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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:
What's New?
The Chaucer Pedagogy Documentation Primer
The Chaucer Pedagogy Page
Need Teaching Ideas &
Resources?
The Chaucer Pedagogy Page
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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Chaucer
the Pilgrim - Narrator & Author
See the famous portrait of Chaucer
addressing the court of Richard II from the frontispiece of Troilus
and Criseyde in CCCC MS 61 (c. 1399-1413, courtesy of James Simpson,
Cambridge).
See Thomas
Hoccleve's portrait of Chaucer from the Regiment of Princes (1412)
(Larry Benson, Harvard).
See Chaucer's
Portrait from the famous Ellesmere manuscript (Ellesmere 26 C 9,
Huntington Library, San Marino, California).
1. In Middle English
The General
Prologue at the University of Virginia's Electronic
Text Center (from Robinson 1957).
The General
Prologue at the University of Michigan's Corpus of Middle English Verse and Prose
(from Robinson 1957).
2. In Modern English Translation
3. Historical & Cultural Backgrounds
Guilds were an integral part of medieval society, both in towns and in the
countryside. Peruse Medieval
English Towns, Stephen Alsford's excellent site for more information about all aspects
of town culture.
4. Sources, Analogues, & Related Texts
A
number of capsule Chaucer biographies are available online, some more useful than others.
The best is the Life of
Chaucer at the Harvard Chaucer Page. Others include are listed on the Luminarium
Chauce: Additional Sources
page.
Read Thomas Hoccleve's (1368–1450?) lament for his literary father in Lament
for Chaucer, from The
Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900, by Arthur Quiller-Couch
(1919) at Bartleby.com.
Bartleby.com continues to do a great service to the educational community
by making available out-of-copyright editions of valuable older scholarly
texts.
5. Online Notes & Commentary
Larry D. Benson's superlative Geoffrey
Chaucer Page (Harvard) includes e-texts of scholarly essays, sources and ancillary
texts, and capsule discussions of key issues. Some of the items related to Chaucer's
life and narrative voice include:
6. Online Articles & Books
Chaucer Sourcebook, from the
Harvard Chaucer Page, offers a number of classic and professional essays from noted
Chaucerians, including:
7. Student Projects & Essays
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
A
number of portraits of Chaucer have been recorded:
11. Language Helps & Audio Files
12. Potpourri
A number of online reference works contain brief articles or overviews of
Chaucer's life. These are suitable only for elementary school use or
for the casual reader wanting to know the basic contours of Chaucer's life
and times. They are not suitable for college level work..
13. The
Next Step
How to Document
Print & Electronic Sources:
The Chaucer Pedagogy
Documentation Primer
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