Of all Chaucer's extended narratives, The Legend of Good Women has proved most resistant to modern appreciation. At best, it is considered problematic; at worst, it is ...

Proposes that Troilus was intended for live performance (by Chaucer himself?) and discusses the use of useless (to readers) words and phrases, the different moods of ...

Chaucer used the dream device to engage with the work of French and Italian authors and to explore the philosophical content of their poetry. His four dream visions therefore ...

Dream literature is regarded as one of the most important genres in medieval literature and is widely studied. This text provides a succinct and clear introduction to the five ...

Chaucer's Agents draws on medieval and modern theories of agency to provide fresh readings of the major Chaucerian texts. Collectively, those readings aim to illuminate Chaucer ...

This book explores the Chain of Love, a Platonic metaphor for the invisible bond between Creator and Creation, for the space between beginnings and ends of temporal succession ...

A detailed study of Chaucer's fascination with communication as a reciprocal process between speaker and listener', which considers the importance of discourse for social order ...