Hoccleve and ... Feminism? Negotiating Meaning in 'The Regiment of Princes'
- Author / Editor
- Batt, Catherine.
Hoccleve and ... Feminism? Negotiating Meaning in 'The Regiment of Princes'
- Published
- Catherine Batt, ed. Essays on Thomas Hoccleve ([Turnhout, Belgium]: Brepols, 1996), pp. 55-84.
- Description
- Examines the "defense-of-women" section near the end of Hoccleve's "Regiment" (lines 5090-194) as a meditation on literary influence and the need for the poet to comment on political issues. The defense alludes to the Wife of Bath and to Prudence of Mel, emulating Chaucer's attitudes toward proverbial wisdom and toward the need for poets to be conscious of audience reception when giving practical advice.
- Alternative Title
- Essays on Thomas Hoccleve.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Tale of Melibee.