The 'Prive Scilence' of Thomas Hoccleve

Author / Editor
Tolmie, Sarah.

Title
The 'Prive Scilence' of Thomas Hoccleve

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 22: 281-309. , 2000.

Description
Assesses aspects of "Regement of Princes" to demonstrate Hoccleve's poetic subtlety, especially the ways he capitalizes on the idea that as a member of the "emergent administrative class," he had "restricted information." Discusses Pandarus of TC as a precursor to the old man of Regement.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Troilus and Criseyde.