Writing the Tyrant's Death: Chaucer, Bernabo Visconti and Richard II
- Author / Editor
- Wallace, David.
Writing the Tyrant's Death: Chaucer, Bernabo Visconti and Richard II
- Published
- Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Poetics: Theory and Practice in Medieval English Literature (Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 1991), pp. 117-30.
- Description
- The Italian city-state of Lombardy and the life and death of Bernabo, its most famous tyrant, provides inspiration for the fictional realm of "Lumbardye," which functions in Chaucer's works as a spatial metaphor for tyranny.
- Alternative Title
- Poetics: Theory and Practice in Medieval English Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Merchant and His Tale.