Blake, Norman, F., ed.
Okayama : University Education Press, 1995.
A comprehensive rhyming dictionary showing a full line for each rhyme word (showing seven lines for rhyme royal), based on Blake's text from the Hengwrt manuscript.
Jimura, Akiyuki,Yoshiyuki Nakao, and Masatsugu Matsuo,eds.
Okayama : University Education Press, 1999.
A computer-assisted comparison of representative modern editions of TC: Benson's, Robinson's, Root's, and Windeatt's. Clarifies differences and similarities among the editions and provides information on Chaucer's lexis, syntax, and style.
Jimura, Akiyuki, Yoshiyuki Nakao, and Masatsugu Matsuo.
Okayama : University Education Press, 2002.
A computer-assisted comparison of editions of BD, HF, and PF. Clarifies spellings, lexis, syntax, and metrics, analyzing versions by Benson, Robinson, Root, Brewer, and Havely.
Masciandaro, Nicola.
On the Darkness of the Will ([Italy]: Mimesis, 2018): 37-71.
Studies aspects of "mystical non-mysticism" in Chaucer's poetry. Explores the "nomenclative impotentiality" of the narrator's "non-self-naming" in HF, 1873–82, and his "unknowing" elsewhere in the poem. Comments on the Black Knight's tearless…
Prescott, Anne Worthington.
Once and Future Classroom 1.1 (2002): n.p. [Web publication]
Describes a pedagogical session at a meeting of the New Chaucer Society, provides translations for several passages from HF, and lists nine questions concerning HF for discussion in high school classrooms.
Dermond, Donna, and Paul Hogan.
Once and Future Classroom 1.2 (2003): n.p. [Web publication]
Describes an experiment in teaching CT (especially GP) that has students attempt to write their own Chaucerian satiric descriptions and tales, perhaps delivered orally at different campus locations.
Troyer, Pamela.
Once and Future Classroom 13.2 (2017): n.p.
Describes the pedagogical value of teaching MLT alongside modern narratives "that emphasize the ways Custance represents and evokes the displaced and powerless," including students' personal experiences; "Refugee Tales," edited by David Herd; a US…
LaBarge, Elizabeth.
Once and Future Classroom 15, no. 1 (2019): 107-15.
Offers evidence (including quotations from students) that teaching CT in a bilingual (English/Spanish) high school helps students to "feel part of the conversation in college" and "to reflect on their own lives and cultures." Moreover, such students…
Griffin, Elaine.
Once and Future Classroom 15, no. 1 (2019): 81-94.
Contemplates the value of teaching CT in contemporary classrooms, focusing on how it can be used to encourage diverse outlooks and help close the "empathy gap," aiding students to "develop the cognitive and character skills that support their…
Read, Lee.
Once and Future Classroom 15, no. 1 (2019): 96-106.
Explores relations between word and deed, deception and truth in CT as examples of how fiction can help high-school students learn "critical thinking skills, self-reflection, perseverance, the value and danger of duplicity, and the power of…
Yager, Susan.
Once and Future Classroom 16, no. 1 (2020): 1–14.
Offers multiple examples of ways to play with the scansion of Chaucer's verse as means to engage student interest, nuanced readings, and enjoyment. Examples include scenes of awakening, bird-talk in HF and NPT, and wedding celebration in MLT and WBT,…
Elmes, Melissa Ridley.
Once and Future Classroom 17.1 (2021): 1-26.
Describes a semester-long assignment for use in an undergraduate Chaucer course, with extensive hand-outs, adaptable to in-class, online, and hybrid formats. The end-product is a "commonplace book" or "medieval miscellany" that combines traditional…
Once and Future Classroom 2.1 (2003): n.p. [Web publication]
No author listed; intended for pedagogical purposes. Summarizes the plots of several medieval narratives with garden settings, including MerT and FranT, exploring their versatility. Also comments on garden settings in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of…
McShane, Kara L.
Once and Future Classroom 9.1 (2013): n.p.
Lists and describes the pedagogical value of selected resources in the study of Chaucer, focusing on CT but not exclusively, and arranged in several categories: Language, Editions, Adaptations and Translations, Backgrounds, Social History, Reference…
Modern English reading (Nevill Coghill translation) of RvT, ShT, WBP, FranT, and SumT, each accompanied by readings of the GP description of the teller. Read by Fenella Fielding and Martin Starkie.
Newby, Rebecca.
Open access Ph.D. dissertation (Cardiff University, 2020). Available at https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/136121/1/ (accessed October 17, 2022).
Argues that "completion is not essential to the meaning or value of romance in the Middle Ages" in discussing works by Chrétien as well as SqT, Th, and "the dynamic of opening and closing" of KnT.
Hoggart, Carol Ann.
Open access Ph.D. dissertation (Curtin University, 2019), available at https://espace.curtin.edu.au/handle/20.500.11937/76105 (accessed November 10, 2021).
A "creative-production" thesis, comprising the first half of a work of historical fiction titled "The Jerusalem Tales," focusing on the Wife of Bath; analysis of the narrative based on Elizabeth Fowler's theory of "social persons"; and analysis of…
Sweeten, David W.
Open access Ph.D. dissertation (Ohio State University, 2016). Available at https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_etd/send_file/send?accession=osu1468414544&disposition=inline (accessed April 4, 2020).
Explores "economic terms and metaphor" in Middle English literature "to determine what such treatment indicates about the shifting social relations of marriage in late medieval England." Discusses how, in WBP, the Wife "appropriate[s] economic…
Neel, Travis E.
Open access Ph.D. dissertation (Ohio State University, 2017). Available at http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492705588117003 (accessed May 8, 2022).
Examines "how Middle English writers appropriated different forms and figures of friendship in their discussions, critiques, and activations of friendship," describing modifications of classical, biblical, Boethian, and humanist models, with…
Brenzel, Patrick.
Open access Ph.D. dissertation (Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, 2018). Available at https://hss-opus.ub.ruhr-.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/year/2020/docId/7373 (accessed November 23, 2022).
Clarifies the ambiguities of nobility and "gentilesse" in Chaucer's era, and examines the presentation of them in CT, particularly in WBT, ClT, NPT, and FranT, arguing that the Franklin's views align with Chaucer's own, i.e., both view virtues…
Hoces Lomba, María de.
Open access Ph.D. dissertation (Universitat d'Alacant/Universidad de Alicante, 2019). Available at https://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/95549/1/
tesis_maria_de_hoces_lomba.pdf (accessed June 4, 2023).
Explores general connections between literature and law, with specific reference to Purse. Claims that Chaucer's understanding of "classics, rhetoric, and law" sets up Purse as a "literary defense or vindication" and uses "love poetry" to create a…
