Research Guides: ENGL 450/650: Chaucer: Key Resources

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This guide has been designed to provide you with resources to help you in this course. Please use the tabs at the top of the page to find information and resources to better understand Chaucer in context, literary criticism, and teaching Early/Middle English Literature.

Featured Resources

Canterbury App: General Prolouge
This app (available through web browser and iOS) is full reading of the General Prologue of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. With edited text, commentary, glossary, sound files and Terry Jones' translation.
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
This introductory guide to Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' examines the social diversity of Chaucer's pilgrims, the stylistic range of their tales and the psychological richness of their interaction.
Harvard's Geoffrey Chaucer Website: Texts and Translations
Harvard's guide to Canterbury Tales, texts and translations

Streaming Videos

The Canterbury Tales
In this 21st-century version, the stories of the Canterbury Tales evolve with the help of talent scouts, plastic surgery and asylum seekers. Each of the tales is set on the pilgrims' route to Canterbury.
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
In this program, expert commentators Dr. Christiania Whitehead and Dr. Peter Mack, both of the University of Warwick, discuss the tradition of 14th-century poetry, the General Prologue, Chaucer’s social grouping of the pilgrims and the themes they explore, and the poem as a reflection of medieval English society.
Understanding Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
This program explicates this complex alliterative poem, examines its treatment of familiar Arthurian themes, and illustrates why it is considered one of the finest romances of the Middle Ages.

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Source Material

Project Gutenberg: The Canterbury Tales (Audio)
Audio recording of Canterbury Tales being read aloud.
Project Gutenberg: The Canterbury Tales (Text)
Online text of Canterbury Tales
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Project Gutenberg eBook of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws
Project Gutenberg eBook of Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws
Piers Plowman
Project Gutenberg's eBook of Langland’s Piers Plowman

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