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Electronic
Canterbury Tales - Kankedort.Net Index Page
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The Canterbury
Tales in Middle English
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The Canterbury
Tales in Translation
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General
Historical & Cultural Backgrounds
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Sources,
Analogues, & Related Texts
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Online Notes &
Commentary
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Online Articles
& Books
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Student Projects
& Essays
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Online
Bibliography
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Syllabi & Course
Descriptions
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Images &
Multimedia
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Audio Files &
Language Helps
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Potpourri
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Additional
Resources
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Scholar's
Dozen
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What's New? Recent Additions to the ECT
Web Resources by Tale
Electronic
Canterbury Tales - Kankedort.Net Index Page
Fragment I / Group A
The General Prologue
The Knight's Tale
The Miller's Prologue &
Tale
The Reeve's Prologue & Tale
The Cook's Prologue & Tale
Fragment II / Group B1
The Man of Law's
Introduction, Prologue, Tale, & Epilogue
Fragment III /
Group D
The Wife of Bath's
Prologue & Tale
The Friar's Prologue & Tale
The Summoner's
Prologue
& Tale
Fragment IV /
Group E
The
Clerk's Prologue & Tale
The Merchant's Prologue,
Tale, & Epilogue
Fragment V / Group F
The
Squire's Introduction & Tale
The Franklin's
Prologue
& Tale
Fragment VI /
Group C
The Physician's Tale
The Pardoner's Introduction,
Prologue, & Tale
Fragment VII /
Group B2
The Shipman's Tale
The Prioress's Prologue
& Tale
The
Prologue & Tale
of Sir Thopas
The Tale of Melibee
The Monk's Prologue & Tale
The Nun's Priest's Prologue,
Tale, & Epilogue
Fragment VIII /
Group G
The
Second Nun's Prologue & Tale
The Canon's Yeoman's
Prologue & Tale
Fragment IX /
Group H
The Manciple's
Prologue & Tale
Fragment X /
Group I
The Parson's Prologue
& Tale
The Retraction
The Electronic Canterbury Tales:
Troilus
and Criseyde
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An Online Compendium and Companion
to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
WHAT'S NEW?
The
Franklin's Tale
1. In Middle English
The Franklin's
Words to the Squire, the Franklin's
Prologue, and the Franklin's
Tale at the UVa Electronic Text Center.
Read the
Franklin's Prologue and Tale in the context of Fragment
V - Group F.
2. In Modern English Translation
Scott Gettman's edition of the Canterbury Tales
(Electronic Literature Foundation) is accessible by individual tale & available in a
variety of formats: Middle English, Modern English, Facing Page, & Interpolated
- Glossed (frames; from unknown base text).
- Although unsuitable for formal research or college work, the
ELF is the best online version for younger readers and those unfamiliar with Middle
English. Easily navigable, and the Middle English glosses are very helpful.
The General Prologue and
the Marriage Group has been modernized by Michael Murphy (CUNY-Brooklyn), each tale
featuring a handsome introduction. Read the
Franklin's
Prologue and Tale. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.
The Litrix Reading Room translation
of the Canterbury Tales features rhyming couplets.
Sinan Kökbugur's helpfully glossed hypertext Middle English rendition of the complete Canterbury Tales is available at the Librarius page. Use the Table of
Contents in the left frame to click on a specific Tale, and difficult terms and phrases
are glossed in the lower frame.
Skip
Knox's selection
of Canterbury Tales in Modern English (Boise State) includes the Franklin's
Interruption of the Squire & the Prologue to the
Franklin's Tale (from an unknown base text).
3. Historical & Cultural Backgrounds
4. Sources, Analogues, & Related Texts
Chaucer called
the Franklin's Tale a "lai":
- "Thise olde gentl Britouns in hir
dayes
Of diverse aventures maden layes,
Rymeyed in hir firste Briton tonge,
Whiche layes with hir instrumentes they songe,
Or elles redden hem for hir plesaunce;
And oon of hem have I in remembraunce" (V.709-14)
In the late 12th century, Marie de France
composed a series of wonderful lais, short narrative poems involving courtly
figures, marvelous plots, and celtic influences, and set them in a frame
with a prologue. Judith P. Shoaf (U of Florida) has generously
provided verse translations of most of Marie's
Lais:
Marie's Lais and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
can profitably be read in tandem, to the mutual enhancement of both!
5. Online Notes & Commentary
Discussion and links concerning the Franklin's Prologue and
Tale on Larry D. Benson's superlative Geoffrey
Chaucer Page (Harvard). Includes e-texts of scholarly essays, sources and ancillary
texts, and capsule discussions of key issues. Some of the items related to the Franklin's
Tale include:
6. Online Articles & Books
A generous
new online publishing venture: The
University of California E-Scholarship Editions. "University of
California Press now offers electronic versions of almost all of its
journal titles and over 1400 books online, many of them out of print."
E-journals are available to subscriber institutions; 400 full texts, many
covering medieval topics, are available to the general public; the rest to
members of the UC community.
Academic studies from the University of
California Press related to the Franklin's Tale include:
- Bloch, R.
Howard, and Frances Ferguson, eds. Misogyny,
Misandry, and Misanthropy. (Berkeley: U of California P, 1989).
- Elaine Tuttle Hanson's Chaucer and
the Fictions of Gender (Berkeley: U of California P, 1992).
- Laura Kendrick's Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the
Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: U of California P, 1988).
- H. Marshall Leicester's The Disenchanted Self: Representing the
Subject in the Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: U of California P,
1990).
Chaucer Sourcebook, from the
Harvard Chaucer Page, offers a number of classic and professional essays from noted
Chaucerians, including:
- George Lyman Kittredge, "Chaucer's
Discussion of Marriage," Modern Philology 9 (1911-1912): 435-67.
Perhaps one of the most important articles in all of Chaucer studies. Set the debate
concerning "the marriage group."
- David Aers, "Chaucer: Love, Sex and
Marriage," from Chaucer,Langland, and the Creative Imagination, 1980, pp. 143-70.
7. Student Projects & Essays
Anniina Jokkinen's Essays and Articles on Chaucer
includes a number of sample student essays, of varying quality. Like any other
source, student essays must be evaluated rigorously, cited correctly, and used
responsibly.
8. Online Bibliography
9. Syllabi & Course
Descriptions
10. Images & Multimedia
11. Language Helps & Audio Files
Sample
audio files (.wav, .au, .aiff) from the Franklin's
Tale, recorded at the 7th International Congress of the New Chaucer Society,
University of Kent at Canterbury, 1990, are available from the Chaucer Studio (Paul
Thomas, Brigham Young).
12. Potpourri
13. The
Next Step
Google Academic Resources
Google Scholar
Google Book
Google Custom
Search:
I welcome your
suggestions for suitable websites. Please be patient as
I tune the search terms.
The
Poor Medieval Scholar's
Electronic Bookshelf
and
The
Electronic Canterbury Tales
Bookshop
This subpage of
the Electronic Canterbury Tales offers several
features:
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The Poor Scholar's
Electronic Bookshelf: No cost books (generally
older studies) available via the Google Books project and other
public online projects.
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The ECT Bookshop:
Scroll down to the Electronic
Canterbury Tales Bookshop (with recommended titles) hosted by
Amazon.com.
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Online Search Links
will take you to
major online booksellers and homepages to lesser-known but
excellent specialty bookshops.
I'll cross-list the
recommended Google Books on the appropriate webpage throughout the Electronic
Canterbury Tales under
Online Articles
& Books (on the expanded Electronic
Canterbury Tales - Kankedort.Net Index Page) and also detail them on the webpages devoted to specific Canterbury Tales or associated
pages).
This will be an ongoing
project, so check back periodically for new finds!
How to Document
Print & Electronic Sources:
The Chaucer Pedagogy
Documentation Primer
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The
Poor Medieval Scholar's Electronic Bookshelf
(no cost, older academic books, in .pdf
form from the
Google Library Project)
The
Electronic Canterbury Tales
Bookshop
(recommended books for the study of
Chaucer and Late-Medieval England, hosted by Amazon.com)
The
Kankedort
Gift Shoppe
(with many serious and some silly offerings for the medievalist in your
life)
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Manuscripts,
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Troilus
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Documentation Primer
Chaucer Pedagogy Page
Major Medieval Conferences Websites
International
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