Examines various codes by which homosocial relationships were allowed to develop without violation of sodomy taboos. Uses as a case study the relationship between Troilus and Pandarus in TC.
School edition of WBPT and the description of the Wife in GP. Facing-page (modern prose opposite Chaucer's poem), accompanied by explanatory notes, a glossary, appreciative criticism of the Wife's characterization, commentary on the structure of…
Study guide that includes text and facing-page prose translation of GP, with end-of-text notes and glosses, and brief characterization of each of the pilgrims. Includes a description of Chaucer's life and works and of Middle English grammar,…
Study guide that includes text and facing-page prose translation of PardPT and the GP description of the Pardoner, with end-of-text notes and glosses, study questions, and commentary on the Pardoner as a character, the characters in his tale,…
Study guide that includes text and facing-page prose translation of NPPT, with end-of-text notes and glosses, and commentary on the characters, humor and irony, and on dreams and predestination. Includes comments on Chaucer's biography and verse and…
Study guide that includes text and facing-page prose translation of KnT and the GP description of the Knight, with end-of-text notes and glosses, study questions, and a description of Chaucer's language. Includes a description of Chaucer's life and…
Study guide that includes text and facing-page prose translation of FranT and the GP description of the Franklin, with end-of-text notes and glosses, study questions, and a description of Chaucer's language. Includes a description of Chaucer's life…
Handyside, I. G., ed.
Houndsmill, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1978.
School edition of MilPT and the description of the Miller in GP. Facing-page (modern prose opposite Chaucer's poem), accompanied by explanatory notes, a glossary, appreciative criticism of the Miller's characterization, commentary on the setting and…
Robinson, Bonnie J., and Laura J. Getty, eds.
Dahlonega: University of North Georgia Press, 2018.
E-book designed as a classroom anthology, downloadable as a PDF, with Learning Outcomes and introductory backgrounds for each chronological period, and introductions to selected works and authors from "The Dream of the Rood" to Olaudah Equiano. The…
Yeager, R. F.
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 14 (1984): 261-81.
A late-sixteenth-century account of Chaucer's life and works, never before published, "gives fresh insight into the nature and transmission of the poet's reputation in England during the Renaissance."
An anthology of eight short stories by British writers, including PardT (pp. 65-77), each accompanied by a "Vocabulary Preview," explanatory notes, and a closing commentary. Illustrations by Clint Hanson.
Ganim, John C.
In Robert DeMaria Jr., Heesok Chang, and Samantha Zacher, eds. A Companion to British Literature. Vol. I, Medieval Literature 700–1450 (Chichester: Wiley, 2014), pp. 202-14.
Explores how aspects of Chaucer's works reflect Britishness, Englishness, internationalism, and cosmopolitanism--a "potentially conflicted and unresolved matrix of possibilities" (p. 213). Identifies links and resonances between Chaucer's narratives…
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.
Dorsey Armstrong, Ann W. Astell, and Howell Chickering, eds. Magistra doctissima: Essays in Honor of Bonnie Wheeler (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2013), pp. 25-33.
Interrogates Chaucer's diminishment or elimination of Scottish, Irish, and especially Welsh aspects of his narrative materials in WBT, FranT, and MLT, arguing that he associated the Celtic fairy world with death, as it is also associated in "Sir…
Donaldson, E. Talbot.
Edward Vasta and Zacharias P. Thundy, ed. Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979), pp. 3-12.
Other enduring attributes of the Criseyde character complicate and perhaps mitigate her infidelity. From the start, as Homer's Briseis, she engages sympathy as a woman unwillingly transferred from one man to another. Dares made Briseida attractive;…
Krummel, Miriamne Ara.
Miriamne Ara Krummel and Tison Pugh, eds. Jews in Medieval England:Teaching Representations of the Other (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 279-94.
Describes the incorporation of works by the English Jewish poet Meir b. Elijah of Norwich into a survey of early English literature, exploring difficulties and achievements. Includes brief comparison of Meir's use of personal acrostics in his poetry…
Collins, Billy, ed., with illustrations by David Allen Sibley.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
Comprises an anthology of English-language poetry about birds and bird species, with accompanying color plates. In the section concerning hawks, includes a stanza from PF (lines 330-36).
Surveys the array of Chaucer biographies derived sequentially from early accounts and editions, portraits, life records, literature, and popular culture, including recent blogging. Describes Chaucer's early entry into court life, his court duties,…
Ashton, Gail.
Literature and Theology 16: 235-47, 2002.
Uses Luce Irigaray's notion of the "ethics of alterity" to explore the fusion of masculine and feminine in the depiction of angels in several medieval narratives, including Marian accounts and Chaucer's and Bokenham's stories of St. Cecilia. In SNT…
Gillum, Anthony D.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Michigan, 2021. Dissertation Abstracts International A83.04(E). Fully accessible via https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/items/2eaed97b-e624-4706-970c-2a8c8df24545 (accessed November 22, 2025.
Based on "Sara Ahmed's phenomenological theorization of 'orientation'," offers case studies of how "the orientation(s) of medieval readers might have influenced their experience of a text," discussing the experience of reading CT in Wynkyn De Worde's…
Crawford, Hannah.
Gordon McMullan, Lena Cowen Orlin, and Virginia Mason Vaughan, eds. Women Making Shakespeare: Text, Reception and Performance (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014), pp. 25-34.
Shows that the list of hard words included in Thomas Speght's 1602 edition of Chaucer's "Werkes" influenced the linguistic inventiveness of Shakespeare and Fletcher's "Two Noble Kinsmen."
Noonan, John T.,Jr.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987.
Studies bribery in a "variety of cultures from ancient Egypt to modern America," with short treatments of Chaucer (pp. 287-90, powerfully articulating "the anti-bribery ethic" in FrT, SumT, PardT, ClT, ParsT); Langland (pp. 275-79); and Dante (pp.…
Minnis, Alastair.
Charlotte Brewer and Barry Windeatt, eds. Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Middle English Literature: The Influence of Derek Brewer (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2013), pp. 34-47.
Analyzes Brewer's interpretations of the figure of the Knight in GP and KnT.
