Chaucer's 'Tale of Melibee': Advice to the King and Advice to the King's Advisers
- Author / Editor
- Ferster, Judith.
Chaucer's 'Tale of Melibee': Advice to the King and Advice to the King's Advisers
- Published
- Judith Ferster. Fictions of Advice: The Literature and Politics of Counsel in Late Medieval England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), pp. 89-107.
- Description
- Blends a "historicist" approach that sees Mel as topical to the later 1380s with "formalist" emphasis on its discontinuities and contradictions. Concludes that "in the context of the Appellants' struggles with Richard II,...the deconstruction of the ideology of advice was a challenge not to the king, but to the ruling elite who had challenged him."
- Contributor
- Ferster, Judith.
- Alternative Title
- Fictions of Advice: The Literature and Politics of Counsel in Late Medieval England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Melibee.