Suggestions for Further Reading

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Editions in Middle English

Benson, Larry D., ed. The Riverside Chaucer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.

Fisher, John H. and Mark Allen, eds. The Complete Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2006.

Kolve, V. A. and Glending Olson, eds. The Canterbury Tales (Norton Critical Edition). New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005.

General Suggestions

Ackroyd, Peter. Chaucer. New York: Doubleday, 2004.

Boitani, Piero and Mann, Jill. The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer (second edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Brewer, Derek. A New Introduction to Chaucer (second edition). London and New York: Longman, 1998.

—. The World of Chaucer. Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2000.

Brown, Peter, ed. A Companion to Chaucer. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.

Donaldon, E. Talbot. Speaking of Chaucer. London: Athlone Press, 2000.

Ellis, Steve, ed. Chaucer: An Oxford Guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Hansen, Elaine Tuttle. Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Howard, Donald R. Chaucer: His Life, His Works, and His World. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1987.

—. The Idea of The Canterbury Tales. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.

Pearsall, Derek. The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Critical Biography. London and New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 1994.

Rudd, Gillian. The Complete Critical Guide to Geoffrey Chaucer. London and New York: Routledge, 2001.

Schoeck, Richard and Jerome Taylor, eds. Chaucer Criticism: Volume I The Canterbury Tales. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1960.

Some of Chaucer’s Central Sources and Influences

Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron: A New Translation (Norton Critical Editions). Trans. and eds., Peter E. Bondanella and Mark Musa. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1977.

Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy (Norton Critical Editions). Ed., Douglas C. Langston. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.

Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy (in three volumes: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso). Trans., Mark Musa. New York: Penguin Classics, 2002.

De Lorris, Guillaume and Jean de Meun. The Romance of the Rose. Trans. and ed., Frances Horgan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Ovid. The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Trans., Allen Mandelbaum. New York: Mariner Books, 1995.