Inverse Counsel : Contexts for the 'Melibee'
- Author / Editor
- Johnson, Lynn Staley.
Inverse Counsel : Contexts for the 'Melibee'
- Published
- Studies in Philology 87 (1990): 137-55.
- Description
- Mel should be read in light of England's disrupted domestic state and especially of parliamentary dissatisfaction with Richard II in the 1380s. Thus, Prudence's advice, which emphasizes the contractual relationship between ruler and ruled but also stresses clemency toward the guilty, takes aim at both Richard and his detractors. Chaucer uses Albertano of Brescia's treatise as a literary screen for political analysis.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Melibee.