A Conduct Book for Richard II
- Author / Editor
- Hill, Ordelle G.,and Gardiner Stillwell.
A Conduct Book for Richard II
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 73 (1994): 317-28.
- Description
- In PF 316-18, Chaucer alludes to Alain de Lille's discussion of love, the main points of which are Nature's law of love and humans' unnatural violation of it (with implicit references to the homosexuality of Richard's great-grandfather Edward II). PF thus served as a conduct book to prepare the young Richard II for marriage, although ironically he was never to know the fatherhood Dame Nature endorses.
- Contributor
- Stillwell, Gardier.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.