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Books about Geoffrey Chaucer:

• Backgrounds to Chaucer (c2001), by Peter G. Beidler (HTML at arlinma.net)
• Chaucer, by Adolphus William Ward (Gutenberg text)
• Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet (2 volumes; London: Printed by T. Davison for Richard Phillips, 1803), by William Godwin
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
• Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet (second edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed by T. Davison for Richard Phillips, 1804), by William Godwin
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
  • Volume IV: page images at Google
• The "Sweet New Style": Essays on Brunetto Latino, Dante Alighieri, and Geoffrey Chaucer, by Julia Bolton Holloway (HTML at florin.ms)

• Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Elaine Tuttle Hansen (HTML at UC Press)
• Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: From Plautus to Chaucer (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Warren S. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Concordance to the Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and to the Romaunt of the Rose (Gloucester, MA: P. Smith, 1963), by John S. P. Tatlock and Arthur Garfield Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chapters on Chaucer (originally published 1951; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Kemp Malone (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Chaucer's (Anti-) Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Tison Pugh (PDF at Ohio State)
• Chaucer and His Poetry: Lectures Delivered in 1914 on the Percy Turnbull Memorial Foundation in the Johns Hopkins University (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1915), by George Lyman Kittredge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Courtly Love in Chaucer and Gower (Harvard Studies in English v1; Boston and London: Ginn and Co., 1913), by William George Dodd (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages: Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1985), by Jesse M. Gellrich (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Willing to Know God: Dreamers and Visionaries in the Later Middle Ages (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Jessica Barr (PDF at Ohio State)

• Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1999), ed. by Thomas A. Prendergast and Barbara Kline (PDF at Ohio State)
• Animaduersions Uppon the Annotacions and Corrections of Some Imperfections of Impressiones of Chaucer's Workes (Sett Downe Before Tyme and Nowe) Reprinted in the Yere of Our Lorde 1598 (EETS #9; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner and Co., 1865), by Francis Thynne, ed. by G. H. Kingsley (Gutenberg text)

• Chaucer's Official Life, by James R. Hulbert (Gutenberg text)
• Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet (2 volumes; London: Printed by T. Davison for Richard Phillips, 1803), by William Godwin
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
• Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet (second edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed by T. Davison for Richard Phillips, 1804), by William Godwin
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
  • Volume IV: page images at Google

• Illustrations of Chaucer's England (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1919), ed. by Dorothy Hughes (HTML at elfinspell.com)

• Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Laura Kendrick (HTML at UC Press)

• Chaucer's Italian Tradition (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by Warren Ginsberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chaucer's Italian Tradition (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by Warren Ginsberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1984), by Winthrop Wetherbee
  • PDF and HTML with commentary at Cornell Open
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Chaucer's Dante: Allegory and Epic Theater in The Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Richard Neuse (HTML at UC 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)
• The English Dream Vision: Anatomy of a Form (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1988), by J. Stephen Russell (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Chaucer and the Roman Poets (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature v7; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1929), by Edgar Finley Shannon (multiple formats at Google)

• On Early English Pronunciation, With Especial Reference to Shakspere and Chaucer (5 volumes (Early English Text Society Extra Series 2, 7, 14, 23, and 56); 1869-1889), ed. by Alexander John Ellis
  • Part I (On the Pronunciation of the XIVth, XVth, XVIth, and XVIIth Centuries): multiple formats at Google
  • Part II (On the Pronunciation of the XIIIth and Previous Centuries): multiple formats at Google
  • Part III (Illustrations of the Pronunciation of the XIVth and XVIth Centuries): multiple formats at Google
  • Part IV (Illustrations of the Pronunciation of English in the XVIIth, XVIIIth, and XIXth Centuries): multiple formats at Google
  • Part V (Existing Dialectal As Compared With West Saxon Pronunciation): multiple formats at Google

• The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions, ed. by John M. Bowers (HTML at metseditions.org)

• The Naked Text: Chaucer's Legend of Good Women (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Sheila Delany (HTML at UC Press)
• Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Elaine Tuttle Hansen (HTML at UC Press)
• Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: From Plautus to Chaucer (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Warren S. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chaucer's Italian Tradition (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by Warren Ginsberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• On the Sources of the Nonne Prestes Tale (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1898), by Kate Oelzner Petersen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1984), by Winthrop Wetherbee
  • PDF and HTML with commentary at Cornell Open
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Virtue of Necessity: Inconclusiveness and Narrative Form in Chaucer's Poetry (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Larry Sklute (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State 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)
• 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
• The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions, ed. by John M. Bowers (HTML at metseditions.org)
• The Story of the Canterbury Pilgrims, Retold from Chaucer and Others (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, c1914), by F. J. Harvey Darton and Geoffrey Chaucer, illust. by Maria Louise Kirk
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Dante, Chaucer, and the Currency of the Word: Money, Images, and Reference in Late Medieval Poetry, by R. A. Shoaf (HTML at ufl.edu)

• The Naked Text: Chaucer's Legend of Good Women (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Sheila Delany (HTML at UC Press)

• The Sources of the Parson's Tale (Radcliffe College monograph #12; Boston: Ginn and Co., 1901), by Kate Oelzner Petersen (page images at HathiTrust)

• John Lane's Continuation of Chaucer's "Squire's Tale" (2 parts; 1888-1890), by John Lane, ed. by Frederick James Furnivall, contrib. by W. A. Clouston and Thomas Austin
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Dante, Chaucer, and the Currency of the Word: Money, Images, and Reference in Late Medieval Poetry, by R. A. Shoaf (HTML at ufl.edu)

Books by Geoffrey Chaucer:

• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400: The Boke of the Tales of Canterburie (title taken from text on the first page; London: R. Pynson, 1491) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400: The Book of the Duchesse, ed. by Walter W. Skeat (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400: The Canterbury Tales (multiple editions)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400: The Canterbury Tales, ed. by Arthur Burrell (HTML at Bibliomania)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400: The Canterbury Tales (in Middle and Modern English, with glossary), ed. by Sinan Kökbugur (frame-dependent HTML at librarius.com)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400: The Canterbury Tales (ELF edition delisted 28 Sep 2023 due to disappearance of hosting site)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400: The Canterbury Tales (Caxton's two 15th-century editions) (page images with commentary at the British Library)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400: The Canterbury Tales: A Complete Translation into Modern English (c1993), trans. by Ronald L. Ecker and Eugene Joseph Crook (HTML at fsu.edu)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400: The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, Edited for Popular Perusal, ed. by D. Laing Purves (Gutenberg text)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400: The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, Modernis'd by Several Hands (3 volumes in 1; London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1741), ed. by George Ogle, contrib. by John Urry, Thomas Betterton, John Dryden, Samuel Cobb, Samuel Boyse, Henry Brooke, Alexander Pope, Jeremiah Markland, and Mr. Grosvenor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400: The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, With an Essay Upon His Language and Versification, An Introductory Discourse, Notes, and a Glossary (5 volumes; London: Printed for W. Pickering, 1822), ed. by Thomas Tyrwhitt
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400: The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Modern Rendering into Prose of the Prologue and Ten Tales (New York: Duffield and company, 1914), also by Percy MacKaye, illust. by Walter Appleton Clark (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400: The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer: A New Text, with Illustrative Notes (3 volumes; London: Printed for the Percy Society by T. Richards, 1847-1851), ed. by Thomas Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400, contrib.: The Chaucer Story Book (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908), by Eva March Tappan (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400: Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims, also by Katharine Lee Bates, illust. by Angys MacDonall (page images at MOA)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400, trans.: Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's "De Consolation Philosophiae" (EETS extra series #5; London et al.: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, 1868, reprinted 1969), by Boethius, ed. by Richard Morris (Gutenberg text)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400: Complete Online Works, with Commentary (HTML at luminarium.org)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400, contrib.: Dryden's Palamon and Arcite, by John Dryden, ed. by George Edwin Eliot (Gutenberg text)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400, contrib.: Fables Ancient And Modern Translated Into Verse From Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer, With Orginal Poems, by Mr. Dryden (London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1700), by John Dryden, also contrib. by Homer, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, and Giovanni Boccaccio
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400, contrib.: The Floure and the Leafe, The Assemblie of Ladies, and The Isle of Ladies, ed. by Derek Pearsall (HTML at metseditions.org)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400: The House of Fame (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400: The Legend of Good Women (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400: The Parliament of Fowles (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400: The Story of the Canterbury Pilgrims, Retold from Chaucer and Others (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, c1914), also by F. J. Harvey Darton, illust. by Maria Louise Kirk
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400: A Treatise on the Astrolabe
  • HTML in Sweden
  • HTML at Michigan
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400: Troilus and Criseyde (HTML at Michigan)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Now Newly Imprinted (Burne Jones' inscribed copy of the 1896 Kelmscott Press edition), ed. by Frederick Startridge Ellis, illust. by Edward Coley Burne-Jones, William Morris, and William Harcourt Hooper (frame- and Javascript-dependent page images at rarebookroom.org)

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