Dream Visions/Oth Poems Nce Pa

The texts are extensively glossed and are accompanied by individual introductions and explanatory annotations. A lightly regularized system of spellings has been adopted. No prior knowledge of Chaucer is assumed. #xE2;#x80;#x9C;Contexts#xE2;#x80;#x9D; connects the poems to their classical and medieval foundations and includes works by Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Boethius, Dante, and Boccaccio, among others. From the wealth of scholarly work available, the editor has chosen for #xE2;#x80;#x9C;Criticism#xE2;#x80;#x9D; six essays that address the poems#xE2;#x80;#x99; central themes. Contributors include Charles Muscatine, A. C. Spearing, R. T. Lenaghan, Richard Firth Green, Elaine Tuttle Hansen, and Steven Kruger. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

A quick course in Chaucer's language
The book of the Duchess	p. 3
The house of fame : book 1	p. 43
The house of fame : book 2	p. 55
The house of fame : book 3	p. 69
The parliament of fowls	p. 93
The legend of good women	p. 117
The prologue to the legend of good women	p. 122
Cleopatra	p. 137
Thisbe	p. 141
Dido	p. 146
Hypsipyle and Medea	p. 156
Lucrece	p. 164
Ariadne	p. 169
Philomela	p. 177
Phyllis	p. 181
Hypermnestra	p. 185
Anelida and Arcite	p. 191
An ABC	p. 211
Chaucer's words to Adam, his own scribe	p. 216
Merciless beauty	p. 217
To Rosemounde	p. 218
Truth	p. 219
Gentilesse	p. 220
Lack of steadfastness	p. 221
Envoy to Scogan	p. 222
Envoy to Bukton	p. 224
The complaint of Chaucer to his purse	p. 225
From Chaucer in cyberspace : medieval technologies of memory and the House of Fame	p. 229
From the Aeneid	p. 231
From the Heroides	p. 245
From the Metamorphoses	p. 251
From Scipio's Dream	p. 258
From the commentary on Scipio's dream	p. 265
From the consolation of philosophy	p. 268
From the complaint of nature	p. 273
From the romance of the rose	p. 275
From the divine comedy	p. 282
From the fountain of love	p. 284
From the book of Theseus (Il Teseide)	p. 299
Prom Chaucer's early poems	p. 307
[The parliament of fowls as dream-poetry]	p. 325
From Chaucer's circle of gentlemen and clerks	p. 335
Chaucer's victimized women	p. 338
The feminization of men in Chaucer's Legend of good women	p. 352
From medical and moral authority in the late medieval dream	p. 366
Geoffrey Chaucer : a chronology	p. 385
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