Resources for Chaucer
General Sites
- Geoffrey Chaucer Website:
Certainly the best Chaucer site on the web. Includes glossed Middle English
texts, translations of other relevant works, scholarly articles and more.
(Harvard U.)
- Chaucer Metapage:
Initiated at the 33rd International Congress of Medieval Studies. An
excellent, well organized selection of links to resources for Chaucer
studies.
- geoffreychaucer.org: A valuable
and extensive clearinghouse of links to resources on Chaucer and his age.
- Canterbury Tales Page:
Jane Zatta's richly detailed page for the study of the Canterbury Tales.
Has a wealth of commentary, background sources, and graphics.
- Chaucer: The
webpage for Edwin Duncan's Chaucer classes. Useful and very extensive
collection of links to research tools and background sources. (Towson U.)
- Chaucer Pedagogy
Page: Excellent, well-organized collection of links and resources, intended for
students and teachers. Includes ideas for paper topics, as well as a rich
variety of background and more
general resources. See especially the Electronic
Canterbury Tales for resources on particular tales, online
articles, etc. (U. of Alaska/Anchorage)
- The
Kankedort Page: An extensive and eclectic collection of links to
resources on Chaucer and his era, including online journals, manuscripts and
virtual tours. (U. of Alaska/Anchorage)
- Baragona'a Chaucer Page:
An interesting and wide-ranging collection of links to materials related to
Chaucer, including bibliographies. (VMI)
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Electronic Texts
- Canterbury
Tales: A searchable html version of the Canterbury Tales from
the Robinson edition. Individual Fragments and Tales may be accessed through
a table of contents. (U. of Michigan)
- Canterbury
Tales: Html version of the Canterbury Tales from the Robinson
edition. Individual Fragments and Tales may be accessed through a table of
contents. (U. of Virginia)
- Book
of the Duchess: Html version of the Book of the Duchess,
prepared by the U. of Calgary Press. Includes notes and glosses, Latin and
French sources, and comparison with transcribed versions of manuscripts.
Uses frames and may load slowly.
- Legend of Good
Women: E-text version of Skeat's edition of the Legend of Good
Women. Individual parts may be accessed through a table of contents.
(Online Medieval and Classical Library)
- Parliament
of Fowles: E-text version of Skeat's edition of the Parliament of
Fowles. (Online Medieval and Classical Library)
- Troilus
and Criseyde: A searchable html version of Troilus and Criseyde
from the Robinson edition. Individual Fragments and Tales may be accessed
through a table of contents. (U. of Michigan)
- The
Classic Text: Chaucer: An intriguing overview of the
manuscript and printing history of Chaucer's works, with good illustrations
from the Ellesmere manuscript, the Kelmscott Chaucer, etc. (U. of
Wisconsin/Milwaukee)
- Essays and
Articles on Chaucer: A collection of articles available online. Includes
student essays. (Luminarium)
- SparkNotes:
The Canterbury Tales: For those who want a little help with the
reading. Includes background on Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales,
sketches of the characters, summaries of selected tales, etc.
- Canterbury Tales
in modern English: For those who can't resist the temptation of a little
help with Chaucer's language.
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Bibliography
- Essential Chaucer: Very
useful annotated bibliography by Mark Allen and John Fisher. Covers selected
resources from 1900 to 1984 (with one or two entries from as late as 1987).
(U. of Texas/SA)
- SAC Online Bibliography: The New
Chaucer Society annotated bibliography, which is published annually in Studies
in the Age of Chaucer. Online version covers Chaucer scholarship since
1975. Very thorough and extremely useful. (U. of Texas/SA)
- Chaucer Review
Online Index: Valuable index to 30 years of articles in The Chaucer
Review.
- geoffreychaucer.org
Bibliographies: Useful listing of online bibliographies.
- Reviews of Recent
Books about Chaucer: Reviews of books in The Medieval Review,from
1996-99. Links provided by Edwin Duncan.
- Chaucer Bibliography:
Selective and useful bibliography. Includes a brief list of print
bibliographies. Covers articles as late as 1998. (VMI)
- Chaucer
Scriptorium: Webpage for Michael Hanly's graduate classes. Includes
annotated bibliographies on focused topics from Prof. Hanly's graduate
students, as well as a gallery of graphics, a fourteenth-century timeline,
and other interesting material. Also see his own Chaucer
bibliography. (Washington State U.)
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Chronology/History
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Online Discussion
- Chaucernet:
Online discussion group (listserve) for Chaucer studies.
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