'Chaucer's To His Purse' : Begging or Begging Off?
- Author / Editor
- Yeager, R. F.
'Chaucer's To His Purse' : Begging or Begging Off?
- Published
- Viator 36 (2005): 373-414.
- Description
- Yeager reads Purse as a political poem rather than a begging poem, addressed initially to Richard. When Chaucer added the envoy, he was under duress from the court of Henry, not financial distress. The poem undermines Lancastrian legitimacy and if decoded might have contributed to Chaucer's death.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse.
- Chaucer's Life.