Owen, Charles A., Jr.
Chaucer Yearbook 1 (1992): 189-212.
Hypothesizes that Mel, told by the Man of Law, was once the first tale in the Canterbury sequence, later replaced by MLT; KnT was placed first only in a third stage of revision. ParsP indicates Chaucer's initial plan: one tale per teller. He…
Benson, Larry D., ed.
Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Based on The Riverside Chaucer, 3rd edition, providing a corrected text and set of glosses, with essentially the same apparatus, updated and adapted for beginning students.
Kolve, V. A., and Glending Olson. eds.
New York : Norton, 2005, 2018
Revised version of the 1989 Norton critical edition, with expanded selection and apparatus. Includes GP, KnT, MilPT, RvPT, CkPT, WBPT, FrPT, SumPT, ClPT, MerPT, FranPT, PardPT, PrPT, ThP and Th and selections from MelP and Mel, NPPT, ManPT, and…
Bowers, John M., ed.
Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992.
Includes editions of Lydgate's Prologue to the Siege of Thebes, The Ploughman's Tale, an expanded version of CkT, eight spurious links, and a combination of The Canterbury Interlude and the Merchant's Tale of Beryn. For each, Bowers provides an…
After a short discussion of the genesis of CT, Bourgne successively explores its structure (collection of tales; importance of commerce and exchanges; prologues; labyrinth); shifts between oral and written literatures, or audiences and readerships;…
An edition of the complete CT, with selective foot-of-page glosses, and "Extra Material" that includes a life of Chaucer, and plot summaries of BD; HF; PF; TC; and, more extensively, each of the CT. No editor is identified, but a note says that the…
A comprehensive Japanese translation of CT, collaborated upon by twenty-four scholars. Each tale has an introduction, translation, and supporting notes. In Japanese.
Reprints Coghill's modernized poetic versions of GP, KnT, NPT, PardPT, SumT, WBT, ClPT, and FranPT, accompanied by an excerpt from John Gardner's biography of Chaucer and medieval materials in modern English translation (from Boccaccio's "Decameron,"…
Shute, Sarah, gen. ed. KnowledgeNotes Student Guides (Cambridge: ProQuest Information and Learning Company, 2002), n.p.
Introduces Chaucer and his works; then provides a summary of plot, descriptions of style and themes, a character list, and a running commentary that identifies the salient points of GP, with bibliography.
Murphy, Michael, ed.
Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1991.
An edition of the Middle English text for nonspecialist students and general readers. Neither a normalization nor a translation, it retains--in all respects except spelling--the language of Hengwrt, with variants from other manuscripts of the…
Recorded Books, pub.
New York and Prince Frederick, Md.: Recorded Books, 1992.
Nine audio cassettes of readings of GP, KnT, MilT, RvT, WBT, FrT, ClT, MerT, FranT, PardT, ShT, PrT, and NPT. Modern pronunciation, following the text in the edition of Michael Murphy.
Shute, Sarah, gen. ed. KnowledgeNotes Student Guides (Cambridge: ProQuest Information and Learning Company, 2002), n.p.
Introduces Chaucer and his works; then summarizes the characters, plot, style, and themes of MilT, along with a running commentary on MilPT, with bibliography.
Sackler, Howard, dir.
Morrison, Theodore, trans.
Holloway, Stanley, reader.
MacLiammoir, Michéal, reader.
New York: Caedmon, 1962. (TC 1130)
Readings of PardPT (MacLiammoir) and MilT (Holloway) in Theodore Morrison's modern verse translation. Caedmon also released this recording on cassette tape.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this includes adapted versions of GP and five tales from CT, with texts, notes, and activities designed to improve reading and langauge skills. Released in several languages for English-learning children.
Item not seen. A WorldCat record indicates that the lithographs, commissioned by John Deuss, accompany selections from CT in Coghill's translation. The record includes the following note: "Limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies signed by the…
Hoffman, Richard L.
R. M. Lumiansky and Herschel Baker, eds. Critical Approaches to Six Major English Works: "Beowulf" through "Paradise Lost" (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968). pp. 41-80.
Describes scholarly accomplishments and critical trends in Chaucer studies between 1940 and 1968--editions, source-and-analogue studies, and psychological, theological, and philosophical approaches. Explores the concept of the doubleness in love (two…
Windeatt, Barry.
Helen Cooper and Robert R. Edwards, eds. Oxford History of Poetry in English. Volume 2, Medieval Poetry, 1100–1400 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 425-39.
Emphasizes and traces a poetic method common to the CT that Windeatt explores in terms of the tales and their openings; their emphasis on time, chance, and astrology; and the generic hybridity that defines the Tales.
Workbook for early readers of English, including retellings in modern English of GP, KnT, ClT, MerT, FranT, and PardT accompanied by pedagogical materials on Chaucer, his works, and contemporary society. Audiodisk includes readings from the tales.
Wright, David, trans.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
A translation of all the verse of CT into modern English verse, using metrical forms imitating the original, and half rhyme or assonance; brief introduction, bibliography, life, and notes.
