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Treats the Pardoner as a "foot-in-the-door salesman" who is confident in his own skills and believes that his "frankness is disarming." The "agonized sincerity" that George Lyman Kittredge perceived in lines PardT 6.916-18 is not "agonized" but…

Verse retelling of selections from CT (all but Mel, SNPT, CYPT, ManPT, and ParsPT) with reduced plots, simplified rhetoric, and modernized English in ballad stanzas. Cuddington adapts the links to unify the selections, which are arranged in the…

Chaucer's Anel explores the "dilemma of the modern poet in the late Middle Ages." The "Thebanness" of the text engages its Boethianism as a competing and fatalistic view of memory and history. Allusions to Statius, Corinna, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, and…

A research guide that review major lines of Chaucer criticism, which is becoming increasingly diverse.

This guide for undergraduates treats astrology, the zodiac, humors, therapies, Chaucer's authorities, medieval attitudes toward medicine, and the GP Physician.

The poem's central interest lies in the attempt by two human souls to establish the deepest and most testing of relationships. The representation of this relationship involves more than a dialogue: it insinuates a dialectical process that worries…

Claims that writing about painting in England began with Chaucer's "definition of visual art" in PhyT 6.9ff., sketching classical and medieval background to Chaucer's description, particularly Pliny, Bartholomeus Anglicus, John Trevisa, and the Roman…

A British Library copy of John Urry's Works of Chaucer, shelf-mark 642.m.1, contains Thomas Tyrwhitt's notes. These notes record Tyrwhitt's "progress towards his own edition," including commentary on glosses, source material, and apocrypha.

Identifies and describes portraits of authors in initials of British Museum MS. Add. 42131. Two of the three depictions of Chaucer are by the same hand as the miniature accompanying Hoccleve's Regement of Princes (Arundel MS. 38).

Antifeminism is prevalent throughout CT in depictions of women, assumptions about them, and attitudes toward female-male relations. Nevertheless, CT is still considered a "master-piece" of literature, evidence that critics have not completed the work…

Through his sexual ambiguity and his exposure of the illusory nature of social hierarchy, the Pardoner is a "double threat." Through him, Chaucer "provisionally negates" the model of the three estates and also "demonstrates, through the fates of the…

An analogy between gender and class applied to HF reveals that Lady Fame assumes a typical paternal role in naming the tidings that exit the House of Rumor. Although Chaucer's source is Ovid, he divides Fame's house along strict class lines--the…

Collects twelve stories that explore "the notions of fate, destiny, and coincidence," including a prose adaptation of the PardT, "A Meeting with Death: Adapted from 'The Pardoner's Tale' from 'The Canterbury Tales'" (pp. 79-90), which modifies the…

An adaptation of NPT, "retold and illustrated" by Helen Ward for young children. Appends comments on the plot and explanatory notes that focus on the barnyard breeds depicted in the illustrations.

Describes eighty-eight manuscripts and fragments that include "all known copies of Chaucer's work," except CT and "a few stray lyrics and short poems." Excludes Equat and apocrypha, although these, along with portraits of Chaucer, are discussed in…

Thirteen papers on topics ranging from Old English to eighteenth-century British literature. For three papers that pertain to Chaucer, search for Proceedings of the 14th Northern Plains Conference on Earlier British Literature under Alternative…

A collection of essays highlighting "dark," unsettling, and culturally unsavory elements across the Chaucer canon. For individual pieces, search for Dark Chaucer under Alternative Title.

A "reader-friendly" edition of four Tales in The Canterbury Tales, i.e., in modernized spelling, with glosses and notes.

A "reader-friendly" edition of The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, The Miller and His Tale, The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale, The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale, and The Nun's Priest's Tale, i.e., in modernized spelling, with glosses and…

Autobiographical remembrance/contemplation by a gay medievalist in New York. Includes frequent references and allusions to medieval topics, including Chaucer, here described as "really the most important thing in the world."

Anthologizes a wide array of medieval texts that pertain to disability studies, each with an introduction and apparatus by individual contributors. Entries include Historical and Medical Documents, Religious Texts, Poetry, Prose, Drama, and visual…

Includes a brief biography, bibliography, and introduction to CT; summaries of GP, KnT, WBPT, and PardPT; and excerpts from critical studies of these sections of CT.

Explores the "literary value" of Chaucer's "pretended inferiority complex on the subject of poetry," commenting on the "modesty convention" (or humility topos) in the GP description of the Prioress, the moralization of NPT, the question of Providence…

Dennis explores how WBP and WBT affirm and challenge the patriarchal assumptions of medieval literary and social traditions.

Kerr argues that the sixth canto of Dante's Inferno was the model for Chaucer's use of gluttony and alimentary metaphors in PF, particularly the latter's concern with literary transmission and the birds' debate.