Harvard University
The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
This is an interlinear translation of "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It provides the original Middle English line of text followed by a modern English line of text throughout the tale.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Geoffrey Chaucer
This is a biographical tutorial of Geoffrey Chaucer and his most famous work, "The Canterbury Tales." It starts with a slide show of the life of Chaucer and key information about "The Canterbury Tales." It offers an article by Jonathan...
Harvard University
Harvard: The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions
This paper "The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions" by Mary Carruthers is a literary analysis of the Wife of Bath's Tale from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and her reference to Aesopian fable of the painting of the lion.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Chaucer: Introduction
This is an introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer and his major contribution to Middle English literature in The Canterbury Tales. He is known as ""The Father of English Poetry." The essential questions for the unit focuse on his skill with...
The Best Notes
The Best Notes: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
This is a complete online study guide/notes for the book The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer including author information, literary elements, tale-by-tale summaries/notes for each of the tales, study questions, and analysis.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Geoffrey Chaucer
Have your students ever read any of Geoffrey Chaucer's work? Check out this comprehensive site featuring links to several sites focused on his life and "The Canterbury Tales."
Harvard University
The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Contemporary Reputation
Features praise in verse for Geoffrey Chaucer by his contemporaries: Lydgate, Hoccleve, Gower, Usk, and Deschamps. A rare look at the community that existed among 14th century English writers.
Harvard University
The Geoffrey Chaucer Page:"confession" of Fals Semblant
This site from The Geoffrey Chaucer Page provides information from a 1901 English translation offered as a resource in the Harvard Chaucer curriculum. This article from Le Roman de la rose is medium size in length.
Harvard University
The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: A Brief Chronology
This timeline of Geoffrey Chaucer's life and times from 1300 to 1400 provides a historical and social context for The Canterbury Tales. Features links to related topics.
Harvard University
The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: On Marriage
This site from The Geoffrey Chaucer Page provides the vv.8822-8244 of F.S. Ellis's English translation of the 13th-century novel On Marriage, or Le Roman de la rose (The Romance of the Rose). This is a great site to check out on the...
University of Michigan
Middle English Compendium: The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer
Read and search Chaucer's famous work, "The Canterbury Tales." Text is provided in untranslated Middle English.
Harvard University
Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Comparison of Chaucer and Ovid
Full text of John Dryden's (1631-1700) Preface to The Fables (1700), the English poet's translation of Chaucer texts from the middle English. Dryden compares the styles of Ovid, Chaucer, and Boccaccio.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Chaucer: Introduction: Wife of Bath
This lesson introduces the Wife of Bath from Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. It provides information about and links to the "Prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale," "The Wife of Bath's Tale," and the commentary "The Wife of Bath and the...
Harvard University
The Harvard Chaucer Page: The High Style
Essay about Geoffrey Chaucer's use of the "high style" in middle English verse, characterized by an elegantly adorned diction reliant upon Latin and French borrowings.
Harvard University
The Harvard Chaucer Page: English Romance
A survey of Geoffrey Chaucer's work, which was much influenced by romance, the dominant mode of secular fictional narrative in his time.
Luminarium
Luminarium: Sources of Additional Information on Chaucer
Links to resources devoted to Chaucer: biographies, bibliographies, discussion groups, images, works, and the like.
Harvard University
Harvard: Chaucer: "Chaucer's Pardoner" by George Lyman Kittredge
This is the article "Chaucer's Pardoner" by George Lyman Kittredge which was originally published in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 72, 1893, pp. 829-33. It uses quoted passages to analyze "The Pardoner's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales by...
Harvard University
The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Tournaments and Ceremonies
Note on the jousting tournament and its cultural meaning and literary representation (such as in Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale").
Harvard University
The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Deposition of Chaucer
Deposition from the Scrope-Grosvenor Trial, one of two "autobiographical statements" attributed to Chaucer. Includes a description of Chaucer's coat-of-arms.
Harvard University
The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Clerk of the Works
Transcript of a document instructing the poet Chaucer, as Clerk of the Works, to oversees the building of jousting tournament scaffolds.
University of Michigan
Corpus of M. E. Prose and Verse: Troilus and Criseyde
The full Middle English text of Geoffrey Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" from Troilus & Criseyde: A new edition of "The book of Troilus" (London: Longman, 1984).
Harvard University
The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Lease Granted to Chaucer
The text of a 1374 lease document that sheds light on the legal affairs of Geoffrey Chaucer and the real world of The Canterbury Tales.
Harvard University
The Harvard Chaucer Page: "The Tale of Gamelyn"
Full text of the Middle English 14th century verse romance, "The Tale of Gamelyn," which was popular during Chaucer's lifetime.
Harvard University
The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Lyric Poetry
A brief note about the English lyric poetry prior to Chaucer and how it relates to Chaucer's "tales." Links provided to related topics.