Chaucerian Prisoners: The Context of The King's Quair
- Author / Editor
- Boffey, Julia.
Chaucerian Prisoners: The Context of The King's Quair
- Published
- Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen, eds. Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry. King's College London Medieval Studies, no. 5 (London: King's College Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 1991), pp. 84-102.
- Description
- Chaucer's various uses of the "structural, rhetorical, and metaphorical possibilities" of prison imagery reflect Boethian thought and influence later medieval English tradition, in particular The King's Quair of James I of Scotland.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.