Summer Reading

Special Author Chaucer (dissertation)

Primary Reading:

Romaunt of the Rose Fragment A
Troilus and Criseyde
The Book of the Duchess
Parliament of Foules
The House of Fame
The Legend of Good Women


Also Handy:

Dante’s Divine Comedy
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Virgil's Aeneid


Secondary Reading:

Derek Pearsall, The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer (London, Blackwell, 1995)
A. C. Spearing, Medieval Dream Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976)
Derek Brewer, The World of Chaucer, new edition (Cambridge: Brewer, 2000)
Peter Brown, A Companion to Chaucer (Blackwell, 2000)
Steve Ellis (ed.), Chaucer: An Oxford Guide (OUP,2005)
Douglas Gray (ed.), An Oxford Companion to Chaucer (OUP,2003)



Medieval Dream and Vision

Piers Plowman XVIII, XX
Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, trans. E. Spearing, Penguin Classics, 1998
The Book of Margery Kempe, trans. Barry Windeatt, Penguin Classics, 1994


Medieval Drama

English Mystery Plays, ed. P. Happé (Penguin, 1975 )
G. A. Lester, Three Late Medieval Plays (New Mermaids Series, 2002)
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Theatre, ed. Richard Beadle (Cambridge, 1993)


Any other suggestions, particularly for secondary reading, would be very gratefully received!