Benson, Larry D., gen. ed.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
A compilation by thirty-three Chaucerians (based on "The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer," edited by F. N. Robinson [2d ed., 1957]), this new edition updates, expands, and revises its predecessor while generally preserving its sequence. Entirely rewritten…
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…
Swanson, R. N., ed.
Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2006.
Twelve essays by various authors and an introduction by the editor. General commentary on the theology of indulgences and more focused studies of the history and literary depiction of indulgences in European nations/institutions in the late Middle…
Benson, Larry D., ed.
Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Based on The Riverside Chaucer, 3rd edition, providing a corrected text and set of glosses, with essentially the same apparatus, updated and adapted for beginning students.
Dawkins, Richard.
Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
Dawkins uses the frame-and-tale structure of CT to organize a series of excurses on evolution and the development of biological life. Recurrent references to Chaucer and CT, with brief discussion on evolutionary biology as a model in the Canterbury…
Beidler, Peter G., ed.
Boston and New York: Bedford-St. Martin's, 1996.
Based on the Hengwrt manuscript, this edition of WBPT and the Wife's sketch from GP is designed for classroom use. It includes notes and glossary, a biographical sketch of Chaucer, a guide to pronunciation and verse, and a summary of historical…
Montgomery, Marion.
Boston University Studies in English 3 (1957): 177-78.
Suggests that "for the nones" in LGWP (F 292-96 and G 194-98), rather than meaning "for the occasion," refers to the canonical hour of Nones, i.e., for the ritual of the "celebration of Nones."
Brown, Calvin S.
Boston University Studies in English 3 (1957): 228-30.
On contextual and linguistic grounds, rejects Marion Montgomery's suggestion (1957) that "for the nones" in LGW-P (F 292-96 and G 194-98) is a "reference to the canonical hour of Nones, with its attendant services."
Siegel, Paul N.
Boston University Studies in English 4 (1960): 114-20.
Locates comic irony in several religious references and allusions in MilT, especially as they help to characterize Alison, Nicholas, and Absolon; the "final irony" is that the Miller is himself unaware of this irony.
Deusen, Nancy van, ed.
Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2013.
Ten essays by various authors and an introduction by the editor that consider the influence of Cicero on western language and literature from late Antiquity to the early modern era. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Cicero Refused to…
Kern-Stahler, Annette, Beatrix Busse, and Wietse de Boer, eds.
Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2016.
Collection of essays presenting perspectives on interrelations between sense perception and secular and Christian cultures in England from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period. For essay on Chaucer, search for The Five Senses in Medieval and…
Griffin, Conan M., trans.
Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2023.
Translates Bo into modern idiomatic English, with text based on "The Riverside Chaucer," 3rd ed. (1986), and bottom-of-page notes, a glossary of proper names, and a citation glossary of Middle English words in Bo accompanied by Latin equivalents.…
Kempf, Elisabeth.
Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2017.
Examines questions of autobiography, authorship, legacy, and the "Fürstenspiegel" genre in Thomas Hoccleve's "Regiment of Princes," with attention to its manuscript presentations and to its images of Chaucer and of Hoccleve himself, discussing the…
Classen, Albrecht, ed.
Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2017.
Twenty-five essays by various authors on a wide array of topics. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Magic and Magicians in the Middle and the Early Modern Times under Alternative Title.
Chapter 7, "Chaucer: Die 'Canterbury Tales,' " summarizes the individual tales of CT, following the Chaucer Society order, and provides brief explanations of religious backgrounds and details.
Berensmeyer, Ingo.
Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2022.
Historical survey of the relations between literary texts in English and material presentation, from oral and dramatic performance through manuscripts and books, to audio, visual, and digital forms. Includes a section on key terms, a timeline, and an…
Chapter 2 focuses on free volition (as formulated by John Duns Scotus), empathy, and fraternal bonding in "Amis and Amiloun" and in SNT. In the latter, Valerian and Tiburce "forgo political loyalties and prioritize their fraternal bond by cultivating…
Twelve short dramas for oral reading, including a Modern English prose adaptation of CT (pp. 161-83) that retells portions of GP, KnT, WBT, NPT, and PardT, with narrative transitions between them. Designed for juvenile audience; reading time…
A history of laughter in Western literature, focusing on the relation between laughter and literature, and surveying ancient, medieval, and modern traditions. In his Introduction, Sanders credits Chaucer with associating the roles of the feminine…
Despite repressive laws and the misogyny of clerical writers, it appears that wives, widows, religious women, mystics, townswomen, and peasant women had more control, respect, and influence than has been thought. Labarge presents the whole social…
Eight essays by various authors suggest that looking carefully at the ways characters speak in medieval texts gives information about the social networks of medieval society and reveals artistic skills of writers who considered speech significant.…
Social and legal history of violence against women in the medieval family, including discussion of case studies. Comments briefly on MerT and ClT, and discusses at greater length (pp. 230-36) WBP which indicates that "failure to internalise and…
Rigby reads KnT as a mirror for princes, comparing it with Giles of Rome's "De regimine principum" and finding Theseus of KnT to be an ideal ruler by this standard. Theseus's personal ethics, his treatment of his household, his political and military…
