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Item not located; cited in WorldCat which notes that it pertains to GP and five tales from CT, with texts, notes, and activities by Derek Sellen.

Fred Williams reads the unabridged CT in modern English; translated by J. U. Nicolson.

Translation of selections from CT in modern prose, designed for "pre-intermediate" readers. Includes adaptations of GP, KnT, ClT, WBT, PardT, FranT, FrT, and NPT), with a brief Introduction and activities for classroom use. Illustrated by Victor…

Text of CT--the order of the tales following the Bradshaw shift--with a glossary, brief Introduction, and a Note on language and meter.

Audio recording of David Butler reading a modernized version of selections from CT (GP, KnT, MilPT, RvPT, CkPT, WBPT, FrPT, MerPT, FranPT, PardPT, PrPT, NPPTE, ClPT, and Ret.

Adaptation of selections from CT, intended for young adolescents. Selections include GP, KnT, MLT, portions of MkT, NPT, WBPT, FrT, SumT, ClT, FranT, PardPT, CYT, and Ret, each accompanied by prompts for discussion. The volume also includes a brief…

Classroom adaptations of selections from CT (GP, KnT, ClT, WBT, PardT, FranT, FrT, PhyT, and NPT), with a brief Introduction, questions for discussion, and a list of "new words." Reissued in 1987 with illustrations by Victor G. Ambrus.

Selections from CT, adapted for children, including NPT, PardT, WBT, FranT, KnT, MilT, and RvT. Color illustrations by Reg Cartwright.

Prose adaptations of GP, WBT, PardT, and CYT, designed for children, accompanied by brief Introduction, a biographical note, and illustrations by Dan Hubrich.

Verse modernization of most of CT (except CkT, Mel, and ParsT), based on the 1963 edition of A. C. Baugh; meter and verse forms parallel Chaucer's. Additional material includes brief notes (pp. 484-502), a summary of Chaucer's life, and comments on…

Modern English translation of CT (based on Robinson's second edition), following Chaucer's prose and pentameter and modernizing his syntax. Raffel relies on off-rhymes, slant-rhymes, and blank verse to approximate Chaucer's couplets and other verse…

Complete text of CT newly edited from the Ellesmere manuscript, with an introduction (pp. 9-38), brief bibliography, and eleven "background documents" that include selections from sources and historical records. Glosses to the Middle English are…

Facing-page translation of selections from CT: GP, KnT, MilT, RvT, WBPT, ClT, FranT, PardPT, and NPT. Includes a chronology, brief notes (pp. 503-18), a survey of commentary on Chaucer through the ages, four discussion questions, suggestions for…

Lerer reads CT as a "set of representative performances" that "question literary and social selves" and explore the functions of language, literature, and the imagination. Recurrent concern with clothing and representation, communication and monetary…

New edition of CT, based on both the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts, with on-page glosses, explanatory notes (pp. 795-1111), and glossary (pp. 1112-54). The introduction (pp. xvii-lxx) comments on the importance of Chaucer and CT, Chaucer's…

Free adaptation of CT for children: GP, KnT, MilT, NPT, RvT, ClT, WBT, PardT, Th, FranT, ManT, CYT, FrT, and MerT. Provides links for the Tales in the above order and concludes with an arrival at Canterbury. First published in 1984; a Penguin Film…

29 July 2003. Critique of Pier Paolo Pasolini's "I Racconti di Canterbury," commenting that it is the "poor cousin" within Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life" and observing its concern with death. Moliterno includes quotations from Pasolini about his…

Modern English reading (Nevill Coghill translation) of RvT, ShT, WBP, FranT, and SumT, each accompanied by readings of the GP description of the teller. Read by Fenella Fielding and Martin Starkie.

Readings of selections from CT, translated by Nevill Coghill, including GP, KnT, MilPT, RvPT, PrPT, PardPT, WBPT, FrPT, SumPT, MerPT, and Ret. Read by Richard Breers, Alan Cumming, James Grout, Alex Jennings, Geoffrey Matthews, Richard Pasco, Tim…

A reprint of the 1952 Coghill translation (Mel and ParsT in synopsis only), with extensive color and black-and-white illustrations from a variety of medieval sources: all of the Ellesmere illuminations; woodcuts from Caxton's second edition of CT…

2 vols.

The Oxford Guides offer summaries of what is known about Chaucer's work and include "fresh interpretations based on recent advances in both historical knowledge and theoretical understanding." Cooper includes commentary on all aspects of CT as a…

A novel about a small group of women in a modern setting who travel on pilgrimage from Southwark to Canterbury, telling stories along the way. Includes occasional references and allusions to CT.

Includes selections from GP in translation by Nevill Coghill, set to music, and narrated by Martin Starkie: the opening of GP and the descriptions of the Knight, the "Knight's Son,", the "Nun," the "Guild," the Monk, the Wife of Bath, the Shipman,…

Includes scoring for oratorio of fifteen cantatas: GP I, GP II, Knight, Squire, Nun, Monk, Clerk of Oxenford, Guildsmen and the Merchant, Sergeant at Law and Franklin, Shipman, Physician, Wife of Bath, Parson, and L'Envoi. Performed and recorded…