Richard II
- Author / Editor
- Saul, Nigel.
Richard II
- Published
- New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 514 pp.; 28 b&w illus.
- Description
- A biography that assesses Richard II, the quality of his rule, and the events of his reign. Uses Shakespeare's play as a point of departure and argues that Richard's accomplishments and excesses resulted in large part from the fusion of "exercise of power" with a narcissistic "sense of being."
- References to Chaucer are few, concentrated in a section on the status of the arts in the court of Richard, who favored visual over verbal arts as a means of image-making. Chaucer had little or no royal patronage from Richard.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Chaucer's Life.