This short bibliography includes works on topics addressed in the introductory materials to the edition.  It focuses on publications too recent to appear in the bibliographies of current print  editions, especially on topics of current interest such as gender and sexuality, but it lists earlier titles as well.  Many of these are still relevant to critical discussion, and others are useful as parts of the historical record and as reminders that today's outlooks are not inevitable; they too will pass.  Apart from the four general guides to Chaucer, all critical titles focus directly on Troilus and Criseyde.  All titles are print.  The online MLA International Bibliography conveniently offers an exhaustive list of published scholarship.  

 

General Guides to Chaucer

Boitani, Piero and Jill Mann, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer.  Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003.

Ellis, Steve, ed.  Chaucer: An Oxford Guide. Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.

Miller, Robert P., ed.  Chaucer: Sources and Backgrounds.  Oxford Univ. Press, 1977.

Rowland, Beryl, ed.  Companion to Chaucer Studies.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

General Guides to Troilus and Criseyde

Nuttall, Jenni.  Troilus and Criseyde: A Reader's Guide.  Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012.

Summit, Jennifer.  "Troilus and Criseyde."  In Seth Lerer, ed. and introd., The Yale Companion to Chaucer.  New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 2006.  213-42.

Windeatt, Barry.  Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde.  Oxford Univ. Press, 1995.

Chaucer's Principal Sources

Andreas Capellanus.  The Art of Courtly Love.  Ed. and tr. John Jay Parry.  New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1990.  [This treatise is not a direct source of the poem, and its importance to the tradition of chivalric literature has been overestimated, but it has been important to the critical tradition surrounding the literature of what the modern world has called courtly love.  And see W. T. H. Jackson, "The De Amore of Andreas Capellanus," listed below.]

Boethius.  The Consolation of Philosophy.  Ed. and  tr. V. W. Watts.  New York: Penguin, 1969.  [And see Chaucer's translation, Boece, in any standard complete edition of the works.]

Boccaccio, Giovanni.  The Book of Theseus: Teseida delle Nozze d'Emilia.  Ed. and tr. Bernadette McCoy.  New York: Medieval Text Association, 1974.

Geoffrey of Vinsauf.  Poetria Nova.  Tr. Margaret Nims.  Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1967.

Gordon, Robert Kay, ed. and tr.  The Story of Troilus: As told by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, Giovanni Boccaccio (translated into English prose), Geoffrey Chaucer, and Robert Henryson.  London: J. M. Dent, 1934.

Griffin, Nathaniel Edward and Arthur Beckwith Myrick, eds. and trs.  The Filostrato of Giovanni Boccaccio: A Translation With Parallel Text.  New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1928.

Ovid.  The Art of Love and Other Poems (Ars Amatoria).  J. H. Mozley, tr.  Harvard Univ. Press, 1979.

----------.  Heroides and Amores.  Grant Showerman, tr.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1977.

-----------.  Metamorphoses.  2 vols.  Frank J. Miller, tr.  Harvard Univ. Press, 1977.

Roncaglia, Aurelio, ed.  Giovanni Boccaccio: Teseida delle nozze d'Emilia.  Opere, vol. III.  Bari: Gius, Laterza & Fili, 1941.

Selected Criticism

Aers, David.  "Criseyde: Woman in Medieval Society."  Chaucer Review 13.3 (1979): 177-200.

Beidler, Peter G., ed. and introd.  Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.  Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1998.

Beric, Boris.  "Boccaccio's Il Filostrato and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: The Game of Fiction and Actual Life."  Real 23.2 (1998): 77-90.

Bloomfield, Morton W.  "Distance and Predestination in Troilus and Criseyde."  PMLA 72 (1957): 14-26.  Rpt. in Schoeck and Taylor, eds.  196-210.

---------.  "The Eighth Sphere: A Note on Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, V, 1809."  Modern Language Review 53 (1958): 408-10.

Braddy, Haldeen.  "Chaucer's Playful Pandarus."  Southern Folklore Quarterly 34 (1970): 71-81.

Brody, Saul.  "Making a Play for Criseyde: The Staging of Pandarus's House in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde."  Speculum 73 (1998): 115-40.

Boughner, Daniel C.  "Elements of Epic Grandeur in the Troilus" [1939].  In Schoeck and Taylor, eds.  186-95.

Cartlidge, Neil.  "Criseyde's Absent Friends."  Chaucer Review 44.3 (2010): 227-45.

Carton, Evan.  "Complicity and Responsibility in Pandarus' Bed and Chaucer's Art."  PMLA 94 (1979): 47-61.

Conlee, John.  "The Meaning of Troilus' Ascension to the Eighth Sphere."  Chaucer Review 7.1 (1970): 27-36.

Curry, Walter Clyde.  "Destiny in Troilus and Criseyde" [1926].  In Schoeck and Taylor, eds.  34-70. 

David, Alfred.  "Chaucerian Comedy and Criseyde."  In Salu, ed.  90-104.

Denomy, Alexander Denomy, CSB.  "The Two Moralities of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde" [1950].  In Schoeck and Taylor, eds.  147-59.

Dinshaw, Carolyn.  "Reading Like a Man: The Critics, the Narrator, Troilus, and Pandarus."  Chapter One in Chaucer's Sexual Poetics.  Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1989.  28-64.

Dodd, William G.  "The System of Courtly Love" [1913].  In Schoeck and Taylor, eds.  1-15.

Donaldson, E. T.  "Chaucer's Three P's: Pandarus, Pardoner, and Poet."  Michigan Quarterly Review 14 (Summer, 1975): 282-301.

----------.  Speaking of Chaucer.  London: Athlone Press, 1970.

Eldredge, Laurence.  "Boethian Epistemology and Chaucer's Troilus in the Light of Fourteenth-Century Thought."  Mediaevalia 2 (1976): 50-75.

Fehrenbacher, Richard.  "'Al That Which Chargeth Nought to Seye': The Theme of Incest in Troilus and Criseyde."  Exemplaria 9.2 (1997): 341-69.

Frankis, John.  "Paganism and Pagan Love in Troilus and Criseyde."  In Salu, ed.  57-72.

Freiwald, Leah.  "'Swych Love of Frendes': Pandarus and Troilus."  Chaucer Review 6 (1971): 120-29. 

Fries, Maureen.  "'Slydynge of Corage': Chaucer's Criseyde as Feminist and Victim."  In Arlyn Diamond and Lee Edwards, eds., The Authority of Experience: Essays in Feminist Criticism.  Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1977.  45-59.

Gaylord, Alan.  "The Lesson of the Troilus: Chastisement and Correction."  In Salu, ed.  23-42.

Giancarlo, Matthew.  "The Structure of Fate and the Devising of History in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde."  Studies in the Age of Chaucer 26 (2004): 227-66.

Gilles, Sealy.  "Love and Disease in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde."  Studies in the Age of Chaucer 25 (2003): 157-97.

Gordon, Ida.  The Double Sorrow of Troilus.  London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1970.

Grady, Frank.  "The Boethian Reader of Troilus and Criseyde."  Chaucer Review 33.3 (1999): 230-51.

Green, Richard F.  "Troilus and the Game of Love."  Chaucer Review 13 (1979): 201-20.

Guthrie, Steven R.  "Chivalry and Privacy in Troilus and Criseyde and La Chastelaine de Vergy.  Chaucer Review 34.2 (1999).  150-73.

Haahr, Joan.  "Criseyde's Inner Debate: The Dialectic of Enamorment in the Filostrato and the Troilus.  Studies in Philology, 89.3 (1992): 257-71.

Hatcher, Elizabeth.  "Chaucer and the Psychology of Fear: Troilus in Book V."  ELH 40.3 (1973): 307-24.

Hill, John M.  "The Countervailing Aesthetic of Joy in Troilus and Criseyde."  Chaucer Review 39.3 (2005): 280-97.

Ingham, Patricia.  "Chaucer's Haunted Aesthetics: Mimesis and Tradition in Troilus and Criseyde."  College English 72.3 (2010): 226-47.

Jackson, W. T. H.  "The De Amore of Andreas Capellanus and the Practice of Love at Court."  Romanic Review 49 (1958): 243-51.  Rpt. in Joan Ferrante and Robert W. Hanning, eds.  The Challenge of the Medieval Text.  New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1985.

Jost, Jean.  "Intersecting the Ideal and the Real, Chivalry and Rape, Respect and Dishonor: The Problematics of Sexual Relationships in Troilus and Criseyde, Athelston, and Sir Tristrem."  In Albrecht Classen, ed., Sexuality in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age: New Approaches to a Fundamental Cultural-Historical and Literary Anthropological Theme.  Berlin: de Gruyter, 2008.  599-632.

Kaske, R. E.  "The Aube in Chaucer's Troilus" [1959].  In Schoeck and Taylor, eds.  167-79.

Kaylor, Noel Harold.  "Boethian Resonances in Chaucer's 'Canticus Troili.'"  Chaucer Review 27 (1993): 219-27.

Kaylor, Noel Harold.  "Re-Examining Geoffrey Chaucer's Work in an Age of Globalization: Troilus and Criseyde and Chaucer's Global Perspective."  In Noel Harold Kaylor and Richard Nokes, eds. and introds., Global Perspectives on Middle English Literature, Language, and Culture.  Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute, 2007.  133-53.

Kirby, Thomas.  Chaucer's Troilus: A Study in Courtly Love.  Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1959.

Kittredge, George Lyman.  Chaucer and His Poetry (1915).  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1946.

Knapp, Peggy.  "The Nature of Nature: Criseyde's 'Slydyng Corage.'"  Chaucer Review, 13.2  (1978): 133-40.

Koster, Jo.  "Privitee, Habitus, and Proximity: Conduct and Domestic Space in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.  Essays in Medieval Studies 24 (2007): 79-91.

Lambert, Mark.  "Troilus, Books I-III: A Criseydan Reading."  In Salu, ed.  105-25.

Lewis, C. S. The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition (1936).  New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1976.

----------.  "What Chaucer Really Did to Il Filostrato."  Essays and Studies 17 (1932): 56-75.  Rpt. in Schoeck and Taylor, eds.  16-33.

Lim, Gary.  "'Thus Gan He Make a Mirour of His Mynde': Fragmented Memories and Anxious Desire in Troilus and Criseyde."  Neophilologus 93.2 (2009): 339-56.

McAlpine, Monica.  The Genre of Chaucer's Troilus.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 1978.

McKinnell, John.  "Letters as a Type of the Formal Level in Troilus and Criseyde."  In Salu, ed.  73-89.

Maguire, John.  "The Clandestine Marriage of Troilus and Criseyde."  Chaucer Review 8 (1974): 262-78.

Meech, Sanford.  Design in Chaucer's Troilus.  Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1959.

Mieszkowski, Gretchen.  "Chaucer's Much-Loved Criseyde." Chaucer Review 26.2 (1991): 109-32.

----------.  "Chaucer's Pandarus and Jean Brasdefer's Houdée."  Chaucer Review 20.1 (1985): 40-60. 

Nair, Sashi.  "'O brotel wele of mannes joie unstable': Gender and Philosophy in Troilus and Criseyde."  Parergon 23.2 (2006): 35-56.

Owen, Charles A.  "The Significance of Chaucer's Revisions of Troilus and Criseyde" [1957].  In Schoeck and Taylor, eds.  160-66.

Patch, Howard Rollin.  "Troilus on Predestination" [1929].  In Schoeck and Taylor. eds.  71-85.

Pearcy, Roy J.  "'And Nysus Doughter Song with Fressh Entente': Tragedy and Romance in Troilus and Criseyde."  Studies in the Age of Chaucer 24 (2002): 269-97.

Pugh, Tison, ed.  Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the Shorter Poems.  New York: Modern Language Association, 2007.

----------.  "Queer Pandarus?  Silence and Sexual Ambiguity in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde."  Philological Quarterly, 80.1 (2001): 17-35.

Pugh, Tison and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds.  Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.  Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008.

Robertson, D. W.  "Chaucerian Tragedy."  English Literary History 19 (1952): 1-37.  Rpt. in Schoeck and Taylor, eds.  86-121.

Robertson, Elizabeth.  "Public Bodies and Psychic Domains: Rape, Consent, and Female Subjectivity in Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde."  In Elizabeth Robertson, ed. and introd.; Christine M. Rose, ed. and introd.; and Christopher Cannon, afterword, Representing Rape in Medival and Early Modern Literature.  New York: Palgrave, 2001.  281-310.

Salu, Mary, ed.  Chaucer Studies III: Essays on Troilus and Criseyde.  Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979.

Sams, Henry W.  "The Dual-Time Scheme in Chaucer's Troilus" [1941].  In Schoeck and Taylor, eds.  180-85.

Schoeck, Richard J. and Jerome Taylor, eds.  Troilus and Criseyde and The Minor Poems.  Chaucer Criticism, Vol. II.  New York: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1961.

Shanley, James Lyndon.  "The Troilus and Christian Love" [1939].  In Schoeck and Taylor, eds.  136-46.

Steinberg, Diane Venner.  "'We Do Usen Here No Wommen for to Selle': Embodiment of Social Practices in  Troilus and Criseyde."  Chaucer Review, 29.3 (1995): 259-73.

Stevens, Martin.  "The Winds of Fortune in the Troilus."  Chaucer Review 13 (1979): 285-307.

Stroud, Theodore.  "Boethius' Influence on Chaucer's Troilus" [1951].  In Schoeck and Taylor, eds.  122-35.

Tatlock, John Strong Perry and Arthur G. Kennedy.  A Concordance to the Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and to the Romaunt of the Rose.  Washington: Carnegie Institute, 1927.

Vitto, Cindy and Marcia Smith, eds. and introds.  New Perspectives on Criseyde.  Asheville, NC: Pegasus, 2004.

Warren, Victoria.  "(Mis)Reading the 'Text' of Criseyde: Content and Identity in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde."  Chaucer Review, 36.1 (2001): 1-15.

Wetherbee, Winthrop.  Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 1984.

Wimsatt, James I.  "Guillaume de Machaut and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde."  Medium Aevum 45 (1976): 277-93.

----------.  "Realism in Troilus and Criseyde and the Roman de la Rose."  In Salu, ed.  43-56.

Windeatt, Barry.  "Chaucer and the Filostrato."  In Piero Boitani, ed.  Chaucer and the Italian Trecento.  Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983.  163-83.

----------.  "'Love that oughte ben secree' in Chaucer's Troilus."  Chaucer Review 14 (1979): 116-31.

----------.  "Troilus and the Disenchantment of Romance."  In Derek Brewer, ed.  Studies in Medieval English Romances: Some New Approaches.  Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1988.  129-47.

Zimmerman, Harold.  "Kingship, Fatherhood, and the Abdication of History in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde."  Neophilologus, 98.1 (2014): 129-44.

Editions of the Poem and Commentaries on the Textual Tradition  

Adams, Robert.  "Editing and the Limitations of the Durior Lectio."  Yearbook of Langland Studies 5 (1991): 7-15.  Print.

Barney, Stephen, ed.  Troilus and Criseyde [edited text and notes].  In Larry D. Benson, general editor, The Riverside Chaucer, Third Edition.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.

Baugh, Albert C.  Chaucer's Major Poetry.  New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1963.

Brewer, Derek.  "Observations on the Text of Troilus."  In P. L. Heyworth, ed., Medieval Studies for J. A. W. Bennett.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981.  121-38.

Donaldson, E. T., ed.  Chaucer's Poetry: An Anthology for the Modern Reader.  New York: Ronald Press, 1958.

Fisher, John, ed.  The Complete Poetry and Prose of Geoffrey Chaucer.  New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977.

Furnivall, F. J., ed.  A Parallel-Text Print of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.  Chaucer Society Publications, First Series, 63, 64.  London: Trübner, 1894.  Rpt. New York: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1967.

-----------, ed.  Three More Parallel Texts of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.  Chaucer Society Publications, First Series, 87, 88.  London: Oxford Univ. Press.  Rpt. New York: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1967.

Hanna, Ralph.  "The Manuscripts and Transmission of Chaucer's Troilus."  In James Dean and Christian Zacher, eds., The Idea of Medieval Literature.  Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1992.  173-88.

Howard, Donald and James Dean, eds., Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Selected Short Poems.  New York: Signet Classics, 1976.

Parkes, M. B. and Elizabeth Salter, introds.  Troilus and Criseyde, Geoffrey Chaucer: A Facsimile of Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 61.  Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1978.

Pratt, Robert A.  "A Note on Chaucer's Lollius."  Modern Language Notes 65 (1950): 183-87.

Root, Robert K., ed.  The Book of Troilus and Criseyde.  Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1926.

----------.  The Manuscripts of Chaucer's Troilus.  London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1914. [Not an edition but a description of the manuscripts.]

----------.  The Textual Tradition of Chaucer's Troilus.  Chaucer Society Publications, First Series, 99.  New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1916.

Robinson, F. N., ed.  The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Second Edition.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957.

Rossetti, William Michael, ed.  Chaucer's Troylus and Cryseyde (from the Harleian MS. 3943) Compared with Boccaccio's Filostrato.  Chaucer Society Publications, First Series, 44, 65.  London, 1873.

----------, ed.  The Book of Troilus and Criseyde.  Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1926.

Ruggiers, Paul G. ed.  Editing Chaucer: The Great Tradition.  Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, 1984.

Skeat, Walter W., ed.  The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.  London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1894.

Tarlinskaya, Marlina.  "The Syllabic Structure and Meter of English Verse from the Thirteenth through the Nineteenth Century."  Language and Style 6 (1973): 249-72.

Windeatt, Barry, ed.  Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde.  New York: Penguin, 2003.

----------.  "The Text of the Troilus."  In Salu, ed.  1-22.

Language and Versification

This brief list includes mainly technical analyses.  More general discussions appear in the introductory materials to modern editions of Chaucer.

Barney, Steven A.  "Chaucer's Troilus: Meter and Grammar."  In Gaylord, ed.  163-91.

Brink, Bernhard Ten.  The Language and Metre of Chaucer [1884].  2nd ed.  Rev. Friedrich Kluge.  Trans. M. Bentinck Smith.  New York: Macmillan, 1901.

Donaldson, E. T.  "Chaucer's Final -E."  PMLA, 63 (1948): 1101-24.

-----------.  "Chaucer's Final -E (Continued)."  PMLA 64 (1949): 609.

Fisiak, Jacek.  A Short Grammar of Middle English.  Trans Lucja Mscichowska.  Warsaw: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1968.

Gaylord, Alan, ed. and introd.  Essays on the Art of Chaucer's Verse.  New York: Routledge, 2001. 

Gaylord, Alan.  "Scanning the Prosodists: An Essay in Metacriticism."  Chaucer Review 11 (1976): 22-82.  Rpt. in Gaylord, ed.  79-129. 

Guthrie, Steven R.  "Babcock's Curve and the Problem of Chaucer's Final -E," English Studies, 69 (1988), 386-95.

----------.  "Chaucer's French Pentameter."  Unpublished Brown University dissertation. 1985.

----------.  "Prosody and the Study of Chaucer: A Generative Reply to Halle-Keyser."  Chaucer Review 23.1 (1988), 30-49.  Rpt. in Gaylord, ed.  145-61.

----------.  "Shall and Will in Troilus and Criseyde," English Studies,  73 (1992), 481-92.

Jacobson, Rodolfo.  The London Dialect of the Late Fourteenth Century: A Transformational Analysis in Historical Linguistics.  Janua Linguarum, Series Practica, 97.  The Hague: Mouton, 1970.

Kerkhof, J.  Studies in the Language of Chaucer.  Leiden: Universitaire Pers, 1966.

Kittredge, George Lyman.  Observations on the Language of Chaucer's Troilus.  Chaucer Society Publications, Second Series, 28.  London: Kegan Paul, 1891.

Kökeritz, Helge.  A Guide to Chaucer's Pronunciation.  New Haven, CT: Whitlock's, 1954.

McJimsey, Ruth Buchanan.  Chaucer's Irregular -E: A Demonstration among Monosyllabic Nouns of the Exceptions to Grammatical and Metrical Harmony.  Morningside Heights, NY: King's Crown Press, 1942.

Michio, Masui.  The Structure of Chaucer's Rime Words: An Exploration into the Poetic Language of Chaucer.  Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1964.

Mustanoja, Tauno.  A Middle English Syntax.  Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki, XXIII.  Helsinki: Société Néophilologique, 1960.

Pearsall, Derek.  "Chaucer's Meter: The Evidence of the Manuscripts."  In Gaylord, ed.  131-44.

Traugott, Elizabeth Closs.  A History of English Syntax.  New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972.

Windeatt, Barry.  "'Most conservatyf the soun': Chaucer's Troilus Metre."  Poetica (Tokyo) 8 (1977): 44-60.