Fruoco, Jonathan.
Iris 39 (2019): n.p.
Available at http://ouvroir-litt-arts.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/revues/actalittarts/553-geoffrey-chaucer-the-merchant-s-tale-et-la-dialectique-de-l-elevation. Accessed January 12, 2021.
Explores the implications of ascent and descent in MerT, focusing on the significance of the tale's vacillations between courtliness and the fabliau genre in comparison with several analogous narratives that include fruit-tree episodes. In French,…
Weise, Judith.
Walton Beacham, ed. Research Guide to Biography and Criticism, vol. 1 (Washington, D.C.: Research Publishing, 1985): pp. 218-223.
Brief synopsis of Chaucer's life, listing of his works, and selective review of biographical sources, critical approaches, criticism, dictionaries, and encyclopedias.
Harley, Marta Powell.
Chaucer Review 28 (1993): 78-82.
Challenges Haldeen Braddy's assertion that Cecilia Chaumpaigne was the stepdaughter of Alice Perrers, since, in fact, Chaumpaigne was not one of Alice's surnames. Elsewhere, Braddy's reading and citing of sources on this issue are suspect.
Roger, Euan, and Sebastian Sobecki.
Chaucer Review 57 (2022): 407-37.
Examines newly discovered documents to argue that Chaucer and Cecily Chaumpaigne were both party to Staundon's legal maneuvers, and that, because of the Statute of Laborers, Chaumpaigne's quit claim offered a resolution. Presents a reappraisal of…
Though he probably knew nothing of the theatre, Chaucer displays the essence of dramatic technique--the ability to create the persons of his characters objectively in CT.
Explores the factors involved in assessing Chaucer's rank among literary greats, summarizing parts of CT, describing difficulties of teaching the poem, suggesting the use of Nevill Coghill's translation, and offering other pedagogical comments.
Study guide to ClT that includes a plot summary and glosses (text not included), and commentary on various subjects: the patient wife as a literary motif, characterization in ClT, medieval clerks, linguistic and stylistic features of ClT (including…
Brewer, Elisabeth
Harlow: Longman; Beirut: York Press, 1982.
Study guide to MilT that includes a plot synopsis, running commentary, and glosses (text not included). Also includes descriptions of characters and characterization, various themes and devices, stylistic features, and suggestions for further study;…
Rabil, Albert, Jr.
Karen Nelson, ed. Attending to Early Modern Women (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2013), pp. 189-206.
Suggests that Chaucer and Pizan may have created "female voices to speak in opposition to male misogyny" at about the same time because they shared similar educations and the same "cultural and intellectual universe," most evident in their…
Crépin, André, and others, trans., in collaboration with Ann Wéry.
Paris: Laffont, 2010.
Bilingual edition of the works of Chaucer, based on The Riverside Chaucer. Includes CT, Rom, BD, HF, Anel, PF, Bo, TC, LGW, short poems, Astr, Equat, and French poems attributed to Chaucer. Translators include André Crépin, Jean-Jacques Blanchot,…
Verse translation of CT with several tales abridged or excerpted (KnT, MLT, ClT, SqT, FranT, MkT) and several summarized (Mel, CYT, ManT, ParsT), based on the Riverside edition. Converts Chaucer's pentameter couplets into octosyllabic couplets to…
Text of TC based on Riverside edition, with Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato" on facing pages, in the English translation of Robert P. apRoberts and Anna Bruni Benson. Includes Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, as edited by Robert L. Kindrick; ten…
Gaffke, Carol T., ed. Poetry Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Poets of World Literature, Volume 19 (Detroit: Gale, 1997), pp. 1-79.
Excerpted selections from Chaucer criticism, ranging from 1809 (William Blake) to 1995, prefaced by a brief introduction to his life and works and followed by suggestions for further reading.
Person, James E.
James E. Person, ed. Literature and Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Volume 17 (Farmington, Mich.: Gale, 1991), pp. 42-247.
Reprints forty-eight examples of critical commentary on Chaucer and his poetry, from Deschamps, Gower, and Caxton to 1989, some excerpted and some complete essays, with an annotated list of suggestions for further reading. The Introduction (pp.…
Trudeau, Lawrence.
Lawrence Trudeau, ed. Literature and Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Volume 56 (Farmington, Mich.: Gale, 2000), pp. 1-117.
Anthologizes nine critical essays or excerpts from books published between 1970 and 1997 on issues of gender and sexuality in Chaucer's works, with a brief introduction.
Krstovic, Jelena.
Lawrence Trudeau, ed. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Vol. 260 (Farmington, Mich.: Gale, 2017), pp. 114-0.
Reprints eleven examples of Chaucer criticism published between 2001 and 2013 and an excerpt from 1934. The introduction by Krstovic summarizes Chaucer's biography, major works, and critical reception, updating information supplied in Volume 56 of…
Seven essays and a critical introduction, with a brief chronology of Chaucer's life and works, and a short selected bibliography. For the Introduction and the seven essays, search for Geoffrey Chaucer: A Collection of Original Articles under…
A selection of critical responses to Chaucer's works from his late contemporaries until 1968. Mostly excerpted from longer works, the selections are arranged in three categories: "Contemporaneous Criticism" (Deschamps, Usk, Lydgate, and Hoccleve);…
Wallace, David.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Focuses on Chaucer's "global renaissance" and the importance of Chaucer's range of writing, which combines poetry, science, tragedy, and astrology to influence writers from Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath.
Fleming, John V.
Sante Fe, N. M.: Della Robbia Productions, 1994.
Item not seen. WorldCat reports that it is "a brief introduction to the poet Chaucer and his times, and to the state of the English language (Middle English) in the late fourteenth century."
Kee, Kenneth, ed.
New York: St. Martin's; Toronto: Macmillan of Canada; London: Macmillan, 1966.
Reprints (generally from Chaucer Society publications) selections from Chaucer's short poems (MercB, Ros, Sted, Buk, Adam, and Purse) and from CT (GP, WBPT, MerPT, FranT, NPT, ParPT, and Ret), with sidebar glosses and bottom-of-page explanatory…
Wallace, David.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Sketches out timeline and details of Chaucer’s life and his works in a compelling, accessible narrative. The incorporation of Chaucer’s own texts throughout the chapters is especially useful.
