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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

Coghill, Nevill, trans.Foreword by Melvyn Bragg. Introd. by John Wain.   New York : Barnes and Noble, 1994
A reprint of the 1952 Coghill translation (Mel and ParsT in synopsis only), with extensive color and black-and-white illustrations from a variety of medieval sources: all of the Ellesmere illuminations; woodcuts from Caxton's second edition of CT…

Guardia [Massó], Pedro, ed.   Madrid: Ediciones Alhambra, 1983.
2 vols.

Cooper, Helen.   New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. 2d rev. ed., 1996. 3d rev. ed, 2023.
The Oxford Guides offer summaries of what is known about Chaucer's work and include "fresh interpretations based on recent advances in both historical knowledge and theoretical understanding." Cooper includes commentary on all aspects of CT as a…

Wright, Kim.   New York: Gallery, 2015.
A novel about a small group of women in a modern setting who travel on pilgrimage from Southwark to Canterbury, telling stories along the way. Includes occasional references and allusions to CT.

Starkie, Martin, narrator.
Coghill, Nevill, trans.   Hamburg: Deutsche Grammophon, 1968. (139 380 A)
Includes selections from GP in translation by Nevill Coghill, set to music, and narrated by Martin Starkie: the opening of GP and the descriptions of the Knight, the "Knight's Son,", the "Nun," the "Guild," the Monk, the Wife of Bath, the Shipman,…

Dyson, George, composer.   London: Oxford University Press, 1958. Original composition 1930. Reprinted several times.
Includes scoring for oratorio of fifteen cantatas: GP I, GP II, Knight, Squire, Nun, Monk, Clerk of Oxenford, Guildsmen and the Merchant, Sergeant at Law and Franklin, Shipman, Physician, Wife of Bath, Parson, and L'Envoi. Performed and recorded…

Opus Anglicanum.   Farnham, Surrey: Herald AV, 1999.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, which indicates that it includes passages from GP read in modern English by John Touhey, interspersed with sung music from Chaucer's time, recorded at Dorchester Abbey (1994).

Donohue, James John, trans.   Dubuque, Iowa: Loras College Press, 1966.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this collection includes modernizations of GP, KnT, PardT, MkT, NPT, and SNT, portions of which were previously published in 1954 and 1960.

Wilson, David Niall, ed.   [Hertford, N.C.]: Crossroad Press, 2023.
Eleven tales of macabre fiction by various authors, loosely modeled on CT.

Lewis, Norma.
Sarah Kaake, illus.   Traverse City, Mich.: Mission Point Press, 2023.
A children's book about a tale-loving bear named Chaucer.

Swain, David.   Sydney: Ure Smith, 1965.
A parody of GP in faux Middle English, rhymed in iambic pentameter couplets. Includes twenty characters, such as the Model, the Astronaut, the Beatnik, the Psychoanalyst, etc.

Abbe, Elfriede, illus.   Manchester Center, Vt. : Press of Elfriede Abbe, 1984.
Illustrated, slightly modernized version (Globe ed.) of CYPT. Numerous monochromatic woodblock engravings (plates and marginal figures) illustrate the narrative and depict alchemical symbols.

Hussey, Maurice, ed.   Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1965.
Presents CYPT in Middle English (following Robinson's 1957 edition) with end-of-text notes and glossary and a one-page appendix of the spurious link between CYT and PhyT. The Introduction (pp. 1-22) considers the "surprise" of the presence of CY…

Ryan, Lawrence V.   Chaucer Review 8 (1974): 297-310.
Argues that the "ritual outlined in the confessional manuals" underlies the depiction of the Canon's Yeoman's "psychological predicament." Still attracted to alchemy and disguising the connection between his Canon and the canon of his tale, the…

Taylor, Paul Beekman.   English Studies 60 (1979): 380-88.
Zephirus' breath in GP contrasts the parody of divine inspiration in CYT, and CYP to the piety of SNT. CYT stands in relation to SNT as MilT stands to KnT. Both CYT and SNT exploit the metaphor of creative breath.
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