Kennedy, Caroline, ed., and Jon J. Muth, illus.
New York: Disney-Hyperion, 2013.
Anthologizes poetry for a juvenile audience, arranged topically. Includes the first eighteen lines of GP in Middle English (pp. 168–69) in a section entitled "Extra Credit."
Sadlek, Gregory M.
James M. Dean, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer (Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2017), pp. 37-52.
Explores how CT reflects Chaucer's "orientation toward life that celebrates 'bisynesse' [business/busyness] and abhors wasteful idleness." Focuses on the importance of the Host and Chaucer's "marking of the time" in CT.
Ladd, Roger A.
James M. Dean, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer (Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2017), pp. 81-96.
Examines how Chaucer and Gower handled the genre of "estates satire," and speculates how "their social critique moves away from an estates satire framework." Addresses mercantile practice in MerT, MLT, and WBT, and claims that Chaucer, like Gower,…
McKinley, Kathryn.
James M. Dean, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer (Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2017), pp. 113-27.
Considers the "international" aspects of Chaucer's works and Chaucer's "European nature as a writer." Emphasizes the importance of Chaucer's "ability to draw upon international vernaculars . . . and retain elements of his own culture" in his works,…
Dean, James M
James M. Dean, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer (Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2017), pp. 128-43.
Focuses on Chaucer's storytelling style, which combines fiction, invention of literary characters that bring in "details and personalities from 'life,' " and metafictive narrative elements.
Yager, Susan.
James M. Dean, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer (Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2017), pp. 68-79.
Argues that humor and multiple points of view make Chaucer's work essential reading in the "polemical atmosphere" of the present time. Contends that readers must pay careful attention when interpreting Chaucer's frequent ambiguities, reversals, and…
Yager, Susan.
James M. Dean, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer (Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2017), pp. 99-112.
Outlines the basics of Middle English orthography and pronunciation, and Chaucer's vocabulary and literary models for students. Claims that learning to read Middle English, and understanding concepts of manuscript study, editing, and translation,…
Fruoco, Jonathan.
James M. Dean, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer (Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2017), pp. 216-30.
Traces the history of English from earlier times to Chaucer's age to reveal Chaucer's facility with language, focusing on his powerful and special words. Refers to J. R. R. Tolkien's 1934 lecture to the Philological Society, and claims that Chaucer…
Evans, Robert C.
James M. Dean, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer (Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2017), pp. 201-15.
Presents overlap between Chaucer's writings and the writings of Thomas Nashe, particularly the late sixteenth-century poem "The Choice of Valentines," which is "considered to be the most pornographic piece of writing to survive" Shakespeare's time.…
Evans, Robert C.
James M. Dean, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer (Ipswich, Mass., Salem Press), pp. 144-58.
Proposes viewing Donne's poem "The Flea" from the theoretical perspective of D. W. Robertson, and argues that "if we read Donne's poem as Robertson reads Chaucer, a different kind of Donne emerges" than previously shown by scholars.
Burke, Kevin J.
James M. Dean, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer (Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2017), pp. 53-67.
Examines the influence of Boethius on Dante, Boccaccio, and Chaucer. Focuses on how understanding "The Consolation of Philosophy" enhances the "philosophical reflection" and reception of TC for readers.
Lightsey, Scott.
James M. Dean, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer (Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2017), pp. 171-85
Contends that Chaucer's "international presence," due to his European travels connected to his position and service within the court, "instilled in him a European sensibility distinctly at odds with his modern image as the avatar of Englishness."
Dean, James M., ed.
Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2017.
Collection of essays that explores various literary aspects of Chaucer's oeuvre, with particular focus on the "international motif" and "transnational" themes found in many works. Essays address critical contexts and readings to help understand…
Twelve short dramas for oral reading, including a Modern English prose adaptation of CT (pp. 161-83) that retells portions of GP, KnT, WBT, NPT, and PardT, with narrative transitions between them. Designed for juvenile audience; reading time…
Malcolmson, Anne, ed.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964.
Modern English verse translations of portions of CT, designed for a juvenile audience, comprising abridged versions of GP, MkT (Samson, Nebuchadnezzer, and Croesus), NPT, ClT, ManT, FranT, Th, MLT, CYT, and PardT, each introduced with brief comments…
Keller, Wolfram R.
Hoofnagle, Wendy Marie, and Wolfram R. Keller, eds. Other Nations: The Hybridization of Medieval Insular Mythology and Identity (Heidelberg: Winter, 2011), pp. 185-205.
Interprets Geffrey's encounters with the story of Troy in HF as analogous to Chaucer's own struggle with poetic authority, contrasting the account with that of Guido delle Colonne in his "Historia Destructionis Troiae," and linking it with Chaucer's…
Wells, Paul.
Journal of Screenwriting 7 (2016): 65-81.
Uses the concepts and terminology of animation studies (e.g., "metamorphosis, condensation, anthropomorphism, choreography, fabrication, performance, sound, etc.") to gauge how and to what extent Jonathan Myerson in his "The Canterbury Tales" (1998)…
Robertson, Elizabeth.
Bettina Bildhauer and Chris Jones, eds. The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-First Century Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 219-38.
Examines Chaucer's impact on medievalisms of early and later Romantic English poets. Portrays Chaucer's influence on Wordsworth, not only in deliberately medievalist work, but throughout his corpus, focusing on daisies and their presentations in text…
McCarthy, Conor.
Bettina Bildhauer and Chris Jones, eds. The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-First Century Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 239-53.
Uses Chaucer and the "Pearl"-poet as metonyms for the tasks of translating and updating medieval works for later readers. Evokes both works in these translations, if at times obliquely.
Jones, Chris.
Bettina Bildhauer and Chris Jones, eds. The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-First Century Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 168-85.
Attends to histories of reinterpretation and translation of medieval poetry of Chaucer and of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Focuses on the return to medievalism
by British poets of the twenty-first century, including Seamus Heaney. Also notes…
