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Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales — John Shaqi

Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury TalesChaucer, Geoffrey

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Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales

Name: Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chaucer, Geoffrey

English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500

INTRODUCTION TO A TREATISE ON THE ASTROLABE.--§ 1. Description of
  the MSS. §§ 2-16. MSS. A., B., C., D., E., F., G., H., I., K., L.,
  M., N., O., P. § 17. MSS. Q., R., S., T., U., W., X.
  § 18. Thynne's Edition. § 19. The two Classes of MSS. § 20. The
  last five Sections (spurious). § 21. Gap between Sections 40
  and 41. § 22. Gap between Sections 43 and 44. § 23. Conclusion 40.
  § 24. Extant portion of the Treatise. § 25. Sources. § 26. Various
  Editions. § 27. Works on the Subject. § 28. Description of the
  Astrolabe Planisphere. § 29. Uses of the Astrolabe Planisphere.
  § 30. Stars marked on the Rete. § 31. Astrological Notes.
  § 32. Description of the Plates                                      lvii

  PLATES ILLUSTRATING THE DESCRIPTION OF THE ASTROLABE                lxxxi

  THE HOUS OF FAME: BOOK I.                                               1
  THE HOUS OF FAME: BOOK II.                                             16
  THE HOUS OF FAME: BOOK III.                                            33

  THE LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN: THE PROLOGUE                                 65
          I. THE LEGEND OF CLEOPATRA                                    106
         II. THE LEGEND OF THISBE                                       110
        III. THE LEGEND OF DIDO                                         117
         IV. THE LEGEND OF HYPSIPYLE AND MEDEA                          131
          V. THE LEGEND OF LUCRETIA                                     140
         VI. THE LEGEND OF ARIADNE                                      147
        VII. THE LEGEND OF PHILOMELA                                    158
       VIII. THE LEGEND OF PHYLLIS                                      164
         IX. THE LEGEND OF HYPERMNESTRA                                 169

  A TREATISE ON THE ASTROLABE                                           175

  CRITICAL NOTES TO A TREATISE ON THE ASTROLABE                         233

  NOTES TO THE HOUSE OF FAME                                            243

  NOTES TO THE LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN                                     288

  NOTES TO A TREATISE ON THE ASTROLABE                                  352

  AN ACCOUNT OF THE SOURCES OF THE CANTERBURY TALES                     370




INTRODUCTION TO THE HOUSE OF FAME


§ 1. It is needless to say that this Poem is genuine, as Chaucer himself
claims it twice over; once in his Prologue to the Legend of Good Women, l.
417, and again by the insertion in the poem itself of the name _Geffrey_
(l. 729)[1].

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Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales

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