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Designed as the basic text of CT for the "Variorum Chaucer," a facsimile of the Hengwrt, which may have been produced in Chaucer's lifetime, one of the earliest and most reliable of the manuscripts of the CT.

"Part One" contains five moral or "Boethian" poems, four humorous poems addressed to individuals, four love lyrics, and one gnomic poem: Truth, Gent, Sted, Form Age, For; Purse, Adam, Buk, Scog; Ros, MercB, Wom Nob, Wom Unc; and Prov.

A variorum edition of Chaucer's SqT based on the Hengwrt and built on the model that has evolved over many years: critical and textual introductions, newly established text for SqT, collations providing evidence both of the manuscripts and of the…

The latest volume of the Variorum Chaucer to appear, Baker's edition based on Hengwrt, collates ten manuscripts and twenty-one printed editions with extensive critical commentary, survey of the criticism, and bibliographic index.

Follows the general format of the Variorum Edition with text based on Hengwrt and collations with early manuscripts and most printed editions . Surveys earlier criticism with extensive notes.

Presents a two-part re-enactment of TC 2.78-119 in Middle English, with modern English sub-titles and production notes. Part I dramatizes the scene; Part II "recreates how medieval audiences would have experienced Chaucer's poem." Available on…

Offers a "psychography" of Chaucer, using biographical records, contemporaneous events, and Chaucer's works to describe his appearance, habits, personality, opinions, and attitudes. Focuses on the personae in Chaucer's literary works; on his…

Topographical and social history of late-medieval London and its environs, cast as a description of what a visitor might experience, enlivened by incidents drawn from legal and political records, and including descriptions of various political,…

The conception of CT is an inherent conflict between the pilgrimage to a martyr's shrine in Canterbury and the game of storytelling to be consummated by a feast in Southwark. The development of the collection reveals movement away from Canterbury…

Provides apparatus for interpreting Chaucer's text, placing his language in its wider contemporary context, and studies differences in grammar between Chaucerian and Modern English, sentence linkage and scribal punctuation, the dialectal status of…

Relying on Hengwrt as the basic text, Boyd--in the manner of all editors in this variorum series--surveys both manuscripts and printed editions, emending in light of both. The introduction provides critical and textual commentaries, the former…

Following the guidelines of the general editors, Paul G. Ruggiers, Donald C. Baker, and Daniel J. Ransom, Corsa provides "collations of those manuscripts which have attracted commentary" and "readings from the principle printed editions that have…

Argues that the Bible is a far more pervasive influence on Chaucer than has been previously recognized. Chaucer uses the Bible or its glosses in most of his writings, responding--through quotation, paraphrase, or allusion--to traditional notions of…

Osborn explores how Chaucer used an astrolabe in his composition of CT and explains the use of the instrument in celestial navigation; includes a cutout astrolabe. Throughout most of CT, Chaucer's references to time and place are realistic. Such…

The first CT "Variorum" to appear, Ross's edition, based on the Hengwrt, collates ten manuscripts and twenty printed editions with full critical apparatus to "present the MilT as Chaucer wrote it, as nearly as our present knowledge and resources…

Comments on James Russell Lowell's essay "Chaucer," published in North American Review 111 (1870): 155-99.

Connects the lament in WBP 3.614 with the more familiar proverb "Lechery is no sin," recurrently used by traditional "demonic" figures in early literature. The Wife's use is richer with "complex ironies."

Examines traditions and analogues of the ballad "The Wanton Wife of Bath," a thirteenth-century Old French fabliau analogue, and post-Chaucerian versions. Texts included for various versions.

Argues that in Chaucer's three uses of "brotel" and its derivatives in MerT (4. 1279, 2061, and 2241), the poet plays punningly on sexual implications of the term in addition to the primary meaning, "brittle" or "fragile."

An introduction to the social, political, and intellectual history of Chaucer's age, aimed at a general audience. Individual chapters pertain to fourteenth-century England and its relations with the Continent, social hierarchy, "cracks" in the social…

An audio reading of Raffel's translation of the complete CT (New York: Modern Library, 2008); disc 1 includes the general introduction by John Miles Foley and Raffel's translator introduction. Six readers narrate the tales: Bill Wallis, Ric Jerrom,…

An anthology of reprinted publications, addresses, and a memoir by R.W.V. Elliott, with topics including Chaucer, the "Gawain"-poet, runes, Thomas Hardy, and more. Two of the three pieces that pertain to Chaucer were published previously, and one is…

Modern English, two-act drama that presents abbreviated, modified versions of KnT, RvT, CkT (a song), WBT, NPT, PardT, MerT, and MilT, framed as an annual tale-telling contest rather than a pilgrimage. The Miller and the "M.C." are focal characters…

Through a largely comparative approach, the author draws on sources that have remained almost unexploited, whether dialectical or belonging to the standard language. Evidence from Dutch, Frisian, German, and Chaucer's English (a three-year-old boy's…

Classifies French conversational loan words (A-D) in CT by frequency, grammatical nature, and date of first occurrence. Only thirty-nine words are used first by Chaucer, who innovates less than previously thought.