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Middle English:
Chaucer's Pronunciation, Grammar and Vocabulary
What is the Great Vowel Shift? (Melinda J. Menzer 2000)
Chaucer's Language
A Glossarial DataBase of Middle English
Chaucer Metapage Audio Files (Recorded samples)
~~"No [One] Way to Treat a Text: Donaldson and the Criticism of Engagement" (Robert W. Hanning)
~~Chaucererian Spaces; Spatial Poetics in Chaucer's Opening Tales (William F. Woods; Google Books Link)
~~"Chaucer and Aesthetics" (David Raybin and Susanna Greer Fein)

Chaucer Guides:
Chaucer: An Annotated Guide
Jane Zatta's Chaucer Web Page
Geoffrey Chaucer (Harvard University)
Geoffrey Chaucer (Luminarium)
Chaucer MetaPage
BBC: Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400)
An Electronic Edition of the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
The Chaucer Pedagogy Page

Other Sources:
Narrative Orders
A Chaucer Concordance
A Chaucer Bibliography
Chaucer Bibliography Online
Essential Chaucer
Chaucer Bibliography Online
Chaucer: A Semi-systematic, Serendipitous Bibliography
Essays and Articles on Chaucer (Anniina Jokinen)
The Chaucer Review
The Medieval Review
The New Chaucer Society
~~"‘Here's One I Prepared Earlier’: The Work of Scribe D on Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 198" (Estelle Stubbs)
~~"Queering Harry Bailly: Gendered Carnival, Social Ideologies, and Masculinity Under Duress in the Canterbury Tales" (Tison Pugh)

The General Prologue:
Medieval Sourcebook: General Prologue
The Geoffrey Chaucer Page
(The General Prologue; An Interlinear Translation)
General Prologue
(An Electronic Edition)
Pilgrims Passing To and Fro
(The Road from Southwark to Canterbury)
The Tabard Inn in Southwark
(19th-Century Portrait)
Location of the Tabard Inn
("Terry Jones Unveils Chaucer Plaque at Copyprints")
Famous Southwark Inns
(Inns and Taverns of Old London)
St. Thomas a' Becket
The Murder of Thomas Becket, 1170
Introduction to the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales

The Knight's Tale:
The Knight's Tale (Bibliography)
The Knight's Tale (General Notes)
The Knight's Tale (Review Page)
The Knight's Tale (Introduction)
Chaucer's Knight's Tale Briefly Summarized
Interpretive Issues--Parts 1 & 2
Interpretive Issues--Parts 3 & 4
The Knight's Tale in Images
~~Representing Rebellion: The Ending of Chaucer's Knight's Tale and the Castration of Saturn (Jane Chance)
~~Sacrificial Desire in Chaucer's Knight's Tale (Louise O. Fradenburg)
~~Chaucer's Knight: A Christian Killer? (Helen Barr)
~~The Knight's Tale (Charles Muscatine)
~~Imagination, Order and Ideology: The Knight's Tale (David Aers)
~~Visibility Politics in Chaucer's Knight's Tale (Sarah Stanbury)

The Miller's Prolgue and Tale:
The Miller's Tale (Bibliography)
The Miller's Tale (Harvard Notes)
The Miller's Tale: The Prophetic Symbolism of Noah's Sons
Notes on The Miller's Tale
The Miller's Tale (Introduction)
The Miller's Tale (Introduction)
The Miller's Tale in Images
~~Chaucer's 'The Miller's Tale': Exemplum of caritas (Robert V. Graybill)
~~Bodies That MAtter in the Court of Late Medieval England and in Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale' (Linda Lomperis)
~~'Of Goddes pryvetee nor of his wyF': Confusion of Orifices in Chaucer's Miller Tale (Louise M. Bishop)
~~Greimas, Bremond, and the 'Miller's Tale'--A.J. Greimas; Claude Bremond (Harold F. Mosher, Jr.)
~~'Shot Windowe; (Miller's Tale, I. 3358 and 3695): An Open and Shut Case? (Peter Brown)
~~Credulity and Vision: 'The Miller's Tale', 'The Merchant's Tale', 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' (Alcuin Blamires)

The Reeve's Prolgue and Tale:
The Reeve's Tale
The Portrait, Prologue and Tale of the Reeve
The Reeve's Tale
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales, "Reeve's Tale"
Bibliography
~~Chaucer's Miller's Tale and Reeve's Tale, Boccaccio's Deacmeron, and the French Fabliaux" (Carol Falvo Heffernan)
~~The Reeve's Tale and the Honor of Men (Stewart Justman)
~~The Reeve's Tale and Its Audience (Glyn Austen)

The Wife of Bath's Prolgue and Tale:
Interlinear Translation
Medieval Sourcebook: Prologue to Wife of Bath's Tale (Parallel Texts)
Bibliography
The Wife of Bath's Prologue (Harvard University)
The Wife of Bath's Tale (Harvard University)
Notes and Sources (Jane Zatta)
Notes (Arnie Sanders)
Notes (Bruce Magee)
Notes (Linda Appleton)
Notes (D.W. Robertson)
Notes (Christy Desmet)
Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale in Images
~~Credulity and Vision: 'The Miller's Tale', 'The Merchant's Tale', 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' (Alcuin Blamires)
~~"Chaucer's Discussion of Marriage" (George Lyman Kittredge)
~~The Problem of Defining Sovereynetee in the Wife of Bath's Tale (Susanne Sara Thomas)
~~Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath (Marilynn Desmond) (Google Books Link)
~~`Venus' owne clerk': Chaucer's Debt to the `Confessio amantis' (Alcuin Blamires)
~~Alison's Incapacity and Poetic Instability in the Wife of Bath's Tale (Susan Crane)
~~'Allas, Allas! That Evere Love Was Synne!': John Bromyard vs. Alice of Bath (Richard Firth Green)
~~Amorous Behavior: Sexism, Sin, and the Donaldson Persona (Carolynn Van Dyke)
~~Heterosexuality as a Threat to Medieval Studies (James A. Schultz)
~~Computer Judges Wife of Bath to Be Chaste (BBC News)
~~Evolutionary Biology Unlocks the Secrets of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (U of Cambridge News and Events)

The Friar's Prologue and Tale
The Friar's Tale (Bibliography)
The Friar's Prologue and Tale (Harvard University)
The Friar's Tale: Notes and Sources (Jane Zatta)
Notes on the Friar's Tale (Arnie Sanders)
~~"The Friar and the Summoner: Chaucerian Contrapsso" (Richard Neuse)
~~"'Myne by right': Oath Making and Intent in The Friar's Tale" (Daniel T. Kline)
~~"Only Words: Cursing and the Authority of Language in Chaucer's Friar's Tale" (Mary F. Godfrey)
~~"Men, Women, and Moral Jurisdiction: 'The Friar's Tale', 'The Physician's Tale', and the Pardoner" (Alcuin Blamires)
~~"'By Extorcions I Lyve': Chaucer's Friar's Tale and Corrupt Officials" (Brantley L. Bryant)

The Summoner's Prologue and Tale
The Summoner's Tale (General Notes)
The Summoner's Prologue and Tale (Harvard University)
The Summoner's Tale (Michael Delahoyde)
~~"The Summoner's Jankyn as an Artificial Fool (Stephen Harper)
~~"Thirteen Ways of Listening to a Fart: Noise in Chaucer's Summoner's Tale" (Peter W. Travis)
~~"Faux Semblants: Antifratrnalism Reconsidered in Jean de Meun and Chaucer (G. Geltner)
~~"'The Summoner's Tale' and Proverbs 21.14" (Thomas Rand)
~~"Chaucer's Summoner's Tale: Flatulence, Blasphemy, and the Emperor's Clothes" (John Finlayson)
~~"Privy Speech: Sacred Silence, Dirty Secrets in the Summoner's Tale" (Mary Hayes)
~~"The Friar and the Summoner: Chaucerian Contrapsso" (Richard Neuse)

The Clerk's Prologue and Tale
The Clerk's Prologue and Tale (Machael Delahoyde)
The Clerk's Tale (General Notes)
~~"Chaucer's Clerk's Tale and the Question of Ethical Monstrosity" (J. Allan Mitchell)
~~"Petrach, Boccaccio, and Chaucer's Clerk's Tale" (John Finlayson)
~~"The Clerk's Tale: A Chaucerian 'Poetics of Conversion'" (Richard Neuse)
~~"Fragments I-II and III-V in The Canterbury Tales: A Re-examination of the Idea of the Marriage Group" (Cai Zong-qi)
~~"A Woman in the Mind's Eye (and not): Narrators and Gazes in Chaucer's Clerks's Tale" (Robin Waugh)
~~"The Powers of Silence: The Case of the Clerk's Griselda" (Elaine Tuttle Hansen)
~~"Griselda's 'Unnatural Restraint' as a Technology of the Self" (M.L. Warren)
~~"Chaucer's Discussion of Marriage" (George Lyman Kittredge)

The Merchant's Prologue, Tale and Epilogue
General Notes
~~"Chaucer's Comic Ethics in the Merchant's Tale" (Janet Thormann)
~~"Fragments I-II and III-V in The Canterbury Tales: A Re-examination of the Idea of the Marriage Group" (Cai Zong-qi)
~~The Merchant's Tale, or Another Poor Worm" (Elaine Tuttle Hansen)
~~"Chaucer's Discussion of Marriage" (George Lyman Kittredge)
~~"May in the Marketplace: Commodification and Textuality in the Merchant's Tale" (Christian Sheridan)
~~"The Merchant's Tale: Allegory in the Mirror of Marriage" (Richard Neuse)
~~"Interpreting Female Agency and Responsibility in the Miller's Tale and the Merchant's Tale" (Joseph D. Parry)
~~"The Mercantile (Mis)reader in the Canterbury Tales" (Roger A. Ladd)
~~The Merchant and the Parody of Creation" (R. A. Shoaf)
~~"Anglo-Norman Fabliaux and Chaucer's Merchant's Tale" (Roy J. Pearcy)
~~"Contraception and the Pear Tree Episode of Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'" (Carol Falvo Hefferman)
~~"Credulity and Vision: 'The Miller's Tale', 'The Merchant's Tale', 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' (Alcuin Blamires)
~~"Chaucer's Discussion of Marriage" (George Lyman Kittredge)
~~"Sex and Lust: `The Merchant's Tale', `The Reeve's Tale', and other Tales " (Alcuin Blamires)

The Franklin's Prologue and Tale
General Notes
~~"Negotiating the Present: Language and Trouthe in the Franklin's Tale" (Andrea Schutz)
~~"Drama, Narrative and Poetry in the `Canterbury Tales'" (Roger Dalrymple)
~~"Geoffroi de Charny's Book of Chivalry and Violence in The Man of Law's Tale and The Franklin's Tale" (Gerald R. Nachtwey)
~~"Chaucer's Discussion of Marriage" (George Lyman Kittredge)
~~"Making Ernest of Game: The Franklin's Tale and Some Partial Conclusions" (Elaine Tuttle Hansen)
~~"Experience and the judgement of poetry: a reconsideration of the Franklin's tale" (Gerald Morgan)
~~"Making Ernest of Game: The Franklin's Tale and Some Partial Conclusions" (Elaine Tuttle Hansen)
~~"Society, the Breton Lay and the Franklin's Tale" (Patricia Silber)
~~"Between Precedent and Possibility: Liminality, Historicity, and Narrative in Chaucer's The Franklin's Tale" (Steele Nowlin)
~~" Aurelius' Prayer, Franklin's Tale 1031–79: Sources and Analogues" (Jamie C. Fumo)
~~"Fragments I-II and III-V in The Canterbury Tales: A Re-examination of the Idea of the Marriage Group" (Cai Zong-qi)

The Shipman's Tale
Harvard Notes
General Notes
~~"Social Aesthetics and the Emergence of Civic Discourse from the Shipman's Tale to Melibee" (Karla Taylor)
~~"Domestic Opportunities: The Social Comedy of the Shipman's Tale" (Cathy Hume)
~~"The Ethics of Sufficiency: `The Man of Law's Introduction' and `Tale'; `The Shipman's Tale'" (Alcuin Blamires)
~~"An Historical Analogue to the Shipman's Tale?" (Maureen Fries)
~~"The Mercantile (Mis)reader in the Canterbury Tales" (Roger A. Ladd)
~~"Desire, Violence and the Passion in Fragment VII of The Canterbury Tales: A Girardian Reading" (Curtis Gruenler)
~~"Teaching Chaucer as Drama: The Garden Scene in the Shipman's Tale" (Peter G. Beidler)
~~"Seductive Violence and Three Chaucerian Women" (Timothy D. O'Brien)
~~"Sex and Money in Chaucer's Shipman's Tale" (Albert H. Silverman)
~~"The Wife of Bath's Shipman's tale and the invention of Chaucerian fabliaux" (Joseph A. Dane)

The Prioress's Prologue and Tale
General Notes
~~"Performing the Prioress: "Conscience" and Responsibility in Studies of Chaucer's Prioress's Tale" (Michael Calabrese)
~~"Sin and Sensibility: The Conscience of Chaucer's Prioress (R. D. Eaton)
~~"Lumiansky's Paradox: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Chaucer's "Prioress's Tale"" (Gregory J. Wilsbacher)
~~"Alma Redemptoris Mater, Gaude Maria, and the Prioress's Tale" (Robert Boenig)
~~"Seductive Violence and Three Chaucerian Women" (Timothy D. O'Brien)
~~"The Problem of the Performative in Chaucer's Prioress Sequence" (William Orth)

The Prologue and Tale of Sir Thopas
General Notes
~~"'Loo, lordes myne, heere is a fit!': The Structure of Chaucer's Sir Thopas" (E. A. Jones)
~~"Desire, Violence and the Passion in Fragment VII of The Canterbury Tales: A Girardian Reading" (Curtis Gruenler)
~~"Chaucer the Pilgrim" (E. Talbot Donaldson)
~~"The Wife of Bath: Standup Comic (Margaret Rogerson)

The Tale of Melibee
General Notes
Tale of Melibee (Jane Zatta)
Tale of Melibee (Harvard University)
~~"The Host, His Wife, and Their Communities in the Canterbury Tales" (Tara Williams)
~~""In Hir Tellyng Difference": Gender, Authority, and Interpretation in the Tale of Melibee" (Amanda Walling)
~~"Echoes of Communal Response in the Tale of Melibee" (Michael Foster)
~~"Maintaining Love through Accord in the Tale of Melibee" (Kathleen E. Kennedy)
~~"Telling differences: Chaucer's Tale of Melibee and Renaud de Louens' Livre de Mellibee et Prudence" (Dominick Grace)
~~"Desire, Violence and the Passion in Fragment VII of The Canterbury Tales: A Girardian Reading (Curtis Gruenler)

The Parson's Prologue and Tale
General Notes
~~"Figuring subjectivity in 'Piers Plowman C' and 'The Parson's Tale' and 'Retraction'" (Daniel F. Pigg)
~~"Proprieties of Work and Speech: `The Second Nun's Prologue' and `Tale', `The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue' and `Tale', `The Manciple's Prologue' and `Tale', and `The Parson's Prologue'" (Alcuin Blamires)
~~"Fellowship and Detraction in the Architecture of the Canterbury Tales: from `The General Prologue' and `The Knight's Tale' to `The Parson's Prologue'" (Alcuin Blamires)

Chaucer's Retraction
General Notes
Notes (Harvard University)

The Man of Law's Tale
~~ "Fragments I-II and III-V in The Canterbury Tales: A Re-examination of the Idea of the Marriage Group" (Cai Zong-qi)
~~"Nominalistic Perspectives on Chaucer's The Man of Law's Tale" (Roger E. Moore)
~~"Chaucer's Man of Law as a Purchasour" (Martha Dampf Lambkin)
~~"The Mercantile (Mis)reader in the Canterbury Tales" (Roger A. Ladd)
~~"Chaucer, the Liturgy , and Constance's Ever-increasing Pathos" (Kevin J. Harty)
~~""Biheste is dette": Marriage Promises in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales" (Marie Nelson)
~~"Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale: Teaching Through the Sources" (Christine M. Rose)
~~"Providence and Incest Reconsidered: Chaucer's Poetic Judgement of his Man of Law" (Marc M. Pelen)
~~"Worlds Apart: Orientalism, Antifeminism, and Heresy in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale" (Susan Schibanoff)


FUN LINKS
IMAGE: The Ellesmere Manuscript
The Classic Text: Geoffrey Chaucer (Facimile--University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
The Wife of Bath Restaurant with Rooms
A Chaucerian Cookery