Geoffrey Chaucer

Editor's Note vii Introduction 1(14) Harold Bloom The Ending of ``Troilus'' 15(16) E. Talbot Donaldson The Prologue to The Legend of Good Women 31(22) Robert Worth Frank, Jr. Epic Theater: The Comedy and The Canterbury Tales (The Knight and the Miller) 53(34) Richard Neuse The Riddle of Sovereignty 87(14) Manuel Aguirre New Armor for the Amazons: The Wife of Bath and a Genealogy of Ovidianism 101(36) Michael A. Calabrese Chaucer's Second Nun's Tale and the Apocalyptic Imagination 137(22) Eileen Jankowski Reframing the Violence of the Father: Reverse Oedipal Fantasies in Chaucer's Clerk's, Man of Law's, and Prioress's Tales 159(16) Barrie Ruth Straus Chaucer's Shipman's Tale, Boccaccio, and the ``Civilizing'' of Fabliau 175(18) John Finlayson Time as Rhetorical Topos in Chaucer's Poetry 193(18) Martin Camargo The Countervailing Aesthetic of Joy in Troilus and Criseyde 211(20) John M. Hill Chronology 231(8) Contributors 239(4) Bibliography 243(6) Acknowledgments 249(2) Index 251