Geoffrey Chaucer: A Sourcebook Book

	Series editor's preface
	Acknowledgements
	Abbreviations and referencing
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Life and Contexts	3
a	Chaucer's biography	5
i	Establishing dates	5
ii	Family background and early years	7
iii	Education	8
iv	The Ulster household	10
v	Royal service and connections with John of Gaunt	13
vi	Travels to Italy	15
vii	The case of Cecily Champaign	17
viii	Controller of Customs and the London years	18
ix	The Peasants' Revolt and the move to Kent	21
x	Time in Kent	22
xi	Clerk of the King's Works	23
xii	The return to London: the last years	26
b	Social, literary and historical contexts	29
i	War and chivalry	29
ii	Chivalry	30
iii	Courtly love and marriage	32
iv	Marriage and remarriage	33
v	Death, plague and revolt	34
vi	Church as institution	35
vii	Religion and philosophy	37
viii	Literary contexts	39
Pt. II	Work	45
a	Short verse	47
i	Three early short poems	48
ii	Other complaints	51
iii	Boethian ballades and envoys	55
b	The dream poems	61
i	The Romaunt of the Rose	62
ii	The Book of the Duchess	65
iii	The House of Fame	71
iv	The Parliament of Fowls	77
v	Prologue to The Legend of Good Women	81
c	Non-fiction prose	83
i	Boece	83
ii	A Treatise on the Astrolabe	86
iii	The Equatorie of Planetis	88
d	Troilus and Criseyde	89
e	Collections of Tales: The Legend of Good Women	100
i	The Legend of Good Women	102
ii	The pretext for writing the Legend	102
f	Collections of Tales: The Canterbury Tales	106
i	The 'whole' collection: manuscripts, texts and dates	106
ii	The General Prologue	107
iii	The Knight's Tale	110
iv	The Miller's Tale	113
v	The Reeve's Tale	115
vi	The Cook's Tale	117
vii	The Man of Law's Tale	118
viii	The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale	120
ix	The Friar's Tale	123
x	The Summoner's Tale	125
xi	The Clerk's Tale	126
xii	The Merchant's Tale	128
xiii	The Squire's Tale	129
xiv	The Franklin's Tale	130
xv	The Physician's Tale	132
xvi	The Pardoner's Tale	133
xvii	The Shipman's Tale	135
xviii	The Prioress's Tale	136
xix	The Tales of Sir Thopas and Melibee	138
xx	The Monk's Tale	140
xxi	The Nun's Priest's Tale	141
xxii	The Second Nun's Tale	142
xxiii	The Canon's Yeoman's Tale	144
xxiv	The Manciple's Tale	146
xxv	The Parson's Tale	148
xxvi	The Retraction	149
Pt. III	Criticism	151
a	Biography	156
b	Text, manuscripts, editing	157
c	Chaucer's language	161
d	Sources, literary background, rhetoric and poetics	162
e	Narrators, irony and satire	165
f	Historicism, old and new	169
g	Politics and ideology	172
h	Feminism and gender	174
i	Imitation, modernisation, allusion	179
	Chronology	183
	Bibliography	187
	Index	197