Brown, Peter. Chaucer at Work: The Making of “The Canterbury Tales.” London and New York: Longman, 1994.
Burnley, J. D. Chaucer’s Language and the Philosophers’ Tradition. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1979.
Fyler, John M. Chaucer and Ovid. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1979.
Kolve, V. A. Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1984.
Mann, Jill. Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973.
Muscatine, Charles. Chaucer and the French Tradition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957.
Contexts
Bisson, Lillian. Chaucer and the Late Medieval World. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.
Blamires, Alcuin, ed. Women Defamed and Women Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Coleman, Janet. Medieval Readers and Writers, 1350-1400. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981.
Fisher, John Hurt. The Importance of Chaucer. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.
Green, Richard Firth. Poets and Princepleasers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980.
Hanawalt, Barbara, ed. Chaucer’s England. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992.
Keen, Maurice. English Society in the Later Middle Ages, 1348-1500. New York: Penguin, 1990.
Rickert, Edith, Martin M. Crow, and Clair C. Olson, eds. Chaucer’s World. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1948.
Robertson, D. W. Chaucer’s London. New York: Wiley, 1968.
Saul, Nigel. Richard II. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.
Strohm, Paul. Hochon’s Arrow. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,1992.
Wallace, David, ed. Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Wilson, Katharina M., and Elizabeth M. Makowski. Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage: Misogamous Literature from Juvenal to Chaucer. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.
Criticism and Explication
Arrathoon, Leigh A., ed. Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction. Rochester, MI: Solaris Press, 1986.
Askins, William. “All that Glisters: The Historical Setting of the Tale of Sir Thopas.” In Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning, edited by Robert M. Stein and Sandra Pierson Prior. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005, pp. 271-289.
Beidler, Peter, ed. The Wife of Bath. Boston: Bedford Books, 1996.
Benson, C. David, and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Chaucer’s Religious Tales. Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 1990.
Blamires, Alcuin. “The Canterbury Tales”: The Critics Debate. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, 1987.
Cooper, Helen. Oxford Guides to Chaucer: “The Canterbury Tales.” Second edition. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Crane, Susan. Gender and Romance in Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales.” Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Dinshaw, Carolyn. Chaucer’s Sexual Poetics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
Donaldson, E. Talbot. Speaking of Chaucer. New York: W. W. Norton, 1970.
—. Chaucer’s Poetry: An Anthology for the Modern Reader. Second edition. New York: Ronald Press, 1975. Includes commentary on The Canterbury Tales.
Ganim, John. Chaucerian Theatricality. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Hansen, Elaine Tuttle. Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender. Berkeley: University of California Press,1992.
Jost, Jean E., ed. Chaucer’s Humor: Critical Essays. New York: Garland, 1994.
Kittredge, G. L. Chaucer and His Poetry. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1915.
Knapp, Peggy. Chaucer and the Social Contest. New York: Routledge, 1990.
Lawton, David. Chaucer’s Narrators. Cambridge, UK: D. S. Brewer, 1985.
Leicester, H. Marshall, Jr. The Disenchanted Self: Representing the Subject in Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales.” Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
Martin, Priscilla. Chaucer’s Women: Nuns, Wives, and Amazons. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1990.
Patterson, Lee. Chaucer and the Subject of History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.
Pearsall, Derek. Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales.” London and Boston: George Allen and Unwin, 1985.
Phillips, Helen. An Introduction to “The Canterbury Tales”: Reading, Fiction, Context. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
Strohm, Paul. Social Chaucer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989.
Wallace, David. Chaucerian Polity. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997.
Wetherbee, Winthrop. Chaucer: “The Canterbury Tales.” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Periodicals Dealing with Chaucer and His Works
Studies in the Age of Chaucer.
The Chaucer Review.
The Chaucer Yearbook.
Edition Based on All Known Manuscripts
Manly, J. M., and Edith Rickert, eds. The Text of The Canterbury Tales. 8 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1940.
a This tale and others marked with an asterisk do not appear in this edition.
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