Milhaud, Darius, composer and translator.
Paris: Heugel, 1962.
Score in six parts for orchestra and voices: Prélude I, Captivity, Prélude II, Escape, Prélude III, and Rejection. The text of the three parts between the preludes is MercB in Middle English with an interlinear French translation.
Includes an oral retelling of NPT for children, "Chanticleer the Rooster," adapted and read by Jim Weiss, with a brief introduction. Track 9; ca. 15 min.
Orlemanski, Julie.
Katie L. Walter, ed. Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 161-81.
Focuses on Cresseid's leprosy in Henryson's "Testament," with attention to how the disease can help to chart the "ethical relationship" between his poem and Chaucer's TC.
Davis, Isabel.
Katie L. Walter, ed. Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 99-118.
Considers "the special use that medieval writers made of skin as a metaphor for time," focusing on the "structural patterns" of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and WBP--"suspension, cessation, and repetition"--and how these patterns "imitate the…
Neubauer, Hans-Joachim.
Braun, Christian, trans..
London: Free Association Books, 1999.
Follows the history of rumor as a cultural force in art, literature, and politics in classical tradition and in the modern western world, as it relates to renown, fame, gossip, hearsay, news, contagious surmise, speculation, and propaganda. Includes…
Rydel, Courtney.
Medieval Translator/Traduire au Moyen Age 16 (2017): 289-302.
Explores how vernacular translators of Jacobus de Voragine’s “Legenda Aurea” lend theological authority to their works by appropriating or emulating the onomastic etymologies in Jacobus’s work. Includes discussion of Chaucer’s close…
Wood, Margaret.
High Miller, compiler. The Best One-Act Plays of 1958–59 (London: George G. Harrap, 1960), pp. 37-56.
Adapts PardT as a verse drama for seven roles: three rioters, three barmaids, and the Old Man who is revealed to be Death himself at the end of the rioters' quest.
Copley, Paul, adapter.
Swain, Holly, illus.
Irene Yates, compiler. The Pardoner's Tale and Other Plays (Oxford: Heinemann Educational Publishers, 1999), pp. 20-25.
Modernizes and adapts PardT for children as a drama in six scenes. The Pardoner as narrator speaks in prose and the characters, generally, speak in rhymed pentameter couplets. Features three "ruffians" (named Joker, Jack, and Ace), an Innkeeper, an…
Beidler, Peter G.
Seattle: Coffee Town Press, 2011.
Offers instructions for pronunciation and phonetic transcription of passages from Chaucer's works, with an introduction to the history and grammar of his Middle English dialect, and a glossary of his basic vocabulary. Designed for classroom use, with…
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate the score was "reproduced from composer's manuscript," with "texts taken from Chaucer, Joyce, Shakespeare, and Dylan Thomas among others." Variously numbered as opus 44, opus 45, and opus 47.
Burns, Christopher, ed.
New York: Park Lane, 1996.
Selects a variety of poems by British and American writers, arranged thematically, including examples from GP: 1-18 (original and translation), and 445-76 (Wife of Bath), 165-207 (Monk), and 285-308 (Clerk) in modern English; all translations by the…
Hanna, Ralph.
Ralph Hanna, Introducing English Medieval Book History: Manuscripts, Their Producers and Their Readers (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013), pp. 132-65.
Chapter 5 in Hanna's book-length introduction to the study of English medieval books and manuscripts, revisiting and offering new and revised opinions of the nature, value, and relations between the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts of CT. Includes…
Baynes-Ross, Felisa.
Kristina Mendicino, ed. Playing False: Representations of Betrayal (New York: Peter Lang, 2013), pp. 313-36.
Examines the "conditions that allow for [Criseyde's] betrayal" in TC, including the "structure of courtship" which establishes the duplicity of the relationship between the lovers, the deceptions upon which it is based, and the fundamental…
Reisman, Rosemary M., ed.
Emmerson, Richard Kenneth.
Pasedena, CA: Salem, 2011.
Illustrated alphabetical encyclopedia. Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate the entry for Geoffrey Chaucer, by Richard Kenneth Emmerson, is in volume 1: Dannie Abse--Sir George Etherege.
Fontecedro, Emanuela Andreoni.
Italica 88 (2011): 335-52.
Considers intertextual relations between Petrarch's "Africa" and Cicero's "Somnium Scipionis" as dream visions, focusing on the medieval poet's developments of the ancient poet's concern with fame and contempt for the world. Closes with comments on…
Examines how Chaucer uses interactive body signs in CT to convey emotions and engage his readers in the process of understanding, focusing on his "style kinésique" and exemplifying its effects in examples drawn from SqT and MLP.
Uses media and communication theory to explore relations between modernity and the rise of the newspaper as a medium in Germany. Includes in Chapter III.3 an excursus ("Excurs") on fame and rumor in HF, observing in Chaucer's depiction of them a…
Azevedo, Natanael Duarte.
Graphos: Revista da Pós-Graduaçao em Letras 15.2 (2013): 122-49.
Explores the uses of the Seven Deadly Sins in David Fincher's movie, "Seven" (1995), comparing his treatment of the sins with that of Thomas Aquinas; includes discussion of how, in the film, attrition rather than contrition is involved, exemplifying…
Crocker, Holly A.
New Medieval Literatures 15 (2015, for 2013): 149-82.
Argues that John Foxe's chronological techniques, "expressive affinities," and "affective connections" in "Actes and Monuments" (a.k.a. the "Book of Martyrs") are "relevant to what is increasingly called 'post-historicist' criticism in medieval…
Hollander, Robert.
Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies 11 (2011): 1-28.
Explores Chaucer's "nuanced reworkings" of his source texts in the last twelve stanzas of TC, focusing on his adaptations of Boccaccio's "Filostrato," his "Teseida," and Dante's "Commendia," but also commenting on uses of Virgil, Statius, and…
An encyclopedia of authors, works, genres, trends, terminology, and sources of British poetry from the beginnings to 1600, with entries composed by the editor and many contributors, with cross listings and suggestions for further reading. Includes an…
Mattern, Joanne.
Huntington Beach, Calif.: Teacher Created Materials, 2013.
An introduction to Chaucer. his life and times, and the CT, designed for young readers, with color reproductions and photographs drawn from a variety of sources. Emphasizes basic information and vocabulary, with a glossary of modern terms and an…
Giaccherini, Enrico.
Anthony L. Johnson, Simona Beccone, Carmen Dell'Aversano, and Chiara Serani, eds. Hammered Gold and Gold Enamelling: Studi in Onore di Anthony L. Johnson (Rome: Aracne, 2011), pp. 177-98.
Traces Chaucer's references to Jews in his works--HF, PrT, PardT, and ParsT--arguing that repeated references such as "cursed Jews" are largely generic, used by positive and negative characters alike.
