Complaint of Mars

• Complaint of Mars:  Alan Parson's version of the poem, with hypertext glosses, a critical introduction, and a bibliography.  Part of the Edgewood College "Minor Poems of Chaucer" project.

General Prologue

• Electronic Edition of the General Prologue:  Edwin Duncan's very useful version of the General Prologue. Includes pop-up glosses and explanatory notes, links to additional material, easily accessible sound files (in Real Audio format), a parallel-text translation into modern English, etc.(Towson U.)
• E. Talbot Donaldson, "Chaucer the Pilgrim": A useful and well-known reading of the character "Chaucer," as he appears in the General Prologue. (Harvard U.)

The Knight

• Charles Muscatine, ""The Knight's Tale," Chaucer and the French Tradition, pp. 175-190.: The most influential reading of the Knight's Tale, from one of the most influential book-length studies of Chaucer. (Harvard U.)
• David Aers, ""Imagination, Order and Ideology: The Knight's Tale," from Chaucer, Langland, and the creative imagination, 1980, pp. 175-95.: A reading of Theseus' character, and of the imagery and language surrounding it, which is less positive and comfortable than Muscatine's. (Harvard U.)
• Susan Crane, ""Medieval Romance and Feminine Difference in the Knight's Tale," Studies in the Age of Chaucer 12 (1990), pp. 47-63.: An application of gender construction in medieval romance to the figure of Chaucer's Emelye. (Harvard U.)

The Wife of Bath

• Mary Carruthers, "The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions,". PMLA. : A persuasive reading of the Wife of Bath, with strong background on social and economic conditions.

The Marriage Group

• George Lyman Kittredge, Chaucer's Discussion of Marriage: An influential discussion of the "Marriage Group" in the Canterbury Tales>, in which the Franklin's Tale is seen as resolving the argument initiated by the Wife of Bath. (Harvard U.)
• David Aers, ""Chaucer: Love, Sex and Marriage," from Chaucer, Langland, and the creative imagination, 1980 pp. 143-70.: A lengthy analysis of the "Marriage Group," using the medieval literature of marriage and misogyny as background. (Harvard U.)

The Pardoner

• Monica McAlpine, The Pardoner's Homosexuality and How It Matters, PMLA 95, (1980), pp. 8-22.: Treatment of the Pardoner as homosexual, and as a soul needing and unable to find salvation. (Harvard U.)
• David Benson, "Chaucer's Pardoner: His Sexuality and Modern Critics," Medievalia 8 (1985 [for 1982]), pp. 337-46.: Interesting argument that the Pardoner is an effeminate womanizer, rather than a homosexual. (Harvard U.)
• Richard F. Green, "The Sexual Normality of Chaucer's Pardoner," Medievalia 8 (1985 [for 1982]), 351-57.: An extension of Benson's argument, emphasizing the effeminizing effects of excessive lechery as represented in medieval literature.
• Lee Patterson, "Chaucerian Confession: Penitential Literature and the Pardoner," Medievalia et Humanistica 7 (1976).: An examination of the Pardoner in light of medieval penitential literature.
• Derek Pearsall, Chaucer's Pardoner: The Death of a Salesman, Chaucer Review. Vol 17. No. 4 (1983).: Presentation of the Pardoner as a character without internal psychology, "a creature of naked will." (Harvard U.)

The Shipman

• Albert H. Silverman, "Sex and Money in Chaucer's Shipman's Tale".