The 'Love-Tydynges' in Chaucer's 'House of Fame'

Published: Julian N. Wasserman and Robert J. Blanch, eds. Chaucer in the Eighties (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986), pp. 3-22.

Description: By dating HF's composition and first public reading in December, 1379, we can see the unfinished last lines as a joke purposely played on Cardinal Pileo's messenger, Nicolo,whose news that no marriage would take place between Richard II and Caterina Visconti was generally well known by the time Nicolo arrived in England.; Reprinted in "Contradictions: From Beowulf to Chaucer: Selected Studies of Larry D. Benson," ed. Theodore M. Andersson and Stephen A. Barney (Aldershot, Hants: Scolar; Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1995).