Engaging with Chaucer

C.W.R.D. Moseley teaches in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, and has been Director of Studies in English for several colleges of the university as well as Program Director of the university’s International Summer Schools in English Literature and Shakespeare.

• Introduction: ‘The craft so long to lerne…’C.W.R.D. MoseleyChapter 1. ‘And gret wel Chaucer whan ye mete’: Chaucer’s Earliest Readers, Addresses and AudiencesSebastian SobeckiChapter 2. Unhap, Misadventures, Infortune: Chaucer’s Vocabulary of MischanceHelen CooperChapter 3. Chaucer’s TearsBarry WindeattChapter 4. In Appreciation of Metrical Abnormality: Headless Lines and Initial Inversion in ChaucerAd PutterChapter 5. Blanche, Two Chaucers and the Stanley Family: Rethinking the Reception of The Book of the DuchessSimon Meecham-JonesChapter 6. ‘Tu Numeris Elementa Ligas’: The Consolation of Nature’s Numbers in Parlement of FoulysC.W.R.D. MoseleyChapter 7. Troilus and Criseyde and the ‘Parfit Blisse of Love’Simone Fryer-BovairChapter 8. Hateful Contraries in ‘The Merchant’s Tale’John M. FylerChapter 9. String Theory and ‘The Man of Law’s Tale’: Where is Constancy?William A. QuinnChapter 10. The Pardoner’s Passing and How It Matters: Gender, Relics and Speech ActsAlex da CostaChapter 11. ‘Double Sorrow’: The Complexity of Compaint in Chaucer’s Anelida and Arcite and Henryson’s Testament of CresseidJackie TasioulasIndex