Contents -- Abbreviations -- A Chronology of Major Medieval Mythographers -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Fables and Swich Wrecchednesse" -- Part 1. Mythography and Female Authority in the Dream Visions -- 1. "A wonder thing": The Descensus ad Inferos of the Female Heroes Alcyone and Alceste -- 2. "Geffrey" as Dido, Ganymede, "Marcia": Mythographic and Gender Parody in the Hous of Fame -- 3. Venus Contextualized: The Mythographic Authority of the Body in The Parlement of Foules -- Part 2. Mythographic Cross-Gendering in the Troilus -- 4. The Narrator as Mythographic Glossator: The Rape of Criseyde -- Part 3. Subversive Mythography: The Speaker as Feminized Subject in the Canterbury Tales -- 5. Zephirus, Rape, and Saint Thomas à Becket: The Political Vernacular -- 6. Feminizing Theseus in the Knight's Tale: The Victory of Pallas Athena over Mars -- 7. Maister Alisoun's Feminist Self-Mythography -- 8. The Merchant's De Nuptiis Maii et Januarii -- 9. The Franklin's Derke Fantasye: Squire Aurelius as Ekko, Lady Dorigen as Narcissus's Image -- 10. Conclusion: The Artist Pygmalion, the Subject Chaucer, and Self-Seduction -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.