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…
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…
Miltner, Robert.
[Rocky River, Ohio]: The Center for Learning, 1988.
Pedagogical materials for high school teachers, including ten lessons on CT, topics for assignments, handouts, report forms, and instructions on how to use these materials.
Gardiner, Patrick, and Miriam Jacobson.
New York: Spark, 2002.
Study guide to CT, with emphasis on plot, character, theme, and motif, particularly in GP, KnT, MilPT, WBPT, PardPT, and NPPT. Includes summaries, commentary on quotations, suggested essay topics, and review materials.
Riley, Martin
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Rev. ed.
An adaptation for the stage of selections from CT, designed for juvenile actors. Includes versions of PardT, NPT, WBT, KnT, and MilT, framed by a prologue and interludes that feature the antics of four "alchemists." The volume includes instructions…
Facing-page translation of selections from CT into informal, colloquial modern prose. A brief introduction characterizes the pilgrims and the characters in selected tales; selections include GP, KnT, MilT, WBPT, PardPT, Th, and NPT.
Taylor, Andrew.
Books That Changed the World: The 50 Most Influential Books in Human History (London: Quercus, 2008), pp. 46-49.
Summarizes Chaucer's life and works, particularly CT, and praises Chaucer's characterizations, use of vernacular English, and depiction of a wide social range and register.
Ackroyd, Peter, trans.
London: Penguin; New York: Viking, 2009.
Primarily a prose modernization of CT (Th in verse; Mel and ParsT excluded) that emulates Chaucer's shifts in register and idiom. Includes a translator's note and an introduction on Chaucer's life and works. Illustratrd by Nick Bantock.
Bishop, Kathleen A., ed.
Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008.
Eighteen essays by various authors, with a foreword by David Matthews (pp. x-xiv) and a preface by the editor (pp. xv-xvi). For individual essays, search for "CanterburyTales" Revisited under Alternative Title.
Blake, N. F.,and Peter Robinson,eds.
London: King's College, Office for Humanities Communiciations, 1997.
Nine essays by various authors and a preface by the editors, all of which pertain to textual issues of CT or to the principles and practices of the "Canterbury Tales" Project. For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Canterbury…
A pantomime adaptation of CT in two acts, with script, song list, properties list, and suggestions for costuming and staging. The characters are drawn from Chaucer's pilgrims, and the plot centers on the pursuit of a "magic story," with motifs,…
Hieatt, A. Kent, and Constance Hieatt, trans.
New York: Golden Press, 1961.
Adaptations of selections and abbreviations of CT in modern prose: GP, KnT, WBPT, FrPT, ClPT, FranPT, ThPT (in stanzaic poetry), NPPT, PardPT, CYPT, ManPT, and MLPT. Includes numerous color illustrations by Gustaf Tenggren and an Introduction (pp.…
Reis, Huriye.
Çeviribilim ve Uygulamalari Dergisi (Journal of Translation Studies, Hacettepe University) 11 (2001): 47-58.
Two translations of Chaucerian works into Turkish--GP (1993), by Barçin Erol, and CT (1994), by Nazim Ağil--illustrate the "cultural approximation necessitated by the act of translation." Reis assesses specific passages from these translations,…
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…
Offers comprehensive introduction to CT, focusing on language, genres, forms, historical background, and critical history related to Chaucer. Provides exercises, strategies, and ideas for teaching Chaucer in undergraduate courses.
Blandeau, Agnès.
Bulletin des Anglicistes Médiévistes 74 (2008): 71-90.
Comparing Chaucer's and that of Peter Ackroyd in "The Clerkenwell Tales," Blandeau shows Ackroyd's indebtedness to Chaucer's use of images and sense of detail.
Levine, Gloria.
San Antonio, Tex.: Novel Units. 2000.
Pedagogical activities and assessment tools designed for the high school classroom, focusing on GP, KnT, MilT, WBPT, MerT, FranT, PardPT, PrT, and NPT. Targeted skills include vocabulary-building, critical thinking, reading comprehension, and…
Whitesides, Nigel, and Adrian G. Packer.
Rochester, Kent: P.S. Publishers, 1998.
Lesson plans and activities for teaching CT, centered on adaptations of WBT, FranT, and PardT for staging, and including abridged versions of KnT, RvT, NPT, and FrT. Also includes a short play about the death of Thomas Becket. The volume includes…
Brosamer, Matthew.
Joyce Moss and Lorraine Valestuk, British and Irish Literature and Its Times; Celtic Migrations to the Reform Bill (Beginnings-1830s). World Literatures and Its Times, no. 3 (Detroit: Gale, 2001), pp. 43-53.
Introductory description of CT, discussed in light of Chaucer's life and several literary concerns: estates satire, the role of the Church and pilgrimage, the "battle of the sexes," and sources. Includes plot summaries of MilT, WBPT, FranT, and NPT.
Ecker, Ronald L., and Eugene J. Crook, trans.
Palatka, Fla.: Hodges & Braddock, 1993.
Translates the full text of CT, based on Robinson's edition (1957), presenting the poetry in close imitation of Chaucer's verse forms and approximating Chaucer's syntax in the prose. Includes brief glossary of people, places, and terms.
Needham, Paul.
Takami Matsuda, Richard A. Linenthal, and John Scahill, eds. The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya (Cambridge: Brewer; Tokyo: Yushodo, 2004), pp. 313-56.
Needham documents the prominence of beads in nineteen of the twenty-three woodcuts in Caxton's second edition of CT. Suggests that the illustrations were influenced by the "expanding cult of rosary devotions" in Caxton's time and describes the…
The "structural features" of GP reflect "the medieval philosophical debate over universals" and the epistemology of the "via moderna." Chaucer's number and arrangement of pilgrims suggest the "inadequacy of categories," whereas the balanced…
