Introduction : 'there is nothing French about Chaucer' -- Anti-courtly polemic in the Chaucer escape narrative and the queer decoy -- Courtliness and heterosexual poetics in the Book of the duchess -- What Dante meant to Chaucer : the hermaphrodite poetics of the Divine comedy -- The House of fame : Geffrey as Ganymede -- Disorderly nature : Aristotle, Alan of Lille, and Jean de Meun -- 'Imaked ... in Fraunce' : nature's queer poetics in the Parliament of fowls -- Au revoir : queer poetics and Chaucer's Englishness