• Lydgate, Saint Austin at Compton: Introduction

Chaucer, Langland, and Gower. Today he is recognized chiefly (and still largely deprecated) for his massive Chaucerian courtly epics, such as his Troy Book, Siege of Thebes, Fall of Princes, and Temple of Glass. But while he was, like

• Dame Sirith

Modern Philology 79 (1982), 241-55. Robbins, Rossell Hope. "The English Fabliau: Before and After Chaucer." Moderna Spräk 64 (1970), 231-44. Swanton, Michael James. English Literature Before Chaucer. London: Longman, 1987. Von Kreisler, Nicholai. "Satire in Dame Sirith and the Weeping

• The Wallace: Selections: Introduction

couplet (Scheps, Studies in Scottish Literature, 1969). Hary also employs a nine-line decasyllabic stanza rhyming aabaabbab (2.171-359), first used by Chaucer in Anelida and Arcite and later by all the major Middle Scots poets, Robert Henryson (The Testament of Cresseid,

• The Testament of Cresseid

winter nicht and mak it schort I tuik ane quair - and left all uther sport - Writtin be worthie Chaucer glorious Of fair Creisseid and worthie Troylus. And thair I fand, efter that Diomeid Ressavit had that lady bricht

• William Dunbar, The Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo

Ebin, Lois. "Dunbar's Bawdy." The Chaucer Review 14 (1980), 278-86. Evans, Deanna Delmar. "Dunbar's Tretis: The Seven Deadly Sins in Carnivalesque Disguise." Neophilologus 73 (1989), 130-41. Fradenburg, Louise. "Spectacular Fictions: The Body Politic in Chaucer and Dunbar." Poetics Today 5

• The Palis of Honoure

(106). 127-35 See The House of Fame 523-28, where Chaucer celebrates his feeble brain, taking off on Dante, Inferno 2.8-9. By the later fifteenth century such disclaimers are commonplace. 136-53 Chaucer describes a dream-desert in The House of Fame (482-91);

• John Gower, Confessio Amantis, volume 2, Book 2

King Alexander when he questioned him about this.] 1331 Chaucer also tells the story of Pyramus and Thisbe in LGW. The story is based on Ovid, Metam. 4.55-166. Of the two, Chaucer follows the source more closely, in a mood

• John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Volume 2, Book 3

King Alexander when he questioned him about this.] 1331 Chaucer also tells the story of Pyramus and Thisbe in LGW. The story is based on Ovid, Metam. 4.55-166. Of the two, Chaucer follows the source more closely, in a mood

• John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Volume 2, Book 4

King Alexander when he questioned him about this.] 1331 Chaucer also tells the story of Pyramus and Thisbe in LGW. The story is based on Ovid, Metam. 4.55-166. Of the two, Chaucer follows the source more closely, in a mood

• The Assembly of Gods

tin (line 270), as in Chaucer (The Canon's Yeoman's Tale, CT VIII [G] 828), but Christine oddly links him with copper and brass, which differs from the tradition followed by The Assembly of Gods, Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate (see Bühler,

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She torned owt her ars and that he kyst. The motif of the misplaced kiss is most famously captured by Chaucer in The Miller's Tale: Derk was the nyght as pich, or as the cole, And at the wyndow out

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She torned owt her ars and that he kyst. The motif of the misplaced kiss is most famously captured by Chaucer in The Miller's Tale: Derk was the nyght as pich, or as the cole, And at the wyndow out

• Literature of Richard II's Reign and the Peasants' Revolt: Introduction

also converged on London; and on Thursday, 13 June, the rebels gained entrance into the city, streaming through Aldgate (where Chaucer lived in his apartments). They burned John of Gaunt's London palace, the Savoy, along with Fleet Prison and the

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• Pety Job: Introduction

English Text on the Seven Liberal Arts," Speculum 68 (1993), 1028 nn. 7-8 and ''More Manuscripts Written by a Chaucer Scribe," Chaucer Review 30 (1996), 401-07. He is the copyist for most of one booklet of R.3.21, a portion containing