Chaucer
Keep in
mind that critics have written about Chaucer for centuries.
One of my
favorite books on Chaucer is the seven-volume
Five
Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion 1357-1900
(Caroline
F.E. Spurgeon, Oxford U P, 1914-25).
Now we're
up to six hundred years of criticism, and more books and articles were
written
in the 20th century alone than in the previous five hundred years.
You
simply cannot, nor should not, expect to be comprehensive in your research and
your citations.
Here are just
some of the links out there. I suggest you have a browse and get lost in the
world of Chaucer!
Useful notes on The General Prologue
The Harvard Chaucer Page provides a wide range of glossed Middle English texts and
translations of analogues relevant to Chaucer's works
An annotated guide to online resources: bibliography; biography; commentary; much, much more
The Chaucer Metapage: collects many Chaucer pages: see particularly Bibliographies section.
This page is constantly evolving. Revisit regularly. Sound recordings of many portions of Canterbury Tales.
A good Chaucer web page with lots of links
An Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485). Good selection; includes Chaucer
Another Harvard Chaucer page
Good notes on satire and more....
Essays on The General Prologuel
What does the General Prologue tell us of the Knight?
Classic notes on The Canterbury Tales
Critical Thinking and Reading Worksheet