This comprehensive, user-friendly introduction provides information on Chaucer's life, contexts and works, also outlining major critical views and interpretations from initial publication to the present.

Part 1. Life and Contexts
a. Chaucer's Biography
b. Social, Literary and Historical Contexts

Part 2. Work
a. Short Verse
b. The Dream Poems
c. Non-Fiction Prose
d. Troilus and Criseyde
e. Collections of Tales: The Legend of Good Women
f. Collections of Tales: The Canterbury Tales

Part 3. Criticism
a. Biography
b. Text, Manuscripts, Editing
c. Chaucer's Language
d. Sources, Literary Background, Rhetoric and Poetics
e. Narrators, Irony and Satire
f. Historicism, Old and New
g. Politics and Ideology
h. Feminism and Genger
i. Imitation, Modernisation, Allusion

Gillian Rudd is Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool. She is the author of Managing Language in "Piers Plowman"(1992) and of several articles on medieval literature aimed at readers new to the area.

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