores that action in three parts: KnT and the two fabliaux; the tales of marriage and…
Traversi, Derek.
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1982.
Treats (1) the theme of poetry in Dante's "Purgatorio," (2) why Ulysses is in hell, (3) FranT, (4) ManT, (5) "Unaccommodated Man" in "King Lear," (6) The imaginative and the real in "Antony and Cleopatra," and (7) Shakespeare's dramatic illusion in…
Traversi, Derek.
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987.
Traversi discusses the English language and medieval poetics--Chaucer's givens--and proceeds to trace Chaucer's development as a poet through BD, HF, PF, and TC. Because the language was an imperfect instrument, Chaucer's early poems are tentative.
Dean, James M., and Christian Zacher, eds.
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992.
A collection of original essays by friends and students of Donald R. Howard--Oliver H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University--who died in 1987 at the age of fifty-nine.
For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for…
Allen, David G.,and Robert A. White, eds.
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1995.
Contains three essays on Chaucerian topics. For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Subjects on the World's Stage under Alternative Title.
Gastle, Brian, and Erick Kelemen, eds.
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.
Comprises ten essays by various authors, with summaries by the editors in an introduction, a bibliography, and subject index. For six essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture under Alternative…
Chance, Jane, trans.
Newburyport, Mass. : Focus Information Group, 1990.
In her introduction, Chance treats the life and works of Christine de Pizan, the origins of Pizan's "gynocentric mythography" and the debate over the "Rose," medieval genealogy of the gods, and the "Letter of Othea" as a mythographic text, with…
Hamilton, Theresa.
Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars, 2013.
Tests several theories of humor--especially Victor Raskin and Salvatore Attardo's "General Theory of Verbal Humor" (1985) and Thomas D. Cooke's "Comic Climax" (1978)--for their value in analyzing Elizabethan jests and medieval fabliaux, parodies,…
A collection of essays by various authors on the cultural history of Canterbury. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Canterbury: A Medieval City under Alternative Title.
Schmidt, A. V. C.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Collection of published and previously unpublished studies of Chaucer and other writers, including the "Pearl"-poet, Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, Jones, and Auden. Part 1, "Medieval: Chaucer and the Gawain-Poet," includes essays on Bo, Form Age, KnT, and…
Gutiérrez Arranz, José M.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2009.
Commenting on medieval literary renditions of the story of Troy, Gutiérrez Arranz identifies places where Chaucer refers or alludes to this material, focusing on Chaucer's references to specific characters.
