The Legend of the 'Martyr King' : Political Representation in The Man of Law's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Kikuchi, Akio.
The Legend of the 'Martyr King' : Political Representation in The Man of Law's Tale
- Published
- Shiron 39: 1-19, 2000.
- Description
- Explores the narrator's "royalist" politics in MLT, arguing that they are "more incomplete" than the narrator thinks. Alla is presented as a good king, and the Sultan follows the trajectory of a typical "martyr king," although the teller misunderstands the "value" of his martyrdom in the context of the court of Richard II, where the image of the martyr king was used to political advantage. Chaucer lampoons the Man of Law's political naiveteĢ.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.