Chaucer's Tale of Melibee : Contradictions and Context
- Author / Editor
- Ferster, Judith.
Chaucer's Tale of Melibee : Contradictions and Context
- Published
- Denise N. Baker, ed. Inscribing the Hundred Years' War in French and English Cultures (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000), pp. 73-89.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer produced Mel to demonstrate his allegiance to Richard II and to challenge the Appellants. Mel deconstructs the advice of Prudence, whose "advisory coup" echoes the Appellants' takeover.
- Alternative Title
- Inscribing the Hundred Years' War in French and English Cultures.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Melibee.
- Chaucer's Life.