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Reads LGW as an ironic, comic poem that offers a positive view of women in LGWP and in the legends themselves.

Selections from CT adapted for film, including portions or versions of GP, MerT, CkT, MilT, WBP, RvT, PardT, SumPT, and additional ribald material. Screenplay by Pasolini. Available with sub-titles and/or dubbing in various languages, including…

Quantitative linguistic analysis of the erotic language in CT, charting and analyzing various forms of usage and usage by individual pilgrims.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of GP in Middle English. Also re-issued (1986), with the title "The General Prologue for Beginners."

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of selections from KnT in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of PardT in Middle English and that it was re-issued in 1986 and 2010.

Item not seen. The WorldCat record indicates that this volume includes analysis of one or more works by Chaucer.

Items not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that these studies were published in English.

A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1970.

Version of FranT adapted for juvenile audience, illustrated by Philip Gough.

Textbook anthology for use in history classrooms, combining classical, medieval, and Renaissance sources with modern assessments of the status, activities, and treatments of people of lower classes. In a section called "Ideal Types in Traditional…

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Traces the classical and medieval sources (particularly Lucan and Boethius) of the ascent into the heavens of Arcita in Boccaccio's "Teseida," arguing that the author's efforts at historicizing classical attitudes are more than successful than…

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Describes the meaning and artfulness of Walter Map's version of the "Wade" story in "De Nugis Curialium," exploring a variety of sources and analogues, including comments on Chaucer's reference to Wade in TC 3.624 and to Wade's boat in MerT 4.1424,…

Explores "two related but distinct aspects of Chaucer's celebrated stylistic clarity": 1) while "self-evident," it is "often more apparent than real," and 2) a "means by which" Chaucer "escapes dexterously from the danger of really being clear and…

Though the Wife of Bath states that she never heard "diffinicioun" upon "fyve," the number of her husbands, Chaucer was probably aware of this number's significance as a symbol of earthly love in the numerological tradition of Dante, Macrobius, the…

Sketches the rise of mercantilism in medieval Europe, and details the presence of the "bourgeois spirit" in Boccaccio's "Decameron" and Chaucer's CT, evident in realism, economic motivation, and challenges to aristocratic privilege. Similar in their…

Describes the emergence of "something very like a Ricardian literary movement," focusing on the ability of Langland, Chaucer, and the "Pearl" poet to accept the mundane world completely and yet remain detached from it. Connects this ability with the…

A series of five case studies in cloxe reading that demonstrate Chaucer's skill with prosodic and rhetorical devices; includes an appendix that defines and exemplifies "figures of style" (pp. 236-42). Chapter 1 contrasts the stylistic virtuosity of…

Reads PardPT for the ways they reveal more about the Pardoner than he intends. The Old Man shows the pain of the Pardoner's "joyless existence," even though he has attempted to disguise it in his Prologue; the rioters reveal his obsession with death…

Defines clandestine marriage and describes it as a widespread and well-known phenomenon in fourteenth-century England, even though condemned by the Church. Argues that because the lovers in TC are not Christian, their love is "licit" and not…

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.