On The Canterbury tales / Jack Lynch -- Biography of Geoffrey Chaucer / Judith Laird -- The Paris review perspective / Benjamin Lytal for The Paris review -- The Canterbury tales: critical reception / Dominick Grace -- Chaucer's inferno: Dantean burlesques in The Canterbury tales / Matthew J. Bolton -- A feminist perspective on The Canterbury tales / Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman -- Chaucer's translation of the fourteenth century / Lewis Walker -- Chaucer the pilgrim / E. Talbot Donaldson -- Chaucer the man / Donald R. Howard -- The art of impersonation: a general prologue to The Canterbury tales / H. Marshall Leicester, Jr.-- "A poet ther was": Chaucer's voices in the general prologue to The Canterbury tales / Barbara Nolan -- Chaucer's idea of a Canterbury game / Glending Olson -- The meaning of Chaucer's Knight's tale / Douglas Brooks and Alastair Fowler -- "And Venus laugheth": an interpretation of the Merchant's tale / Martin Stevens -- Figmenta vs. veritas: Dame Alice and the medieval literary depiction of women by women / Katharina M. Wilson -- Alison's incapacity and poetic instability in the Wife of Bath's tale / Susan Crane -- "The name of Soveraynetee": the private and public faces of marriage in The Franklin's tale / Cathy Hume -- Lumiansky's paradox: ethics, aethetics, and Chaucer's "Prioress's tale" / Greg Wilsbacher -- The bodies of Jews in the late middle ages / Steven F. Kruger -- Naturalism and its discontents in the Miller's tale / Mark Miller -- The pardoner's body and the disciplining of rhetoric / Rita Copeland -- Adventurous Custance: St. Thomas of Acre and Chaucer's Man of law's tale / Lawrence Warner -- Chaucer and the absent city / David Wallace -- The illustrated eighteenth-century Chaucer / Alice Miskimin.