Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes : Counsel and Constraint
- Author / Editor
- Perkins, Nicholas.
Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes : Counsel and Constraint
- Published
- Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y. : D. S. Brewer, 2001.
- Physical Description
- xii, 235 pp.
- Description
- Perkins examines the narrative strategies Hoccleve adopts--advisor, servant, court outsider, autobiographer, moralist, petitioner--as responses to the politically charged context of "Lancastrian poetry." This study identifies the political context in which Hoccleve wrote and assesses how he negotiated this context in his mirror for princes addressed to Henry IV, with recurrent attention to the influences of Gower, Lydgate, and especially Chaucer. Also discusses Hoccleve's portrait of Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.