Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (dead ca. 1400) deserves a particular place : it is the most present poet on the web (and, generally, the most studied).

A portal is entirely dedicated to the poet, the Chaucer Metapage. It is a project which unites scholars from different places, located on the site of North Carolina University. Its director is Joseph Wittig, an eminent specialist of Chaucer. It is very complete and easy to use. It lists different sites on Chaucer, links to his works and his language, his time and life, bibliographies, as well as a general page on the Middle Ages. The Chaucer Metapage also offer the possibility to directly ask questions to teachers.
See also :
• The site on the Canterbury Tales of the University of Harvard, directed by Larry Benson (editor of the Riverside Chaucer, the edition of reference) is easy to acceed ; it is complet and pleasant to use. For each rubric, there is a presention and some links. Besides the presentation of the Tales, one can find pages on authors and literary genres linked to Chaucer.
• The site of Edwin Duncan on the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales is also very complete. The edition includes gloses and notes, and even courses. This professor of the university of Towson (Maryland) also maintain a general page on Chaucer, with links and a bibliography.
• The site of the New Chaucer Society includes informations on this society, its journal and links.

Bibliographies
• The Essential Chaucer, directed by M. Allen and J.H. Fisher (1987), includes more than 900 references between 1900 and 1984, organized by themes and by works.
• The bibliography of the journal Study of the Age of Chaucer, includes nearly all references on Chaucer since 1975. It is annotated but difficult to use. It is the bibliography recommanded by the New Chaucer Society.

Online editions
• Canterbury Tales, CME et E-Text, ed. F. N. Robinson de 1957 (the old edition of reference, on which the Riverside Chaucer is based).
There is also a modernised edition of some tales by Michael Murphy of the university of Brooklyn.
• Book of the Duchesse, OMACL, ed. W.W. Skeat, 1899, rev. by D.B. Killings.
• House of Fame, OMACL, ed. W.W. Skeat, 1899, and Labyrinth, ed. F. N. Robinson.
• Parliament of Fowles, OMACL, ed. W.W. Skeat, 1900.
• Troilus and Criseyde, CME et E-Text, ed. B.A.Windeatt, 1984 ; OMACL, ed. W.W. Skeat, 1900.
There is also a modernised version by Michael Murphy.
• Legend of Good Women, OMACL, ed. W.W. Skeat, 1900.
• A Treatise on the Astrolabe, CME, ed. W.W. Skeat, 1872.
• Translation of the De Consolatione philosophiae de Boèce, CME, ed. R. Morris, 1868 (with an introduction).
Note : the E-TEXT contains a numerized version of the Riverside Chaucer edited by Larry Benson, but the access is restricted.