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The Canterbury Tales
Caxton, William, ed.
London: Cornmarket, in association with Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1972.
Item not seen; the note in WorldCat quotes the following: "This facsimile edition of Chaucer's Canterbury tales as printed by William Caxton is limited to 500 copies, of which this in number 280 ..."/ "The present facsimile reproduces for the first…
The Canterbury Tales
[Daniel, Ted, and Florence Daniel, eds.]
Portland, Ore.: New Wave Publishers, 1993.
Digitalized public domain edition of CT, reproduced on the Internet recurrently and issued by ebrary in 2001 (not seen; cited in WorldCat, with link to title-page preview).
The Canterbury Tales
Chwast, Seymour.
New York: Bloomsbury, 2011.
Chwast's humorous graphic novel of Chaucer's twenty-four tales depicts the pilgrims traveling to Canterbury by motorcycles.
The Canterbury Tales
Falstein, Mark, trans.
Upper Saddle River, N. J.: Globe Fearon Educational Publishers, 1999.
Selections from CT, adapted and abridged in modern English for a juvenile audience; includes GP, KnT, MLT, NPT, WBPT, FrT, SumT, ClT, FranT, PardPT, CYPT, and Ret, with linking material. Illustrated by Laurie Harden.
The Canterbury Tales
Roberts, James L.
Grafton, Ellen, reader. New York: Wiley, 2000.
Grafton, Ellen, reader. New York: Wiley, 2000.
Study guide to CT, with backgrounds to Chaucer and the poem, along with summaries and commentaries on all of the tales, sample character analyses and short essays, and resources for review and further reading. An audiobook version of this text was…
The Canterbury Tales
London: Penguin, 1996.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat which indicates that this is a selection from CT in Middle English. WorldCat also cites a 1998 release of this publication.
The Canterbury Tales
Genoa: Cideb Editrice; Amsterdam: Intertaal, 2002.
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.
The Canterbury Tales
Williams, Fred, reader.
Ashland, Ore.: Blackstone Audiobooks, 2002.
Fred Williams reads the unabridged CT in modern English; translated by J. U. Nicolson.
The Canterbury Tales
Strange, Joanna, trans.
Harlow: Pearson Education, 2000.
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…
The Canterbury Tales
Wells-Cole, Catherine, intro.
Ware, Herefordshire: Wordsworth Poetry Library, 1995.
Text of CT--the order of the tales following the Bradshaw shift--with a glossary, brief Introduction, and a Note on language and meter.
The Canterbury Tales
Butler, David.
Falls Church, Va.: Sound Room, 2001.
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.
The Canterbury Tales
Simpson, Fiona.
Parsippany, N.J.: Globe Fearon/Pearson Learning, 1995.
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…
The Canterbury Tales
West, Michael, trans.
Harlow, Essex: Longman, 1972.
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.
The Canterbury Tales
Hastings, Selina.
New York: H. Holt, 1988.
Selections from CT, adapted for children, including NPT, PardT, WBT, FranT, KnT, MilT, and RvT. Color illustrations by Reg Cartwright.
The Canterbury Tales
Stewart, Diana, trans.
Milwaukee, Wis.: Raintree Publishers, 1981.
Prose adaptations of GP, WBT, PardT, and CYT, designed for children, accompanied by brief Introduction, a biographical note, and illustrations by Dan Hubrich.
The Canterbury Tales
Lauer, Christopher, trans.
Richmond, Surrey: Oneworld Classics, 2009.
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…
The Canterbury Tales
Raffel, Burton, trans.
New York: Modern Library, 2008.
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…
The Canterbury Tales
Boenig, Robert, and Andrew Taylor, eds.
Buffalo, N.Y.: Broadview Press, 2008. Rev. ed. 2012.
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…
The Canterbury Tales
Tuttle, Peter, trans.
New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006.
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…
The Canterbury Tales
Lerer, Seth.
Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 243-94.
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…
The Canterbury Tales
Mann, Jill, ed.
London : Penguin, 2005.
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…
The Canterbury Tales
McCaughrean, Geraldine.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1991.
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…
The Canterbury Tales
Moliterno, Gino.
Senses of Cinema 19, 2002.
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…
The Canterbury Tales
Coghill, Nevill, trans.
Ontario : Durkin Hayes, 1995.
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.
The Canterbury Tales
Venning, Christopher, prod.
London: Penguin, 1996.
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…