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• Tales, Medieval
• Tales -- History and criticism
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• Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Laura Kendrick (HTML at UC Press)
• A Distinction of Stories: The Medieval Unity of Chaucer's Fair Chain of Narratives for Canterbury (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by Judson Boyce Allen and Theresa Anne Moritz
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
• Species, Phantasms, and Images: Vision and Medieval Psychology in The Canterbury Tales (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by Carolyn P. Collette (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chaucer's Dante: Allegory and Epic Theater in The Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Richard Neuse (HTML at UC Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Master Walter Map's Book, De Nugis Curialium (Courtier's Trifles) (London: Chatto and Windus, 1924), by Walter Map, trans. by Frederick Tupper and Marbury Blade Ogle
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Master Walter Map's Book, De Nugis Curialium (Courtier's Trifles) (New York: Macmillan, 1924), by Walter Map, trans. by Frederick Tupper and Marbury Blade Ogle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walter Map: De Nugis Curialium (Anecdota Oxoniensa Mediaeval and Modern Series #14; text in Latin and commentary in English; 1914), by Walter Map, ed. by M. R. James (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Boke of the Tales of Canterburie (title taken from text on the first page; London: R. Pynson, 1491), by Geoffrey Chaucer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Curious Myths of the Middle Ages (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1867), by S. Baring-Gould (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Curious Myths of the Middle Ages (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1882), by S. Baring-Gould
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Legends of the Middle Ages, Narrated With Special Reference to Literature and Art (1896), by H. A. Guerber (Gutenberg text)
• Old French Romances, Done Into English, trans. by William Morris, contrib. by Joseph Jacobs (Gutenberg text)
• The Tale of Beryn; With a Prologue of the Merry Adventure of the Pardoner With a Tapster at Canterbury (EETS extra series #105; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., and by H. Frowde, 1909), ed. by Frederick James Furnivall and W. G. Boswell-Stone, contrib. by W. A. Clouston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Four Ancient Books of Wales, Containing the Cymric Poems attributed to the Bards of the Sixth Century, ed. by W. F. Skene (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions, ed. by John M. Bowers (HTML at Rochester)

• The Earthly Paradise (from Boston and London editions, 1868-1870), by William Morris
  • March-August: illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • September-November: HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • December-February: HTML at sacred-texts.com
• The Fates of the Princes of Dyfed, by Kenneth Morris, illust. by Reginald Machell (illustrated HTML at theosociety.org)

• Manekine; John and Blonde; and "Foolish Generosity" (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2010), by Philippe de Remi Beaumanoir, trans. by Barbara Nelson Sargent-Baur (PDF at PSU; pages may be unusually ordered)
• The Early English Versions of the Gesta Romanorum (EETS extra series #33; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner and Co., 1879), ed. by Sidney J. H. Herrtage, contrib. by Frederic Madden
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Gesta Romanorum: or, Entertaining Stories Invented by the Monks as a Fire-Side Recreation and Commonly Applied in Their Discourses From the Pulpit (2 volumes; London: J.C. Hotten, ca. 1871), ed. by Thomas Wright, trans. by Charles Swan
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Record of Auncient Histories, Entituled in Latin Gesta Romanorum: Discoursing Upon Sundry Examples for the Advancement of Vertue, and the Abandoning of Vice, No Lesse Pleasant in Reading, Then Profitable in Practise (London: T. Est, 1595), ed. by Richard Robinson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (London: David Nutt, 1904), trans. by L. Winifred Faraday (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Studies in the Text History of the Life and Fables of Aesop (Philological Monographs #7; Haverford, PA: American Philological Association, 1936), by B. E. Perry (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ovid's Causes: Cosmogony and Aetiology in the Metamorphoses (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by K. Sara Myers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fairy Tales From Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Jan M. Ziolkowski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fairy Tales, Their Origin and Meaning: With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland (1878), by John Thackray Bunce (Gutenberg text)
• A Study of Fairy Tales, by Laura Fry Kready (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Spellbound: The Fairy Tale and the Victorians (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Molly Clark Hillard (PDF with commentary at Ohio State)
• Feminist Narrative Ethics: Tacit Persuasion in Modernist Form (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Katherine Saunders Nash (PDF at Ohio State)

• In Search of the Swan Maiden: A Narrative on Folklore and Gender (New York and London: New York University Press, c1994), by Barbara Fass Leavy (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Early Bardic Literature, Ireland, by Standish O'Grady (Gutenberg text)

• Theft! A History of Music (2017), by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins (PDF with commentary at Duke)
• Music: Its Language, History, and Culture (c2014), by Ray Allen, Douglas Cohen, Nancy Barnes Hager, and Jeffrey Taylor (illustrated HTML with commentary at cuny.edu)
• An Outline-History of Music (New York: Barnes and Noble, c1947), by Hugh Milton Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art Melodious (third edition, augmented; London and New York: F. Tennyson Neely, c1897), by Louis Lombard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chopin, and Other Musical Essays (New Yor: C. Scribner's Sons, 1894), by Henry T. Finck (Gutenberg text)
• The History of Music: A Handbook and Guide for Students (New York: G. Schirmer, c1907), by Waldo Selden Pratt (PDF at djm.cc)
• The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music, by Dane Rudhyar (HTML at khaldea.com)
• Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting and Music; With an Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Theatrical Entertainments of the Ancients (3 volumes; London: Printed for J. Nourse, 1748), by abbé Dubos, trans. by Thomas Nugent
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Plays, Acting and Music: A Book of Theory (revised edition; London: Constable and Co., 1909), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text)

• The Politics of Shelley: History, Theory, Form (2015), ed. by Matthew C. Borushko (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)

• Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature (Gainesville, FL et al.: University Press of Florida, c1998), by Adéléke Adéè̳kó̳ (page images at HathiTrust)

• Do the Americas Have a Common Literature? (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), ed. by Gustavo Pérez Firmat (page images at HathiTrust)

• Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), ed. by Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shouts and Murmurs: Echoes of a Thousand and One First Nights (New York: The Century Co., 1922), by Alexander Woollcott (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Form of American Romance (originally published 1988; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Edgar A. Dryden (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Laura Shackelford (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Dorothy Zayatz Baker (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (HTML at UC Press)
• Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Steven Mailloux (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The American Novel (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Carl Van Doren (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Some American Story Tellers (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1911), by Frederic Taber Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Individual and Community: Variations on a Theme in American Fiction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1975), ed. by Kenneth Huntress Baldwin and David Kirby, contrib. by Edgar A. Dryden, J. V. Ridgely, Roy Harvey Pearce, Louis D. Rubin, Carlos Baker, Philip Momberger, James E. Miller, James Baird, and Edward Mendelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buried Caesars: Essays in Literary Appreciation (Chicago: Covici-McGee Co., 1923), by Vincent Starrett (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.