Kökeritz, Helge.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961.
Introduces pronunciation of Chaucer's English, offering a series of general rules, explained in relationship to Modern English, both "British and American" and designed for "teachers and students." Also includes transcriptions of nine passages in…
McCarren, Vincent P.,and Douglas Moffat, eds.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998.
Nineteen essays by various authors that together seek to "raise the standard of scholarly editing for Middle English texts," describing theories and problems of editing and offering practical recommendations on how to edit. The contributors explore…
Briskly surveys English literature and studies of it from the Middle English period to 1960, providing introductions to individual historical periods and lists of editions and criticism for individual authors and topics. Chaucer figures largely in…
Lisowska, Pauline Sidey, with Tony Buzan.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001.
Study guide to MilT, designed for university students. Includes summaries, commentaries, and discussion of contexts, themes, characterization, style, language, and critical approaches, with advice on how score well on exams, a model exam answer, and…
Lisowska, Pauline Sidey, with Tony Buzan.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2000.
Study guide to WBPT, designed for university students. Includes summaries, commentaries, and discussion of contexts, themes, characterization, style, language, and critical approaches, with advice on how score well on exams, a model exam answer, and…
Twenty-six chapters by various authors, with an Introduction by the editor in which she emphasizes diverse theoretical approaches to Middle English studies and observes that Chaucer's texts "foreground the idea that readers construct texts" (3).…
Historical gothic detective fiction set in the frame of the CT, in which a student, modeled on Chaucer's Clerk, tells a story to the rest of the pilgrims about murder, exorcism, star-crossed love, and returns from the dead. Published in the U.S. as…
The historical development of an Old Testament law can be applied to "Sir Gawain" and WBT. WBT, which begins with a "lawless, violent rape and ends with the free gift of fairness and fidelity, progresses by the efficiency of a statute (cf. OT 'eye…
Lines 1748-54 (558-64) of PrT are a "tour de force" of sustained onomatopoetic alliteration, with thirty-one ("recte," thirty-two) sibilants, in hissing imitation of "the serpent Sathanas." Chaucer's artistry here is more subtle and varied than in…
Minkova, Donka.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
A textbook history of the "phonological structure" of English, i.e., "the history of individual sounds and their representation, the history of syllable structure and word stress." The comprehensive Subject Index lists numerous references to Chaucer…
Alexander, Michael.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
A narrative introduction to English literature from Old English to postmodernism, designed for the general reader. The discussion of Chaucer (pp. 55-62) emphasizes biography, PF, TC, and the ironies of CT.
van Gelderen, Elly.
Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000.
Diachronic analysis of how reflexive pronouns follow the "transformation of English from a synthetic to an analytic language," particularly their increase in "Uninterpretable features." Includes a section on Chaucer's reflexive pronouns (pp. 86-91)…
Duby, Georges, ed.
Cambridge and London: Belknap-Harvard University Press, 1988.
English version of of Phillipe Aries and Georges Duby, gen. eds. De l'Europe feodale a la Renaissance, vol. 2 of Histoire de la vie privee. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1985, translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Quennell, Peter
Springfield, Mass.: Merriam, 1973.
Surveys English literature produced in Britain from the late Middle Ages to the modern period. The chapter entitled "The Age of Chaucer" includes a section (pp. 24-32) that surveys Chaucer's life and works, emphasizing Chaucer's dexterity with…
Compares a horoscope and its accompanying Latin text found in Equat with two analogous versions, showing that it has closest relations with the Nürnberg version printed in 1659.
Carter, Susan.
S. Elizabeth Passmore and Susan Carter, eds. The English "Loathly Lady" Tales: Boundaries, Traditions, Motifs (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007), pp. 83-99.
Because the loathly lady in WBT is not enchanted but is a shape-shifter under her own power, she likely is not virginal. Carter explores the implications of this likelihood, as well as parallel concerns in WBT and several analogues.
Jimura, Akiyuki, and Hisayuki Sasamoto, trans. and eds.
Bulletin of the Okayama University of Science 55.B (2019): 1-20.
Translates ABC, Pity, Lady, Mars, Ven, Ros, Adam, Purse, Wom Unc, Compl d’Am, and MercB into Japanese, based on the Riverside edition, with an introduction and notes. In Japanese, with English abstract.
Bennett, J. A. W.
J. A. W. Bennett. The Humane Medievalist (Rome: Edizione di Storia e Letteratura; Wolfeboro, N.H.: Boydell & Brewer, 1982), pp. 67-88.
Like various English poets, James I of Scotland was imprisoned in the Tower, where he read Chaucer and wrote poetry influenced by Chaucer, especially KnT, TC, PF, and BD.
Helgeland, Brian, dir.
Escape Artists and Columbia Pictures, 2001.
Feature-length film that includes a fictionalized version of Geoffrey Chaucer (played by Paul Bettany) who serves as herald to a would-be knight, William Thatcher (Heath Ledger). Released on DVD by Columbia Tristar.
