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Stanley-Wrench, Margaret, trans.   London: Centaur, 1965.
Translates TC into modern English, in rhyme royal stanzas, with end-of-text notes and three appendices: a) the "domestic background" of the poem, b) courtly love, and c) a chronology of Chaucer's life. The notes emphasize social and literary…

Cook, Daniel, ed.   Garden City, N. Y.: Anchor, 1966.
An edition of TC with facing-page glosses and occasional notes, preceded by an Introduction (pp. vii-xxxviii) that includes a summary of the medieval Troy story, commentary on Chaucer's source material (Boccaccio, Boethius, and the conventions of…

Schoenberg Thomas J., and Lawrence J. Trudeau.   Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau, ed. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Volume 173 (Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2010), pp. 225-346. [Electronic book].
Reprints twelve examples of critical studies of TC published between 1962 and 2008, several in excerpts. An introduction (pp. 225-27) summarizes the plot of TC and comments on its characters, major themes, and critical reception. Closes with…

Edmondson, George Thomas.   Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 2880A
Considers the relations both between TC and Boccaccio's "Filostrato" and between TC and Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid," examining them, not as sources or descendants, but as psychoanalytic "neighbors," fraught with "unsettling desires."

Turner, Marion.   Studies in the Age of Chaucer 25: 26-39, 2003.
Examines how records of the Uprising of 1381 reflect contemporary attitudes toward treason, truth, and social fragmentation. This background helps to clarify how TC undermines social idealism through its depictions of civil division and…

Howard, Donald R., and James Dean, eds.   New York: New American Library, 1976.
An edition of TC, accompanied by Adam, Ven, Ros, Wom Unc, MercB, Wom Nob, and Scog, an Introduction, textual notes, explanatory notes at the bottom of the page, and a brief glossary at the end of the volume. The Introduction (vi-lvi) includes…

DiMarco, Vincent.   Chaucer Review 33: 252-63, 1999.
Chaucer's rhyming of "sike" with "endite" (TC 2.884 and 2.886) is likely a scribal mistake."Lite" is more consistent with Chaucer's linguistic habits and forms a perfect rhyme. In line 2.936, "yeden" is placed to rhyme with "dede," while an…

Miyata, Takeshi, trans.   Tokyo : Kobian Shoten, 1987.
Reprint of a Japanese translation of TC with notes and commentary, based on F. N. Robinson's second edition. First published in 1979.

Medcalf, Stephen.   Deland, Florida: Everett/Edwards, 1973.
Item not seen. WorldCat entry describes this as a lecture which discusses TC, "comparing it to similar poetry of the period."

Brewer, D. S., and L. Elisabeth Brewer, eds.   London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969.
A textbook edition of selections from TC in Middle English (some 5000 lines), with an introduction and end-of-text commentary and glossary. Much of Book 4 is excluded (its Prologue of is included), and other passages reduced slightly. The…

Frantzen, Allen J.   New York: Twayne, 1993.
Investigates how historical and textual frames produce meaning. The book situates TC in the history of the Troy legend, discusses the importance of the text, reviews historically significant issues in the reception of TC, explains the concept of the…

Nuttall, Jenni.   Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Introduction to TC designed for students. Provides scene-by-scene themes, key topics, and commentary, with recurrent attention to Chaucer's debt to Boccaccio's "Il filostrato."

Windeatt, Barry, trans.   Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Prose translation of TC aimed at the general reader, with introduction (30 pp.), explanatory notes (35 pp.), and indices of proverbs and names. The introduction comments on themes, date, sources, genre, and characterization.

Piehler, Paul.   Hudson, Québec: Golden Clarion Literary Services, [1963]-1980..
Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of selections from TC in Middle English.

Rylands, George, dir.   London: Argo, 1971. [Argo: ZPL 1003-ZPL 1004].
Item not seen. The WorldCat record indicates that this reading of TC in Middle English features Derek Brewer, Richard Marquand, Peter Orr, Prunella Scales, and Gary Watson.

Coghill, Nevill, trans.   Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1971.
Verse translation of TC in rhyme royal stanzas, including brief explanatory notes (pp. 311-21), and "Four Brief Appendices" (pp. 325-32) that comment on questions of translation and on early adaptations of the poem. The Introduction (pp. ix-xxvi)…

Denny-Brown, Andrea, intro.   New York: Barnes & Noble, 2005.
Reprints Walter W. Skeat's edition of TC, with a new introduction (pp. vii-xv) and brief bibliography (pp. 261-62).

Greenlaw, Lavinia, trans.   [North Kingstown, R.I.]: AudioGO, 2010.
Item not accessed; reported by WorldCat, with link to a commercial description: "A BBC Radio 4 full-cast [modernization] of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde by poet and writer Lavinia Greenlaw . . . . The cast includes Tom Ferguson as Troilus, Maxine…

De Roo, Harvey, dir.   Provo, Ut. : Chaucer Studio,1999 and 2005. Also available as a Download.
Dramatic recitation of TC, with a cast of eight: Jane Camfield (Antigone and Ladies), Harvey De Roo (Calkas and Troilus), Melanie Yeats (Cassandra, Eleyne, and Ladies), Mary-Ann Stouck (Criseyde), Eric Ball (Deiphebus), Tom Burton (Diomede), Ken…

Summit, Jennifer.   Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 213-42.
Book-by-book examination of TC, with consistent concern for the characters (especially Criseyde) and the construction of their subjectivities. Summit explores the poem's ongoing concern with how textuality and literary transmission are deeply related…

Windeatt, Barry, ed.   London : Penguin, 2003.
An edition of TC, with on-page glosses, explanatory notes at the end of the text, a glossary, and a selected bibliography. Includes a table of correspondences between TC and Boccaccio's "Filostrato," plus a chronology of Chaucer's life and writings.…

Obst, Wolfgang, and Florian Schleburg, trans.   Frankfurt am Main : Insel, 2000.
German verse translation of TC.

Takeshi, Miyata, trans.   The Anglo-Norman Research Centre, 1979.
A fully annotated Japanese translation.

Shoaf, R[ichard] A[llen], ed.   East Lansing, Mich. : Colleagues Press, 1989.
An edition with copious marginal glosses and bottom notes, designed especially for first-time readers.

Warrington, John, ed. Revised introduction by Maldwyn Mills.   London: Dent; New York: Dutton, 1974.
Edition of TC first published by Everyman's library in 1953.
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