Luminarium
Luminarium: Sources of Additional Information on Chaucer
Links to resources devoted to Chaucer: biographies, bibliographies, discussion groups, images, works, and the like.
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).
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Selected Poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer
Click on numbers 1-10 for Middle English versions of the most famous of Geoffrey Chaucer's prologues and tales from "The Canterbury Tales." Other links will take you to more of Chaucer's works.
Other
Online Companion to Middle English Literature: Geoffrey Chaucer
A resource from Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf. Provides a short biography of Geoffrey Chaucer and links to pages describing some of his best-known writings.
Harvard University
The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Other Authors
This site from The Geoffrey Chaucer Page contains links to many other authors whose work was related to or influenced Chaucer's. Includes links to Petrarch, Dante, Boccaccio, Boethius and more. A great site to check out on the subject.
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.
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
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.
Towson University
Towson University: Edwin Duncan, ph.d.: A Basic Chaucer Glossary
A glossary of the modern equivalents of words most often found in Chaucer's works.
University of Alberta
University of Alberta: Lydgate Project: Chaucer Bibliography
Extensive bibliography of published reference works on Chaucer, his times, and his work.
California Digital Library
E Scholarship Editions: The Naked Text: Chaucer's Legend of Good Women
University professor Sheila Delany takes Chaucer's poem "Legend of Good Women" as the basis for a scholarly work that examines the ideas in and surrounding the poem. Follow this link to access the publication in full.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: A Close Reading of Chaucer's 'The Merchant's Prologue and Tale'
This article introduces 'The Merchant's Prologue and Tale', exploring the way in which it combines literary genres and traditions, and refuses to give the reader a clear moral or message.
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.
Harvard University
The Harvard Chaucer Page: The Great Vowel Shift
This site from The Geoffrey Chaucer Page provides examples showing the difference between Chaucer's language and our own. The name of the site is the Great Vowel Shift and the text provided is medium in length, with several examples...
Harvard University
The Harvard Chaucer Page: "Flower and the Leaf"
John Dryden's (1631-1700)translation from the middle English of a poem once attributed to Chaucer. Preface to The Fables (1700)Modern English translation by John Dryden of Chaucer's "The Flower and the Leaf."
Harvard University
Harvard's Chaucer Page: Compare Chaucer & Petrarch
Chaucer, in his "Canticus Troili" from Book One of "Troilus and Criseyda," draws from Petrarch's "If Love Does Not Exist." The former is written in Middle English, the latter in Italian, both without glossaries or further translation, so...
Other
Berkeley Digital Library: Troilus & Criseyde
This site gives the middle English text of Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde." No notes or glossing.