Chaucer Works Online

Vanilla text file of the work with every line numbered. Prepared by Douglas B. Killings for the Online Medieval & Classical Library.

In addition to a "reading edition" of the book with glossary and notes, this site has transcriptions of manuscript and early print copies of the work, Old French and Latin sources, divided screen comparisons, and more to come.

Some minor design flaws hinder this ambitious presentation, but once accustomed to the navigation menu you'll find the site worthwhile. Choose your tale and view it in Middle English, Modern English, both versions facing, or both versions interpolated.

This edition provides a useful glossary; definitions appear in the lower frame when you click the hyperlinked word in the text. Text edited and glossary created by Sinan Kökbugur.

An extensive introduction accompanies the prologue and four tales, in Middle English but put into modern spelling by Michael Murphy. Tales can be viewed with an Acrobat plug-in or downloaded for viewing or printing with Acrobat reader.

Vanilla text of the entire work, all in one file.

Though still a work in progress, most tales are online and are cleanly presented in the original Middle English, quite suitable for printing.

Very attractive presentation of the preamble and each of the prologues in modern English, by Tony Sewell. A downloadable Word 6 file is also available.

The original Middle English versions of all the prologues are displayed side-by-side with Modern English translations, in very small type to accomodate both, at Paul Halsall's Medieval Sourcebook.

Prepared by Walter Stewart, the work is available in three separate segments or all in one file. Cleanly presented in the original Middle English with line numbers every five lines; suitable for printing at the Labyrinth Library.

Vanilla text file of the work with every line numbered. Prepared by Douglas B. Killings for the Online Medieval & Classical Library.

F. N. Robinson edition of the ballad in Middle English at Art Bin Magazine.

Vanilla text files of the work in Middle English with line numbers, prepared by Douglas B. Killings for the Online Medieval & Classical Library.

Vanilla text file of the work in Middle English with every line numbered, prepared by Douglas B. Killings for the Online Medieval & Classical Library.

Clean HTML version of the F. N. Robinson edition, in Middle English, at Art Bin Magazine.

The oldest known "technical manual" in the English language, Chaucer's treatise was prepared for the son of a friend and is unfinished. This version is the F. N. Robinson edition, online at Art Bin Magazine.

The work in five files, bold vanilla-text without line numbers, taken from the Project Gutenberg edition.

Vanilla text versions of the book, available in five segments or all in one file, with line numbers. Prepared by Douglas B. Killings for the Online Medieval & Classical Library.

The entire work in Middle English, as well as Robert Henryson's sequel The Testament of Cresseid, put into modern spelling by Michael Murphy. Files can be viewed with an Acrobat plug-in or downloaded for viewing or printing with Acrobat reader.