Comedy in Chaucer – which information sources?

Textbooks you’ve been referred to

You can find textbooks on your reading list by searching the library catalogue.

Click on the image to see how to interpret the information on your reading list and do a successful search

Textbooks on English comedyBy searching the library catalogue, you can find useful books which may bot be on your reading list. Here are some searches you can try. Textbooks on comedy on general may have useful information on comedy in Chaucer; if you search the library catalogue for textbooks on comedy, this is one of the results you’ll get.

Your results may depend on your search techniques. A subject search may work better than a keyword search for a wide subject like comedy.

Click on the blue question mark to see how to do one.

Textbooks on ChaucerYou could also do a subject search for textbooks about Chaucer in general.

Your search results might include books on Chaucer which, like the one shown below, contain sections on comedy (can you see which section?)

Or you could search specifically for comedy in Chaucer. A keyword search may be the best way to search for books about the relationship between two separate ideas, like “comedy” and “Chaucer”

Click on the green question mark to see how to do one.

Oxford Companion to English LiteratureThe Oxford Companion to English Literature is a reference book on English literature which can be searched online from the library web pages. Click on the image of Chaucer to see how to access it and do a search. Look at the image below to see the entry on Chaucer and check out how it compares with the information you might find in textbooks.

Journal articles you’ve been referred to

You can find journal articles on your reading list by searching the “E-journals A-Z” section of the library web pages.

Click on the image to see how to decide whether any of your reading list items are journal articles, and how to search for them successfully.

Finding Journal articles on comedy in Chaucer

If you haven’t been given any references to journal articles on your topic, you can use online databases like Project Muse to find some for yourself.

Click on the Project Muse icon to see the kind of information likely to be contained

in a journal article on comedy in Chaucer found by searching Project Muse.

Click on the image of Chaucer to see how to search Project Muse for articles on comedy in Chaucer

Websites

Websites may sometimes have good quality information on academic

topics….but sometimes the qualityis not so good!

Click on this image of Chaucer to check out how the Luminarium.org website deals with Chaucer

Wikipedia (online encyclopedia)

Now click on the image of Chaucer to check out

the Wikipedia entry (shown below)

Angelfire (website)

What do you think of the quality of the information

on the Angelfire Website?