'A Straunge Succesour Sholde Take Youre Heritage' : The Clerk's Tale and the Crisis of Ricardian Rule
- Author / Editor
- Hanrahan, Michael.
'A Straunge Succesour Sholde Take Youre Heritage' : The Clerk's Tale and the Crisis of Ricardian Rule
- Published
- Chaucer Review 35: 335-50, 2001.
- Description
- ClT reflects aspects of Richard II's life and philosophy of kingship--and perhaps Chaucer's fanciful solutions to Richard II's political dilemma of an heirless realm: divorce or a consort advisor. The insistence on "obedience to authority" in ClT mirrors Richard's growing concern with disobedience as "the greatest affront to a ruler" and acquires "very real political associations for its Ricardian readers."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Chaucer's Life.