Anelida and Arcite

It tells the story of Anelida, queen of Armenia and her wooing by false Arcite from Thebes, Greece.

[1] Although relatively short, it is a poem with a complex structure, with an invocation and then the main story.

The poem is never mentioned by Chaucer himself but scholars do not usually doubt his authorship.

The poem uses some of elements of the Teseida of Boccaccio, and the Thebaid of the Roman poet Statius, works which Chaucer would use again as a basis for The Knight's Tale.

Despite these jarring styles, the part of the work which forms Anelida's complaint is one of the most highly regarded uses of the "lover's-complaint" motif.