The English Fabliau: Before and After Chaucer.

Description: Comments on the limitations of Lydgate's "Siege of Thebes" and the Prologue to the "Tale of Beryn" as imitations of Chaucer, and discusses at greater length how his fabliaux are superior to "Dame Sirith" and to later English comic tales such as "The Wright's Chaste Wife," "The Freiris of Berwik," "The Mery Jest of the Mylner of Abyngton," etc.--a tradition that fails to match Chaucer's achievement and "trickle[s] away in merry jests."

Chaucer Subjects: Background and General Critciism
Style and Versification
Chaucer's Influence nd Later Allusion