Table of Contents
Introduction vii
Chronology xxi
The Book of the Duchess (c.1368) 3
The House of Fame (c.1379) 13
The Parliament of Fowls (early 1380s?) 25
Troilus and Criseyde (mid-1380s?) 53
Chaucers Wordes Unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn (mid/late 1380s?) 117
The Legend of Good Women (1386-7?) 119
Truth: Balade de Bon Conseyl (late 1380s?) 135
Lak of Stedfastnesse (late 1390s?) 139
Lenvoy de Chaucer a Scogan (1390s?) 143
The Canterbury Tales (c. 1388-1400) 147
General Prologue 148
The Knight 150
The Prioress 152
The Monk 155
The Clerk of Oxford 156
The Franklin 157
The Wife of Bath 158
The Reeve 159
The Summoner 160
The Pardoner 161
The Author makes his excuses 162
The Knight's Tale 164
The Miller's Tale 172
The Wife of Bath's Prologue 178
The Pardoner's Tale 187
The Merchant's Prologue 200
The Nun's Priest's Tale 203
The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale 212
The Manciple's Tale 217
'The Retractions', wherein 'Taketh the makere of this book his leve' 221
The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse 223