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An Online Compendium and Companion
to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
7. Student Projects & Essays
Anniina Jokkinen's strikingly beautiful and highly useful Luminarium includes a substantial list of
professional and student essays on a number of medieval authors, and individual pages on,
Chaucer, the Gawain Poet, Langland, Margery Kempe, and Julian of Norwich.
Her Essays and
Articles on Chaucer contains both professional and student essays.
As with any source, the quality of online
materials must be closely assessed before being used for college level
work.
Two Auburn students (Christopher Davis and Crystal Wilson) put together Chaucer
and Death in Medieval England for a senior level Chaucer course with
R. James Goldstein.
Goucher
College Chaucer Seminars Annotated Bibliography of Chaucer Criticism,
1994, 1996, 1999, 2001 (Arnie Sanders, Goucher College) offers
thorough, student generated summaries of a number of current articles,
mostly from The Chaucer Review. A really nice example of critical
classroom pedagogy.
Chaucer Meets the YouTube Generation
From the YouTube Generation, a
number of new video projects based upon Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales
have begun to appear.
I include them here less as an approval of their
scholarly quality than an appreciation of their creativity and
Chaucerian high spirits.
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In many cases, these efforts coincide with
Matthew Arnold's appraisal (not shared by most Chaucerians, I'd guess)
that Chaucer lacked "high seriousness."
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In other words, be warned! Feast
your eyes and ears upon . . .
Individual Tales
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2nd Nun's Tale:
This is one of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It is slightly abridged in order to add comedy
(8:58).
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The Franklin's Tale: Amazing acting, rockin' techno beats and good times... Chaucer at it's finest. for
AP English 2004 (8:57).
- G. Chaucer:
Great movie made
with great friends about some tales (6:59). [A take on the
Pardoner's Tale.]
- Girlfriend
of Wash: Parody of the Wife of Bath (9:15).
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The Merchant's Tale: North Hollywood
High School 10th grade; Chaucer's "The Merchant's Tale," interpreted
in the modern scene (7:35).
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The Miller's
Tale: A Film Noir Love Story (16:40).
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Physician's Tale: a modernization of
one of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by a couple of my friends and i
(5:37).
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The Physician's
Tale: Video for Mr. McKnight (3:02).
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Reading Rainbow: The Lost Episode: This is a spoof of Reading
Rainbow that I did for the Medieval Festival at my college. It
consists of LeVar Burton retelling the Reeve's tale. If you don't
think that's funny, go read the Canterbury tales right now.
Please note: Anti-semitic remarks occur in this film,
but are present only to reflect upon Chaucer's character, the
Prioress (4:41).
- Wife of
Bath: A modern interpretation of Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath
(9:56).
School Projects and Other, um, Efforts
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Gap teeth:
Damn that Chaucer
fellow! (0:24).
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Chaucer:
A college project
about Chaucer by Schwofield.com (9:06).
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Chaucer: A Man, A Dream, A Legend:
Video about
Geoffrey Chaucer, author of the Canterbury Tales...a little
exaggerated (2:47). [Fine use of Legos!]
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Chaucer School Project:
A little
video that my friend Kaity and I made for English class. It's our
take on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Summoner's Tale (5:24).
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Chaucer: Undead in the 'Burbs:
low tech,
low budget zombie film (8:53).
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Bill Bailey-Chaucer Pubbe Gagge:
Bill Bailey
does a pub gag in the style of chaucer, very good, forget where i
nicked this from but sorry if its yours! (1:59).
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A Canterbury Tale:
This is a school
project for British Literature... Umm, don't ask about it's
relevance to Chaucer because there isn't much there (2:54). [Using
Rockwell Kent's images creatively.]
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Canterbury Tales Remix: The 10th anniversary of the Canterbury Tales
(5:57).
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ehap: Woman of Bath (5:35).
Chaucer Readings
Descriptions by contributors. [My comments in
square brackets.]
Google Academic Resourcess
See the
Poor Scholar's Medieval Library for reviewed, recommended
texts and related book lists.
Google Scholar
It's not perfect yet--not by a long
shot--but Google Scholar will no doubt develop into an
important research tool for students and scholars alike.
At this point,
Google Scholar is best used as a bibliographical resource.
It indexes academic material but doesn't yet make all of
that material available. In most cases, you'll have to
access your own institution's electronic databases and
library materials to get the full text versions.
Google Book
This project is also showing its growing pains, but it
makes a number of (primarily) older studies related to
Chaucer and medieval literature and culture. You can
contribute to the success of this effort by informing Google
of any incorrect scans, missing pages, or other errors.
You can review
the details of the somewhat controversial Google
Library Project. Only out-of-copyright books are
available in full. See the Electronic Canterbury Tales -
Online Books and Essays main page for a linked listing of
available texts.
Google Custom
Search:
You can search the web handpicked (by me and other
medievalists) websites related to
Chaucer and medieval culture.
I welcome your
suggestions
How to Document
Print & Electronic Sources:
The Chaucer Pedagogy
Documentation Primer
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An Excellent, Inexpensive, One-Volume Original Language Edition of the Canterbury Tales
Jill Mann's new Penguin Edition
Additional
Chaucer Pages in The Electronic Canterbury Tales
Chaucer the Pilgrim-Narrator & Author
Chaucer's "Orphan" Pilgrims
- Those without a Tale
The
Frame Tale, Later Continuations,
&
Chaucerian Apocrypha
Manuscripts,
Printed Editions, & Electronic Texts
Electronic
Chaucer Texts:
What's Available Online?
Chaucer
in / and Popular Culture
Troilus
and Criseyde
Documentation Primer
Chaucer Pedagogy Page
Something Extra?
Free Books!
The
Poor Medieval Scholar's Electronic Bookshelf
(no cost, older academic books,
in .pdf
form from the
Google Library Project &
Microsoft Book Search Live)
Cheap Books!
The
Electronic Canterbury Tales
Bookshop
(recommended books for the study of
Chaucer and Late-Medieval England)
The
Kankedort
Gift Shoppe
(with many serious and some silly offerings for the medievalist
in your
life)
Check out Geoffrey Chaucer
Hath a Blog, well, just because. And, no, it ain't me. And, no, I
don't get a piece of
this
either, but I like it!
Looking for Calls for Papers?
Call
for Papers database from the University of Pennsylvania CFP listserv
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