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Reading Chaucer: Easier than You Think?

Matthews, David. Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 233-37.

Discusses how professors can help students approach difficult texts such as CT, whether by helping students choose good translations or by sharing methods with non-medievalists, in particular modernists, who also confront hard-to-read.
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Chaucer's Sense of an Ending.

Ingham, Patricia Clare, and Anthony Bale. Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 218-31.

Discusses the many frustrated or incomplete endings in the tales of CT, and argues that "Chaucer's formal work with endings demonstrates all the many ways that things might remain unresolved." Traces endings from several different tales, including…

Moral Chaucer.

Grady, Frank. Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 205-17.

Discusses the "narrowness" of modern views of Chaucer and CT, and argues that this posture hides the range of Chaucer's verse, which includes not only beast fables and fabliaux, but also saints' lives and penitential discourse.

Scholarship or Distraction? New Forums for Talking about Chaucer.

Evans, Ruth. Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 238-43.

Discusses public-facing writing about Chaucer and his texts and argues that "this writing's engagement with contemporary politics speaks to our and our students' experiences, and is already changing the direction of both classroom practice and…

"The Friar's Tale" and "The Summoner's Tale" in Word and Deed.

Coley, David K. Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 121-35.

Reappraises FrT and SumT and acknowledges the professional and personal animosity at the root of the tellers' relationship to each other. Argues for a wider sense of that relationship between the tales and their tellers, contending that this…

Who Will Pay?

Trigg, Stephanie. Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 250-54.

Traces the problem of compensation and the rationale for dedicating funds to the study of Chaucer. Offers a case study of how a previous attempt at funding worked in 2010 in Australia when the Centre for the History of Emotions was awarded funding by…

Manuscripts, Scribes, Circulation.

Horobin, Simon. Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 21-44

Surveys extant manuscripts of CT, including collections that include standalone tales. Discusses the difference in manuscript presentation and frequency of the tales, arguing that earlier manuscript production and circulation often privileged those…

The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales."

Grady, Franks, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Includes nineteen contributions that analyze critical histories and reappraisals of specific tales and their contexts. For individual essays, search for Cambridge Companion to the Canterbury Tales under Alternative Title.

Bannatyne's Chaucer: A Triptych of Influence.

Hinnie, Lucy R. Chaucer Review 55, no. 4 (2020): 484-99.

Traces how "Chaucer is invoked and"utilized in the 1568 Bannatyne Manuscript," suggesting that the manuscript participates in the "querelle des femmes" and "interrogates the idea that Chaucer becomes a 'straw man' for the writers included in the…

Zhou Zuoren: An Early Chaucerian in China.

Zhang, Lian. Notes and Queries 265 (2020): 193-95

Focuses on early scholarship and translations of Chaucer in China connected with the "New Culture Movement," which worked to effect "social modernization" by "importing western literary forms and subjects." Emphasizes how Zuoren's translation of WPT,…

Pseudotranslation: Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" in Taiwan.

Zhang, Lian. American Notes and Queries 32, no. 2 (2019): 78–79.

Reports that two Taiwanese "translations" of CT (by fabricated translators) were actually reprints/adaptations of Fang Zhong's translation from mainland China.

The Earliest Notices of Chaucer in China.

Zhang, Lian. Notes and Queries 265 (2020): 190-92.

Contends that Chaucer made his debut in China in the form of short excerpts of his poetry and "occasional pieces on language and culture" that appeared between 1878 and 1939 in British and American newspapers based in Shanghai.

"Canterbury Tales" for Children in China.

Zhang, Lian. Notes and Queries 264 (2019): 202-4.

Describes the first printings of Chaucer's works in China, during the Republican period (1912–1949). All are portions of CT translated into Chinese from modern English adaptations for children, providing for children and adults alike contact with…

Pressed Flowers: Burne-Jones, "The Romaunt of the Rose," and the Kelmscott Chaucer."

Syme, Alison. Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 28, no. 2 (2019): 42–69; 12 b&w illus.

Analyzes Edward Burne-Jones's illustrations of Rom in the Kelmscott Chaucer, arguing that they--and especially the final illustration of the poem--epitomize many of Burne-Jones's experiences with and attitudes toward books, book history, and the…

Presenting Chaucer to the Reader: Printing the "Canterbury Tales" in England, 1477-1830.

Shetler, Brian M. Dissertation Abstracts International A80.08 (2019): n.p.

Surveys the history of handpress printing of CT, analyzing 140 editions, with particular attention to paratextual material as indication of Chaucer's reception and the "abundance of mediation."

Middle English Chaucer in Dryden's "Fables."

Marshall, Simone Celine. Notes and Queries 264 (2019): 90-91.

Describes scholarly inattention to the Middle English texts of KnT, NPT, WBT, and The Flower and the Leaf in John Dryden's "Fables Ancient and Modern" (1700) "slightly edited" from Thomas Speght's 1598 edition. Observes that the texts are "the…

The Norton Chaucer.

Lawton, David, ed., with prose texts ed. Jennifer Arch and dream poems ed. Kathryn Lynch. New York: Norton, 2019.

A comprehensive edition of all of Chaucer's works (without Rom or Equat), with bottom-of-page notes, side-bar glosses, headnotes to the individual works and each part of CT, and a glossary. The text is based on manuscript witnesses and on E. Talbot…

"The Legend of Good Women" and Short Poems.

Jimura, Akiyuki, and Hisayuki Sasamoto, trans. Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2020.

Using the Riverside edition, translates LGW, ABC, Pity, Lady, Mars, Ven, Ros, Adam, Purse, Wom Unc, Compl d'Am, and MercB into Japanese, with introductory and supplementary notes. Includes brief timeline and description of Chaucer's life. In…

Tendre Cropps and Flourishing Metricians: Gabriel Harvey's "Chaucer."

Demetriou, Tania. Review of English Studies 71, no. 298 (2020): 19-43.

Refers to a sidenote in Gabriel Harvey's copy of Speght's 1598 edition of Chaucer that is supposed to shed light on the date of Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Argues that the ambiguities in the various interpretations circulating may be unriddled to produce…

On Literature and Grammar: A Selection of Annotated Medieval and Renaissance English Texts for (Spanish) University Students.

Chocano Díaz, Gema, Noelia Hernando Real, and Ana Ardid Gumiel, eds. Madrid: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2020.

Includes a selection of passages from Chaucer, with word-by-word English translations and an introduction to Chaucer's linguistic and literary context. Intended for use as a manual for Middle and early modern English literature survey courses.

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