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Stanbury, Sarah.   Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 196-207.
Examines ageism and Chaucerian echoes in the BBC television adaptation of WBPT, commenting on the lack of concern with age in feminist studies, attitudes towards "cougardom" in the TV episode, and affiliations between middle age and the Middle Ages…

Shuffelton, George.   Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 149-66.
Assesses Hyapatia Lee's "Ribald Tales of Canterbury" as "quasi-medieval erotica" and a conventional example of pornography from the "golden age" of porn films (1970s and early 1980s). Then discusses evidence from the film and from an autobiography…

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…

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…

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…

New York: Films Media Group, 2011. Originally produced by the BBC; available through Films on Demand.
Features the beauty and importance of the Luttrell Psalter and Caxton's second edition of CT, with commentary on book production and the sociohistorical importance of the featured texts. Four sections pertain to Chaucer: "Commercial Printing" (2:30),…

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…

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…

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"…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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:…

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…

Williams, David.   Robert L. Fastiggi, ed. New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2011, Vol. 1 (Detroit: Gale/Cengage, 2011), pp. 171–75.
Summarizes Chaucer's life and career, and comments on TC and CT (especially the Pardoner and Wife of Bath) as demonstrations of Chaucer's "commitment to the religious view of life," his "humanist sympathy" with living in a fallen world, and his…

Karpova, Olga.   Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011.
Identifies and describes reference works that pertain to individual English authors, published (in print or online) from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century--concordances, glossaries, name-dictionaries, indices to quotations and…

Jager, Katharine W., and Jessica Barr.   Year's Work in English Studies 90 (2011): 264-79.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2009, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, TC, and other works.

Bergs, Alexander, and Laurel J. Brinton, eds.   Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2012.
An encyclopedic handbook with contributions by various authors, with topics ranging from historical periods to modern media studies. Includes an introductory essay by Jeremy J. Smith entitled "Middle English" (pp. 32-47) and a section on various…

Barr, Jessica, and Katharine W. Jager.   Year's Work in English Studies 91 (2012): 281–311.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2010, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, TC, and other works.

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…

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.…

Kennedy, X. J., ed.   Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1966.
A textbook designed for reading and analyzing poetry in the college classroom, with discussions of prosody, poetic devices, and genres; study questions; and an anthology of illustrative poems, including Chaucer's Purse in Middle English (p. 292) with…
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