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Sukagawa, Seizō, and Tsutomu Satō.   Tokyo: Seibido, 1982.
Volume not seen; reported by MLA International Bibliography. In Japanese.

Miller, Robert P., ed.   New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
An anthology of selections from Voragine, Augustine, Macrobius, Hugh of St. Victor, Vainsauf, Garland, Bury, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Cicero, Ovid, Deschamps, John of Salisbury, Ramon Lull, Saint-Amour, Boethius, Andreas Cappellanus, Walter Map,…

Wakefield, Emma, dir.   Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1993.
Originally produced by Thames Television, titled "Middle English, Knowlege About Language: Chaucer, 1991."

Medcalf, Stephen.   Deland, Florida: Everett/Edwards, 1973.
Item not seen.

Tasioulas, Jacqueline.   New York: Routledge, 2019.
Introduces Chaucer's life and historical context, surveying major works, and elements of Chaucer's poetry and language. Essentials of Middle English pronunciation are included, along with a glossary of key terms and a timeline.

Ashton, Gail.   New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
An introduction to CT, designed to enable students to approach the poem on their own. Includes sections on style and narrative technique; voice, narration, and form; and themes,tensions, and ambiguities--each with explanatory discussion,summary of…

Ellis, Steve, ed.   London and New York: Longman, 1998.
An anthology of twelve previously published essays and excerpts from longer works that apply modern critical theory to CT. Ellis's introduction assesses the contributions of the essays to a postmodern understanding of CT.

Knight, Stephen.   Rick Rylance and Judy Simons, eds. Literature in Context (Houndmills, Basingstoke; and New York: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 1-14.
Comments on the historical, religious, social, literary, and linguistic contexts necessary to understand Chaucer's subtleties and subversions throughout CT, but especially in GP. Includes close reading of GP 1.1-18.

O'Hear, Anthony.   Anthony O'Hear. The Great Books: A Journey Through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature (Wilmington, Del.: ISI [Intercollegiate Studies Institute] Books, 2009), pp. 177-95.
Description of CT that comments on Chaucer's social range and authenticating detail, arranges the Pilgrims into social classes, and comments on the plot of each of the Tales.

Anderson, J. J., ed.   London: Macmillan, 1974.
Collects examples of criticism of CT in two sections: 1) five "Early Appreciations" (Caxton, Dryden, Blake, Hazlitt, and Arnold), and 2) eleven selections from twentieth-century criticism (1912 to 1957), the latter focusing on the themes and…

Pittock, Malcolm.   Criticism 1 (1959): 160-68.
Describes several "difficulties" in the close reading of medieval poetry, and then examines complex "interplay between the real and apparent plots" of "Pity," reading the addressee as both a Lady and as an abstract emption, and tracing shifting…

Brewer, Derek, ed.   London: Rouledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.
Selection of critical writings from fourteenth century through 1933. Vol. 1 (1385-1837) contains remarks about Chaucer by Deschamps, Usk, Lydgate, Caxton, Dryden, Hazlitt, Blake, Crabbe, and Coleridge; vol. 2 (1837-1933) contains hitherto neglected…

Traversi, Derek.   Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987.
Traversi discusses the English language and medieval poetics--Chaucer's givens--and proceeds to trace Chaucer's development as a poet through BD, HF, PF, and TC. Because the language was an imperfect instrument, Chaucer's early poems are tentative.

Hobday, J[ohn], trans.   Bath, U.K.: Brodie, 1961
Item not seen. WorldCat record notes that FranT is "Rendered into modern English prose by John Hobday."

Havely, Nicholas R., ed.   Durham: Durham Medieval Texts, Department of English; Provo, Ut.: Chaucer Studio, 1994.
An edition of HF based on a collation of all five witnesses (three menuscripts plus editions of Caxton and Thynne), with a substantial, though incomplete, set of variants.

Havely, Nicholas R., dir.   [Provo, Ut.]: Chaucer Studio, 2002.
Complete Middle English audio recording of HF, read by Ros Allen, Tom Burton, Nicholas Havely, Derek Pearsall, Felicity Riddy, and Paul Thomas. Includes three interpolated songs.

Moseley, C.W.R.D., ed.   Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1987.
Presents the Manly and Rickert text (1940) of KnT, with facing-page notes and end-of-text glossary and glossary of rhetorical terms. The Introduction (pp. 11-69) includes commentary on Chaucer's life, various techniques and themes of KnT, and the…

Salter, Elizabeth   London; Arnold; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1962.
Discursive, analytic commentaries on KnT and ClT, treating source relations, styles, themes, rhetorical patternings, and aesthetic success in Chaucer's "full realisation of the human predicament" in both tales. The discussion of KnT emphasizes the…

Brewer, Derek, and A. C. Spearing, readers.   London: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat.

Coote, Stephen, ed.   New York: Penguin, 1985.
Middle English text of NPPT (with the Croesus account from MkT), accompanied by facing-page notes, a glossary (pp. 147-52), and an introduction (pp. 7-94) that surveys Chaucer's life and works; the sources of NPT; the characterization of the Nun's…

Rylands, George, dir.   London: Argo, 1966. (RG 466)
A reading of NPT in Middle English by John Burrow, Nevill Coghill, Lena Davis, and Norman Davis, recorded in association with The British Council. The insert comprises the text, with notes and glosses.

Moseley, C. W. R. D., ed.   Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1987.
A "critical study, incorporating Chaucer's text." Includes F. N. Robinson's text (1957) of PardPT and of GP description of Pardoner, with facing-page notes and end-of-text glossary. The introduction describes Chaucer's life and various literary,…

Hardwick, Paul.   Chaucer Review 33 (1998): 146-56.
If the Parson represents the Church, the Ploughman represents lay piety in brotherhood with the Church. This is how Chaucer perceives the poet's role: as a "'trewe swynkere,' working 'for Cristes sake, for every povre wight' in accordance with the…

Russell, G. A.   D. A. Pearsall and R. A. Waldron, eds. Medieval Literature and Civilization: Studies in Memory of G. N. Garmonsway (London: Athlone, 1969), pp. 211-27.
Considers PrPT in light of the GP description of the Prioress and ShT, arguing that the tone, style, verse form, and liturgical echoes of PrPT are appropriate to the vocation of the Prioress and create a powerful impression of strength, humility, and…

Bethurum, Dorothy, ed.   Oxford: Clarendon, 1965.
Presents SqPT and the description of the Squire from the GP in Middle English (based on the Ellesmere manuscript), with bottom-of-page textual notes, end-of text notes and glossary, an Introduction (pp. vii-xxxv), and a description of Chaucer's…
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