Author’s Preface
A Note on References
List of Essays, with Places of Original Publication
Editor’s Introduction, “Jill Mann’s Patience”
1. Troilus’s Swoon
2. Shakespeare and Chaucer: “What is Criseyde Worth?”
3. Chance and Destiny in Troilus and Criseyde and the Knight’s Tale
4. Chaucerian Themes and Style in the Franklin’s Tale
5. Anger and “Glosynge” in the Canterbury Tales
6. The Authority of the Audience in Chaucer
7. Parents and Children in the Canterbury Tales
8. Satisfaction and Payment in Middle English Literature
9. Price and Value in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
10. Courtly Aesthetics and Courtly Ethics in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
11. Sir Gawain and the Romance Hero
12. Knightly Combat in Malory’s Morte Darthur
13. “Taking the Adventure”: Malory and the Suite du Merlin
14. The Narrative of Distance, The Distance of Narrative in Malory’s Morte Darthur
15. Malory and the Grail Legend
Bibliography
Index