Smilie, Ethan K., and Kipton D. Smilie.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 26, no. 1 (2019): 77-89.
Juxtaposes modern pedagogical views of critical thinking and the Thomastic contrast between "studiositas" and "curositas" as background to discussing how SumT can "be used to help students to think critically about the nature of their own critical…
Introductory study edition of WBPT, with Middle English text, interlinear translation, and side-bar commentary and glosses, preceded by introductions to Chaucer's Life and World (pp. 6-9) and to his backgrounds, language, phonology, and versification…
Introductory study edition of GP, with Middle English text, interlinear translation, and side-bar commentary and glosses, preceded by introductions to Chaucer's Life and World (pp. 6-9) and to the backgrounds, language, phonology, and versification…
Campbell, Jackson J.
Princeton University Library Chronicle 26 (1964): 5-6.
Reports on the acquisition by Princeton University Library of a manuscript of the CT, variously known as the Tollemache Chaucer or the Helmingham MS. Includes comments on contents, paleography, and codicology.
Summarizes CT in "outline form," divided into units (following the Ellesmere order) and interspersed with brief interpretive comments on background, genre, plot, and characters. Opens with a General Introduction to backgrounds and Chaucer's Life;…
Bessinger, J. B., Jr., reader.
New York: Caedmon, 1967. (TC 1223)
A reading in Middle English of MilPT and RvPT, accompanied by a companion booklet that comprises the text, notes, and glosses based on E. T. Donaldson's "Chaucer's Poetry" (1958).
Thorpe, James.
San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1978.
The finest ms of the greatest medieval English literary work, the Ellesmere, produced about 1410 in a commercial scriptorium, with twenty-three marginal portraits (all reproduced here), was the jewel of the great Bridgewater library assembled by Sir…
Emerson, Katherine T.
Explicator 16 (1958): item 51.
Explains the Host's reference to "gentil Roger" in GP 1.4353 as a possible play on "Roger Knyght de Ware, Cook," found by Edith Rickert in a 1384-85 plea of debt and reported in the "Times Literary Supplement," October 20, 1932, p. 761.
Bowers, John M.
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. 13-44.
Argues that Chaucer chose not to develop the characters of his Yeoman, Plowman, Guildsmen, and Cook because of political concerns. Richard II's reliance on Cheshire yeomen, increased concern about farm laborers and Lollardy, and reaction against the…
Exemplifies Chaucer's "control of proportion" of details in GP, observing a "middle-class tendency to conformity" in the generalized description of the Guildsmen.
Burrell, Arthur, ed.
Adelaide: University of Adelaide, [2009].
Traslates CT in modified Middle English (originally published in 1908), without notes or commentary, providing links to each of the tales in separate e-files. Occasional diacritical marks indicate stress. The Introduction briefly surveys "Chaucer's…
Donohue, James J., trans.
Dubuque, Iowa: Loras College Press, 1979.
Complete translation, with portions previously published: GP (1954 and 1966); KnT (1958 and 1966); MkT (1961 and 1966); and PardT, NPT, and SNT (1956 and 1966).
Manuscript compilations, especially the Auchinleck MS, are structural analogues to CT. Manuscripts segmented into booklets parallel the fragments in CT in four ways: segments vary considerably in size and shape; common subjects and themes link…
Newstead, Helaine.
J. Burke Severs, ed. Recent Middle English Scholarship and Criticism: Survey and Desiderata (Pittsburgh, Penn.: Duquesne University Press, 1971), 97-107.
Identifies trends in Chaucer criticism from ca. 1950-1970, observing attention paid to his religious views, rhetoric, style, and poetics, with comments on individual studies.
Ginsberg, Warren.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 18 (1996): 55-89.
Irony and allegory displace meaning in opposite directions, and in ManP they conspire to simultaneous affirmation and negation. Like Christ's parable of the wicked servant (Luke 16:1-9), the Manciple's verbal assault on the Cook indicates the way to…
