Introduction, Daniel Pinti * Quesitons of Evidence: Manuscripts and the Early History of Chaucer's Works, Stephen Partridge * Language Policy for Lancastrian England, John H. Fisher * Scribes as Chaucer's Early Critics, Barry Windeatt * New Reader and Female Textuality in Two Early Commentaries on Chaucer, Susan Schibanoff * Chaucer's Fifteenth-Century Audience and the Narrowing of the Chaucer Tradition, Paul Strohm * Reputation and Circulation of Chaucer's Lyrics in the 15th Century, Julia Boffey * Father Chaucer, A.C. Spearing * The Tale of Beryn and The Siege of Thebes: Alternative Ideas of The Canterbury Tales, John Bowers * Critic and Poet: What Lydgate and Henryson Did to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, C. David Benson * Textual Authority and the Works of Hoccleve, Lydgate, and Heryson, Tim william Machan * Scottish Chaucer, Louise Fradenburg * At Chaucer's Tomb: Laureation and Paternity in Caxton's Criticism, Seth Lerer