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Surveys references to Hercules in Chaucer's corpus, commenting on sources, their adaptations in Chaucerian contexts, and the merging of traditions.

Spanish translation of Delany's essay entitled "Chaucer's Prioress, the Jews, and the Muslims" (see SAC 23 [2001], no. 194).

Edition of the "Tale of Gamelyn," including a description of manuscripts, illustrations from diplomatic transcriptions of ten manuscripts, a critical edition with collated variants, and critical apparatus. Also includes a Modern English translation…

Analyzes Chaucer's use and adaptation of Petrarch's sonnet as the "canticus Troili" in TC, exploring prosodic and contextual features in light of R. A. Shoaf's description of translation as either rape or marriage.

Analysis of MS Gg.4.27 of CT, combining a codicological approach with analysis of linguistic aspects such as graphemic and graphetic variants. This multifocal approach helps identify the process of copying as well as the scribal profile.

Contemplates relations between Ernst Curtius' imperial understanding of medieval literature with modern theories of postcoloniality, analyzing passages from Marie de France, Dante, and Chaucer to show what they can tell us about the "cultural…

Personal account of observing similarities in the works of Chaucer and O'Connor, particularly their shared Thomistic philosophy. Includes comments on Chaucer's Truth as it relates to O'Connor's notion of humanity's "true country."

Contrasts the historical status of late-medieval plowmen with their literary status, considering Chaucer's Plowman in GP, Langland's "Piers Plowman," and the "other more minor plowmen poems" of late-medieval England.

Traces the development of "all" and "quite" in English usage, focusing on Spenser's uses of them as adverbs and adjectives, and investigating Chaucer's usage as precedent. Tabulates the usage of both poets. In French, with an English summary.

Studies the interconnected development of fabliaux, tales, and novellas in the European Middle Ages, with emphasis on the German tradition and the impact of Boccaccio. Includes discussion of CT (pp. 292-97) as an early ("früher") response to…

Appreciative criticism of Chaucer's "genius," particularly his innovative use of iambic pentameter in English.

Describes how, increasingly identified with Chaucer in early editions, "The Plowman's Tale" advanced "Chaucer's status as an early Protestant figure," noting in particular the association of them in Milton's "Of Reformation."

An alphabetical one-volume encyclopedia of international medieval writers, their works, anonymous works, literary genres, and major cultural contexts, with entries by a dozen contributing authors, a time line of writers, a bibliography, and an index.…

Explores fusions of penitential values and Wycliffite ideals in Chaucer's LGW, ParsT, and Ret, arguing that he used them to counter Richard II's use of exempla to suppress political dissent.

Translation of CT into modern English prose.

Translations into modern English prose of BD, HF, Anel, PF, Bo, TC, LGW, the "Shorter Poems," and Rom.

This anthology includes the description of the Clerk from the GP, with a commentary that explains details unfamiliar to modern readers and analyzes features of structure and prosody.

Historical detective novel with Chaucer as the investigator of a murder in the seaport of Dartmouth; also involves a conspiracy against Katherine Swynford, thwarted by her sister Philippa.

Assesses three of Sheila Delany's critical essays (including "Geographies of Desire: Orientalism in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women'") for the ways that they have "dramatically shifted the direction of critical discourse in emergent subfields of…

Item not accessed; reported by WorldCat, which describes this video as concerned with the impact of French on the English language and identifies four units that pertain to Chaucer: "Geoffrey Chaucer: Father of English Literature" (3:10); "Geoffrey…

Unabridged reading of KnT in Middle English by Richard Bebb, with liner notes by Derek Brewer.

Interlinear translation in modern English of the selections from Chaucer in the 8th edition of the "Norton Anthology of English Literature" (2006), edited by Alfred David and James Simpson. Includes GP, MilPT, MLE, WBPT, PardPT, NPT, ParsP, Ret,…

This anthology of poems, stories, essays, and excerpts that celebrate spring includes lines 1-18 of GP, in modern translation, with a brief introduction to pilgrimage and the CT.

Disc 1 comprises Richard Bebb's reading in Middle English of GP and PhyT; disc 2, Madoc and Maloney's reading of them in modern verse translation. The booklet includes notes by Derek Brewer and Perry Keenlyside.

Argues that Biblical and Neoplatonic number symbolism conveys the message of BD: that souls return to heavenly happiness. Considers Chaucer's summary of Scipio's dream, traces references to Pythagoras in BD, and identifies places where it…