INTRODUCTION. Chaucer on Screen PART I. Theorizing Absence Chapter 1. Naked yet Invisible: Filming Chaucer's Narrator Chapter 2. "The Play's the Thing": The Cinematic Fortunes of Chaucer and Shakespeare Chapter 3. Chaucer, Film, and the Desert of the Real; or, Why Geoffrey Chaucer Will Never Be Jane Austen Chapter 4. Profit, Politics, and Prurience; or, Why Chaucer Is Bad Box Office PART II. Lost and Found Chapter 5.

Chaucer and the Moving Image in Pre-World War II America Chapter 6. Lost Chaucer: Natalie Wood's "The Deadly Riddle" and the Golden Age of American Television PART III. Presence Chapter 7. Chaucerian History and Cinematic Perversions in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's A Canterbury Tale Chapter 8. Idols of the Marketplace: Chaucer/Pasolini Chapter 9. "Sorry, Chaucer": Mixed Feelings and Hyapatia Lee's Ribald Tales of Canterbury Chapter 10. The Naked Truth: Chaucerian Spectacle in Brian Helgeland's A Knight's Tale PART IV. The BBC Canterbury Tales (2003) Chapter 11.

Putting the Second First: The BBC "Miller's Tale" Chapter 12. Midlife Sex and the BBC "Wife of Bath" Chapter 13. Serving Time: The BBC "Knight's Tale" in the Prison-House of Free Adaptation Chapter 14. The Color of Money: The BBC "Sea Captain's Tale" Chapter 15. Sex, Plague, and Resonance: Reflections on the BBC "Pardoner's Tale" Chapter 16. Time, Memory, and Desire in the BBC "Man of Law's Tale" PART V. Absent Presence Chapter 17. Marketing Chaucer: Mad Men and the Wife of Bath.