Baldry, Cherith.
Mike Ashley, ed. The Mammoth Book of New Historical Whodunits [sic] (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2005), pp. 178-96.
Murder-mystery short story in which Chaucer and Froissart in Italy seek to solve the death by poison of Duke Lionel. Published in the U.K. in The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits: Third New Collection (London: Robinson).
Clarifies medieval understanding of the romance genre by exploring medieval catalogs of romances and applying George Lakoff's theory of "radial" categories. Includes comments on several of Chaucer's works and on several medieval lists that do not…
Trudeau, Lawrence J., ed.
Poetry Criticism. Volume 58 (Detroit: Gale, 2005), pp. 227-373. (Detroit: Gale, 2005), pp. 227-373.
Sketches the biography of Chaucer, and describes the place of WBPT in CT, summarizing its plot, major characters, major themes, and critical reception. Includes a selection of sixteen excerpts from previously printed critical studies (1970–2002),…
Urban, Malte.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Wales Aberystwyth, 2005. Fully accessible via https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/poetics-of-the-past-politics-of-the-present/ (accessed April 6, 2026).
"This thesis examines the poetics and politics of ‘olde bokes’ (Legend of Good Women, G, 25) in selected works by Chaucer and Gower, paying particular attention to the way in which both writers appropriate their sources and the theories of…
Warburton, Rachel.
Mihoko Suzuki and Roseanna Dufault, eds. Diversifying the Discourse: The Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship, 1990-2004 (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2006), pp. 270-87.
Warburton explores historical and literary connections between notions of female "goodness" and ability to be raped, examining the discourse of Cecily Chaumpaigne's accusation of rape and the tales of Lucretia and Philomela in LGW. The afterword,…
Allen, Mark, and Bege K. Bowers.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 28: 349-423, 2006.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 218 items, plus listing of reviews for 74 books. Includes an author…
Andrew, Malcolm.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Lists and describes Chaucer's works, major characters, sources, influences, themes, genres, and allusions; several manuscripts, editions, and scholars; and people and places in Chaucer's life. Alphabetical arrangement of some 720 entries, with a…
Cooper, Helen.
Richard K. Emmerson and Sandra Clayton-Emmerson, eds. Key Figures in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia (New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. 131-35.
An introduction to Chaucer and his works, with attention to his sources and influences. Includes a brief bibliography.
Staley, Lynn.
David Scott Kastan, ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. 5 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, vol. 1, pp. 450-56.
Treats Chaucer as a "means of entry" into the political and cultural world of late fourteenth-century England, surveying Chaucer's works (CT most extensively) and summarizing his life and reception. Includes a brief bibliography.
Blandeau studies Pasolini's cinematic trilogy of medieval tales: The Decameron, CT, and One Thousand and One Nights, focusing on the first two. Argues that Pasolini "puts two semiotic systems in translation with each other, not so much to transmit…
Rogerson, Margaret.
Sydney Studies in English 32 (2006): 45-63.
Surveys efforts to popularize CT through media (television, audio recordings, stage, and animation), commenting most extensively on the 2003 BBC television series.
Cannon, Christopher.
Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006, pp. 31-54.
Cannon observes parallels between the "forms of life Chaucer made in his poems" and "what can be reconstructed from his own life from the public record." Suggests that both the textual lives and Chaucer's biography derive "in part from social…
Two documents in the National Archives (London) show that Alice Perrers was married to Janyn Perers, possibly an Italian, before becoming Edward III's mistress. These records hint that she was "a person of lower birth who made her fortune essentially…
Altmann, Barbara K., and R. Barton Palmer, trans. and eds.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2006.
Translates into modern unrhymed pentameter the LGWP-F version and LGW, based on the Riverside edition, with a brief introduction and notes. Also translates works by Guillaume de Machaut ("Jugement dou roy de Behaigne" and "Jugement dou roy de…
Text of TC based on Riverside edition, with Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato" on facing pages, in the English translation of Robert P. apRoberts and Anna Bruni Benson. Includes Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, as edited by Robert L. Kindrick; ten…
Beidler, Peter G., trans. and ed.
New York : Bantam, 2006.
Facing-page translation of selections from CT, based on the 1964 version by A. Kent Hieatt and Constance Hieatt, augmented with expanded selections and apparatus. Selections include GP, KnT, MilPT, RvPT, WBPT, MerPT, FranT, PardPT, ShT, PrPT, and…
Facing-page adaptations of KnT (abridged), MilT, PardT, and WBT, with Middle English and lyrics designed for rap performance. The Middle English text is glossed, and each Tale is accompanied by a brief introduction to the plot. Brinkman's…
Fisher, John H., and Mark Allen, eds.
Boston : Thomson Wadsworth, 2006.
Revised edition of CT, based on Fisher's "Complete Poetry and Prose of Geoffrey Chaucer" (1977), with new on-page glosses and explanatory notes, plus bibliography (pp. 402-41). Includes lightly revised essays on Chaucer's life and language and a new…
Galbraith, Steven K.
Spenser Studies 21 (2006): 21-49.
Contrasts the absence of Spenser's portrait in the first folio edition of The Faerie Queen with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Chaucer folios, which were printed throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Gillespie, Alexandra.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Analyzing the impact of print on already-existing ideas of authorship, Gillespie argues "that the medieval author was a mechanism for ordering the new meanings of texts in print," even when the understanding of that author was a result, or…
Kuskin, William, ed.
Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.
Ten essays by various authors and an introduction by the editor, exploring the relationship of Caxton to early Continental printing and the influence of Caxton and his practice on English printing, ideas of authorship, editing, and language. Includes…
Reimer, Stephen R.
Chaucer Review 41 (2006): 105-09.
Proofs of George Vertue's prints held in the University of Southern California's Doheny Memorial Library provide firm evidence that Vertue executed all but one of the engravings in the 1721 edition of John Urry's The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and…
