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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…

Bloom, Harold.   Harold Bloom. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (New York, San Diego, and London: Harcourt, 1994), pp. 105-26.
Appreciative criticism of Chaucer and his contribution to Western literary tradition, especially his anticipation of Shakespeare as a comic ironist and creator of self-conscious characters. Focuses on CT--in particular, the Falstaffian vitality of…

Spearing, A. C., ed.   London: Edward Arnold, 1976.
An introduction to TC that considers the demands it places on readers to resolve tensions posed by the work: the genre of romance opposed by conversational and material realism and by philosophical depth; the varying attitudes its poses toward the…

Ingham, Patricia.   London: The British Council.
Item not seen.

Varnam, Laura.   Michael O'Neill, ed. The Cambridge History of English Poetry (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 81-95.
Varnam describes Chaucer's "legacy to English poetry as one of linguistic curiosity and a refusal of generic categorization." With TC, Chaucer "heralded a new era of narrative poetry" rich with philosophy and characterization; in CT, he "created a…

Dauby, Helene.   Cahiers de l'Abbaye de Saint-Arnoult, vol. 2 (Paris: Editions Andre Silvaire, 1987), pp. 99-110.
Compares Helinand's "Vers de la mort" with Chaucer's work and concludes that Chaucer is far more optimistic; he is a poet of life rather than death.

Fein, Susanna, and David Raybin, eds.   University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016.
Includes twelve essays, an index, ninety-seven b&w and color illustrations, and an introduction by the editors, who argue for a fuller critical reckoning with the "multimodal aesthetic practices of late medieval visual art and literature" aided by…

Baugh, Albert C.   New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1968.
Lists bibliographical citations of Chaucer studies, with sections on reference works, biography, social and cultural environments, editions and modernizations, language and versification, sources, individual works, apocrypha, etc., but excluding…

Grose, M. W.   London: Evans Brothers, 1967.
Introduces to a non-scholarly audience Chaucer's life and works, cast against a background of social, scientific, and intellectual history, with frequent comparisons and contrasts with the modern world. Includes sections on Chaucer's Life, his…

Jones, Natalie, and Ben Parsons.   Year's Work in English Studies 95 (2016): 309-32.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2014, divided into five subcategories: general, CT, TC, other works, and reputation and reception

Parsons, Ben, and Natalie Jones.   Year's Work in English Studies 94 (2015): 237-62.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2013, divided into five subcategories: general, CT, TC, other works, and reputation and reception.

Parsons, Ben, and Natalie Jones.   Year's Work in English Studies 96 (2017): 285-311.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2015, divided into five subcategories: general, CT, TC, other works, and reputation and reception.

Turner, Marion.   Oxford Handbooks Online: Scholarly Research Reviews. Free access available at http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935338.001.0001/oxfordhb-97 80199935338-e-58?skey=ycbEz7&result=1. 2015 (accessed February 23, 2019).
Surveys "current critical trends" in Chaucer studies, focusing on "twenty-first-century interest in interconnectedness, intersubjectivity, and cultural networks." Then discusses "Chaucer's own understanding of the construction of the self in relation…

Berry, Craig A.   In Andrew Escobedo, ed. Edmund Spenser in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 246-53.
Describes the "audacity and intensity" of Spenser's debt to Chaucer, considering the later poet's archaisms, his allusions to and quotations of Chaucer (particularly in "The Faerie Queene"), and the importance of Chaucer to Spenser's English…

Parsons, Ben, and Natalie Jones.   Year's Work in English Studies 97 (2018): 286-305.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2016, divided into five subcategories: general, CT, TC, other works, and reputation and reception.

Twu, Krista Sue-Lo, Lindsey Simon-Jones, and Derrick Pitard.   Year's Work in English Studies 98 (2019): 267-90.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2016, divided into five subcategories: general, CT, TC, other works, and reputation and reception.
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