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Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales
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Classroom Materials
Powerpoint on Chaucer and Norman England
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Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales - A Worksheet
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Early Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer
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“The Ballad of Good Counsel”
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“Troilus and Cressyde” (extract)
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The English translation by Neville Coghill (London: Penguin 1953) has been designated for classroom use in 2021:
| The Prologue of the Canterbury Tales - Frame Story (Nevill Coghill) |
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| The Prologue of the Canterbury Tales - Full Text (Nevill Coghill) |
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| Introductory Note on the Frame-story of The Canterbury Tales [BS] |
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The Canterbury Tales
Original Text with Translation by Ecker & Crook (1993)
General Prologue (Middle English)
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General Prologue (Modern English)
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Chaucer’s “Retraction” (Mod. Eng.)
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Translation of the Wife of Bath by Neville Coghill (1951)
The Wife of Bath’s Prologue
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The Wife of Bath’s Tale
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| *This translation by Neville Coghill was been formerly available at Virginia Tech and retained after copyright term extension act [US] of 1998 Jacksonville State University (ALabama, USA) along with other parts of the Canterbury Tales and sundry works by Chaucer on pages created by Joanna E. Gates if JSU where allusions are made to VT as the proximate source and the Longman’s Anthology of British Literature (1986) as a text with identical lineation [available online; accessed 03.03.2021]. |
| The Coghill Translation is also available at Librarius - online [accessed 03.03.2021]. The Librarius copy is recommended for sourcing further digital copies of character’s prologues and tales, if only because its five-line lineation (e.g., 180, 185, 190 .. &c.) is more convenient than the line-by-line notation to left of text and without column breaks in the JSU edition - said there to coincide with Longman’s Anthology cited above. |
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Commentary on Characters
The Friar
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The Wife of Bath
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The Man of Law (Sargeant)
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The Summoner
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Editorial Analysis of the Manuscript Fragments
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F. L. Robinson (1957)
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Wikipedia (2017) [copy of article]
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Eker & Crook (1993)
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Literary History & Criticism
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The Riverside Edition of The Canterbury Tales: Introduction - PDF
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Richard Bradford’s Introduction to Literary Studies (1996) |
‘Literature of Pre-Renaissance England’ |
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Philip Tilling introduces English Literature from Beowulf to Chaucer. |
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A. C. Baugh’s Literary History of England (1967) - chapters.
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‘Geoffrey Chaucer: His Life and Works’ |
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Geoffrey Chaucer & The Canterbury Tales
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See full listing of Baugh’s chapter-length commentaries - Index.
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