... famous predecessors, generated by his own ambition toward authority. Interestingly, the form of a dream-vision excuses any daring attempts on Chaucer's part to manipulate and revise the characters and themes of authoritative texts and to comment on the unreliability and lack of credibility of the traditional sources. Furthermore, the form may permit Chaucer to fulfil his own dream: to elevate ... have abandoned them. The letters overflow with female anxiety, accusations of ingratitude, complaints of broken vows, requests to return, jealousies regarding a plausible existence of a rival, a...

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