Chaucer: Life and Times CD-ROM
- Author / Editor
- Ashby, Cristina, Geoff Couldrey, Susan Dickson, et al.
Chaucer: Life and Times CD-ROM
- Published
- Woodbridge, Conn., and Reading, U.K.: Primary Source Media, 1995.
- Physical Description
- 1 compact disk; booklet (23 pp.)
- Description
- A "comprehensive interactive resource for both students and teachers," providing hypertext-linked, point-and-click access to Chaucer's works ("The Riverside Chaucer") and accompanying glossary, introductions to the works and seventeen previously published essays, translations of major works (by Nevill Coghill and Brian Stone), and "audio clips" (read by John Burrow).
- Also provides more than 200 images of manuscripts and pertinent sites, a biography of Chaucer with social history and time line, a map of pilgrim routes to Canterbury linked to commentary, and "thematic routes" through the works (topics: authority, chivalry-courtly love, dreams, marriage, language, and religion).
- Users can create customized thematic routes and annotate them with oral or written notes. Texts are searchable by word and phrase; image searches are also possible. Information can be downloaded.
- Minimum computer requirements: 4 MB free RAM, 386 SX/33 procesor, Windows 3.1, CD-ROM drive.
- Contributor
- Couldrey, Geoff.
- Dickson, Susan.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Bibliographies, Reports, and Reference.
- Recordings and Films