Contents

• Acknowledgments

• 1 —  Introduction
• 2 —  The Wife of Bath and the Mark of Adam
• 3 —  The Death of the Duchess
• 4 —  "We Wrechched Wymmen Konne Noon Art":  Dido and Geffrey in the House of Fame
• 5 —  Female Indecision and Indifference in the Parliament of Fowls
• 6 —  Troilus and Criseyde:  "Beth War of Men, and Herkneth What I Seye!"
• 7 —  The Powers of Silence:  The Case of the Clerk's Griselda
• 8 —  "Women-as-the-Same" in the A-Fragment
• 9 —  The Merchant's Tale, or Another Poor Worm
• 10 —  Making Ernest of Game:  The Franklin's Tale and Some Partial Conclusions