An edition of the complete CT, with selective foot-of-page glosses, and "Extra Material" that includes a life of Chaucer, and plot summaries of BD; HF; PF; TC; and, more extensively, each of the CT. No editor is identified, but a note says that the…
After a short discussion of the genesis of CT, Bourgne successively explores its structure (collection of tales; importance of commerce and exchanges; prologues; labyrinth); shifts between oral and written literatures, or audiences and readerships;…
Bowers, John M., ed.
Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992.
Includes editions of Lydgate's Prologue to the Siege of Thebes, The Ploughman's Tale, an expanded version of CkT, eight spurious links, and a combination of The Canterbury Interlude and the Merchant's Tale of Beryn. For each, Bowers provides an…
Kolve, V. A., and Glending Olson. eds.
New York : Norton, 2005, 2018
Revised version of the 1989 Norton critical edition, with expanded selection and apparatus. Includes GP, KnT, MilPT, RvPT, CkPT, WBPT, FrPT, SumPT, ClPT, MerPT, FranPT, PardPT, PrPT, ThP and Th and selections from MelP and Mel, NPPT, ManPT, and…
Benson, Larry D., ed.
Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Based on The Riverside Chaucer, 3rd edition, providing a corrected text and set of glosses, with essentially the same apparatus, updated and adapted for beginning students.
Owen, Charles A., Jr.
Chaucer Yearbook 1 (1992): 189-212.
Hypothesizes that Mel, told by the Man of Law, was once the first tale in the Canterbury sequence, later replaced by MLT; KnT was placed first only in a third stage of revision. ParsP indicates Chaucer's initial plan: one tale per teller. He…
Selections from CT (GP, KnT, MilT, RvT, ShT, MkT, NPT, PardPT, WBPT, FrT, SumT, MerT, SqT, FranT, Ret) in Coghill's modernization (originally published 1951), with illustrations from medieval manuscripts, brasses, stained glass, and other artifacts.
Poulton, Mike.
London: Nick Hern, in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company, 2005.
Selections from CT adapted for the stage in modernized iambic couplets (with MLT, PrT, and ClT in rhyme royal stanzas), arranged in two plays, each with two parts, with intervals. Part One opens with a truncated GP, as most of the descriptions of the…
Howard, Donald R., ed., with the assistance of James Dean.
New York : New American Library, 1969.
An annotated edition of selections from CT in Middle English, including KnT, MilT, MLT, ClT, SNT, FrT, NPT, RvT, FranT, WBT, MkT, PardT, PrT, and Mel. Reprinted in 2005 with a new foreward (pp. 7-15) by Frank Grady, and in 2013 with an afterword by…
Wright, David, trans.
New York: Random House, [1964].
Translates into "straightforward contemporary prose" all of CT, except for Th (here in verse) and Mel and ParsT (here summarized briefly). The Introduction (pp. ix-xii) summarizes Chaucer's life and comments on the translation.
Modern prose adaptation of selections from CT (GP, PardT, RvT, Th, FranT, and MilT), set within the pilgrimage frame, designed for staging by students in their "lower and middle years of secondary school". The text is interspersed with various…
Raffel, Burton, trans.
North Kingston, R.I.: BBC Audiobooks, 2008.
An audio reading of Raffel's translation of the complete CT (New York: Modern Library, 2008); disc 1 includes the general introduction by John Miles Foley and Raffel's translator introduction. Six readers narrate the tales: Bill Wallis, Ric Jerrom,…
Ruggiers, Paul G., ed. with introductions by Donald C. Baker, A. I. Doyle, and M. B. Parkes.
Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979.
Designed as the basic text of CT for the "Variorum Chaucer," a facsimile of the Hengwrt, which may have been produced in Chaucer's lifetime, one of the earliest and most reliable of the manuscripts of the CT.
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.
