An ornithological guide to the birds mentioned in Chaucer's works, with black-and-white sketches of each bird. Discusses the contexts in which Chaucer cites various birds, arguing that the poet was aware of their iconic values and that he was a keen…
Sturges, Robert S.
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.
Stressing the role of the reader in finding meaning, Sturges traces the development of a "belief in an indeterminacy of literary meaning." Alongside Neo-Platonism and the "directed vision" typical of the early Middle Ages, a "new mind set emphasized…
Fisher, John H.
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992.
Explores how Chaucer expanded the boundaries of the English literary idiom. Chaucer's innovations capitalize on the rise of a new audience, a class of bureaucrats and businessmen who shared his education at the inns of court and chancery. Details…
Rowe, Donald W.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press,
TC is best understood in terms of the tradition of "discordia concors," the harmonization of opposites, which Chaucer saw exemplified in the "school of Chartres" and Jean de Meun. Chaucer's profound philosophical insight, which linked the perfection…
Gardner, John Champlin.
Carbondale: Southern Ililinois University Press, 1977.
BD is an apprentice work whose chief interest is in rhetoric and ornamentation. PF, built on neo-platonic musical principles, shows growth in command of structure. The short poems reveal Chaucer's interest in prosodic experiment. TC is a great…
Penhallurick, Robert, ed.
Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2000.
Seven essays by various authors who challenge "orthodox views about dialects and dialectology" while discussing topics of dialect and "standard" in English, especially British English. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Debating…
Evans, Ruth, ed.
Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2006.
Seventeen essays by various authors on topics such as Robin Hood, Chaucer, medieval romance, medievalism, cultural studies, and modern crime fiction. Includes an introduction (pp. 1-6) and a bibliography of Knight's publications (pp. 269-77). For six…
Macaulay, Richard.
Cardiff: Drama Association of Wales, 2007
Includes "A Canterbury Tale" (pp. 91-113), a play that presents a fictional account of events that inspired Chaucer to write the CT, framed as a meeting between Chaucer and Simon Burley on the occasion of Burley's arrest. Also published as a…
Davies, W. Beynon, ed.
Cardiff: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 1976.
An edition of the Welsh verse drama "Troelus a Chresyd" (c. 1600), with introduction and commentary that explore the play's debt to Chaucer's TC and Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid." Includes a table of correspondences (pp.143-61) between the play…
Myerson, Jonathan, dir.
Cardiff: S4C and Christmas Films, 2000.
Animated versions of SqT (with a completed plot), CYPT, and MilT and RvT (with plots interpolated), presented as tales told on each of three days as the pilgrims return from Canterbury to London. Includes a teacher's guide (pamphlet). Distributed by…
Myerson, Jonathan, dir.
Cardiff: S4C, with HBO and BBC Wales, 1998.
Animated adaptation/retelling of MerT, PardT, and FranT, with interspersed selections from GP, each dramatized in a different style of animation. The tales are shortened, reduced to simplified plots. Two versions are included, one in modern English…
Myerson, Jonathan, dir.
Cardiff: S4C, with HBO and BBC Wales, 1998.
Animated adaptation/retelling of NPT, KnT, and WBT, with interspersed selections from GP, each dramatized in a different style of animation. The tales are shortened, reduced to simplified plots. Two versions are included, one in modern English and…
Fellows, Jennifer, Rosalind Field, Gillian Rogers, and Judith Weiss, eds.
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1996.
Collection of essays on medieval romance that contains recurrent references to FranT, KnT, MLT, MilT, PhyT, and Th. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for Romance Reading on the Book under Alternative Title.
McAvoy, Elizabeth Herbert, and Teresa Walters, eds.
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002.
Seventeen essays by various authors. The book is divided into three sections: Sexual/Textual Consumption; Monstrous Bodies; and Consuming Genders, Races, and Nations. Includes an introduction by the editors, a select bibliography, and an index. For…
Reed, Teresa P.
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003.
Examines allusions to the Virgin Mary in connection to five literary characters: Chaucer's Constance and Wife of Bath, the medical woman of the English "Trotula," Saint Margaret of Antioch, and the "Pearl" maiden. Chapter 1 focuses on parallels…
Whitehead, Christiania.
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003.
Whitehead describes the complex significations of architectural structures in medieval thought and memory, examining Christian and classical roots of such thinking. Discusses classical, scriptural, and exegetical commentaries on concrete figures…
Fumo, Jamie Clire.
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2015.
Studies the history of interpretation of BD, surveying scholarly commentary, material transmission, and late medieval/early modern creative reception. Emphasizes the (re)making of BD over time, by means of the interrelated textual processes of…
Stavsky, Jonathan, ed. and trans.
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2017.
Edits "Le Bone Florence of Rome," accompanied by a facing-page translation that maintains the twelve-line, tail-rhyme stanzas of the original, with end-of-text explanatory notes, textual notes, and several appendices. Introduction includes commentary…
Epstein, Robert.
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2018.
Explores the "gift economy" and commercial culture of CT, and applies gift theory and economic anthropology to medieval literary criticism. Examines "gender of the gift," exchange of women, and gifts in GP. Chapter 6 focuses on the Franklin's gifts…
Fulton, Helen, ed.
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021.
Collection of essays focusing on Chaucer's engagement with "Italian tradition" and his use and interpretation of Italian sources. For eight individual essays, search for Chaucer and Italian Culture under Alternative Title.
Adler, Gillian.
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2022.
Explores how Chaucer uses the "temporality of poetic form to explore the ethics of time" in CT, BD, and TC. Connects Chaucer's poetic techniques to broader philosophical and ethical discourses of Augustine and Boethius.
