Yildiz, Nazan.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Hacettepe University, 2015. Fully accessible via https://www.academia.edu/71798123/Hybridity_in_Geoffrey_Chaucer_S_the_Canterbury_Tales_Reconstructing_Estate_Boundaries (accessed May 5, 2026).
Describes the "large scale social mobility" of late medieval England and argues that its modifications of traditional estates categories are reflected in CT. Uses Homi Bhabha's "postcolonial concepts of hybridity, in-betweenness, third space and…
Gillespie, Stuart.
Shakespeare's Books: A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources. 2nd ed. (New York: Bloomsbury, 2016), pp. 70-78.
Synopsizes critical opinion about Chaucer's influence on Shakespeare, especially the impact of TC, KnT, and MerT, with attention to other works. Comments on the knowledge and status of Chaucer in Shakespeare's age and includes a bibliography updated…
Describes Paul C. Doherty's seven murder mysteries based on CT, exploring them as deeply allusive appropriations rather than adaptations, and theorizing how Chaucer-adept readers of this fan fiction can achieve Lacanian jouissance as well as…
Anthologizes in four volumes oral accounts by asylum seekers and immigrants detained in Britain and elsewhere, recorded by various poets and novelists, and modelled on the CT, with an opening Prologue in each volume, followed by narratives with…
De Hamel, Christopher.
[London]: Allen Lane, 2016; New York: Penguin, 2017.
Discusses twelve notable medieval manuscripts, recounting personal encounters with each in its library setting, emphasizing aesthetic appreciation, illustrations, and the exigencies of provenances, while including codicological descriptions and…
Braswell, Mary Flowers.
Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2016
New York: Routledge, 2017.
A critical biography of Haweis that emphasizes her work as a Chaucer scholar, critic, editor, and illustrator, explaining her accomplishments in relation to the better-known Chaucerians of the nineteenth century and exploring why her influence is not…
Stadolnik, Joseph.
English Studies 97.1 (2016): 15–21.
Argues that the Wife's "fyr" and "tow" not only warn against sexual temptation but are also a contemporary "reference to the fatal accident at the "bal des ardents" at the French royal court in 1393, which very nearly took the life of Charles VI."
Examines the Summoner in GP in connection with representations of leprosy and discusses the limitations of the digital manuscripts used to research findings.
Allen, Mark, and Stephanie Amsel, eds.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016.
Includes 4,632 annotated entries, compiled and edited from the annual bibliography reports published in SAC, newly arranged and cross-referenced in categories that reflect changes in the reception and teaching of Chaucer and Chaucerian scholarship.…
Amsel, Stephanie.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 38 (2016): 387–450.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings.234 items, plus listing of reviews for 40 books. Includes an author…
Kelly, Kathleen Coyne, and Tison Pugh, eds.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016.
Seventeen essays that explore representation of Chaucer and CT on film and television, with recurrent attention to the limited number and scope of such adaptations. The introduction by the editors, "Chaucer on Screen," (pp. 1-16) comments on…
Arner, Lynn.
Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 69-87
Describes the limited presence of Chaucer in the early American films, commenting on a Motion Picture Academy educational promotion and a "distorted" version of PardT, "On Borrowed Time" (1939). Offers five reasons for this scarcity:…
Aronstein, Susan, and Peter Parolin.
Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 33-44.
Argues that Shakespeare's works have more often been adapted to the screen than Chaucer's works because the latter have widely been considered to be "guarded by experts." Comments on the Troilus frontispiece, Jonathan Myerson's animated adaptation of…
Bahr, Arthur.
Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 230-38.
Shows that the BBC television adaptation of PardPT concentrates more on sexual predation than on death, and argues that this eliminates both the sexual and the contextual queerness of Chaucer's original, which requires of its audience "rigorously…
Barrington, Candace.
Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 88-107.
Recounts efforts to find "film elements" (recorded vestiges) of "The Deadly Riddle," a 1956 television version of WBT, produced by Roy Huggins for "Warner Brothers Presents," starring Natalie Wood and Jacques Sernas. Only paratextual material…
D'Arcens, Louise.
Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 208-17.
Argues that the concern with reading and liberation in the BBC television version of KnT is "reflexive," mirroring the goals of the six-part series. The series' goal of "freeing" readers from "academic Chaucer" is paralleled by efforts to liberate…
Davis, Kathleen.
Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 239-48.
Views the BBC television version of MLT as an exploration of the simultaneities of past, present, and future, interrelated with motifs of amnesia, immigration, political struggle, religious warfare, and the "correlation of spiritual and sexual…
Echard, Siân.
Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 167-83.
Explores the "unexpected points of contact between" Brian Helgeland's "A Knight's Tale" and Chaucer's poetry, discussing ways that the film and KnT focus on tilting arenas and order, their affinities with pastiche, their concern with the power of the…
Ellis, Steve.
Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 1879-5.
Observes the lack of "narratorial interactivity" (teller/tale relations) in the BBC adaptations of CT and explores several other "markedly un-Chaucerian" aspects of the television version of MilT, remarking that the series "does little to promote"…
Kelly, Kathleen Coyne.
Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 218-29
Coins the term "updaptation" to describe adaptations that shift temporalities from past to present, using the term to explore relations between ShT and the BBC television version, the "Sea Captain's Tale." Focuses on the episode's use of film noir…
Lynch, Kathryn L.
Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 130-48.
Interprets Pier Paolo Pasolini's "I racconti di Canterbury" as a "profound" engagement with CT, analyzing four instances of adaptation that reflect subtle appreciation and understanding of Chaucer's themes and techniques: a latrine scene at the…
Pugh, Tison.
Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 111-29.
Analyzes the "experiential vision of the past" depicted in Powell and Pressburger's movie "A Canterbury Tale," exploring the "spectral inspiration" of Chaucer, the film's propaganda value, its "metacinematic" ironies, and its "perversions" of the…
Scala, Elizabeth.
Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 19-32.
Assesses how Brian Helgeland's "A Knight's Tale" and John Madden's "Shakespeare in Love" "tell us more than they realize": that Chaucer always stands separate from his fiction and, conversely, that Shakespeare's "theatrical life" enables us to…
Scanlon, Larry.
Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 45-55.
Suggests that modernity's insistence on a repressive break with the past helps to explain the paucity of screen adaptations of Chaucer's works, commenting on similarities between Chaucer's desert in HF and the "desert of the [R]eal" of Jean…
