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Robinson, F. N., ed.   Boston: Houghton Mifflin; London: Oxford University Press, 1957.
Edits the complete works of Chaucer from various manuscripts, with end-of-volume explanatory notes, textual notes, and glossary. A general Introduction summarizes Chaucer's life, the canon and chronology of his works, his language and meter, and the…

Sitwell, Dame Edith, ed.   Boston: Little, Brown, 1958.
Anthologizes a wide range of selections from British and American literature--poetry, fiction, drama, and translations, with brief, appreciative introductions to individual authors and their works. Includes description of Chaucer as a "poet of…

Kennedy, X. J., ed.   Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1966.
A textbook designed for reading and analyzing poetry in the college classroom, with discussions of prosody, poetic devices, and genres; study questions; and an anthology of illustrative poems, including Chaucer's Purse in Middle English (p. 292) with…

Hoffman, Richard L., compiler.   Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1968.
Includes selections from GP (lines 1-42, 285-308, and 545-66) in Middle English, with interlinear glosses.

Terry, Patricia, trans.   Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1983.
Source for NPT translated from old French.

Goodman, Jennifer R.   Boston: Twayne, 1987.
Includes a brief discussion of the WBT.

Williams, David.   Boston: Twayne, 1987.
Introduces "Chaucer's allegorical tales as poetic play and playful poetry." In CT, Chaucer questions the nature of reality and the function of language in a complex interplay of realistic, grotesque, and sublime. Chapters deal with historical…

Payne, Robert O.   Boston: Twayne/G. K. Hall, 1986.
Although technically a "second edition," Payne's "Geoffrey Chaucer" is essentially a new book, having little in common with the first Twayne Chaucer, written by Edwin J. Howard and published in 1964. Payne's seven chapters treat Chaucer's life,…

Vance, Eugene.   Boundary 27.2 (1979): 17-37.
Argues that Chaucer's concerns in HF are metalinguistic by drawing an analogy between verbal inflation (high style) and monetary inflation (which was rampant in Chaucer's day). Both words and coins are arbitrary signs and mediums of exchange;…

Broughton, Bradford B.   Bradford B. Broughton, ed. Twenty-Seven to One: A Potpourri of Humanistic Material Presented to Dr. Donald Gale Stillman on the Occasion of His Retirement from Clarkson College of Technology ([Potsdam, N. Y.], 1970), pp. 71-84.
Assesses various historical documents that pertain to the marital life and legacy of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster, arguing that the evidence indicates John was dedicated to Blanche, even after her death.

Stein, Gabriele.   Braj B. Kachru and Henry Kahane, eds. Cultures, Ideologies, and the Dictionary: Studies in Honor of Ladislav Zgusta (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1995), pp. 127-39.
Examines citations of Chaucer and Lydgate in John Palsgrave's "Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse" (1530) as indications of the dictionary-maker's efforts to record "special language use," i.e., dialectical use and varying registers.

Emonds, Joseph.   Braj B. Kachru, and others, eds. Issues in Linguistics: Papers in Honor of Henry and Renée Kahane (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973), pp. 185-93.
Anatomizes Chaucer's uses of the "'ing'-morpheme," arguing that "Chaucer's dialect did not contain a gerund as a normal grammatical device" (even though examples exist) and that English "participles and derived nominal had become phonetically…

Colombi, Giulio, and Elena Armida Olivari, ed. and trans.   Brescia: Morcelliana, 2018.
Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates that this is a translation of Astro into Italian, with an introduction. The publisher's information indicates that the volume includes an essay by Paolo Rossi on the place of the astrolabe in the history of…

Lucas, Angela.   Brian Cosgrove, ed. Literature and the Supernatural: Essays for the Maynooth Bicentenary (Blackrock, Ireland: Columba, 1996), pp. 11-32.
Assesses FranT in light of the conventions of the genre of the Breton lay: prologue, setting, rash promise, magic, impossible task, love triangle, and love. According to Lucas, the distortion of these conventions indicates that the Franklin does not…

Staley, Lynn.   Brian Cummings and James Simpson, eds. Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. 113-33.
Explores the trope of England as an idealized garden/island in imagery of homes in various medieval and Renaissance works, including NPT.

Walker, Greg.   Brian Cummings and James Simpson, eds. Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. 321-41.
Includes comments on Chaucer's combination of jest and earnest as it was admired by Thomas Heywood and Thomas More.

Butterfield, Ardis.   Brian Cummings and James Simpson, eds. Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. 33-54.
Comments on Chaucer's address to his book at the end of TC as an example of the poet's awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity.

Cooper, Helen.   Brian Cummings and James Simpson, eds. Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. 361-78.
Cooper argues that, despite his own skepticism about fame, Chaucer was the "model of fame" in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century England. Comments on Chaucer's appeal to humanists, to Protestants, and to Catholics and on Chaucer's role as "father" of…

Teskey, Gordon.   Brian Cummings and James Simpson, eds. Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. 379-95.
Teskey explores the development of "story-telling" into "literature" in English tradition, including comments on Chaucer's place in this development.

Nolan, Maura.   Brian Cummings and James Simpson, eds. Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. 396-419.
Nolan exemplifies the continuity of English versification through close metrical analyses of samples from Chaucer (Truth), Lydgate, and Wyatt. Each text "displays inherited forms at the very limits of their capacities."

Wallace, David.   Brian Cummings and James Simpson, eds. Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. 502-23.
Wallace explores "degrees of enclosure" for nuns and surveys representations of nuns in medieval and Renaissance literature and art. Comments on Chaucer's depictions of the Prioress and the Second Nun: Chaucer "tells us much about one of his nuns and…

Simpson, James.   Brian Cummings and James Simpson, eds. Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. 95-112.
Compares what PardT and Erasmus's "Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion" reveal about the "locatability" and placelessness of the Church, exclusion from Church locations, and disgust associated with such exclusion.

Lerer, Seth.   Brian Cummings and James Simpson, eds. Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History (New York: Oxford University Press), pp.75-91.
Lerer assesses the mid-sixteenth-century versions of Truth and TC in Tottel's "Miscellany" (among other texts) as evidence of Renaissance reception of medieval literary history.

McKinley, Kathryn.   Brian Gastle and Erick Kelemen, eds. Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture: Essays in Honor of James M. Dean (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.), pp. 107-21.
Describes (with illustrations) the "material remainders of late medieval English practices of pilgrimage," discussing them "in the context of Chaucer's and Langland's portraits of pilgrim attire," and commenting on relations between extant badges and…

Bertolet, Craig E.   Brian Gastle and Erick Kelemen, eds. Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture: Essays in Honor of James M. Dean (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.), pp. 167-88.
Compares ShT and FranT as works that assign different values to "the transaction for a woman's body . . . couched in the tale-teller's understanding of his own economic system." ShT reflects the coin-based economy of the "Atlantic maritime commercial…
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