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Anonymous

• Anonymous: An anthology of Chancery English [241 texts]
  
  
• Anonymous: The York plays [47 plays]
  
  
• Anonymous: Pearl
  
  
• Anonymous: Octovian (Lincoln, MS 91)
  
  
• Anonymous: The siege of Jerusalem
  
  
• Anonymous: The Owl and the nightingale
  
  
• Anonymous: The Towneley plays [32 plays]
  
  
• Anonymous: Sawles warde
  
  
• Anonymous: The Owl and the nightingale
  
  
• Anonymous: The Harley lyrics [32 lyrics]
  
  
• Anonymous: Octovian (Cambridge MS Ff.2.38)
  
  
• Anonymous: Everyman :
  
  
• Anonymous: The alliterative Morte Arthure
  
  
• Anonymous: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Chaucer, Geoffrey

• Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400: Troilus and Criseyde (Windeatt edition)
  
  
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400: The Canterbury tales (Robinson edition)
  
  
  Fragment 1
  
  

  • Prologue The General Prologue

  
  

  • Tale The Knight's Tale

  
  

  • Prologue The Miller's Prologue

  • Tale The Miller's Tale

  
  

  • Prologue The Reeve's Prologue

  • Tale The Reeve's Tale

  
  

  • Prologue The Cook's Prologue

  • Tale The Cook's Tale

  
  
  Fragment 2
  
  

  • Introduction The Introduction to the Man of Law's Tale

  • Prologue The Man of Law's Prologue

  • Tale The Man of Law's Tale

  • Epilogue The Man of Law's Epilogue

  
  
  
  Fragment 3
  
  

  • Prologue The Wife of Bath's Prologue

  • Tale The Wife of Bath's Tale

  
  

  • Prologue The Friar's Prologue

  • Tale The Friar's Tale

  
  

  • Prologue The Summoner's Prologue

  • Tale The Summoner's Tale

  
  
  Fragment 4
  
  

  • Prologue The Clerk's Prologue

  • Tale The Clerk's Tale

  
  

  • Prologue The Merchant's Prologue

  • Tale The Merchant's Tale

  • Epilogue The Merchant's Epilogue

  
  
  Fragment 5
  
  

  • Prologue The Squire's Prologue

  • Tale The Squire's Tale

  
  

  • Words The Franklin's words to the Squire

  • Prologue The Franklin's Prologue

  • Tale The Franklin's Tale

  
  
  Fragment 6
  
  

  • Tale The Physician's Tale

  
  

  • Introduction The Introduction to the Pardoner's Tale

  • Prologue The Pardoner's Prologue

  • Tale The Pardoner's Tale

  
  
  Fragment 7
  
  

  • Tale The Shipman's Tale

  
  

  • Words The Words of the Host to the Prioress

  • Prologue The Prioress' Prologue

  • Tale The Prioress' Tale

  
  

  • Prologue The Prologue to the Tale of Sir Thopas

  • Tale The Tale of Sir Thopas

  • Interruption The Host's Interruption of the Tale of Sir Thopas

  
  

  • Tale The Tale of Melibee

  
  

  • Prologue The Monk's Prologue

  • Tale The Monk's Tale

  • Prologue The Knight's Interruption of the Monk's Tale

  
  

  • Tale The Nun's Priest's Tale

  • Epilogue The Epilogue of the Nun's Priest's Tale

  
  
  Fragment 8
  
  

  • Prologue The Second Nun's Prologue

  • Tale The Second Nun's Tale

  
  

  • Prologue The Canon Yeoman's Prologue

  • Tale The Canon Yeoman's Tale

  
  
  Fragment 9
  
  

  • Prologue The Manciple's Prologue

  • Tale The Manciple's Tale

  
  
  Fragment 10
  
  

  • Prologue The Parson's Prologue

  • Tale The Parson's Tale

  
  

  • Retraction Retraction

Dunbar, William

• Dunbar, William, 1460?-1520?: The tretis of the twa mariit women and the wedo

Gower, John

• Gower, John, 1325?-1408: Confessio amantis

Henryson, Robert

• Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: The testament of Cresseid
  
  
• Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: The minor poems of Robert Henryson [12 poems]
  
  
• Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: The morall fabillis of Esope the Phrygian [13 fables]
  
  
• Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: Orpheus and Eurydice

Langland, William

• Langland, William, 1330?-1400?: The vision of Piers Plowman

Layamon

• Layamon, fl. 1200: Brut (MS Cotton Otho)
  
  
• Layamon, fl.1200: Brut (MS Cotton Caligula)

Paston family

• Paston family: Paston letters and papers of the fifteenth century, Part I [421 letters]

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Riverside Chaucer: a commercially-available collected works

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• The Canterbury Tales
  
  
• Boece
  
  
• Treatise on the Astrolabe
  
  
• The Romaunt of the Rose
  
  
• Troilus and Criseyde
  
  
• The Book of the Duchess
  
  
• The House of Fame
  
  
• Anelida and Arcite
  
  
• The Parliament of Fowls
  
  
• The Legend of Good Women
  
  
• Shorter Poems of Chaucer

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Other non-public texts:

• Anonymous: The Castle of Perseverance
• Anonymous: Mankind
• Anonymous: Wisdom