Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction ‘The craft so long to lerne…’ 1
4. Chapter 1 ‘And gret wel Chaucer whan ye mete’ Chaucer’s Earliest Readers, Addressees and Audiences 13
5. Chapter 2 Unhap, Misadventure, Infortune Chaucer’s Vocabulary of Mischance 21
6. Chapter 3 Chaucer’s Tears 34
7. Chapter 4 In Appreciation of Metrical Abnormality. Headless Lines and Initial Inversion in Chaucer 55
8. Chapter 5 Blanche, Two Chaucers and the Stanley Family Rethinking the Reception of The Book of the Duchess 77
9. Chapter 6 ‘Tu Numeris Elementa Ligas’ The Consolation of Nature’s Numbers in Parlement of Foulys 104
10. Chapter 7 Troilus and Criseyde and the ‘Parfit Blisse of Love’ 134
11. Chapter 8 Hateful Contraries in ‘The Merchant’s Tale’ 159
12. Chapter 9 String Theory and ‘The Man of Law’s Tale’ Where Is Constancy? 193
13. Chapter 10 The Pardoner’s Passing and How It Matters Gender, Relics and Speech Acts 211
14. Chapter 11 ‘Double Sorrow’ The Complexity of Complaint in Chaucer’s Anelida and Arcite and Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid 233
15. Index 249