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McCaughrean, Geraldine.   Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1991.
Free adaptation of CT for children: GP, KnT, MilT, NPT, RvT, ClT, WBT, PardT, Th, FranT, ManT, CYT, FrT, and MerT. Provides links for the Tales in the above order and concludes with an arrival at Canterbury. First published in 1984; a Penguin Film…

Mann, Jill, ed.   London : Penguin, 2005.
New edition of CT, based on both the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts, with on-page glosses, explanatory notes (pp. 795-1111), and glossary (pp. 1112-54). The introduction (pp. xvii-lxx) comments on the importance of Chaucer and CT, Chaucer's…

Lerer, Seth.   Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 243-94.
Lerer reads CT as a "set of representative performances" that "question literary and social selves" and explore the functions of language, literature, and the imagination. Recurrent concern with clothing and representation, communication and monetary…

Tuttle, Peter, trans.   New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006.
Facing-page translation of selections from CT: GP, KnT, MilT, RvT, WBPT, ClT, FranT, PardPT, and NPT. Includes a chronology, brief notes (pp. 503-18), a survey of commentary on Chaucer through the ages, four discussion questions, suggestions for…

Boenig, Robert, and Andrew Taylor, eds.   Buffalo, N.Y.: Broadview Press, 2008. Rev. ed. 2012.
Complete text of CT newly edited from the Ellesmere manuscript, with an introduction (pp. 9-38), brief bibliography, and eleven "background documents" that include selections from sources and historical records. Glosses to the Middle English are…

Raffel, Burton, trans.   New York: Modern Library, 2008.
Modern English translation of CT (based on Robinson's second edition), following Chaucer's prose and pentameter and modernizing his syntax. Raffel relies on off-rhymes, slant-rhymes, and blank verse to approximate Chaucer's couplets and other verse…

Lauer, Christopher, trans.   Richmond, Surrey: Oneworld Classics, 2009.
Verse modernization of most of CT (except CkT, Mel, and ParsT), based on the 1963 edition of A. C. Baugh; meter and verse forms parallel Chaucer's. Additional material includes brief notes (pp. 484-502), a summary of Chaucer's life, and comments on…

Stewart, Diana, trans.   Milwaukee, Wis.: Raintree Publishers, 1981.
Prose adaptations of GP, WBT, PardT, and CYT, designed for children, accompanied by brief Introduction, a biographical note, and illustrations by Dan Hubrich.

Hastings, Selina.   New York: H. Holt, 1988.
Selections from CT, adapted for children, including NPT, PardT, WBT, FranT, KnT, MilT, and RvT. Color illustrations by Reg Cartwright.

West, Michael, trans.   Harlow, Essex: Longman, 1972.
Classroom adaptations of selections from CT (GP, KnT, ClT, WBT, PardT, FranT, FrT, PhyT, and NPT), with a brief Introduction, questions for discussion, and a list of "new words." Reissued in 1987 with illustrations by Victor G. Ambrus.

Simpson, Fiona.   Parsippany, N.J.: Globe Fearon/Pearson Learning, 1995.
Adaptation of selections from CT, intended for young adolescents. Selections include GP, KnT, MLT, portions of MkT, NPT, WBPT, FrT, SumT, ClT, FranT, PardPT, CYT, and Ret, each accompanied by prompts for discussion. The volume also includes a brief…

Butler, David.   Falls Church, Va.: Sound Room, 2001.
Audio recording of David Butler reading a modernized version of selections from CT (GP, KnT, MilPT, RvPT, CkPT, WBPT, FrPT, MerPT, FranPT, PardPT, PrPT, NPPTE, ClPT, and Ret.

Wells-Cole, Catherine, intro.   Ware, Herefordshire: Wordsworth Poetry Library, 1995.
Text of CT--the order of the tales following the Bradshaw shift--with a glossary, brief Introduction, and a Note on language and meter.

Strange, Joanna, trans.   Harlow: Pearson Education, 2000.
Translation of selections from CT in modern prose, designed for "pre-intermediate" readers. Includes adaptations of GP, KnT, ClT, WBT, PardT, FranT, FrT, and NPT), with a brief Introduction and activities for classroom use. Illustrated by Victor…

Williams, Fred, reader.   Ashland, Ore.: Blackstone Audiobooks, 2002.
Fred Williams reads the unabridged CT in modern English; translated by J. U. Nicolson.

London: Penguin, 1996.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat which indicates that this is a selection from CT in Middle English. WorldCat also cites a 1998 release of this publication.

Roberts, James L.
Grafton, Ellen, reader.   New York: Wiley, 2000.
Study guide to CT, with backgrounds to Chaucer and the poem, along with summaries and commentaries on all of the tales, sample character analyses and short essays, and resources for review and further reading. An audiobook version of this text was…

Falstein, Mark, trans.   Upper Saddle River, N. J.: Globe Fearon Educational Publishers, 1999.
Selections from CT, adapted and abridged in modern English for a juvenile audience; includes GP, KnT, MLT, NPT, WBPT, FrT, SumT, ClT, FranT, PardPT, CYPT, and Ret, with linking material. Illustrated by Laurie Harden.

Chwast, Seymour.   New York: Bloomsbury, 2011.
Chwast's humorous graphic novel of Chaucer's twenty-four tales depicts the pilgrims traveling to Canterbury by motorcycles.

[Daniel, Ted, and Florence Daniel, eds.]   Portland, Ore.: New Wave Publishers, 1993.
Digitalized public domain edition of CT, reproduced on the Internet recurrently and issued by ebrary in 2001 (not seen; cited in WorldCat, with link to title-page preview).

Caxton, William, ed.   London: Cornmarket, in association with Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1972.
Item not seen; the note in WorldCat quotes the following: "This facsimile edition of Chaucer's Canterbury tales as printed by William Caxton is limited to 500 copies, of which this in number 280 ..."/ "The present facsimile reproduces for the first…

Coghill, Nevill, trans.   Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975.
Revised reprint of Coghill's modernization of the CT, originally published in 1951.

Cawley, A. C., ed., with an Introduction by Derek Pearsall.   New York: Knopf, 1992.
Reprints the 1958 Everyman edition of the complete CT, with bottom-of-page glosses. Includes a new introduction (pp. vii-xxiii) and bibliography by Derek Pearsall. The introduction considers the "unfinished and improvisatory state" of CT, its…

Traversi, Derek.   Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press, 1983.
This critical reading views the beginning and ending as fixed,"twin pillars...within which the unfolding fresco of the action is contained." Traversi explores that action in three parts: KnT and the two fabliaux; the tales of marriage and…

Wilcockson, Colin, ed. and trans.   London: Penguin, 2008.
Prose translations of GP, KnT, MilPT, RvPT, WBPT, ClPT, MerPT (and epilogue), FranPT, PardPT, and NPPT, with Middle English texts from The Riverside Chaucer on facing pages. Includes bottom-of page explanatory notes, a chronology, and an introduction…
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