Web Resources by Tale
Electronic
Canterbury Tales Home Page
Fragment I / Group A
The General Prologue
The Knight's Tale
The Miller's Prologue &
Tale
The Reeve's Prologue & Tale
The Cook's Prologue & Tale
Fragment II / Group B1
The Man of Law's
Introduction, Prologue, Tale, & Epilogue
Fragment III /
Group D
The Wife of Bath's
Prologue & Tale
The Friar's Prologue & Tale
The Summoner's Prologue
& Tale
Fragment IV /
Group E
The
Clerk's Prologue & Tale
The Merchant's Prologue,
Tale, & Epilogue
Fragment V / Group F
The
Squire's Introduction & Tale
The Franklin's Prologue
& Tale
Fragment VI /
Group C
The Physician's Tale
The Pardoner's Introduction,
Prologue, & Tale
Fragment VII /
Group B2
The Shipman's Tale
The Prioress's Prologue
& Tale
The Prologue & Tale
of Sir Thopas
The Tale of Melibee
The Monk's Prologue & Tale
The Nun's Priest's Prologue,
Tale, & Epilogue
Fragment VIII /
Group G
The
Second Nun's Prologue & Tale
The Canon's Yeoman's
Prologue & Tale
Fragment IX /
Group H
The Manciple's
Prologue & Tale
Fragment X /
Group I
The Parson's Prologue
& Tale
The Retraction
The Electronic Canterbury Tales:
Troilus
and Criseyde
Additional
Pages in The Electronic Canterbury Tales
Chaucer the Narrator -
Pilgrim and Author
Chaucer's "Orphan" Pilgrims
The
Frame Tale, Later Continuations,& Apocrypha
Troilus
and Criseyde
Electronic
Chaucer Texts: What's Available Online?
Chaucer
in / and Popular Culture
Headings,
Organization,
& Criteria for Inclusion
ECT
Revision
History:
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The Chaucer Pedagogy Documentation Primer
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Complete Online Versions of the
Canterbury Tales
The
Complete Tales in Middle English at UVa (1510 kb)
Search
the UVa Middle English Text Archive
Sinan Kökbugur's hypertext, helpfully glossed Middle English edition at the Librarius Homepage
The Electronic Library Foundation's edition of the Canterbury Tales is
available in a variety of formats
The Litrix Reading Room Translation
of the Canterbury Tales
Top 15
Medieval & Chaucer-Related Sites
The Aberdeen On-line
Bestiary
Argos:
Limited Area Search of the Ancient & Medieval Internet
The Camelot Project
Exploring Ancient
World Cultures
Geoffrey Chaucer: Annotated Guide to
Online Resources
Gothic Dreams
The Harvard Chaucer Page
Internet
Medieval Sourcebook
The Labyrinth
The
Luminarium
The Online Medieval
and Classical Library
Project Seafarer / Anglo-Saxon.net
TEAMS
Middle English Text Series
Univ. of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative
Voice of the Shuttle
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The
"Frame Tale," Continuations, and Chaucerian Apocrypha
Arnie Saunders (Goucher College) has
written a brief explanation
for how the manuscripts of CT were placed in "families," and how
manuscripts get accidentally altered in production. The errors
actually turned out to help us discover the relationships among the MSS.
1. The Logic of the "Fragment"
(Joe Wittig, UNC)
2. The Canterbury "Links" in Middle English
Fragment I / Group A |
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Fragment
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Fragment III / Group D |
The Wife of Bath's Prologue |
(The Pardoner's Interruption of the Wife, lines
163-69) |
The Friar's Prologue |
The Summoner's Prologue |
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Fragment
4 / Group E |
Fragment 5 / Group F |
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Fragment
6 / Group C |
Fragment 7 / Group B2 |
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Fragment
8 / Group G |
Fragment 9 / Group H |
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Fragment
10 / Group I |
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Spurious Links:
Many other links are preserved in early
manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales. However, in the opinion of many scholars, they
probably were not written by Chaucer, though a few might indicate Chaucer's
revisions. Rather, often inserted by scribes, the "spurious links" usually
represent (1) an attempt to create a rough anthology out of tales acquired
separately or,
perhaps, (2) early readers and editors' alternative ideas about how the Canterbury Tales
could be ordered.
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From the TEAMS Middle English Text
volume, The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth- Century Continuations and Additions,
edited with an Introduction
to the Links by John M. Bowers. Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University for TEAMS,
1992. |
3. Spurious Tales, Continuations, & Chaucerian
Apocrypha
John Lydgate's Prologue
to the Siege of Thebes
- Lydgate, a younger contemporary and follower of Chaucer's,
composed his Siege of Thebes to be the first tale on the pilgrims' return trip from
Canterbury. Through the Prologue to the Siege,
written in imitation of the General Prologue, Lydgate inserts himself into the Canterbury
troupe and becomes a tale-teller in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
- From the TEAMS Middle English Text
volume, The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth- Century Continuations and Additions,
edited with an Introduction
to the Prologue by John M. Bowers. Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan
University for TEAMS, 1992.
The Tale of Beryn
The Floure and the Leafe
The Ploughman's Tale
- An idealized figure, the Ploughman, brother to Chaucer's
Parson, was associated with The Ploughman's Tale by
some early editors.
- From the TEAMS Middle English Text
volume, The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth- Century Continuations and Additions,
edited with an Introduction
to the Ploughman's Tale by John M. Bowers. Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University
for TEAMS, 1992.
- These tales are in the tradition of Piers Plowman,
Langland's great dream vision, one of the most popular in later medieval England. Entire
B-Text (Schmidt, 1978; 500kb) or Table
of Contents (by passus number).
The Tale of Gamelyn
Long
considered a "Scottish Chaucerian," Robert Henryson (c. 1430-c.1506) wrote two
poems important to Chaucer's legacy:
The
Fictitious "Rebel's Tale"
comes to us courtesy of those cultural jokesters at the ALR Advocate.
The
Printer's Tale: An Unknown Chaucerian Pilgrim (David Byram-Wigfield,
Capella Archive) purports to be "a surviving galley proof of a page of the
Kelmscott Chaucer, published by William Morris in 1896. This facsimile shows the text of an hitherto unpublished
incomplete work by Chaucer entitled The Printeres Tale."
Bartleby.com continues to do a great
service to the educational community by making available out-of-copyright
editions of valuable older scholarly texts, like The
Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900, by Arthur Quiller-Couch
(1919), which includes these by
Chaucer's early followers and later successors:
4. Historical & Cultural Backgrounds
5. Online Notes & Commentary
David
Wilson-Okamura (Macalester U) provides deft Examples
of Chaucerian Revision.
6. Online Articles
From the Teaching
Chaucer in the 90s post-print from Exemplaria (ed. Christine Rose, Portland
State): Daniel J. Pinti's Teaching
Chaucer through the Fifteenth Century
Compositional
Finalization in the Canterbury Tales (Frederick Martin, Tulane U), from
an ongoing e-project melding critical and cultural theory & medieval
studies. See Martin's e-dissertation in progress, Pilgrimage
in the Age of Schism: Chaucer, Sociological Poetics, and the Canterbury
Tales.
Chaotic
Order in the Supertext of The Canterbury Tales (Zach Thundy, Northern
Michigan U) applies chaos theory to the order of the Canterbury Tales.
Introduction to the Spurious
Links by John M. Bowers
Introduction
to the Prologue to the Siege of Thebes by John M. Bowers
Introduction to the Tale of
Beryn by John M. Bowers
Introduction
to the Floure and the Leafe by Derek Pearsall
Introduction
to the Ploughman's Tale by John M. Bowers
Introduction
to the Tale of Gamelyn by Stephen Knight and Thomas H. Ohlgren
7. Student Projects & Essays
Dave Clark's MA thesis (Iowa
State U) on Chaucer in the Renaissance is
entitled, Reaping What Was Sown:
Spenser, Chaucer, and the Plowman's Tale.
Anniina Jokkinen's Essays and Articles on Chaucer
includes a number of sample student essays, of varying quality. Like any other
source, student essays must be evaluated rigorously, cited correctly, and used
responsibly.
8. Online Bibliography
9. Syllabi & Course
Descriptions
10. Images & Multimedia
11. Language Helps & Audio Files
12. Potpourri
13. The
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