Kingship and the 'Kingis Quair'

Author / Editor
Mapstone, Sally.

Title
Kingship and the 'Kingis Quair'

Published
Helen Cooper and Sally Mapstone, eds. The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), pp. 51-69.

Description
The 'Kingis Quair' is distinct from the "Chaucerian tradition" insofar as the former deals with public issues as well as personal ones. Its presentation of Boethian philosophy contrasts with that in TC and KnT, from which it "self-consciously draws."

Alternative Title
The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Knight and His Tale.
Troilus and Criseyde.