Damon, John.
Sally McKee, ed. Crossing Boundaries: Issues of Cultural and Individual Identity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1999) pp. 41-56.
Martial imagery in SNT presents Cecilia as a "kind of general in a spiritual army of the steadfast faithful." Seen in light of Th and Mel, SNT idealizes "non-violent resistance, not passive resignation, to abuses of power."
Ramirez-Arlandi, Juan.
Salvador Pena and Juan Jesus Zaro, eds. De Homero a Pavese: Hacia un canon iberoamericano de clasicos universales (Kassel: Reichenberger, 2017), pp. 39-64.
Analyzes the translation techniques used in the Spanish version of MilT and RvT made between 1949 and 1956 by Chilean scholar, theater director and translator Jorge Elliott Garcia. Claims that the purpose of this verse translation was to increase the…
Christopher, Joe R.
Salwa Khoddam, Mark R. Hall, and Jason Fisher, eds. C. S. Lewis and the Inklings: Reflections on Faith, Imagination, and Modern Technology (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2015), pp. 121-32.
Explores why C. S. Lewis chose not to discuss FranT in his "Allegory of Love," arguing that Lewis made the decision because he wanted to attribute the "final defeat of courtly love by the romantic conception of marriage" to Edmund Spenser in his…
Taitt, Peter S.
Salzburg, Austria: Institut fur Englische Sprache und Literatur, Universitat Salzburg, 1975
Offers a close examination of the various ecclesiastical figures in CT and "Piers Plowman" and of the literary techniques used by the two authors to distinguish them. Chaucer's method of characterization concentrates audience interest on the person…
Hellstrom, Par.
Samlaren: Tidskrift for Svensk Litteraturvetenskaplig Forskning 103 (1982): 90-111.
Reviews criticism and scholarship on Chaucer in Sweden and England, treating backgrounds (social, religious and philosophical, and literary), general works, and new directions in scholarship.
Wrinkle, Johanna
San Antonio, Tex.: ECS Learning Systems, 1992.
A guide for teaching CT in the high school literature curriculum, with an emphasis on physiognomy and the humours. Includes introductory information and various assignments, tests, and activities.
Levine, Gloria.
San Antonio, Tex.: Novel Units. 2000.
Pedagogical activities and assessment tools designed for the high school classroom, focusing on GP, KnT, MilT, WBPT, MerT, FranT, PardPT, PrT, and NPT. Targeted skills include vocabulary-building, critical thinking, reading comprehension, and…
Nardo, Don, ed.
San Diego, Cal.: Greenhaven, 1997.
Seventeen previously published essays and excerpts, accompanied by an introduction, a biography, a chronology, and a brief bibliography intended for student use. Contributors include Donald Howard (on structure and on social rank), Glending Olson (on…
Adkins, Lieuen, trans.
San Francisco: Bellerophon, 1973.
Parallel-column version of MilPT in Middle English [Skeat edition] and modern rhymed couplets, accompanied by numerous b&w illustrations in comic-book style by Gilbert Shelton.
Middle English version of GP [Skeat edition], accompanied by numerous b&w reproductions of woodcuts from editions of CT by William Caxton (1484), Wynkyn de Worde (1494), and Richard Pynson (1526). Includes a seven-inch phonograph recording (33 1/3…
Hone, Ralph E., ed.
San Francisco: Chandler, 1966.
A textbook edition of "Samson Agonistes" that includes among the poem's "Antecedents" the Samson section of MkT (CT 7. 3205-3284) from Skeat's 1894 edition.
Haselwood, Dave, trans.
San Francisco: Grabborn-Hoyem, 1967.
An art-book version of ABC, limited to 1000 copies, with facing-page Middle English text taken from the Kelmscott Chaucer and verse translation into Modern English by Dave Haselwood. The font of the Middle English text derives from "lettre batarde"…
Wangerin, Walter, Jr.
San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1985.
Fantasy novel, loosely based on NPT, featuring Chauntecleer and Pertelote, along with various barnyard, woodland, and mythic animals. Sequel to Wangerin's "The Book of the Dun Cow" (1978).
Armstrong, Dorsey.
San Francisco: Kanopy Streaming.
Includes commentary on "Piers Plowman"; Boccaccio's "Decameron"; and the impact of the plague on Chaucer's life, CT (especially PardT), and BD, claiming that Chaucer "could not have been Chaucer" if not for the plague.
Croll, Angus.
San Francisco: No Starch Press, 2015.
A collection of playful JavaScript programs, imitating or responding to well-known literary authors--Hemingway, Shakespeare, Austin, Woolf, Borges, etc.--and including
brief descriptions of each writer's style. The section on Chaucer (pp. 104–11)…
Devlin, Mary
San Jose, Calif.: Writers Club Press, 2000.
A murder mystery that incorporates details from Chaucer's life and from CT, featuring Chaucer in the role of detective seeking to solve three murders on the pilgrimage to Canterbury, with the aid of John of Gaunt.
Thorpe, James.
San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1978.
The finest ms of the greatest medieval English literary work, the Ellesmere, produced about 1410 in a commercial scriptorium, with twenty-three marginal portraits (all reproduced here), was the jewel of the great Bridgewater library assembled by Sir…
Schulz, Herbert C.
San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library, 1998.
Revised reprint of 1966 original; a description of the Ellesmere manuscript, its illuminations, and its history. Includes a new "Bibliographical Note" by Joseph A. Dane and Seth Lerer, plus their additions to Schulz's list of reproductions of…
Woodward, Daniel,and Martin Stevens, eds.
San Marino, Calif.:
A full-size, full-color facsimile of the Ellesmere manuscript of CT, published in three forms and 250 copies. Copies 1-50 are bound in oak boards fully covered by tawed calf; copies 51-150, in boards and quarter brown leather; and copies 151-250,…
Woodward, Daniel,and Martin Stevens, eds.
San Marino, Calif.:
A full-size monochromatic facsimile of the Ellesmere manuscript of CT, from the same transparencies used to produce the full-color version (SAC 19 [1997], no. 30).
