Contents -- Introduction -- A Companion to Old and Middle English Literature -- 1 Old English and Anglo-Norman Literature -- 2 Religious and Allegorical Verse -- 3 Alliterative Poetry in Old and Middle English -- 4 Balladry -- 5 The Beast Fable -- 6 Breton Lay -- 7 Chronicle -- 8 Debate Poetry -- 9 Medieval English Drama -- 10 Dream Vision -- 11 Epic and Heroic Poetry -- 12 The Epic Genre and Medieval Epics -- 13 The Fabliau -- 14 Hagiographic, Homiletic, and Didactic Literature -- 15 Lyric Poetry -- 16 The Middle English Parody/ Burlesque -- 17 Riddles -- 18 Romance -- 19 Visions of the Afterlife -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.