León Sendra, Antonio R., and Jesús Serrano Reyes, trans.
Córdoba : Universidad de Córdoba, 1999.
Spanish translation of HF, with facing-page Middle English. Includes a brief introduction (pp. 1-8) and extensive notes (pp. 195-346), with lists of bibliographical references and proper names.
George, Jodi-Anne, ed.
New York : Columbia University Press, 2000.
Summary-survey of critical responses to GP. Six chapters focus on particular time periods and the critical emphases that dominated them: (1) 1368-1880, Chaucer's "greatness" and the early editorial tradition; (2) 1892-1949, later editors and…
Cox, Kenneth.
Kenneth Cox. Collected Studies in the Use of English. (London: Agenda, 2001), pp. 43-62.
Cox examines verse, style, and several cruces (textual and narrative) in PrT to clarify Chaucer's ironic technique and to argue that the "prioress's hold on reality is [. . .] weak and her language correspondingly lax, with a concern for decorum far…
Hühn, Peter.
Peter Hühn, and others, ed. Eventfulness in British Fiction. Narratologia: Contributions to Narrative Theory, no. 18 (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010), pp. 17-30.
Examines the tripartite plot structure of MilT and its "two oppositional" contexts, i.e., the ethical demands of its religious allusions and the subversiveness of its fabliau genre. The combination produces a "complex event structure full of…
Murnighan, Jack.
Jack Murnighan. "Beowulf" on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2009), pp. 86-97.
Encourages approaching Chaucer as "both funny and a little racy," giving advice on how to read with understanding, opinions on what is "sexy" in CT, and suggestions of what to skip in the work (CkPT, MLT, SqT, FranT, PhyT, PrT, Th, Mel, MkT, NPT,…
Helterman, Jeffrey.
Jeffrey Helterman and Jerome Mitchell, eds. Old and Middle English Literature. Dictionary of Literary Biography, no. 146 (Detroit: Gale Research, 1994), pp. 127-44.
Summary description of Chaucer's life and each of his major works, with a bibliography and a chronology of the works accompanied by manuscript and publication information. Treats CT most extensively, focusing on the "quiting principle" of the tales'…
Grosskopf, John Dennis.
Laura Cooner Lambdin and Robert Thomas Lambdin, eds. Arthurian Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2008), pp. 120-27.
Grosskopf summarizes Chaucer's life and assesses allusions to King Arthur and Arthurian motifs and characters in CT, commenting on SqT, Th, NPT, WBT, and the lack of Arthurian material in KnT. Surveys related critical commentary and suggests that…
A series of interlinked webpages that pertain to the study of Chaucer, including works, biography, selected quotations, audio clips, images, and a variety of essays and studies, including web-published student essays, external links, and more. Much…
Lenhart, Gary.
Ron Padgett, ed. World Poets. Vol. 1. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2000), pp. 227-36.
Addressed to high school students. Surveys Chaucer's life and works, with emphasis on CT, emphasizing Chaucer's counterpoint between romance and realism.
Cooper, Helen.
Richard K. Emmerson and Sandra Clayton-Emmerson, eds. Key Figures in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia (New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. 131-35.
An introduction to Chaucer and his works, with attention to his sources and influences. Includes a brief bibliography.
Williams, David.
Mary Reichardt, ed. Encyclopedia of Catholic Literature. 2 vols. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2004), 1:93-104.
Summarizes Chaucer's life and the plot and themes of CT; then gives "something of the flavor" of the CT by assessing the theological perspectives of pilgrims from differing social classes, treating KnT, WBP, PardPT, and NPT. Closes with a description…
Introduction to late medieval social and literary history, focusing on Chaucer. Illustrated with modern footage and reproductions from medieval life and narrated by Peter Morgan Jones. Interspersed with portions of an interview with Terry Jones that…
Armstrong, Dorsey.
In Great Minds of the Medieval World (Chantilly, Va.: The Teaching Company, 2014), disc 10 of 12; lecture 19.
Audio recording of a lecture that aligns the achievements of Dante and Chaucer, focusing on their attention to individuals and uses of their vernacular languages. The discussion of CT emphasizes Chaucer's social variety as it contrasts traditional…
Moulton, Carroll.
Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities, 1985; 1988; 1993.
Introduces the themes and genres of major works of Middle Engish, with special emphasis on Chaucer and CT. Narrated by Protase Woodford; produced by Stephen Mantell.
Laird, Edgar (S.)
Thomas A. Prendergast and Barbara Kline, eds. Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999), pp. 145-65.
The status of Astr as an unfinished scientific treatise encouraged its manuscript compilators to finish or add to it in a number of ways: responding to the descriptive prologue included by Chaucer, adding to or reordering its materials, and placing…
Børch, Marianne.
Marianne Børch, ed. Text and Voice: The Rhetoric of Authority in the Middle Ages (Odense : University Press of Southern Denmark, 2004), pp. 97-120.
Assesses Nicholas's manipulation of language and signs in MilT as Chaucer's embedded analysis of typological or analogical thinking. The references to mystery plays in MilT counterpoint the "poetics of a trickster clerk" whose manipulations embody a…
The Cambridge, Peterhouse MS.75.I, containing Equat, is a Chaucer holograph, perhaps the author's rough draft, since it contains copious revisions, both in content and style. The manuscript's notation, "Radix chaucer," was also written by the poet,…
Blake, N. F.
Journal of the Early Book Society 1 (1997): 96-122.
Describes uncertainties related to the manuscripts of CT and surveys critical efforts to resolve them--uncertainties about the state of Chaucer's papers at the time of his death and the circulation of tales before his death, the order and…
Lacey, Robert.
Robert Lacey. Great Tales from English History: Chaucer to the Glorious Revolution, 1387-1688 (London: Little, Brown, 2004), pp. 1-5.
Appreciative commentary on CT. Chaucer's "cheery and companionable writing" in the vernacular "sets out the ideas" for the rest of Lacey's volume of anecdotal history.
