Saving the Appearances: Chaucer's 'Purse' and the Fabrication of the Lancaster Claim
- Author / Editor
- Strohm, Paul.
Saving the Appearances: Chaucer's 'Purse' and the Fabrication of the Lancaster Claim
- Published
- Paul Strohm, with an appendix by A.J. Prescott. Hochon's Arrow: The Social Imagination of Fourteenth-Century Texts (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992), pp. 75-94. Also in Barbara Hanawalt, ed. Chaucer's England: Literature in Historical Context (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992), p. 21-40.
- Description
- Discusses the tenuous nature of Henry's early success in usurping Richard's crown and his program of enlisting writers in support of his cause. The last stanza of Purse reflects the political assumptions that underpinned Henry's claims to the throne.
- Alternative Title
- Hochon's Arrow: The Social Imagination of Fourteenth-Century Texts
- Chaucer's England: Literature in Historical Context.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse.