Contents
- Preface
- A Quick Course on Chaucer’s Language
- The Texts of Dream Visions and Other Poems
- The Book of the Duchess
- Introduction
- The Book of the Duchess
- The House of Fame
- Introduction
- The House of Fame
- The Parliament of Fowls
- Introduction
- The Parliament of Fowls
- The Legend of Good Women
- Introduction
- The Prologue to The Legend of Good Women
- The Legendary: Cleopatra, Thisbe, Did, Hypsipyle and Medea
- The Legendary: Lucrece, Ariadne, Philomela, Phyllis, Hypermnestra
- “Anelida and Arcite”
- Introduction
- “Anelida and Arcite”
- Short Poems
- Introduction
- “An A.B.C.”
- “Chaucer’s Words to Adam, His Own Scribe”
- “Merciless Beauty”
- “To Rosemounde”
- “Truth”
- “Gentilesse"
- “Lack of Steadfastness”
- “Envoy to Scogan”
- “Envoy to Bukton”
- “The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse”
- Contexts
- Ruth Evans • From Chaucer in Cyberspace: Medieval Technologies of Memory and The House of Fame
- Publius Virgilius Maro (“Virgil”) • From The Aeneid
- Publius Ovidius Naso (“Ovid”) • From the Heroides and the Metamorphoses
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- From Scipio’s Dream
- From Commentary on Scipio’s Dream
- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius • From The Consolation of Philosophy
- Alain de Lille • From The Complaint of Nature
- Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun • From The Romance of the Rose
- Dante Alighieri • From The Divine Comedy
- Guillaume de Machaut • From The Fountain of Love
- Giovanni Boccaccio • From The Book of Theseus
- Criticism
- Charles Muscatine • From Chaucer’s Early Poems
- A.C. Spearing • The Parliament of Fowls
- R. T. Lenaghan From Chaucer’s Circle of Gentlemen and Clerks
- Richard Firth Green • Chaucer’s Victimized Women
- Elaine Tuttle Hansen • The Feminization of Men in Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women
- Steve Kruger • From Medical and Moral Authority in the Late Medieval Dream
- Geoffrey Chaucer: A Chronology
- Selected Bibliography
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