Bibliography
Note: All Chaucer quotations and line numbers are taken from ChaucerRiverside, unless found in quotations from other authors, in which case they follow the text used by that author.
Allen: Walter Allen, The English Novel, 1954; references are to the Pelican edition of 1970.
Anderson: George K. Anderson, Old and Middle English Literature from the Beginnings to 1485, Collier Books, 1962, being a slightly revised Volume I of Hardin Craig, editor, A History of English Literature, 1950
Barker: Nicolas Barker and the Curatorial Staff of The British Library, Treasures of the British Library, Harry N. Abrams, 1989
Bennett: H. S. Bennett, Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century, being volume II, part I of The Oxford History of English Literature, edited by F. P. Wilson and Bonamy Dobrée, Oxford, 1947; references are to the corrected edition of 1954.
BennettGray: J. A. W. Bennett, author, Middle English Literature, edited and completed by Douglas Gray, 1986; references are to the 1990 Clarendon Press paperback.
Benson: C. David Benson, editor, Critical Essays on Chaucer’s Troilus & Criseyde and His Major Early Poems, University of Toronto Press, 1991.
Binns: Norman E. Binns, An Introduction to Historical Bibliography, 2nd edition, revised and enlarged, Association of Assistant Librarians, 1962
Bisson: Lillian M. Bisson, Chaucer and the Late Medieval World, St. Martin’s Press, 1998.
Boitani/Mann: Piero Boitani & Jill Mann, editors, The Cambridge Chaucer Companion, Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Bowers: John M. Bowers, editor, The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions, TEAMS, Middle English Texts series, Medieval Institute Publications, 1992.
Burrow/Turville-Petre: J. A. Burrow and Thorlac Turville-Petre, A Book of Middle English, 1992; second edition, Blackwell Publishers, 1996, 1999.
ChaucerBrewer: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parlement of Foulys, edited by D. S. Brewer, 1960; references are to the 1972 Manchester University Press paperback.
ChaucerCawley: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, edited by A. C. Cawley, 1958, with additions and revisions by Malcolm Andrew, Everyman, 1996, 1997.
ChaucerDonaldson: E. T(albot) Donaldson, editor, Chaucer’s Poetry: An Anthology for the Modern Reader, 1958; second edition, Ronald Press, 1975
ChaucerHussey: The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale from the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, edited with Introduction, Notes, and Glossary by Maurice Hussey, Cambridge University Press, 1966; minor corrections 1968; new appendix 1975
ChaucerLynch: Geoffrey Chaucer, Dream Visions and Other Poems: A Norton Critical Edition edited by Kathryn L. Lynch, Norton, 2007
ChaucerMackHawkins, Geoffrey Chaucer: The Nun’s Priest’s Tale, edited by Peter Mack and Andy Hawkins, Oxford Student Texts, Oxford, 2006
ChaucerMills: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troylus and Criseyde, edited by Maldwyn Mills, 1953; edition with new introduction, Everyman, 2000.
ChaucerNorton: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: Nine Tales and the General Prologue: A Norton Critical Edition edited by V. A. Kolve and Glending Olson, Norton, 1989.
ChaucerRiverside: Larry D. Benson, general editor, The Riverside Chaucer, third edition, Riverside, 1987, based on F. N. Robinson, editor, The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, second edition. Note that quotations from Chaucer are taken from this edition.
ChaucerSpearing, The Franklin’s Prologue and Tale from the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, edited with Introduction, Notes, and Glossary by A. C. Spearling, Cambridge University Press, 1966; revised edition, 1994
ChaucerStone: Geoffrey Chaucer, Love Visions, being modernized versions of The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls [here called The Parliament of Birds], and The Legend of Good Women, translated with an introduction by Brian Stone, Penguin, 1983.
ChaucerWarrington: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, edited by John Warrington, revised with an introduction by Maldwyn Mills, 1974; references are to the 1988 Everyman paperback.
Chaytor: H. J. Chaytor, From Script to Print: An Introduction to Medieval Vernacular Literature, 1966; references are to the 1967 October House paperback.
Child: Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 10 volumes; 1882-1896; references are to the 5-volume Dover paperback reprint which has been republished many times.
Corsa: Helen Storm Corsa, Chaucer: Poet of Mirth and Morality, Notre Dame Press, 1964; references are to the 1969 paperback edition.
DecameronMusaBondanella: Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron: A Norton Critical Edition, selected, translated, and edited by Mark Musa and Peter E. Bondanella, Norton, 1977.
Ford: Boris Ford, editor, The Age of Chaucer, being volume 1 of The Pelican Guide to English Literature, 1954; references are to the revised Pelican paperback edition of 1962
Fox: Denton Fox, Editor, Twentieth Century Interpretations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Collection of Critical Essays, Prentice-Hall, 1968.
Frye: Northrop Frye, The Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays, 1957; references are to the 2000 Princeton paperback with a new introduction by Harold Bloom.
Gardner: John Gardner, The Life and Times of Chaucer, 1977; references are to the 1978 Vintage paperback.
GarnettGosse: Richard Garnett, C.B., LL.D, and Edmund Gosse, M.A., LL.D., English Literature: An Illustrated Record, in four volumes, 1903-1904; Macmillan edition in two volumes, 1935.
GawainCawleyAnderson: A. C. Cawley and J. J. Anderson, editors, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, 1962 (Cawley’s edition of Sir Gawain and Pearl), 1976; references are to the slightly corrected 1991 Everyman paperback.
GawainTolkienGordonDavis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, edited by J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon, 1925; second edition edited by Norman Davis, Oxford, 1967.
Ginsberg: Warren Ginsburg, editor, Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages, TEAMS, Middle English Texts series, Medieval Institute Publications, 1992.
GowerPeck: John Gower, Confessio Amantis, edited by Russell A. Peck, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1968.
GowerTiller: John Gower, Confessio Amantis, translated (and abridged) by Terence Tiller, Penguin, 1963.
Hahn: Thomas Hahn, editor, Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances and Tales, TEAMS, Middle English Texts Series, Medieval Institute Publications, 1995.
Harvey: John Harvey, The Plantagenets, 1948; revised edition 1959; references are to the 1967 Fontana paperback.
Howard: Donald R. Howard, Chaucer: His Life ❦ His Works His World, E. P. Dutton, 1987.
Hoy/Stevens: Michael Hoy & Michael Stevens, Chaucer’s Major Tales, 1969; references are to the 1983 Schoken Books hardcover.
Kocher: Paul H. Kocher, Master of Middle-Earth: The Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Houghton Mifflin, 1972
Kunitz/Haycraft: Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, editors, British Authors Before 1800: A Biographical Dictionary, H. W. Wilson Company, 1952.
Lewis: C. S. Lewis, The Allegory of Love, 1936; references are to the 20th printing of the 1958 Oxford paperback.
LindahlEtAl: Carl Lindahl, John McNamara, and John Lindow, editors, Medieval Folklore: A Guide to Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs, 2000; references are to the 2002 Oxford one-volume paperback edition.
LoomisGrail: Roger Sherman Loomis, The Grail: From Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol, 1963; references are to the 1992 Constable and Company edition.
LoomisRomances: Roger Sherman Loomis and Laura Hibbard Loomis, editors, Medieval Romances, Modern Library, 1957.
MandelRosenberg: Jerome Mandel and Bruce A. Rosenberg, editors, Medieval Literature and Folklore Studies (Essays in Honor of Francis Lee Utley), Rutgers University Press, 1970.
MarieBurgessBusby: [Marie de France,] The Lais of Marie de France, translated with an introduction by Glyn S. Burgess and Keith Busby, Penguin, 1986.
MarieHanningFerrante: Marie de France, The Lais of Marie de France, translated & introduced by Robert Hanning & Joan Ferrante with a Foreword by John Fowles, E. P. Dutton, 1978.
Miller: Robert P. Miller, editor, Chaucer: Sources and Backgrounds, Oxford University Press, 1977.
Moorman: Charles Moorman, A Knyght There Was: The Evolution of the Knight in Literature, University of Kentucky Press, 1967
Myers: A. R. Myers, England in the Late Middle Ages, being volume 4 of The Pelican History of England, 1951, 1971; references are to the 1979 Pelican paperback printed with revisions.
Newcomer: Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, English Literature, Scott, Foresman and Company, 1905.
Nicolaisen: W. F. H. Nicolaisen, Oral Tradition in the Middle Ages, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1995.
PearsallChaucer: Derek Pearsall, The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Critical Biography, Blackwell Publishers, 1992.
PearsallFlower: Derek Pearsall, editor, The Floure and the Leafe • The Assembly of Ladies • The Isle of Ladies, TEAMS, Middle English Texts Series, Medieval Institute Publications, 1990.
Rowland, Beryl Rowland, editor, Companion to Chaucer Studies, revised edition, Oxford University Press, 1979.
Rumble: Thomas C. Rumble, editor, The Breton Lays in Middle English, second printing (slightly revised), Wayne Statue University Press, 1965, 1967.
Sands: Donald B. Sands, Middle English Verse Romances, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966.
Saul: Nigel Saul, Richard II, Yale English Monarchs, 1997.
Schultz: Herbert C. Schultz, The Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, 1966; hardcover edition with a Bibliographic Note by Joseph A. Dane and Seth Lerer, Henry E. Huntington Library, 1999
Shippey: Tom Shippey, The Road to Middle-Earth: How J. R. R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology, Houghton Mifflin, 2003
Sisam: Kenneth Sisam, Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose, Oxford, 1921, and J. R. R. Tolkien, A Middle English Vocabulary, designed for use with Sisam’s Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose, Oxford, 1922; combined edition, third impression, Oxford, 1925.
Stevens: John Stevens, Medieval Romance: Themes and Approaches, 1973 (references are to the 1974 Norton edition).
Vulgate: Robert Weber et al, Biblia Sacra Vulgata, or Biblia Sacra Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (“The Holy Bible according to the Vulgate”), second edition, Deitsche Bibelgeselschaft, 1994.
Wagenknecht: Edward Wagenkecht, editor, Chaucer: Modern Essays in Criticism, Galaxy/Oxford University Press, 1959 (references are to the sixth printing of 1963).
Waltz: Robert B. Waltz, Romancing the Ballad: How Orpheus the Minstrel became King Orfeo, Loomis House Press, 2013.
Wittig: Kurt Wittig, The Scottish Tradition in Literature, Oliver and Boyd, 1958.
Zipes: Jack Zipes, editor, The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales: The Western fairy tale tradition from medieval to modern, Oxford, 2000.