Preface -- Chaucer's language -- Selections from The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue ; Knight's Tale ; Miller's Prologue and Tale ; Reeve's Prologue and Tale ; Cook's Prologue and Tale ; Man of Law's Introduction, Prologue, and Tale ; Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale ; Friar's Prologue and Tale ; Summoner's Prologue and Tale ; Clerk's Prologue and Tale ; Merchant's Prologue and Tale ; Franklin's Prologue and Tale ; Pardoner's Prologue and Tale ; Prioress's Prologue and Tale ; Prologue and Tale of Sir Thopas ; From The Prologue and Tale of Melibee ; Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale ; Second Nun's Prologue and Tale ; Manciple's Prologue and Tale ; From The Parson's Prologue and Tale ; Chaucer's Retraction -- Sources and Backgrounds. General prologue ; From The Decameron, Day 1, Introduction / Giovanni Boccaccio ; From The Decameron, Day 10, Conclusion / Giovanni Boccaccio ; [Human Life as a Pilgrimage] / St. Augustine ; [On Pilgrimage] / Sir William Thorpe ; [On the Estates] / Thomas Wimbledon ; [On Monks] / William Langland ; [On Monks] / John Gower ; Wycliffite Estates Criticism ; Miller's Prologue And Tale ; Three Guests of Heile of Bersele ; Reeve's Prologue And Tale ; Miller and the Two Clerics ; Wife Of Bath's Prologue And Tale ; From The Romance of the Rose / Jean de Meun ; From The Golden Book on Marriage / Theophrastus ; From Against Jovinian / St. Jerome ; From The Letter of Valerius to Ruffinus, against Marriage / Walter Map ; From the Gospel According to St. John ; From St. Paul to the Corinthians 1 ; From St. Paul to the Ephesians ; From St. Paul to Timothy 1 ; From St. Paul to Timothy 2 ; Tale of Florent / John Gower ; Friar's Prologue And Tale ; A Greedy Bailiff / Robert Rypon ; Clerk's Prologue And Tale ; From The Decameron, Day 10, Story 10 / Giovanni Boccaccio ; Story of Griselda ; [Two Letters to Boccaccio] / Francis Petrarch ; From Le Menagier de Paris ; Merchant's Prologue And Tale ; Woman and the Pear-Tree ; Franklin's Prologue And Tale ; From The Decameron, Day 10, Story 5 and Story 6 / Giovanni Boccaccio ; [On Love and Marriage] / Bartholomaeus Anglicus ; Pardoner's Prologue And Tale ; From The Romance of the Rose / Jean de Meun ; Hermit, Death, and the Robbers ; From Liber de Apibus / Thomas of Cantimpre ; Prioress's Prologue And Tale ; Story of the Alma Redemptoris Mater ; A Miracle of Our Lady ; Alma Redemptoris Mater ; [On Christian Mistreatment of Jews] / Pope Gregory X ; Prologue And Tale Of Sir Thopas ; From Guy of Warwick ; Nun's Priest's Prologue And Tale ; From Aesop's Fables / William Caxton ; Cock and the Fox / Marie de France ; From Le Roman de Renart, Branch 2 ; [On Dreams] / Macrobius ; [Lament on the Death of Richard I] / Geoffrey of Vinsauf ; [On the Cock] / Bartholomaeus Anglicus ; Manciple's Prologue And Tale ; [The Story of Phoebus and Coronis] / Ovid ; Tale of Phoebus and Cornide / John Gower -- Criticism. From Social Hierarchy and Social Change / Maurice Keen ; An Introduction to Chaucer and His Poem ; Reception of the Canterbury Tales / Winthrop Wetherbee ; Chaucer the Pilgrim / E. Talbot Donaldson ; Chaucer's Prologue to Pilgrimage: The Two Voices / Arthur W. Hoffman ; From Suffering Woman, Suffering God [On the Man of Law's Tale and the Clerk's Tale] / Jill Mann ; From Worlds Apart: Orientalism, Antifeminism, and Heresy in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale / Susan Schibanoff ; "Fulfild of Fairye": The Social Meaning of Fantasy in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale / Louise O. [Aranye] Fradenburgiam Caxton ; From The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale / Helen Cooper ; Eunuch Hermeneutics [On the Pardoner's Tale] / Carolyn Dinshaw ; Empathy and Enmity in the Prioress's Tale / Stephen Spector ; From A Mixed Commonwealth of Style / Paul Strohm ; From The Parson's Tale and the Quitting of the Canterbury Tales / Lee Patterson -- Geoffrey Chaucer : a chronology -- A short glossary.