ABSTRACT
These three extracts sketch out my approach to Chaucer's dream visions which I shall explain in more detail below. In this study I shall consider how these poems were interpreted by a particular section of Chaucer's immediate audience that is known to us, and must therefore neglect those readers who would have read and enjoyed these poems without necessarily being alert to their full intellectual range. I consequently have less opportunity to discuss the pleasurable aspects of the poems than is perhaps proper, since their charm alone is surely a major factor in understanding their relevance to a medieval audience.
