Examines four Middle English romances against a backdrop of late-medieval penitential doctrine and practice, and assesses the presence of penitential motifs in several more. The major penitential romances--Guy of Warwick, Sir Ysumbras, Sir Gowther,…
Godden, Malcolm, Douglas Gray, and Terry Hoad, eds.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1994.
Eleven essays by various authors, assessing materials from the eighth to the fourteenth century. Most essays pertain to the development of language and literary forms; Chaucer mentioned "passim."
"The Decameron" should be seen as a source of CT despite the lack of verbal parallels. Each work forms "an itinerary for the reader, if a highly indirect one, towards the good." "The Decameron" leads to Griselda, while CT leads to the Parson's…
Documents a formal "profeminine"--though not "feminist"--tradition in medieval literature, exploring its origins and sustaining arguments. Rooted in the apocryphal biblical book of Esdras, the tradition developed in the high Middle Ages in works…
Fourteen essays by various authors on topics in English literature of the late fourteenth through early sixteenth centuries. Includes an introduction and a bibliography of Gray's publications. For seven essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Long…
Interrelated fictional narratives told in poetry and prose by travelers in modern Nigeria; modeled on CT, with an opening General Prologue and tales told by various vocational types, e.g., the Air-hostess, the Journalist, the Female Petrol Attendant,…
Blake, N. F., and Peter Robinson, eds.
Oxford: Office for the Humanities Communication Publications, 1993.
A preface and five essays describe the goals and methods of the "Canterbury Tales" Project, an endeavor to replace Manly and Rickert's textual analysis of CT (Chicago, 1940). Long-range goals include facsimile reproduction of portions of the…
Heyworth, P. L., ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968.
Edits "Jack Upland" (wrongly attributed to Chaucer from the 16th century to the 18th), along with "Friar Daw's Reply" and "Upland's Rejoinder," with full critical apparatus.
Burrow, J. A.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Deals with the ideas behind Middle English literature, wirters, audiences, genres, personality versus impersonality, allegory, edification, and the attitude of later ages to the literature of medieval England.
Burrow, J. A., ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Includes nine Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lectures delivered since 1950, and one on Scots delivered in 1942. Reprints Dorothy Everett's "Some Reflections on Chaucer's Art Poetical" (1950), Derek Brewer's "Towards a Chaucerian Poetic" (1974), and…
Critical introduction to major issues in the study of TC arranged by topic: date, text, sources, genre, structure, themes, style, imitation, and allusion before 1700. Discursive survey of each topic and subtopic, linked by reference to a…
Mack, Peter, and Chris Walton, eds.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Textbook edition of the Miller's sketch from GP, MilPT, and RvP, including glosses and discursive notes, and a discussion of "approaches" to the works--sources and analogues, character analysis, assessment of theme and topic, and analysis of poetic…
Jackson, Kevin, ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
An anthology of excerpts and selections from poetry, fiction, drama, and essays on the topic of money, arranged by sub-topics. Includes the following pieces by Chaucer: Purse and the apostrophe to poverty from MLP, in the section called "Riches and…
Mack, Peter, and Andy Hawkins, eds.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Textbook edition of NPPT. Includes glosses and discursive notes (at the back of the book) and discussion of approaches to the text: sources and analogues, characterization, assessment of theme and topic, and analysis of poetic technique. Also…
Terry, Richard.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
A history of the idea of English literature and the development of an English literary canon, focusing on the long eighteenth century, but hearkening back to the early modern period. Recurrent attention to the role of Chaucer and his works, including…
Simpson, James.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
The volume surveys the literature of late medieval and early modern English writers in relation to political institutions contemporary with the literature, tracing an arc of "diminishing liberties." Simpson characterizes the shift in literature from…
Calcutt, David.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Modern prose adaptation for staging of PartT (without PardP), designed for child or adolescent actors, with illustrations by Mike Spoor. A simultaneously published pamphlet of "Play Teaching Notes," also titled "Death's Trick," by David Calcutt and…
Machan, Tim William.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Machan studies the "social meanings, functions, and status of the English language in the late-medieval period," i.e., its "sociolinguistic contextualization." He explores Henry III's letters of 1258; the relationships between language, dialects, and…
Riley, Martin
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Rev. ed.
An adaptation for the stage of selections from CT, designed for juvenile actors. Includes versions of PardT, NPT, WBT, KnT, and MilT, framed by a prologue and interludes that feature the antics of four "alchemists." The volume includes instructions…
Blamires, Alcuin.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Blamires elucidates ways in which CT and, to a lesser extent, TC engage moral and ethical discourse and shows this discourse at times to be gendered. Grounded in a range of Christian and classical sources, especially Stoic texts, Chaucer's "spectrum…
Mack, Peter, and Chris Walton, eds.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Textbook edition of GP. Includes glosses and discursive notes (at the back of the book) and discussion of approaches to the text: sources and analogues, characterization, assessment of theme and topic, and analysis of poetic technique. Also includes…
Bowler, Bill.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Pedagogical workbook for language learners of modern English, centered on modern prose adaptations of selections from CT (GP, KnT, MerT, ClT, FranT, WBT), with accompanying vocabulary exercises and comprehension activities. Illustrated by Natalia…
Ellis, Roger, ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Anthologizes nineteen essays by various authors, with topics ranging from theory of translation to individual translators. Includes two essays that pertain to Chaucer: Barry Windeatt, "Geoffrey Chaucer" (pp. 137-48) and Stephen Medcalf, "Classical…
