English Language and Literature
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A. Baugh, Allan G. Chester, Alfred B. Harbage
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
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Abstract
that Alceste is Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent, widow of the Black Prince, and that the earlier version of the Prologue was written in the summer of 1385 at Wallingford, where Joan was surrounded by a company that included a number of Chaucer ’ s known friends. She offers a new interpretation of the well- known illumination in CCCC MS. 61, suggests that a number of Chaucer ’ s short poems, hitherto difficult to explain, are Courtly Love poems addressed to Joan, and considers a num  ber of related questions.