Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-352) and index.
Introduction : Chaucer and the subject of agency -- Dreaming the real : Chaucer does allegory -- Beyond Canacee's ring : animal agency in three Canterbury tales -- "He that alle thing may bynde" : the agency of Chaucer's pagan gods -- Goode women, maydenes and wyves : exemplary agency and its discontents -- "That am nat I" : the wife of Bath, Criseyde, and the possibility of subjective agency -- Seeing through Chaucer : authorial agency and the representation of truth -- Fre agency