'Saving the Appearances' II : Another Look at Chaucer's 'Complaint to His Empty Purse'

Author / Editor
Yeager, R. F.

Title
'Saving the Appearances' II : Another Look at Chaucer's 'Complaint to His Empty Purse'

Published
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 151-64.

Description
Yeager finds a partisan second level of meaning underneath the sycophantic surface of the envoy of Purse - one that challenges Henry's right to rule.

Alternative Title
Seyd in Forme and Reverence: Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr.

Chaucer Subjects
Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse.