An "interactive" introduction to CT designed for classroom use. Provides for GP and select tales contextual materials from sources and analogues, rhetorical and visual traditions, and contemporary resources, guiding students in their considerations…
Nicholson, Peter.
R. F. Yeager, ed. Chaucer and Gower: Difference, Mutability, Exchange (Victoria B. C.: University of Victoria, 1991), pp. 85-99.
Chaucer had two sources for MLT: Gower's Confessio Amantis (2.587-1707) and Trevet's Chronicles, which also served as Gower's source. Placing all three versions side by side, one can find evidence that Gower was Chaucer's principal source.
Chewning, Susannah M.
R. F. Yeager and Brian W. Gastle, eds. Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower (New York: Modern Language Association, 2011), pp. 188-93.
Addresses issues of teaching Gower and Chaucer in college survey classes.
Chickering, Howell.
David Sofield and Herbert F. Tucker, eds. Under Criticism: Essays for William H. Pritchard. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998), pp. 91-108.
Considers the pedagogical value of memorizing verse and comments on exercises in retention for students of Chaucer's poetry. Includes close reading of several stanzas of PF.
White, Hugh.
Review of English Studies, n.s., 40 (1989): 157-78.
The natural is commonly seen as a norm for human behavior in the Middle Ages, but Chaucer reveals skepticism about the normative status of Nature and the goodness of the order it oversees in ManT, SqT, BD, PF, and TC.
Knapp, Ethan.
Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 324-56.
Knapp surveys trends in academic critical approaches to Chaucer, focusing on interactions and tensions between philological study and interpretive criticism. Summarizes Chaucer's place in the rise of university curricula and explores landmark New…
Schoeck, Richard J., and Jerome Taylor, eds.
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1960.
Reprints two poems about Chaucer (by e. e. cummings and Henry Wordsworth Longfellow) and fifteen twentieth-century essays or excerpts on CT by various authors, plus one previously unpublished essay: Paul E. Beichner's "Characterization in the…
Schoeck, Richard J., and Jerome Taylor, eds.
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1961.
An anthology of seventeen twentieth-century essays or excerpts by various authors on TC (twelve examples), BD, HF, PF, courtly love, and dream vision poetry--sixteen reprinted and one original: R. E. Kaske, "The Aube in Chaucer's 'Troilus'."
Boitani, Piero.
Studi sul Boccaccio 25 (1997): 311-29
Demonstrates the influence of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio on Chaucer and, in turn, on English literary tradition, employing an extended metaphor that equates Italian tradition with the town of Certaldo and English tradition with Canterbury.
Giaccherini, Enrico.
Anthony L. Johnson, Simona Beccone, Carmen Dell'Aversano, and Chiara Serani, eds. Hammered Gold and Gold Enamelling: Studi in Onore di Anthony L. Johnson (Rome: Aracne, 2011), pp. 177-98.
Traces Chaucer's references to Jews in his works--HF, PrT, PardT, and ParsT--arguing that repeated references such as "cursed Jews" are largely generic, used by positive and negative characters alike.
Vial, Claire.
François Laroque and Franck Lessay, eds. Enfers et Délices à la Renaissance (Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2003), pp. 119-34.
Argues that Chaucer anticipates Shakespeare and other Renaissance writers in using the "poetic motif of the multifaceted dance of Venus," exploring passages from SqT, MerT, FranT, and KnT, and arguing that the dance of Venus "could adumbrate either…
Simola, Robert, compiler.
https://chaucereditions.wordpress.com/ (n.d.; last accessed 01/29/2019)
Organizes links to illustrations from editions of Chaucer's works published between 1484 (Caxton's 2d ed.) and 1930. The images are "listed chronologically by either editor, illustrator, title, or author depending on the source," all derived from…
Crépin, André.
Danielle Buschinger, ed. Autour d'Eustache Deschamps. Médiévales, no. 2. (Amiens: Université de Picardie, 1999), pp. 37-43
The poets had similar careers, and Deschamps's "Ballad to Chaucer" testifies to the supranational circle of knights-cum-poets. Deschamps's garden metaphor, his comparison of Chaucer to Socrates, and other comparisons indicate that the French poet is…
Dauby, Helene.
Danielle Buschinger and Wolfgang Spiewok, eds. Economie, politique, et culture au Moyen Age: Acte du Colloque, Paris 19 et 20 mai 1990. WODAN ser., no. 5 ([Amiens]: Universite de Picardie, 1991), pp. 55-63.
Compares Chaucer's WBT and Gower's "Tale of Florent" as indices to the authors' social and moral outlooks. Whereas Gower consistently emphasizes maintaining a hierarchical status quo, Chaucer's concern for the individual and his recurrent…
Dauby, Hélène.
Colette Stévanovitch, ed. L'Articulation langue-littérature dans les textes médiévaux anglais, II. Actes du colloque des 25 et 26 juin 1999 á l'Université de Nancy II. Collection GRENDEL, no. 3. (Nancy: Publications de l'Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 1999), pp. 133-42.
Alliteration, not infrequent in Chaucer, fulfils several functions. It is mimetic in the description of battles (KnT) and the harmony of the spheres (TC); metrical, when binding two parts of a line or several lines together (BD); and syntactic:…
Crépin, André.
Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, 1998.
Catalogue of the exhibition at the eleventh international congress of the New Chaucer Society, held at the Sorbonne. Lists books and objects that illustrate the "boundless influence of French-speaking cultures on Chaucer" and the "scholarly…
Dauby, Hélène.
Waël Rabadi and Isabelle Bernard, eds. Médiévales 51 (Amiens: Presses du Centre d'Etudes Médiévales, Université de Picardie--Jules Verne, 2012), pp. 151-62.
Focuses on the narrative systems in The Arabian Nights and CT.
Shows that "what is thought to be the earliest record of a Chaucer folio in North America in fact refers to a text by the Protestant theologian Daniel Chamier." Concludes "with a brief survey of other early American readers of Chaucer."
Harty, Kevin J.
David W. Marshall, ed. Mass Market Medieval: Essays on the Middle Ages in Popular Culture (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2007), pp. 13-27.
Compares the six tales of The BBC Canterbury Tales (MilT, WBP, KnT, ShT, PardT, and MLT) with their Chaucerian originals. Emphasizes plot parallels, modern themes, and the lack of interconnection among the "six stand-alone telefilms."
