Social and Political Issues in Chaucer: An Approach to 'Lak of Stedfastnesse'

Author / Editor
Scattergood, John.

Title
Social and Political Issues in Chaucer: An Approach to 'Lak of Stedfastnesse'

Published
Chaucer Review 21 (1987): 469-75.

Description
Chaucer works with a poetic genre; within it, however, he directs his attention to a specific occasion, probably Richard II's difficulties with royal prerogative in 1387.
Reprinted in Reading the Past: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Four Courts, 1996), pp. 192-98.

Alternative Title
Reading the Past: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Lak of Stedfastnesse.