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. Moseley



Chapter 1. ‘And gret wel Chaucer whan ye mete’: Chaucer’s Earliest Readers, Addresses and Audiences

Sebastian Sobecki



Chapter 2. Unhap, Misadventures, Infortune: Chaucer’s Vocabulary of Mischance

Helen Cooper



Chapter 3. Chaucer’s Tears

Barry Windeatt



Chapter 4. In Appreciation of Metrical Abnormality: Headless Lines and Initial Inversion in Chaucer

Ad Putter



Chapter 5. Blanche, Two Chaucers and the Stanley Family: Rethinking the Reception of The Book of the Duchess

Simon Meecham-Jones



Chapter 6. ‘Tu Numeris Elementa Ligas’: The Consolation of Nature’s Numbers in Parlement of Foulys

C.W.R.D. Moseley



Chapter 7. Troilus and Criseyde and the ‘Parfit Blisse of Love’

Simone Fryer-Bovair



Chapter 8. Hateful Contraries in ‘The Merchant’s Tale’

John M. Fyler



Chapter 9. String Theory and ‘The Man of Law’s Tale’: Where is Constancy?

William A. Quinn



Chapter 10. The Pardoner’s Passing and How It Matters: Gender, Relics and Speech Acts

Alex da Costa



Chapter 11. ‘Double Sorrow’: The Complexity of Compaint in Chaucer’s Anelida and Arcite and Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid

Jackie Tasioulas



Index