Through the character of John the Carpenter, Chaucer parodies not the mystery plays but their credulous audiences, who conflated past and present and often confused illusion with reality.
Jager, Eric.
Eric Jager, The Tempter's Voice: Language and the Fall in Medieval Literature (Ithaca, N.Y.; and London: Cornell University Press, 1993), pp. 241-98.
In MerT, Chaucer presents a version of the Edenic Fall that emphasizes the roles of language and writing in seduction. Especially in the pear-tree episode, the Merchant's "dark vision" dramatizes Augustinian commentary on the Fall as an abuse of…
Mosser, Daniel W.
Library Chronicle, n.s., 41 (1987): 82-111.
Examines the significance of the Cardigan Chaucer MS as a witness to the development of Chaucer's text after his death. Following the example of his predecessors, the Cardigan editor enhanced the appearance of the layout and text to make it seem…
Mosser, Daniel W.
Dissertation Abstracts International 46 (1986): 3041A-3042A.
Study of the Cardigan MS (CT and two poems by Lydgate) by the method of Gruijs reveals that Manly and Rickert were wrong in assuming that the codex was produced under close supervision in a shop. Instead, "Scribe A" standardized its language. …
Bate, Jonathan, and Susan Brock.
Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 7 (2007): 341-58.
Overview of workshops conducted under the auspices of CAPITAL (Creativity and Performance in Teaching and Learning), a combined effort of the University of Warwick and the Royal Shakespeare Company. The authors also comment on a "study day"…
Abdou, Angie.
[Victoria, B. C.]: Brindle and Glass, 2011.
Fiction loosely based on framework of CT, with unlikely group of ski enthusiasts brought together during a pilgrimage through backcountry British Columbia.
Items not seen; cited in WorldCat. Readings of selections from CT in modern poetic translation by Frank Ernest Hill. Volume I (3 CDs; 1995) includes GP, KnT, MilT, PardT, MerT and FranT. Volume II (3 CDs, 2002): WBPT, ClT, RvT, and NPT. Volume III (3…
Wright, David, trans.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
A translation of all the verse of CT into modern English verse, using metrical forms imitating the original, and half rhyme or assonance; brief introduction, bibliography, life, and notes.
Workbook for early readers of English, including retellings in modern English of GP, KnT, ClT, MerT, FranT, and PardT accompanied by pedagogical materials on Chaucer, his works, and contemporary society. Audiodisk includes readings from the tales.
Windeatt, Barry.
Helen Cooper and Robert R. Edwards, eds. Oxford History of Poetry in English. Volume 2, Medieval Poetry, 1100–1400 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 425-39.
Emphasizes and traces a poetic method common to the CT that Windeatt explores in terms of the tales and their openings; their emphasis on time, chance, and astrology; and the generic hybridity that defines the Tales.
Hoffman, Richard L.
R. M. Lumiansky and Herschel Baker, eds. Critical Approaches to Six Major English Works: "Beowulf" through "Paradise Lost" (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968). pp. 41-80.
Describes scholarly accomplishments and critical trends in Chaucer studies between 1940 and 1968--editions, source-and-analogue studies, and psychological, theological, and philosophical approaches. Explores the concept of the doubleness in love (two…
Item not seen. A WorldCat record indicates that the lithographs, commissioned by John Deuss, accompany selections from CT in Coghill's translation. The record includes the following note: "Limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies signed by the…
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this includes adapted versions of GP and five tales from CT, with texts, notes, and activities designed to improve reading and langauge skills. Released in several languages for English-learning children.
Sackler, Howard, dir.
Morrison, Theodore, trans.
Holloway, Stanley, reader.
MacLiammoir, Michéal, reader.
New York: Caedmon, 1962. (TC 1130)
Readings of PardPT (MacLiammoir) and MilT (Holloway) in Theodore Morrison's modern verse translation. Caedmon also released this recording on cassette tape.
Shute, Sarah, gen. ed. KnowledgeNotes Student Guides (Cambridge: ProQuest Information and Learning Company, 2002), n.p.
Introduces Chaucer and his works; then summarizes the characters, plot, style, and themes of MilT, along with a running commentary on MilPT, with bibliography.
Recorded Books, pub.
New York and Prince Frederick, Md.: Recorded Books, 1992.
Nine audio cassettes of readings of GP, KnT, MilT, RvT, WBT, FrT, ClT, MerT, FranT, PardT, ShT, PrT, and NPT. Modern pronunciation, following the text in the edition of Michael Murphy.
Murphy, Michael, ed.
Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1991.
An edition of the Middle English text for nonspecialist students and general readers. Neither a normalization nor a translation, it retains--in all respects except spelling--the language of Hengwrt, with variants from other manuscripts of the…
Shute, Sarah, gen. ed. KnowledgeNotes Student Guides (Cambridge: ProQuest Information and Learning Company, 2002), n.p.
Introduces Chaucer and his works; then provides a summary of plot, descriptions of style and themes, a character list, and a running commentary that identifies the salient points of GP, with bibliography.
Reprints Coghill's modernized poetic versions of GP, KnT, NPT, PardPT, SumT, WBT, ClPT, and FranPT, accompanied by an excerpt from John Gardner's biography of Chaucer and medieval materials in modern English translation (from Boccaccio's "Decameron,"…
A comprehensive Japanese translation of CT, collaborated upon by twenty-four scholars. Each tale has an introduction, translation, and supporting notes. In Japanese.
